Garter Belt Popularity Surges

The Daily Mail recently noted that sales of stockings and suspender belts have recently surged – retailers are reporting that sales have increased by a third in just the last few weeks! They suspect it is because obvious stockings and visible garter belts have become a quick trend among celebrities like Katy Perry and Rihanna, [...]

Antiflirt Looks Back

Antiflirt is a French brand that doesn’t have wide distribution outside of continental Europe. There are stockists throughout the world, but Antiflirt are no where near the Queens of Export as other French brands like Aubade. The company has recently completed another revamp of their website. In one corner of their website, [...]

Wear Yellow for the New Year

What color knickers will you be wearing on New Year’s Eve? If you’re like me, you hadn’t thought that far ahead yet. But if you’re like many women around the world, you have already picked out your yellow panties in preparation for the big day. In many Spanish-speaking countries, wearing yellow panties at the stroke [...]

Consumers Turning to Hosiery in Tough Economic Times

With the markets down and no sign of a rebounding economy on the horizon, people all around the world are tightening their belts and scrutinizing their budgets.  Smaller amounts of disposable income means that most industries are seeing drops in profits.  However, hosiery is one of the few seeing increases and experiencing the lipstick effect, or [...]

Lingerie Trend: Florals

We’ve been seeing bright, graphic, floral patterns on the fashion runways the past few seasons, and now the trend is starting to make its way to your more intimate apparel! Across the board the girly, fashion-forward brands are bringing out these Springy designs. For everyone living in my corner of the world, this is coming [...]

Find Your Inner Fleur’t – Spring/Summer 2008!

Fleur’t has been mentioned many times here on TLP. It is a personal favorite of mine! Every collection is well thought out and designed with a woman’s needs in mind. Both the Spring/Summer 2008 and Fall 2008 collections have added new touches, colors, patterns, and textures to the already successful boy pants, bralets, camis, and [...]

The 7 Colors of Fashion – Salon de la lingerie Forum

For this new edition, the Salon International de la Lingerie Forum proposed a reflection on lingerie colors. For each color there is a style, a trend, even an age. The forum’s concept was to work from a colour to develop a feeling, materials, a fashion and a collection. Merchandising ideas were also included to differentiate [...]