A well-tailored suit is to women what lingerie is to men (@threadsforgents).
“I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that it is in you or it isn’t and really doesn;t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips”
Lingerie is one of the most eloquent attributes to an Italian wardrobe, believe it or not. The fact that It's not seen under your clothing, it doesn't make it less than the foundations of a house.
Underwear is a phenomenon, a concept, a story of opposing forces, like the rubber band effect on love relationships, it went from periods of extreme restrictions to decades of lascivious indulgence.
Cleopatra and her Roman counterparts used to wear very little undergarments as their fashions were forgiving, wrapping, enveloping and voluminous.
The dark ages of reclusiveness and seclusion led to the Renaissance and Marie Antoinette who let them eat cake and declared it was ok to show off the ‘balconies’.
The suffragettes, the first modern feminists and then the flapper girls (I think I was definitely one in a past life, seriously I would live dressed like them, driven in those cars and I don’t dance, go figure).
Voluptuous iconic bombshelles like Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren were juxtaposed with the symbols of the sexual revolution, braless was a way of expression.
Veruschka, Vogue Paris 1968, photo by Franco Rubartelli
Undergarments play a role in a life of a woman no matter how continent and historical period are combined.
As we live in them all day long, work to pleasure, it’s a relationship, we need to be compatible. Like in a marriage or while dreaming of the ideal man, there are prerequisites that the perfect lingerie has to own to be considered a match.
Sing with me Santa Baby, the Christmas song.
- Comfort and luxury: we don’t wear Fruit of the Loom granny panties anymore after high school
- Luscious and sensual: I have always considered seduction that female 6th sense (was I wrong?)
- Needs to leave room to the imagination, otherwise teasingly called peekaboo effect. in other words, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and I am not alluding at her cheating habits.
The Graduate
- It doesn’t have to be seen to make a woman feel sexy and confident: it’s like the secret ingredient of an award winning recipe.
- It makes you want to wear it and looking forward to it: like a good apple to Eve, the good temptation without the snake.
- It’s lacy but it doesn’t say “sex” (have you heard? The Journal of Psychology has published a study that finally confirms that sex doesn’t sell)
- Feminine: It accentuates the girl in you, vulgarity and sexuality are off-putting, said it a second time it has the right amount of redundancy and it makes it real.
- Confidence: the beauty of a bra is when it makes you feel so confident that you don’t think it twice as to wear it as a top under a manly long deconstructed jacket or a see through blouse.
- Form pleasing yet not constricting: you know what I mean, those shiny itchy black lace thingy that make you spend the whole day (or night) dreaming of the moment that you (not anyone else) will take them off.
Do I still have you with me?
Are all of the above thoughts that go through your mind or conversations you have had while sipping a coffee?
Because I know what the following assertion will be: it’s expensive.
My grandmother says that “who spends more, spends less” and it’s simply the dirty truth.
Would you rather buy a bra that will be your best friend and possibly a matchmaker, or one that shines for one night and dies like a moth the morning after?
Would you rather wear a bra that malfunctions when you least expect it or the one that lost the wire but you don’t realize it if not the morning you woke up late and you must wear whatever else is available? Don’t tell me it never happened.
What if I tell you 1. They are rhetorical questions, you already know the answer 2. I found the perfect line. Truthfully, don’t we all want to wear lingerie to enjoy the smooth feel of exquisite fabrics enveloping us?
Les Lunes George V
WHAT IS IT?
LES LUNES, a luxury fashion brand handcrafted in ultra-soft bamboo.
WHY
It fits like a glove, drapes when it’s meant to, you forget you are wearing it and it's so good I want to wear it out (did I mention it has camisoles, nightdresses and bralettes?)
Les Lunes George V Nightdress
Thing is Bamboo fiber is the latest luscious best kept secret that can happen to you. Remember the first rule about Italian style: ‘you don’t want what everybody wears, you wear what everyone will want to wear’.
What made Les Lunes win for picky and demanding me?
Bamboo grows in multiple climate settings, doesn’t need pesticides, once cut it grows healthier, it doesn’t need fueled tractors that promote pollution. Therefore, it’s a clean, sustainable fiber, more ethically and environmentally sound than any others.
It’s breathable, friendly with perspiration, non-irritating, easier to maintain than silk.
The combination of the jersey with the lace is seamless and performing: the flexibility of the fiber makes you feel at ease, no elastic needed.
Caressing and invisible as in your dreams.
WHAT THEY SAY AT LES LUNES?(that you should repeat with me)
‘What you choose to wear closest on your skin reflects your mood towards the world’.
Comfort plus sexy equals confidence.