Lingerie Blog

UK style gurus Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine are encouraging women to dunk their breasts in lukewarm water.  They claim that this technique is an accurate way of working out your breast size.  Here’s how you can try it at home:
Equipment Needed
Cookie sheet, kitchen scale, large bowl
Instructions
1)  Weigh  the cookie sheet on the kitchen scale [...]

Playtex wants to know. As part of their Playtex fits campaign, Playtex has opened up a YouTube channel featuring some casual conversations about breasts and bras by women in their bras. Here’s an example:

Or if that’s not enough, try this one:

If you join the YouTube channel, you too can upload your own [...]

If you’re a woman and you’re exercising, you simply must wear a supportive sports bra or risk permenant damage to your breasts.  We think that this concept is so important that it deserves a full feature length article.  So, we wrote one:
“Why women need sports bras”
The title is deceptively simple.  Read, learn, and enjoy.

Over the weekend I wore my new Playtex Thank Goodness It Fits Delightful Dots Strapless Underwire bra. This is important because I was at Walt Disney World and to say I wore a strapless bra at a theme park all day and it was still comfortable is saying a lot!
If you don’t know about the Thank [...]

Today I am wearing the Playtex Thank Goodness It Fits Front Close with Flex Fit Back Wire-free bra. If you are not famliar with the Thank Goodness It Fits (TGIF) line from Playtex, they are bras for in-between sizes. There are nearly-A, nearly-B and nearly-C cups in addition to the traditional A-B-C-D-etc… Quite often in [...]

Nobody wants to be diagnosed with breast cancer, but it is a very survivable disease.  One of the main keys to survival is early detection.  Now, a new tool for early detection is being developed from something women wear everyday: their bras.
Elias Siores, the director of the Centre for Research and Innovation at the University [...]

BRA FITTING TIPS FROM THE PROFESSIONALS!
For Breast Cancer Awareness month, Wacoal is having bra fitting events in various lingerie departments nationwide. Receive a complimentary fitting in a Wacoal, DKNY or Donna Karan Intimates bra from a Wacoal fit specialist and Wacoal will donate $2 to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation. An additional $2 [...]

In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the invention of the bra, “The Secret History of the Bra” aired the last 2 Fridays on the National Geographic Channel. A timeline of bras can be viewed in video format on their website, here.
The program starts with the corset, which was considered both proper and sexy. The [...]

NBC’s Today Show featured Cindy Johnson, a lingerie expert and owner of SOL store of lingerie. She talked about fixing bra flaws for different age groups and the latest in booby technology.
Most of her fixes would work across the age-map, but for this show each error was separated for women in their 20s, 30s, 40s [...]

Part 2
In case you missed Part 1, I experienced some recent lifestyle changes that reduced my bra size (got off birth control, changed my diet). So I had Jeff measure me and used the Intimate Guide bra calculator, and discovered that I need new bras. (Don’t forget weight changes, menstrual cycle changes, pregnancy, nursing and [...]