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Style is, essentially, a matter of personal taste, but if there is ONE inviolable rule, it is this: no one wants to see your underwear.
Most of the time, at least.
Right now, The Undie Awards wants to know what you've got on. Billed as a "revealing look at America's favorite underwear," the awards honor the best (and worst) in men's and women's intimate apparel. You can also see last year's winners, as well as the best selling brands in the US; best sellers can be sorted by size, which is really helpful. After all, while you don't want anyone to SEE your underwear, that doesn't mean it needs to be uncomfortable.
The list of winners from last year is well-organized and helpful, and covers categories such as sports bra, minimizer, and push-up bra. There are photos and reader comments, which are also useful. The focus here is really on pragmatism: voters chose undergarments that worked for actual everyday wear, which is a nice change from underwear guides that focus on seducing your man. (Pictured here: the Le Mystere Tisha bra, winner for best overall and best t-shirt bra for full figures. Retails for $68.00, and worth every penny.)
Because really, who WEARS that Fredericks of Hollywood stuff?
Speaking of underwear and lingerie and looking seductive: apparently British supermarket Tesco is selling padded bras to seven-year-olds. Times Online blogger Eleanor Mills takes issue with this type of marketing:
What are these shops trying to do? We need to make a big fuss about
this. Kids need to be kids as long as they can - selling them bras at
seven doesn't help make that possible!
While there is some confusion about whether the Tesco bras were really MEANT for seven-year-olds or were just displayed NEAR clothes for young girls (as was the case with a pole dancing kit that somehow wound up in the toys section of the Tesco website a couple of years back), the point is the same: we're encouraging our kids to think about themselves as grown ups far too soon. Seven-year-olds should have underwear, not lingerie. The sexy stuff can wait until they are old enough to understand sex and sexuality.
And even then, they might choose something comfortable and practical instead. I hope.
Of course, one of the perks of being a grown-up girl is that you can wear whatever lingerie you want, and you can even build yourself a lingerie closet, like Mariah Carey. This week Carey dished with Oprah about her weight loss, and took Oprah on a tour of her closet, which included her COMPLETELY SEPARATE lingerie closet. Entertainmentwise has video of the tour -- you know, if you want to see Mariah's underwear.
I don't know about you, but I have an underwear DRAWER. One drawer for everything. And that is plenty of room for my lingerie (which is mostly practical and never, ever seen in public).
Susan Wagner writes about style at The Working Closet and Fashion Find and Friday Style. She is pretty much a Hanes kind of girl.
