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Lingerie Fashion Week Day 2: Uye Surana and Affinitas/Parfait
It feels churlish to say this, but I almost wish some of the events of Lingerie Fashion Week had been scheduled differently. The first three events (the first runway show and first gallery...
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Dispatches from CurveNY
New York City was the place to be last weekend for lingerie lovers. Between LingerieFW, the USA debut of the Lingerie Collective, and CurveNY, I’m still having trouble processing everything I saw and...
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Bra Fitting with Freddy: The Eveden Fit Event at CurveNY
In planning my schedule for last weekend, I decided to kick off the trade show portion by attending Eveden’s fit event, a seminar on the basics of bra fitting followed by a workshop. I’m at the point...
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CurveNY New Find: Kitten Kouture
On Day 3 of CurveNY I arrived at the Javits Center to begin my appointments with brand representatives in earnest. I had made most of my appointments in advance, but several bloggers told me over the...
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CurveNY Preview: Claudette
Claudette has absolutely exploded since their debut in 2011. From an incredibly stylish launch with a variety of retro-yet-modern styles and their signature mesh “Dessous” that went up to a G-cup,...
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Earl Grey Ice Cream with Lavender Caramel Sauce
In all of the Curve/Lingerie Collective/LingerieFW madness, my domestic goddess skills totally fell by the wayside. My desk and coffee table are buried under catalogues and line sheets, there’s a stack...
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A Full-Bust Wishlist
I know more often than not we make wishlists for things that actually exist (that we generally wind up impulse-purchasing in a moment of weakness– wait, just me?), but having just come from Lingerie...
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Sweet Nothing Du Jour plus Rapid-Fire Reviews 3/21/13
You know how sometimes you have lots of awesome things going on at once, like, say, TWO catnip mice and a nice long ribbon to play with? And you get kind of overwhelmed, but you’re still having a rad...
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Full-Bust Wishlist: Dresses Edition
I had a much harder time writing this post than I did the Full-Bust Wishlist for lingerie. Our wardrobes vary SO MUCH depending on climate, lifestyle, age, personal style, coloring, income . . . I...
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Bra Shopping in New York: Some Reports from the Trenches
As part of my homework for The Fab Fit Academy, I have to fit and interview 5-10 “customers” a week. As I don’t currently work in retail, this means scheduling some time with volunteers who will let...
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Blackberry Tart and Ginger Ice Cream
I decided at the last minute to travel to Boston this weekend to visit Lady Mary, who is one of my dearest friends. We met in high school and bonded over a shared love of reading, acting, and singing,...
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Sweet Nothing Du Jour: 4/5/13 with Angela Friedman
I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Drama and English Literature of the Middle Ages/Renaissance, with a minor in French. Yeah. At 22, I was not what we would call “a totally useful person,” but I...
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What Do I Call These Things?
I tend to say “boobs” a lot. I mean, not ALL THE TIME, jeez. I’m not parading around the office blathering on about boobs and underwires and bra manufacturers, or anything. But when the topic does come...
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Sweet Nothing Du Jour: 4/11/13
I’m sorry y’all. This is a super boring one. It’s so boring. I know, I know, my goal in life is to bring you the pretty things, but hello, my name is Sweets, I am wearing boring knickers today, and...
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Review: Venus in Play Babydoll by Between the Sheets Lingerie
I was recently dragged (kicking and screaming) to Twitter by some of the wonderful bloggers and designers I met at CurveNY and Lingerie Fashion Week (jk, all it took was brunch, and I was putty in...
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Review: Morning Meadow by Freya
I realized the other day that I don’t own a single beige or light-colored bra that fits. Not a one. I don’t wear white or a lot of pale colors, so I don’t need a ton of bras that are close to my skin...
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The Perils of Ice Cream Socials
[Possible Trigger Warning-- I'll be discussing relationships with food, very cursorily and probably superficially.] It was Staff Appreciation Week at my office last week, and I can’t lie: I generally...
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Sweet Nothing Du Jour: 5/2/2013
I JUST now realized that today is Sweet Nothings’ birthday! And now we are 1. Hedwig! Aw, I used to have a cat who reminded me of Hedwig. Her name was Cookie Monster, and she had ‘tude. Thank you so...
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Are we SERIOUSLY supposed to be on board with True & Co.’s MILF campaign?
I wasn’t going to write about this. I was going to wait for the campaign to blow up in their faces as a piece of extremely, EXTREMELY poor judgment hiding behind the shield of “there’s no such thing...
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White Chocolate and Strawberry Tarts
Spring is finally here! Oh, New York has just been disgracefully beautiful lately. I spent much of the last two weekends outside, basking in the bright sun, calm breeze, and clear skies. Even the woman...
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