By Ali Cudby
This year’s Curvexpo in New York revealed a number of manufacturers that are catering increasingly to the cohort of full-figured women. This marks a shift from previous years, when the full-busted market got more of the attention.
What differentiates full-figured from full-busted? Here’s the line of demarcation used in my book Busted! The Fab Foundations Guide to Bras That Fit, Flatter and Feel Fantastic: Full-busted is D-cup and up; 38-band and … Read More
by Jené Luciani
OK, so Lingerie Briefslingerie world is all about letting you in on what’s ‘new’ in the lingerie world and this time, it’s a bra line out of the UK (they are always first, aren’t they?) that’s finally now launching here in the US!!! But, the thing I really love about Curvy Kate, available at BareNecessities.com, is that they cater to fuller-busted women D-K cups, something that so many other bra brands … Read More
When I was young, buying bras was a fractious affair. Endowed, but not particularly fleshy, I had no real pretty choices in the intimate’s market. I was restricted to boring bras that I jokingly referred to as “erector sets”. It did not seem fair, especially when the curvier media legends of my youth, Sophia Loren, Lynda Carter and Raquel Welch managed to project sensuality and femininity wearing barely anything. I imagined that their lingerie was … Read More