By John Festa
YOU’RE HOT!
98.7 degrees Fahrenheit to be exact. This is why you should not wear the same bra two days in a row.
I’m sure you’ve seen a newspaper on the street that is starting to turn brown from being outside in the sun. The paper is slowly burning. It is oxidizing. Fire is rapid oxidation. Body heat will cause the delicate parts of your intimates to do the same thing: oxidize … Read More
By John Festa
So they tell us. Then why isn’t there more cotton in our underwear? Sure, there’s plenty of cotton panties, but what of bras? Is this only the domain of lady golfers and Mother Earth types? Perhaps there are compelling reasons why cotton is only a small percentage of the marketplace. I’ve checked in with some of my retailer customers on this topic. The marketplace always bears the truth — the cold, hard … Read More
By John Festa
I passed Victoria’s Secret on Fifth Avenue the other night and noticed the bras on display in the window. They all had such a wide side wings and back bands that I exclaimed to my companion “These would be great to combat back fat” — only to look up at the signage and see these bras were being sold as just that: Back smoothing push-ups.
It is very noble to address the … Read More
By John Festa
In olden days, a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now heaven knows, anything goes.
So wrote Cole Porter in 1934. And it seems ever more appropriate when we consider the exposed bra trend.
What once was edgy and daring now seems commonplace and thoughtless. Are exposed bra straps and bra bands simply acceptable now? Does this trend speak to a woman’s owning her sexuality, being comfortable in … Read More
By John Festa aka Johnny Lingerie
The wire-free soft-cup bra constitutes a small percentage of bra sales in the United States, somewhere around 20%. Europe, on the other hand, sees about 40% of sales being soft-cup. Why such a stark difference? Does Europe know something we don’t?
First, let us begin to understand how it is that you now have wire in your underwear.
Howard Hughes is often credited with inventing the underwire bra for … Read More
By John Festa aka Johnny Lingerie
Recently I was with a very good friend who was wearing a skirt. While I would never be this crass with a stranger, I said ‘Diane, you need a slip with that skirt’. She replied by saying she never wears slips. Me: ‘Doesn’t the fact that I know you’re not wearing one mean you need one?’
Now I know many women are wearing these cute summer dresses to … Read More
