Articles by Debbie Mendoza

Vintage shapewear - fifties fashion needs a fifties silhouette
Useful tips you'll need when starting your own vintage lingerie collection. All you need to know about vintage girdles, corsets and bras. Find out how to tell the age of lingerie.
Published 25Jan2009, viewed 501 times

Plus size lingerie - a guide to shopping online
Shopping for plus size lingerie is not always easy in your local high street or mall. This article gives plenty of hints and tips on what is available and where to look. Plus size women deserve plenty of choice and to enjoy wearing their lingerie!
Published 19Jan2009, viewed 178 times

Vintage spectacles - creating your own retro look with eyeglasses
What better to complete your vintage look than wearing original spectacles from the period. This article explainw what to look for when buying original vintage eyeglasses, and more importantly what to avoid. Although not legal to sell them, there are still some famres around which are actually so inflammable they are almost explosive! Find out how to tell these from the safer ones.
Published 18Jan2009, viewed 694 times

Womens' panties online - a guide to buying silky panties
All you ever wanted to ask about buying ladies' panties online and were afraid to ask! Silky panties, tanga, boy leg panties - all the various types of underwear are described, along with helpful hints on how to shop online for panties.
Published 19Jan2009, viewed 155 times

Retro girdles and corsets - shapewear is back
A short history of shapewear from the forties to the sixties, and the rebirth of this lingerie as retro shapewear. Find out why ladies' girdles and corsetry was so essential in the fifties, and what has become of this underwear today.
Published 12Jan2009, viewed 2612 times

Burlesque lingerie fashions from stage to pinup & rockabilly
Explore the overlapping influences of burlesque, pinup and rockabilly styles on fashion Suddenly burlesque and pinup fashions are all over the Internet. The original burlesque designs with their risqué overtones have become the fun fashion, being adapted and adopted by rockabilly. With the current resurgence of burlesque clubs and events this timely article explores the origins of burlesque and how it has changed over the years.
Published 25Jan2009, viewed 437 times

Buying retro shapewear - fifties fashion revival
Retro shapewear, girdles, basques and corsets are back in vogue. Many of the current shapewear designs are modeled on fifties designs, for it was in this decade that Dior launched his 'wasp waist' look. A sleek silhouette was needed to show off his couture dress designs. Now these retro designs are back, this article explains how to choose & wear both vintage and retro shapewear. Maybe now is the time to reveal your new sexy silhouette!
Published 16Jan2009, viewed 510 times

Stockings - the history of nylons
The amazing history of stockings! This is the tale of how a lovelorn curate developed the worlds' first automated stocking machine to how it became illegal to export his machinery. And how a depressed polymer chemist invented the material that elated the women of the world!
Published 16Jan2009, viewed 327 times

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