Store Review: Balls in Berlin

This polished little shop describes its business as men’s lingerie.

Your Bra Size: The Truth May (Pleasantly) Surprise You

Many women to their shock or glee are finding that DD is becoming the new C.

LENS DAMON WINTER; Neighbors

Photo of mannequins in lingerie shop in Manhattan

Belt Tightening

Where are the girdles of yesteryear? The ones women of all ages once wore as a matter of course, huffing and puffing as they tugged at the reinforced elastic and lace, the better to encase their bodies to trimmest effect. The ones that were so pivotal that the 19th-century sexologist Havelock Ellis felt compelled to weigh in, insisting that girdles were “morphologically essential” because the evolution from “horizontality to verticality” was more difficult for women than for men. (Without them,...

In the Case of the Model vs. the Boxer, a Court Showdown That Wasn’t

The tale of Oscar De La Hoya, a former striptease dancer and some embarrassing photos posted on the Internet.

Frill Seekers

Who needs television writers when you’ve got big-city housewives willing to bare all? The women who star in “Real Housewives of New York City,” which premieres on Bravo on March 4, recently provided enough material for a novel, but a thousand words will have to suffice.

READER, I BOUGHT IT; Mentionables

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Fashion Plays Peekaboo, Once Again

See-through fashion was the biggest trend at the New York Fashion Week that ended on Friday.

Chug-a-Lugging Aphrodisiacs

Like a porn star with too many memoirs, Victoria’s secrets are pretty much overexposed at this point.

Show Stopper

Dita Von Teese burlesque performer and lingerie designer for the Wonderbra company lives in a 1920s, three-bedroom Craftsman home in the heart of Hollywood.

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