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How To Pick Out Lingerie For Your Lady

How to Role Play with Lingerie

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Chosen lingerie could be lots of fun. For instance you can be anybody you want to be. If you want to be a little diva and wear something black and 2 piece and really skimpy you can do that. If you want to be a little baby doll and get into something pink and really girly looking you can be pink for the day.

So when your choosing your lingerie it could be your own personality that you want to bring out or you it could be the personality the person that you always wanted to be. So choosing lingerie not only could be with the color that you choose but with the style that you chose as well. You can do black leather, you can do pink puff, you can do red, you can do any color that makes you feel like the woman that you are or the women that you want to be. So the next time you are choosing lingerie you might want to go for something any a color that you have never tried before.

How to Buy Lingerie For Your Body Type

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When purchasing lingerie you want to make sure that you absolutely have comfortable fit and the right size. The first thing that I would suggest would be measure your lingerie by your bra size. In other words if you are a small busted women you would like to get a piece of lingerie that has a under wire or some padding in it cause that would enhance the size of your breast. It would make you look even sexier.

If you are a larger size women you can go with a different type of style. Something that has a big of elastic in it and lot so a stretch yet it kept you firm. It kept you looking like you have a bra on underneath it. Both of these pieces are a fine example of what you would buy if you where a smaller size women. Here we have the under wire and the pads and the adjustable straps. For the larger size women here we have piece that does not have the bra inside of it which gives you lots and lots of room. But has a lot of stretch in it. So when buying your lingerie make sure that you have something that really fits your size particularly your bra size.

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Size Does Matter

General size chart for selecting lingerie. Depending on the design of the lingerie, different lingerie of the same size may differ slightly in size.

	Small	Medium	Large	XL
USA	4-6	8-10	12-14	16-18
UK	6-8	10-12	14-16	16-18
Australian	8-10	10-12	14	16-18
Cup size	A-B	B-C	B-C	B-C
Bust Cm Inch	79-83 31-33	83-91 33-36	91-96 36-38	96-101 38-40
Waist Cm Inch	58-64 24-26	65-70 26-28	71-78 28-31	79-86 31-33

One size best fits M to L (Bust 33-37", Waist 25-29", Hips 35-38", Cup B/C, Dress Size 10-14)

Please take note if you are buying corset or bustier. Corsets or bustiers are designed to be ordered 2 inches under your natural waist measurement. For example, if the measurement around the narrowest part of your relaxed waist is 30", you would typically order your corset in size 28". If one trains down to the point that the corset no longer fits snug, a new corset should be ordered with a reduction of 2 inches from the current laced waist.

How to Measure

• Bust/Chest: Measure completely around your chest/bust at the fullest point, holding the tape measure taut, but not tight.
• Waist: Measure around the narrowest portion of your waist.
• Hips: Measure around the fullest portion of your hips and backside.

Knowing Your Lingerie

Lingerie is a term for fashionable and alluring women's undergarments. It derives from the French word linge, "washables" — as in faire le linge, "do the laundry" — and ultimately from lin for washable linen, the fabric from which European undergarments were made before the general introduction of cotton from Egypt and then from India.

While the term in the French language applies to all undergarments for either gender, in English it is applied specifically to those women's undergarments designed to be visually appealing or erotic, typically incorporating materials such as Lycra, nylon (nylon tricot), polyester, satin, lace and/or silk and not applied to functional cotton undergarments. It is commonly pronounced in English with a faux French pronunciation (such as LONJ-er-ee in British pronunciation or lonj-er-AY in American pronunciation).

The concept of lingerie being visually appealing was a development of the later nineteenth century. Up through the first half of the 20th century women selected underwear for three major purposes: to alter their shape (first with corsets and later with girdles or bras), for reasons of hygiene, or for modesty. Women's underwear before the invention of the crinoline was often very large and bulky. As the 20th century progressed underwear became smaller and more form fitting. In the 1960s 'controversial' lingerie manufacturers such as Frederick's of Hollywood begin to glamorize lingerie and the idea of lingerie having a sexual appeal slowly developed.

The lingerie industry has expanded in the 21st century with designs that double as outerwear. The French refer to this as 'dessous-dessus' which basically means innerwear as outerwear. The boutique Faire Frou Frou, which is an antiquated phrase meaning "show it off", heralds this philosophy by categorizing lingerie as an accessory with details such as straps and lace trim that should be layered and shown as part of one's outerwear.

Source: Wikipedia