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Keeley Hazel XXX Lingerie Edition 2009 Wall Calendar
At sixteen years of age, Hazell left school to work as a hairdresser Her colleagues persuaded her to try her luck at modelling (she later quit hairdressing)and she enrolled at Lewisham College to start a City & Guilds in fashion, but was not at the college for very long. At seventeen, she competed in The Daily Star's. Search for a Beach Babe contest and won. A friend told her about The Sun's Page 3 Idol competition. Despite some initial uncertainty about entering the contest, she submitted some photos. She was eventually chosen the winner in December 2004. She won £10,000 worth of sexy clothes and a one-year membership of the Rex cinema and bar. Three cast sculptures were made of her bust by sculptor Leigh Heppell. Two are in the Sun offices and one is in her house..
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Knitting Lingerie Style: More Than 30 Basic and Lingerie-Inspired Designs
The only knitting book focused on lingerie and lingerie-inspired designs Underwear has come out. Once kept demurely concealed, lingerie now pervades every fashion category, inspiring designs for day looks, loungewear, evening clothes, and accessories. Slips have become dresses unto themselves. Bra straps are meant to peek out from under tank tops. Camisoles are worn on their own or as layers over or under other clothes. Now, with Knitting Lingerie Style, designer Joan McGowan-Michael interprets this undeniable fashion trend for the knitter and, along the way, shares fascinating stories about lingerie history. Did you know that it was airplane magnate Howard Hughes who masterminded the underwire bra? McGowan-Michael’s 30-plus designs, stunningly photographed by Thayer Allyson Gowdy, range from the truly functional—knitted bras, slips, corsets, camisoles, and stockings—to the purely fun. The brassiere inspires a curvature-enhancing twinset. The baby doll negligee is the basis for a lacy little gown and a matching thong set that’s both luxurious and (slightly) notorious. And a ribbed, laced-front sweater is an updated—and much more comfortable!—take on the classic corset. The only book of its kind on the market, Knitting Lingerie Style includes projects that are bold and sexy, daring us all to bare a little skin, as well as more understated and demure, with sizes ranging from petite to plus..
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Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design
Syrian lingerie is racy attire little-known in the west. Manufactured in Syria and exported throughout the Middle East, it blinks, sings, vibrates, and flashes lights, and is adorned with everything from faux fir to artificial flowers and feathered birds to colourful plastic toy cell phones. This sort of lingerie is well known and accepted in Syrian culture, and is openly displayed in the markets and souks - it forms an important part of the longstanding folk traditions around weddings and marriage. Brides-to-be are given it as gifts by their mothers, or buy it themselves; husbands buy it for wives. "The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie" gathers together text and photo essays that introduce and celebrate some of the most outrageous undergarments in the world, and challenge our perceived notions of women, sex, and humour in the Muslim world..
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The Lingerie Handbook
Rebecca Apsan is the lingerie evangelist. She knows that intimate apparel has the power to transform That the right bra affects not only look, but outlook That sexy silk or lace are feminine armor, offering a soft layer of protection against life’s vicissitudes. Her New York City store, La Petite Coquette, draws shoppers from around the world—and not just the celebrities who swear by it. New York Magazine sings her praises as “the best bra-fitter in the country”; so does Lucky. The Wall Street Journal wrote up her role in catapulting Hanky-Panky thongs onto every well-dressed woman’s must-have list—on their front page! She provided all the intimate apparel for Sex and the City. And now Rebecca Apsan is ready to divulge thirty years of wisdom and insider information about how underclothes can make the woman. For a world where 85% of women are wearing the wrong size bra, The Lingerie Handbook is a complete tops-to-bottoms guide to bras, panties, slips, sleepwear shapewear, stockings, teddies, camisoles, and accessories. There’s the how-to on proper fit, including before-and-after photographs. Guides to matching the right underwear to different outfits. (T-shirts, jersey dresses, white pants, strapless gowns? No problem!) Straightforward advice on shopping, cleaning, organizing, and storing. But inspiration, too: how to cure body-image hang-ups by finding the right undergarments. And romance: how to find your own inner flirt, develop a unique style, and, when the occasion is right, how to dress to undress..
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Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die (Blackbird Sisters Mysteries, No. 4)
At the unveiling of the most miraculous bra in fashion history, Nora's boss is found trussed up in pantyhose and shot execution style. To find the killer, Nora must shadow the most glamorous suspects in Philadelphia-including a bad-boy designer and a pair of luscious twin models. Though they're used to "murder with style" (Pittsburgh Magazine), cross your fingers for the Blackbird sisters, because this time, high society has never stooped so low..
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Sewing Lingerie That Fits: Stylish Underwear, Sleepwear and Loungewear for Everyday Living
Ready-to-wear lingerie and loungewear choices are very narrow and limited, especially for petite and plus-sized women. Fabrics used in ready-to-wear are often substandard and uncomfortable next to the skin, and prices are astronomical for quality lingerie. Now sewers can create a wardrobe of comfortable and attractive garments by making their own lingerie. With the information available in this volume, sewers can choose the right pattern, luxurious fabrics and gorgeous embellishments to create the lingerie that suits their every mood and need, at a fraction of the cost of ready-to-wear..
Price: $25.00
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Pattern Cutting for Lingerie, Beachwear and Leisurewear
This unique book contains a full range of blocks and patterns to cope with all aspects of lingerie, beachwear and leisurewear It explains not only the methods of cutting but also the reasoning behind the methods, so that you can learn to adapt the information to other situations.
* All the instructions have been tried and tested – so they work
* Offers many ‘tips of the trade’ to give a professional appearance to completed garments
* Encourages you to experiment in textbook size by supplying one-fifth scale blocks
* Demonstrates how to make the fullest use of patterns as practised in industry
* Considers the influence of choice of fabric on the way a pattern works
* New features include tips for achieving the best results when taking personal measurements, optimum fit patterns for close fitting garments, outstanding patterns for larger cup sizes, thongs, tankinis, basques, bustiers and hipster trousers..
Price: $38.23
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