What is Lingerie?
For a woman, it takes a few things to make her feel wonderful, fresh and beautiful. Sometimes it is the way you style your hair or the way you do your makeup. Other times its something someone has said to you to compliment your style or clothing. Your wardrobe has the ability to make you feel sexy and confident, including your lingerie.
Lingerie is a word that comes from a French word meaning “linge” which means “washables.” It also comes from “lin” meaning washable linens. Lingerie or intimate apparel is something that most women choose to wear. Lingerie is usually very sensual and alluring, very appealing to the eye. The lingerie usually consists of bras, panties and other fancy garments. The garments usually are made of materials like lycra or nylon because they are a stretchy easy fabric. They might also consist of satin, silk or see-through sheer fabric. These types of materials are not used to make everyday cotton types of undergarments.
Lingerie first came onto the scene with items such as corsets, which helped to pull the body into different shape by constricting the area. Then later in the 20th century the first brassiere was invented. The invention of the brassiere helped to free women from wearing the very tight corsets. As time progressed, undergarments were made to be more airy and lightweight. By the 1960s, some companies helped to make fancy lingerie more glamorous. Today some of these companies are still famous for making sexy, alluring, popular lingerie. Lingerie is a huge market and a big seller to woman from teenage years on up to older adults.
- Thong or g-string- A small piece of fabric that goes around the hips with a thin fabric going through the buttocks and back up to attach at the cord that is across the hips.
- Babydoll- A cute very short night gown with matching panties.
- Garter Belt- Is attached to stockings to hold them up.
- Camisole- A sleeveless undergarment for the top half of the body with spaghetti straps.
- Girdle- An undergarment with flexible fabric that holds the body in helping to reshape it.
- Bra- A garment to support a woman's breasts.
- Panty- A short undergarment made for women to wear under their clothing.
Boy shorts- An undergarment that look like a shorts for men but are a little smaller and more form fitting for a woman's figure.