Butterflies and roses

Surfing around online to see if I could find some cool retro swimwear for this summer season, I came across Signe Tolstrup’s S/S08 collection of ’afterwear’ as she calls it.
I’ve known about her designs for some time now as she is one of the few ‘famous’ Danish lingerie designers.
Last year’s A/W collection had a Frieda Kahlo-sort of theme with strong colours and a mysterious mood. It was lingerie with an attitude of force and sexual desire. The spring collection is more delicate, but still ever so seductive. I’m thinking Marie Antoinette caught in bed with Anaïs Nin – or something.The colours are innocent and girlish, but still tempting and mouth-watering. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with for this fall.

What all Nerd Girls are really like underneath:

40s Burlesque Goddesses

I got some underwear from What Katie Did for x-mas and it’s the coolest underwear I’ve seen in a long time. The designs are inspired by 40s and 50s lingerie with girdles, corsets, stockings – the works. However the different styles make it possible to tune down the burlesque a bit if you want.

But the coolness of What Katie Did is not only in the designs – even though that’s what attracted me in the first place.

The fact that the cup-sizes range from B-E (UK sizes) made me happy as well. Here in Denmark the lingerie market for curvy girls is quite limited. I loooove lingerie, but I still have a problem with spending more money on one bra, than I would on a pair of boots or a plane ticket to London, for that matter. H&M still haven’t come around cup-sizes larger than C and popular brands like Triumph and Femilet still, in my view, put comfort above style.
The lingerie from What Katie Did is sexy and affordable – especially when it’s on sale.

So deep down and underneath it all, who can resist looking and feeling like Rita Hayworth or Marlene Dietrich ?