The Truth About Strapless Bras: Best Brands, No Matter Your Size

The Truth About Strapless Bras: Best Brands, No Matter Your Size

Every holiday season, the topic of strapless bras comes up. There’s one truth that should be universally acknowledged: most strapless bras are terrible, relatively ineffective and genuinely uncomfortable. This problem is even worse if you’re full busted or full-figured. At best, most strapless bras are annoying and not great at providing lift. In the worst…

coats for curves

11 Coats To Keep Your Curves Warm this Winter

I realize in some ways that writing an article about coats for curves probably feels a bit hypocritical, considering it’s still 85 degrees where I live.  If you’re not lucky enough to live somewhere warm though, you’re probably checking out all those lovely coats online. Temperatures have dropped on the east coast and lots of…

inexpensive honeymoon lingerie

15 Inexpensive Honeymoon Lingerie Ideas for $60 or Less

This post is the first in a mini-series I’m writing for The Breast Life, highlighting romantic honeymoon lingerie and nightwear ideas for all budgets and sizes. For this first installment, I’m focusing on inexpensive honeymoon lingerie ideas. Everything I’ve rounded up here today is available for just $60 or less (or the foreign currency equivalent). It…

summer fashion

Southern Summer Dresses: Chambray, Seersucker, Gingham and Eyelet

While parts of the country still have cold snaps, we’ve hit full summer here in the South. It’s the sleepiest time of the year, even in a permanently tourist filled city like New Orleans. Temperatures and humidity creep up until it feels like a sauna outside, with the only relief being the near daily rainstorms…

reinvent bras

Is it Necessary to Reinvent Bras?

 One claim often made by emerging intimate apparel brands is the need to “reinvent bras.”  For example, here’s a recent quote from a Kickstarter campaign for an ingenious strapless bra: Despite the many technological, engineering and manufacturing developments made during the past century – consider, for example, the development of walking boots, rain jackets or even…