Lingerie tips

Colored thigh high stockings and lingerie – unexpected match

Colored thigh high stockings match with lingerie

Browsing new corsetry Fall/Winter 2012 collection by Italian brand Verdissima, I’ve discovered something unexpected, that was there all the time. Colored thigh high stockings do match lingerie really well! I wonder why this match isn’t used that broadly as one would expect. Yes, colored hosiery are quite shouting and actually take away the attention from the lingerie itself, but who actually cares, as long as the look is so refreshing, sexy, playful. As much as I wouldn’t like to use this word – beautiful.

I guess it’s about time to invest a bit into colorful hosiery. That will be an investment though – usually colored stuff doesn’t match well with 80% of the wardrobe, so it means you have to have several sets of stockings in different color and probably you will wear them not that frequently compared to neutral color knee high or thigh high socks.

So, let’s get to colors and see what’s the best match to the lingerie you love.

Red color knee high socks or thigh high stockings probably would be the first to come to mind. But beware, red is not easy to match with other colors.

Red thigh high socks

Red thigh high socks and lingerie body by Verdissima

Yellow is even more tricky, though the romantic refreshing feeling you will radiate is undeniable.

Yellow socks

Yellow thigh high socks match with Verdissima neutral color lingerie set

According to Verdissima, “fresh and youthful image in different colors is a new signature style symbol of  Verdissima’s  corsetry collection of Fall / Winter 2012 season.”

And yes, even green stockings look great, just be sure not to use green all over your body – that might be too much. Instead choose darker brown color lingerie set or something from the earth’s color palette.

Green stockings knee high

Green stockings knee / thigh high with lingerie set

Purple is so feminine, almost fatale, but at the same time romantic. Suits with darker sets, but to soften the image bright soft color lingerie sets are fine.

Purple thigh high stockings

Purple thigh high stockings with Verdissima lingerie set

Violet thigh high stockings

Violet thigh high stockings match well with lingerie dress by Verdissima

Blue fits well with many colors, like jeans, so don’t be afraid experimenting. Maybe match with red and green might be tricky to control

Blue stockings

Blue stockings with lingerie set by Verdissima

Blue thigh high socks

Blue thigh high socks and lingerie by Verdissima FW 2012

Blue thigh high socks probably are best for summer days, when outfit usually is highly colorful.

Dark pink sheer hosiery would probably most universal – highly feminine and having in mind wild popularity of pink in our days clothing styles.

Dark pink stockings

Dark pink stockings look well with lingerie set by Verdissima.

 

If you are not sure if you’ll be able to get harmony with solid color hosiery, try more transparency and milder colors. Yellow or dark pink transparent  is almost no fail match with any lingerie set (except black maybe).

Yellow stockings

Yellow stockings matching with red Verdissima lingerie set

 

Time to get rid of black and white dominance in your undergarments selection!

 

Something about my new discovery, Verdissima lingerie brand: it’s Italian, from a big group of clothing Intimamoda, that also holds other lingerie, swimwear brands like Verde Veronica, YOU, Sielei.

 

Credits: Verdissima, www.verdissima.it

Collection: Autumn Winter 2012

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See through lingerie. How to choose not to fail

See through lingerie - how to choose not to fail

Now that lingerie design is inevitably getting pumped up with eroticism and it’s getting normal to see soft bondage type design in selection of major lingerie stockists, it still is important to keep some sense of taste and limits.  Speaking of see through lingerie, what first comes to mind is something from porn movies or selection of terribly looking cheap sheer panties in a million of lingerie e-shops. I bet only few would want to look as pornstars. Better go for irresistible femme fatale. And to achieve that, see through lingerie comes quite handy, with only few rules we can handle to turn the look to the right side.

First tip: don’t go cheap.  It sounds obvious, but as a rule cheap see through lingerie looks cheap too. You wouldn’t want to look as easy to get, would you? Better one higher quality sets, than many of poor quality. Andres Sarda, Forrest & Bob, Agent Provocateur, Lasciviousand many other middle price range lingerie designers have a good selection.

cheap sheer lingerie

Random cheap (both in a sense of design and price) sheer lingerie

See through lingerie set by Andres Sarda

See through lingerie set by Andres Sarda

Go for something tasteful to cover your body or at least simple. Sense of taste is not for everybody, but it gets easier with respected magazines like Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour.com, Style.com, Vogue and many other. Most lingerie pieces and brands you’ll see have quite a good taste in design and are leaders in that usually. Look for them, trust them, and you’ll have a very high chance of success in this field.

Badly looking transparent lingerie body

Tasteful see through lingerie

Tasteful see through lingerie dress by Blush

Colors are risky too, as blue lingerie became kind of cliche. But there are tons of other suitable subtle colors you can choose from. Of course, the selection of colorful see through lingerie sets is not that good, but still. Still the design could be so subtle, so good that even pink will look  good and refreshing, as this set of see through bra and panties from Etam lingerie, Spring Summer 2011 collection, below:

Random transparent lace set

Pink sheer bra and panties lingerie

Pink sheer bra and panties lingerie set by Etam

Mesh is risky. Try to avoid it, but if you can’t, don’t over-try with it, keep it minimum, only for details, like bra, panties or hosiery.

Random mesh seamless dress

Mesh sheer lingerie

Mesh sheer lingerie set by Ellipse

See through panties can be subtle too. Panties shouldn’t be see through completely to achieve same seduction effect. You can have transparent part only on the part of bottocks, like these by Jenna Leigh Lingerie. Or have semi-transparent lace briefs (Palmetta below). Even your wedding dress can have see through undergarments (Kriss Soonikbelow)

Random see thru nylon panties

Lilac see through panties

Lilac see through panties by Jenna Leigh Lingerie

Lace sheer see through panties

Lace sheer panties by Palmetta

Wedding see through dress element - panties.

Wedding see through dress element – sheer panties and bra by Kriss Soonik

When it comes to see through bra, make sure it’s semi-transparent, leaving some sense of secret. Completely see through bra is a no-go usually. There are many lingerie designers offering selection of sheer bras,  but I would note Andres Sarda as most talented in this area.

Ultra sheer bra

Random “ultra” sheer bra, completely transparent

See through bras

See through bras by Andres Sarda

And for the end – some inspiration from few other examples, below. Resuming, be subtle about see through lingerie you choose and you should be ok. Check Forrest & Bob, I.D. Sarrieri, Ellipse and others.

See thru underwear

See thru underwear set by Ellipse

See through dress

See through dress by I.D. Sarrieri

See through sexy lingerie

See through sexy lingerie set by Forrest&Bob

See through body

See through lace lingerie body by Etam

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