European vs American lingerie culture
European vs american lingerie culture
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping
In broad strokes, I would describe American lingerie as being sexy for the benefit of someone else, while European lingerie allows a woman to be sexy for herself. European lingerie is full of amazing fabrics, innovative ideas, and a happy sort of creativity that I've not found in America -- I think it's because women here wear lingerie as a treat for themselves, so buying beautiful lingerie is just like buying a fantastic handbag or pair of shoes . In America, I think the trend is much more towards buying something for a special night.
I "Shelly" found this article above while searching through news feeds.It makes me wonder...why is it that in the society we live in today so high tech,modern in it's culture, full of sexual content on the big screen and in the media, why are we so scared of admitting our own sexuality?In European countries woman sunbathe nude at the public beach and dance topless in the dance clubs. The television programs are full of sexual content,there ads are graphic, never airbrushed, but yet the crime rates are much lower than those in the u.s. I ask..what are we so afraid of? I cannot even print a bra ad in the local newspapers for fear that the local editor will go into cardiac arrest after seeing an airbrushed woman in a push up bra.
In my travels through Europe, I noticed that there is an extreme difference, not only in how fashion forward they are there, but also in the way that the woman shop, and how uninhibbited they are .Traveling through parts such as England, you see large lingerie shops in the center of highly populated shopping centers,with open store fronts displaying large high gloss, very visualyy graphic posters.Boutiques filled with luxurious fabrics and rich designs.Woman can shop these beautiful stores and find every item they may possibly imagine to make them feel like a woman.Why is it okay to walk into Walmart and buy your undergarments on public display, however if you go into a classy lingerie specialty boutique, there is always some small town, small minded perfectionist lurking in the shadows looking at you as if you are sneaking into a back alley porno shop!
This only makes me laugh! I tell my customers..buy lingerie for yourself , as well as your partner. If you feel sexy, he will think your sexy. If you love yourself...he will love you back. Take some pride in the way you look and feel about yourself. There is not a better feeling than walking aroud in a new satin bra and panties! Unless however, that bra and panties just went across the conveyour belt at your local superstore alongside your raw chicken and brocolli! Not my idea of sexy!LOL.
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Take a look at how you feel about yourself and make each little experience one that will put alittle more beauty into your own heart .Everytime you smile on the inside, your will glow on the outside.Just a little blabbering from yours truly..at pashelly.
Hugs n kisses,
Shelly
www.pashelly.com
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping
In broad strokes, I would describe American lingerie as being sexy for the benefit of someone else, while European lingerie allows a woman to be sexy for herself. European lingerie is full of amazing fabrics, innovative ideas, and a happy sort of creativity that I've not found in America -- I think it's because women here wear lingerie as a treat for themselves, so buying beautiful lingerie is just like buying a fantastic handbag or pair of shoes . In America, I think the trend is much more towards buying something for a special night.
I "Shelly" found this article above while searching through news feeds.It makes me wonder...why is it that in the society we live in today so high tech,modern in it's culture, full of sexual content on the big screen and in the media, why are we so scared of admitting our own sexuality?In European countries woman sunbathe nude at the public beach and dance topless in the dance clubs. The television programs are full of sexual content,there ads are graphic, never airbrushed, but yet the crime rates are much lower than those in the u.s. I ask..what are we so afraid of? I cannot even print a bra ad in the local newspapers for fear that the local editor will go into cardiac arrest after seeing an airbrushed woman in a push up bra.
In my travels through Europe, I noticed that there is an extreme difference, not only in how fashion forward they are there, but also in the way that the woman shop, and how uninhibbited they are .Traveling through parts such as England, you see large lingerie shops in the center of highly populated shopping centers,with open store fronts displaying large high gloss, very visualyy graphic posters.Boutiques filled with luxurious fabrics and rich designs.Woman can shop these beautiful stores and find every item they may possibly imagine to make them feel like a woman.Why is it okay to walk into Walmart and buy your undergarments on public display, however if you go into a classy lingerie specialty boutique, there is always some small town, small minded perfectionist lurking in the shadows looking at you as if you are sneaking into a back alley porno shop!
This only makes me laugh! I tell my customers..buy lingerie for yourself , as well as your partner. If you feel sexy, he will think your sexy. If you love yourself...he will love you back. Take some pride in the way you look and feel about yourself. There is not a better feeling than walking aroud in a new satin bra and panties! Unless however, that bra and panties just went across the conveyour belt at your local superstore alongside your raw chicken and brocolli! Not my idea of sexy!LOL.
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Take a look at how you feel about yourself and make each little experience one that will put alittle more beauty into your own heart .Everytime you smile on the inside, your will glow on the outside.Just a little blabbering from yours truly..at pashelly.
Hugs n kisses,
Shelly
www.pashelly.com
posted by Pashelly at 10:15 PM
1 Comments:
That's awesome, Michelle. I totally agree with everything you said, there. When I was in Cancun, it was the same way. Americans are just kind of obsessed. They are both obsessed with sex (which, while having some potential downsides, really doesn't bother me:), and they are obsessed with repressing sexuality (which is a really unhealthy impulse). It's insane.
And most people just want their partners to care enough about being attractive that they try to show some concern for their appearance.
It's still and always what's on the inside that counts as far as I'm concerned. And if you feel attractive on the inside, you are totally right that it comes out on the outside. And lingerie is an awesome way for women to express that for themselves, as much as anything else.
I have had enough sex and had enough encounters with more classically hot and not so hot women to know that being sexy and being hot and being beautiful is definitely as much and sometimes more an attitude than a certain look (though obviously Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp have some major legs up on me, though Johnny, in particular, is a great example of attitude playing a huge role in attractiveness).
A friend and I spontaneously decided to go to a strip club, recently (which I hadn't done in forever and probably won't do for awhile because I end up spending way too much money:). We spent well over half the night chatting with and pumping up the confidence of this very nice girl who was not feeling so hot about her body and herself. But I loved the fact that she was so embracing of her nakedness and her sexuality. It was really awesome. And the stripper I was most attracted to was definitely hot in a classical way, which I'm sure added to her confidence, but it was her attitude that was the real turn-on and totally had me sprung, that night, far more than the more classically hot strippers in this place.
And, though I thought about it and she was single and seemed like she might have been interested (though she was being paid for the experience:), I didn't ask her out because real attractiveness, for me, at least, comes with having all that attitude with all the intangibles that come with being a great person She was really nice girl. But I'm just looking for a girl with some passion for life and commitment to a higher purpose, I guess (and I've had my fill of breaking hearts...and it probably would not have felt nice to get turned down in a strip club:)...though I was pleasantly surprised that she might have been interested).
I've known beautiful girls who've lacked confidence in themselves and were probably less attractive to others, as a consequence (though I do my best to help women feel supported, in those situations), and I've known women who are really attractive and sometimes incredibly hot, depending on attitude, who carry it off almost exclusively with attitude. And for some reason, Michelle (maybe it's because I see more real potential for a relationship in a situation where it's more than physical attraction) those girls always seem far more attractive to me. And I'm beginning to discover that that tendency, though not universal, is more common than not, in my experience. Everyone wants to see good looking people in their porn, it seems, but even porn is a place where attitude is far more important to me, at least, than is appearance.
And the truth is that no matter what the world, at large, seems to want, your partners, your friends, and people you're really going to care about what they think, they're just impressed when you care enough to try, I think. And when you feel sexy you are totally right that your partner or others who care about you will think you're sexy, too:).
I've been getting a lot of attention and interested and getting picked up on a more lately, Michelle. And you know that I'm not really a looker. And I'm pretty sure that most women that I thought would only be interested in someone more naturally physically attractive have just been attracted to some kind of intuitive attitude/personality qualities that were never possible before I took that principle you've talked about in this post more seriously (and before I'd matured and grown up quite a bit, too, to be fair). It's been amazing to have it happen, because it's not like I've dramatically changed my look (though I do try to dress more attractive, though laid back, when I can). I just carry myself more confidently and I'm a nice guy with enough of a bad boy streak that I just think, maybe, it puts women at ease, perhaps? I don't know. I just know that you're right, Michelle:).
Love,
Ben
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