GLAMOUR PHOTOGRAFY

It's always fun when a contemporary designer can reinvent vintage lingerie into a fresh, sultry collection. Kiss Me Deadly is one of those brands that brings the 6-strap garter belt back into its full glory and creates figure-flattering pieces that make you a modern-day Ava Gardner! We just got the Vargas chemise and the Jolie bra/panty/garter set (for ourselves) and had a lot of fun playing around with the new pieces. The Vargas chemise is as effective as a Spanx slip, but as beautiful as a vintage pin-up ad. The Jolie bra lives up to its name with some lovely detail in its stitching and its retro cut.
The Jezebel Longline in red is also pretty stunning...something to put on the wish list.
This UK label has built quite a good name for itself (since launching in 2006), and each design is typically modeled by Morgana, the face of the brand who you see in all of the images above.
There are actually quite a few styles to chose from, with only a small selection shown here. To shop the Kiss Me Deadly brand (which is surprisingly well-priced, we were pleased to discover), click here.

While we were doing our posts on lingerie through the decades (so far we've covered 1930s-1960s), our search kept taking us to the blog 'A Slip of a Girl'. This blog is filled with vintage lingerie images, as well as vintage lingerie for sale. These antique images are just too cute, and so sweet!
Included in this post are some of our favorite images from the site...enjoy!

We had a little lapse in our 'lingerie through the decades' series, but we're back with styles from the 1960s. During the 60s we see more experimentation with color (of course there's more color advertising at this point), and we still see those bullet bras!
Perhaps one of the more aggressive lingerie advertisers of the time was Maidenform, which claimed success with its "I dreamed I ... in my Maidenform bra" campaign.
Perhaps our favorite lingerie images from the 60s come from artist Rene Gruau who famously created beautiful advertisements for Christian Dior Lingerie (among other things!). His ads would look great framed in your boudoir - we did just that with the Gruau image below!

We thought it would be fun to do a series of posts featuring lingerie from various decades. We wanted to start with the 1930s. All of the images are very serene and graceful, and very different from what we see today. There's kind of a moody sultriness in these images, which is very different from the fresh sunny images of the 1940s & 50s (post to follow this week).

Because it's taking a bit longer to find some fun images from the 1900s-1920s, we will post on that later (so much for chronological posting!). In any event, below we've included an adorable sneak peek image from a 1921 lingerie ad!
For most of these images, if the photo credit isn't listed, just click on the photo and you will be directed to its internet source. Most of these images can be purchased online, as many of the links source back to various ebay stores.

Just playing around on the internet, and we found these fantastic photos (via Style Guru) of vintage lingerie. Unfortunately we don't know who to give credit to for brands or photography! In any event, enjoy!
(if you know who to credit, please let us know!).