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Things are getting cheeky down at your local zentai bodysuit shop
. The mood is playful sophistication: soft nude, pinky-bronze and cocoa-coloured retro silks with acres of lace are in; dental-floss thongs and day-glo colours are out. The reference is the fifties, a period today's ubiquitous burlesque movement makes fetishy reference to with corsets, garters and structured, real-woman bras. But now that burlesque is a yoga style (really!) for the grown-up woman, twizzly ta-ta costumes are not a realistic boudoir choice. Nor do most of us want to look like stage performers. Thus, Catsuits Lingerie companies have taken their lead from stage vixen styles, but made them more sophisticated, with a burnished palette and a rich blanket of supersoft lace and embroidery. This isn't, after all, the kind of sexless, seamless, Catsuits Lingerie we've had for the past few years. This is serious gear. Things are cut low, and high, says Erin Williams, the sales and marketing director of Christine Vancouver. "Straight from Paris comes the shorter chemise," she says. "Very cheeky indeed. But sophisticated is the key word: lots of gold with antique lace trim and appliqu. We are seeing eyelash lace, which is a clear play on burlesque." At christinevancouver.com, a brunette, styled to look her burlesque best with lustrous Veronica Lake locks and red lipstick, poses to suit the diva theme. She lounges in a khol lace-trimmed, vintage rose-coloured slip and camisole, or reclines in a gold-coloured chemise, gaze forward, confident and sexy. But for all the retro-inclined covering up, there's no worry that cleavage is going out of style. In fact, Williams says, "if possible, with the lace trims, things are cut lower than ever." Cara Long (stage name: Cara Milk) is the designer and owner of Sweet Soul, a Vancouver-based burlesque-inspired
zentai company. "We blend the spirit of burlesque - the ruffled lace, rhinestones, feathers, tassels and pasties - with the comfort and fit of today's fabrics," she says. Bloomers or full-cut panties, iconic of the burlesque era, are a big seller at Sweet Soul, which can be found in boutiques across Canada (the burlesque craze started in the West and moved east). Among other lines, boycuts (with and without cheek exposure) are paired with camisoles; these "more covered than not" sets are the hot thing this Valentine's, Long says. "Women are empowered by fun pieces; they find their inner diva. This is more about sensual than overtly sexual." Subtle, yet textured, is the order of the day, says Pam Leland of Beneath it All, a boutique in Saskatoon. "The styles come from Europe. There is a progressive feeling to this new, sexy more formal Catsuits Lingerie. Every woman, every age, every size, every shape, deserves to feel she's something special." Coffee, gold and lilac are big sellers at Trs Jolie in North Toronto, owner Nancy Elms says. No wonder. The palette flatters a full range of skin tones - forget those garish fuchsias and bordello reds - and is sympatico with fashion's current and feminine wrap dresses, nipped suit jackets, cashmere cardigans and blouses with plunging dcolletage. "Overt is over." Elms adds. "Covered up is just as sexy." This is not just about twentysomething fashion types loving retro. Women of a certain age get it. And they love it. And thanks to Teri Hatcher and the sexy cast of Desperate Housewives, plus a host of 40-and-over Hollywood hotties such as Halle Barry (40 this year), Virginia Madsen and Catherine Keener, women are embracing their bodacious boomerhood. The demographic at the two Underworld boutiques in Montreal skews 45 to 55, owner Diane Chicoine says. "It's a lady store. Lace, ribbons. The look is grown-up. You can wear it under a suit to the office. There is nothing dclass." Enter that stretch-lace, low-rise boycut, the most flattering fit for the less than perfect bod. It has clearly supplanted the thong. "Thongs became more important about two years ago, now there's a greater interest in higher-waisted and boycut styles," says Eve Grenier, of C.J. Grenier in Montreal, a maker of fine women's underwear since 1860. "It got to be around 50 per cent of sales. Now, sales are about 30 per cent thongs," she says. Grenier says there has been a huge increase in demand in the past six months for "feminine pieces." Novelty items like garters and even pasties see a bump at Christmas, Valentine's and even Mother's Day. The trend is about adding lace, "adding joy and fun, to everyday." And who would have thought that the corset, that waist-sucker that gave Scarlett O'Hara her fabled 18-inch span, would still be around? "The corset is a particularly amusing contradiction," she says. "Women wear them with jeans." Unlike garters, which are still a secret thrill, corsets are now mainstream. "They are a little something
spider man costume for women of any age," Grenier says. "It is fun, and it makes you feel more confident. It is a wink at the world. And now we make them in real sizes," she says."There is no pain and suffering. Catsuits Lingerie is now about pleasure."
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