Welcome to StyleCaster’s Summer of Sex! For the next three months, we’ll be bringing you scintillating content about—you guessed it—all things related to our favorite three-letter word. A few things to expect: Answers to pressing questions you always wanted to know but were too afraid to ask, ways to boost your own sex appeal, what being sexy means to various people, and lots and lots of eye candy. And that’s just the beginning. Brace yourselves, people: It’s going to be one hot summer.
For many of us, sexy lingerie is synonymous with tawdry—dare we day porn-y—pieces that look as if they belong on women eagerly awaiting the arrival of the hot young pizza delivery guy rather than modern fashion-loving girls. And while that’s true in some respects (one of the top results in Google when you search “sexy lingerie” is a site called Trashy.com), there’s also quite a lot of very sexy underpinnings that are, um, titillating without being tacky.
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Between high-end labels like La Perla and Kiki de Montparnasse, boutique brands like Ari Dein and Eberjey, fast-fashion stores, and even kitchy retailers like Fredericks’ of Hollywood, there’s definitely an abundance of extremely sexy lingerie that won’t make you cringe.
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