A Few Words About Color

Unless you're going for the "Sex and the City" look, you probably want your lingerie to be unobtrusive. So, your lingerie wardrobe should include the color basics - a nude or flesh tone (as close to the color of your skin as possible), black, ecru and white. In this age of wonderful flesh-tone underwear, you may be wondering "why white?" Well, in keeping with the long tradition, handed down from mother to daughter, we can bleach our white lingerie until the day it starts looking dingy. Then, as Mom said, "When it looks gray, throw it away." If you wear a lot of a particular color, you'll probably want lingerie in that color as well. A black bra strap or slip peeking out of a red dress is either a fashion statement or a fashion faux pas. Either way, it's noticeable. Color in panties and thongs is another issue. Since low-rise styles can generate unexpected viewings of your panties, it's more fun to expose a colored pair rather than a white or nude one. So, by all means, select fun, lacy colorful panties if you know there's a chance they might be seen.