One of my favorite slips.

Emma wrote:Looks fabulous!  

Betty wrote:

Emma wrote:Looks fabulous!  

Thank you Emma, I bought it off a market stall in Sheffield City Center, he has a lot of interesting ladies clothing some very racy and other items far to sexy for me! I have the feeling he has connections in the clothing industry and buys pieces meant for merchandising. Some of the labels have; "Not for resale" on them. But my lips are sealed  

sliplover46 wrote:Lovely slip, Betty!  Matches the one in my AV!  I think it is just right for you!  Does it still have its label?  I'm guessing VF!

sliplover46 wrote:I've always thought of M&S as equivalent to VF, though I have never had the chance to do any real research on that!

Emma wrote:

sliplover46 wrote:I've always thought of M&S as equivalent to VF, though I have never had the chance to do any real research on that!

M&S was a kind of British version of VF, that's true, and one of the things that both companies had in common was fine design and high quality.  There actually WAS a British Vanity Fair, called Wolsey Vanity Fair, but it didn't last long - but for a while we did have American VF designs made here in England (Leicester to be precise).  I wrote an article about it here: https://nylonnostalgia.com/f/wolsey-vanity-fair---a-rocky-transatlantic-lingerie-tale

Not counting haute couture slips, when it came to sheer beauty, style and sexiness, the best British slips are generally acknowledged to be Bondor, which morphed into Kayser Bondor later.  That, apparently, is what most late 40's/50's British ladies saved their money up to buy...

Emms x

Betty wrote:

Emma wrote:

sliplover46 wrote:I've always thought of M&S as equivalent to VF, though I have never had the chance to do any real research on that!

M&S was a kind of British version of VF, that's true, and one of the things that both companies had in common was fine design and high quality.  There actually WAS a British Vanity Fair, called Wolsey Vanity Fair, but it didn't last long - but for a while we did have American VF designs made here in England (Leicester to be precise).  I wrote an article about it here: https://nylonnostalgia.com/f/wolsey-vanity-fair---a-rocky-transatlantic-lingerie-tale

Not counting haute couture slips, when it came to sheer beauty, style and sexiness, the best British slips are generally acknowledged to be Bondor, which morphed into Kayser Bondor later.  That, apparently, is what most late 40's/50's British ladies saved their money up to buy...

Emms x

Your knowledge of all this amazes and delights me! Thank you for being there for us!

Such a wonderful, elegant time for ladies fashion, and men's fashion wasn't that bad ether. People had pride in their appearance. I feel our fashion industry was "hijacked" and society became lazy.

Betty wrote:

I'm not as sexy as some  of the models on here but I was asked to post a picture of me in a slip, so I thought I'd just post a picture of one of my favorite slips (or petticoat), and let your imagination do the rest.

Betty Boo
xxx