Category: Meet the Merchants

The Top 6 Lingerie Essentials for Event Season

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date April 18, 2016

You are cordially invited to…Event Season!

Now that spring has descended, everyone’s calendars swell with celebrations: weddings, proms, showers, graduations, bachelorette parties, birthday soirees, twilight cocktails, backyard cookouts—you get the gist.

And when it’s time to get fancy, it follows that your intimate apparel needs special consideration. (You cannot wear granny panties with a gown. It just doesn’t work.) That’s why we invited Heather Garcia, Bare Necessities merchandise manager, top left, and her outgoing team of merchants to help get us flawlessly dressed with the top lingerie essentials for this season’s social circuit.

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Meet the Merchants Personal Style Swimwear

The Best Slimming Swimsuits: A Spotlight on Miraclesuit and Magicsuit

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date April 11, 2016

Odds are, a bathing suit is the single most revealing garment you’re ever going to wear in public. So yeah, there’s every reason in the world to expect those few yards of fabric should be working overtime to cut you a secure, stylish figure. That’s why we pledge our eternal allegiance to the best slimming swimwear there is—Miraclesuit and Magicsuit (“making women feel confident and beautiful since 1927”). And there may be no bigger fan than Jeni Doherty, our resident swimwear expert.

Miraclesuit invented the concept with their claim to fame: “Look 10 pounds lighter in 10 seconds.” Jeni concurs: “They’re unsurpassed at slimming swimwear. And they’re definitely not the traditional Miraclesuit you may remember from the nineties, either; there’s a suit for every body, every age.”

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The Best Tummy Hiding and Tummy Control Swimsuits

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date March 21, 2016

When donning a swimsuit, everyone has her own hot-button issue. And unless your idea of a good time is contracting your abs every waking minute (not ours, for the record), chances are your nemesis may be the stomach area.

Fear not: There’s a bunch of different ways to find a tummy-hiding swimsuit you’ll feel confident in, according to our genius swimwear buyer Jeni Doherty. Here are her four foolproof favorites for the best tummy control swimsuits:

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Meet the Merchants Personal Style

Best Spring Lingerie Trends for 2016

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date March 14, 2016

At Bare Necessities, our talented team of merchants is constantly juggling fashion shows, presentations and vendor meetings (okay, and more than a few spreadsheets and calculators). It’s all in the interest of determining what exciting new finds to add to our vast assortment. Yep, sometimes sitting down with Heidi Klum, Dita Von Teese or Ashley Graham is all in a day’s work.

Today, we’re chatting with Liza Bennett, our VP of merchandising, a.k.a. the brains and beauty behind all the strategic buying. She heads to market week in New York City four times a year to experience firsthand the latest, greatest goings-on in the lingerie world. Here are the sexy lingerie trends that caught her discerning eye a few months back for spring 2016—i.e., right this moment.

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Meet the Merchants Personal Style Swimwear

The Best Bathing Suits for Curvy-Figured Women

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date February 29, 2016

Women who are curvy and need some support in the form of a bra-sized swimsuit are in luck. First of all, c’mon: those enviable curves!

And, just as important, Bare Necessities specializes in the widest assortment of solutions-centered swimwear on the web (band sizes 30-40 and cup sizes D-K). In other words, we can for sure help you find the best swimsuits for curvy figures. Consider us your DD+ destination.

Now let’s return to our swimwear expert Jeni Doherty, who has the following shopping tips to find the best bathing suits for curvy-figured women:

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Meet the Merchants Personal Style

What Color Bra to Wear Under White? The Little Red Bra (and More Bra Styling Tips)

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date February 1, 2016
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Valentine’s Day is imminent, and we’ve got red on the brain. In fact, this is usually right about when we start attempting to unearth the scarlet bra from the far reaches of the lingerie drawer. But why reserve rouge for February alone?

Bare Necessities has learned the red-bra styling trick French women have long used that’s guaranteed to blow your mind…

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Meet the Merchants Personal Style Swimwear

Bras Go for a Dip: Bra-Sized Swimwear from Lingerie vs. Swimsuit Brands

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date January 25, 2016

At the beach or pool, looking good really comes down to feeling good. Inner confidence radiates. And when you’re wearing a swimsuit, you’re putting yourself out there in a major way. (Even more so than with lingerie…who really sees that?!) It never hurts to have a style secret weapon and, as far as we’re concerned, it’s bra-sized swimwear. Because you ought to be swimming in support!

Though you may be noticing the supportive swimwear category cropping up more and more, know this: Not all bra-sized swimwear is created equal.

We got the scoop from Jeni Doherty, our resident swimwear whiz with 17 years of experience. She curates the most supportive, cutest swimsuits so you can look and feel amazing. Per Jeni, bra-sized swimwear can either mean:
1) Lingerie manufacturers who are making bra-sized swimsuits
2) Swimwear manufacturers who are making bra-sized swimsuits

On paper, they might sound more or less the same, but there are significant differences in their size ranges and how they fit your figure. Let’s dive deeper….

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Health & Wellness Meet the Merchants

The Sports Bra Handbook: Our Fit Guide and Top 10 Best Sports Bra List

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date December 21, 2015
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Everyone wants to get fit and stay healthy—starting in about 10 days, anyway! But for us women, the trade-off is that working out hard can lead to a sagging chest over time. Not ideal.

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Meet the Merchants Personal Style

Style and Function: The Bralette Fashion Trend

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date December 14, 2015
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Krista Molinaro, our contemporary and luxury buyer, is just back from Market—one of four weeks a year she spends visiting vendor showrooms in NYC for a look at your underwear drawer’s future—with an exclusive spring preview.

So what lingerie look is she most excited about?

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The Modern Woman’s Hosiery Style Guide with Expert Erica Luster

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date November 16, 2015

Though we still say things like “ugh, I got a run in my stockings,” chances are what we’re actually wearing is tights. This time of year, when all of the legwear options come back into full rotation, here’s everything our in-house hosiery expert Erica Luster wants you to know. Consider it a gams glossary of sorts, a lexicon of legwear…

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Decoding Comfort: Expert Jeni Doherty on Everything You Need to Know About Sleepwear vs Loungewear

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date November 9, 2015
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On crisp fall days, we’re all about two things: pumpkin spice lattes and the comfiest, coziest clothes we can get our hands on.

“Everyone is working longer hours, and we’re staying in work clothes for more than half the day before going to bed late,” says Jeni Doherty, sleepwear and loungewear expert here at Bare Necessities. “All you want to do is walk through your front door is change into something super-comfortable,” she says. Amen to that.

Read on to meet Jeni and see what options she suggests to reach maximum relaxation.

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Behind the Seams Meet the Merchants

What our Lingerie and Bra Experts Really Wear

Post author By Brooke Glassberg
Post date September 7, 2015

Here at Bare Necessities, we pride ourselves on the best selection and size range of intimate apparel anywhere, period, end of story. So when you’ve got a near-infinite inventory, a little expert guidance steering you toward what you want and need goes a long way. Read on to find out what our ace team of merchants, bra experts and buyers not only curates for the site but genuinely loves to wear, right down to their all-time favorite bras.

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