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There Once Was a Shaper from Dublin. . .

17 Mar

By Marcy Montgomery Jones & Adam Welsch
Naomi & Nicole®

Today’s St. Patrick’s Day.  It’s the day on which everyone loves to embrace all things Irish.  Leprechauns, shamrocks, and the color green will be seen everywhere.  Since we’re bloggers, we’d like to contribute to the Irish spirit with several attempts at some light-hearted poetry that takes its name from Ireland’s third largest city – Limerick.  Though these can be written a bit on the racy side, we’ll do our best to keep our limericks about intimates cute, but clean.

Here goes:

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Guys: 7 Tips for Buying Women Lingerie

21 Dec

By Marcy Montgomery Jones
Cupid Intimates

It’s that time of year again.  Christmas and Valentine’s Day are big holidays for intimate apparel stores and departments.  Catalog space and promotions highlight sales of lingerie.  Satin and silk chemise and robe sets and richly-colored coordinating bra-and-panty sets are just a few of the timeless staple items of the season.  And it’s not just women doing all of the shopping for this stuff.  These holidays are also occasions for wallets to spew out good intentions, and for men to journey into foreign territory and buy some things for the ladies in their lives. (more…)

50 Reasons to Be Intimately Thankful

25 Nov

By Adam Welsch
Cupid Intimates

Happy Thanksgiving!  It’s customary for newspapers, magazines, blogs, and radio and television shows to remind people this week about all the things for which they can be thankful.  Such whispers usually include mentions of family, friends, and good health.  All of that is certainly good advice and very important.  But as your trusted, online source for great information about bras, panties, shapewear, and other lingerie, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind you of all things “intimate apparel” that can bring a smile to your face this holiday season. (more…)

Crossdressers: The Hidden Demand for Bras, Panties, and Shapewear.

18 Nov

By Adam Welsch
Cupid Intimates

One of the hottest trends in the intimate apparel industry over the past couple of years has been the growth in sales and availability of men’s shapewear.  Compression T-shirts, briefs that both slim and enhance, and tummy shapers, sometimes known as mirdles, have become hot topics of talk shows and fixtures of men’s underwear departments in stores across the United States.  But far pre-dating this trend, men, choosing to dress as women, have long been buying bras, panties, and shapewear made for women.  It’s pretty difficult to estimate how many men constitute this demographic.  But quickly searching the internet for websites discussing crossdressing issues, it’s easy to get a sense of the great strength of this often unrecognized source of intimate-apparel demand. (more…)