It's That Time Of Year Again

The Love Baby Grand pre-Valentine's sale is starting early. From now until the end of January 2011, we are offering up to 50% off selected items in our collection in both the Etsy store and the Love Baby Grand online boutique.

Before our next collection is unveiled, we have to bid a fond farewell to some LBG favourites, including the red polka dot Minnie range, the black star print Lucky set and some of our most popular prints. In fact, all of the knickers you see in the image below are in the sale, and are amongst the designs that will soon be gone from our collection forever.

Also, remember both our sale and full price purchases arrive lovingly gift wrapped. That's a little bonus worth keeping in mind if you are thinking of treating yourself, or someone special in your life, to some Love Baby Grand goodies!

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The Renaissance Woman

After what seems like years of 'coming soon', Julie Verhoeven's website has finally launched. One of these days she might produce something I don't love. But that's pretty unlikely.

All images via julieverhoeven.com

Take Me Away

Image via fashiongonerogue.com

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

In the world of fashion retail and press, the 'Christmas season' started well before July, but with London looking like a snow globe all of a sudden, it's only just begun to actually feel like Christmas now. And around here, the arrival of December 1st is our signal to start getting into the holiday spirit, decorations, ridiculously rich foods, gift-giving and all!

This is the time to shamelessly mention that you still have time to place an order with us if you need your items to arrive by Christmas. If you are stuck for gift ideas and you're thinking of something in the lingerie family, then look no further than our ever-popular ruffle knickers.

Since the very early days of Love Baby Grand, these have been the knickers that have graced more treasuries and shopping carts than any of our other designs, whether we made them in cotton or in silk. They have been especially popular with our female shoppers. Perhaps it's because of the array of prints and colours they are available in, our possibly because ladies appreciate something that's comfy, gives decent butt coverage, but is still cute and sexy.

Perhaps surprisingly to most people, out of all the LBG knickers, this style is probably the most labour-intensive. Unlike just about every other label that makes this type of ruffle knicker, we make ours by finishing the edges with a pin thin hems that are steam pressed, very finely folded, steam pressed again, then folded a second time before they're finally stitched, giving them that very tidy finish.

And the sides of these knickers are finished with French seams, which is a technique you might find in vintage garments, but is rarely used in mass-produced clothing as it's quite fussy. That's a slightly technical way of saying that, whereas the more serged edges you find on most commonly available underwear are likely to start to fray very quickly with a few wears, ours have a neater, more couture finish that actually lasts for as long as you take proper care of your LBG knickers.

It may seem like a strange thing to do, going into all the technicalities of making underwear etc, but for people who aren't experienced in making clothing or working with textiles in any way, it might be interesting to know why it's worth paying a little bit extra for something lovingly made, than you would for something similar at say, Gap or H&M. It's all about the time taken in making each garment, hand-picked materials and fabulous finish, which you will never get from cheap, mass-produced items.

Whatever you really want this Christmas and holiday season, there's probably an artisan (maybe quite local to you) who can make it for you. If attention to detail is something that matters to you, and you like your stuff made with a little bit of extra fuss, then buy handmade!