Women's lingerie makers say 50s-styles for the fuller figure are back in vogue
"What were the 50s? It was a post-war period," explains Caroline le Grelle, a fashion consultant for Eurovet, organisers of the lingerie trade fair, which opens on Saturday in Paris."We want to sweep it away and have a ball." However, is it the 1950s post-war boom, or the 1933-1937 rebound from the first leg of the depression?
"Women had gone through a period of hardship. They wanted to enjoy themselves. We haven't experienced a war this time - but we have come through an economic crisis. It's the same scheme of things. We want to sweep it away and have a ball. Hence this return to retro."
So it's out with minimalist thongs and push-up demi-bonnet bras, and in with bullet bras and high-waisted briefs, particularly in black, which Le Grelle calls "the colour of reference for seduction".
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