The Lingerie Addict

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hypnotiza asked: My idea wasn't to glorify what is essentially "food striptease." The question is more, what kind of lingerie can you wear all day in a work environ (questionable though it is), other than the usual? The bigger concept is what is comfortable to wear for long periods of time, especially for casual wearers? How long did it take to figure out? Granted (wearing lingerie) it doesn't apply to me, but I'm sure every industry took some time to figure what was comfortable to wear all day long.

I understand what you’re saying, but even then, I don’t think discussing lingerie-wearing baristas is the best context for that conversation. It’d be like basing an article on tights you can wear all day from the Hooter’s waiters’ outfits or lingerie you can wear all day from a stripper’s outfit. The work environment in those places is unique to those places and is not generalizable to the work places of most women.

In other words, the outfit a lingerie barista chooses has a lot to do with its impact on her clientele (i.e. how the guys who drive up will respond and how much they will tip). And the general culture of those places is very much about women serving themselves in addition to the coffee; they’re not wearing lingerie because it’s comfortable; they’re wearing it as a gimmick.

Contrast that with The Lingerie Addict which is all about women buying nice lingerie for themselves that makes them feel good, regardless of how close they adhere to societal beauty standards or if anyone else ever sees it. That is not what those lingerie coffeehouses are about (instead, I would insist they take the exact opposite approach) and that is why I’m not writing any articles using them as inspiration for ‘everyday lingerie.’

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