Commonly used lingerie words.

There are many styles of sexy lingerie. It can be a mine field to try to sift through all of the terminology to understand and find out what is right for you. To try and demystify some of these words we will explain some of them here.

Lingerie is generally a fashionable and sexy undergarment, whereas, underwear is generally not so sexy and not so fashionable. Lingerie is for those special intimate times with your partner, whereas, underwear is generally for daily everyday use which can involve those intimate moments. However, lingerie is the preferred choice of most women who want to stun their husbands or partners, sex up their life and become a different person in the bedroom to the woman she is in the boardroom or home.

List of lingerie connected words:

• Babydoll, a short dress type lingerie – can be used to sleep in or for love play.
• Basque, a tight-fitting bodice or bustier that offers support and creates contour form.
• Bikini, 2 pieces of fabric one piece for the upper half of the body covering your breasts and the other piece of the bikini worn on the lower half covering you lower area.
• Bloomers, underwear like panties but with short legs.
• Bodystocking, a coverall stocking, usually covering your body from neck to toe (can have cut out parts for easy access when making love).
• Bodysuit, similar to a leotard in design, usually skin tight with gusset clip fasteners.
• Bodice, a bodice generally covers your body from the lower waist to the neck area.
• Boy shorts, panties but similar in style to a man’s tight boxer.
• Bra, two pieces of fabric that cover your breasts and is joined by another piece of fabric normally with two fastening clips to attach at you back, sometimes have a further piece of fabric that hooks over your neck.
• Brassiere, another word for a bra
• Bustier, similar to a bodice and a basque that gives a push up support to your breasts.
• Camisole, usually sleeveless and tight fitting, covers the upper part of the body.
• Camiknickers, a camisole and a pair of knickers made as one complete garment.
• Cami-shorts, a more freer airy short.
• Chemise similar to a short nightdress with two thin straps that are hooked over the shoulders, that hold it in position on your body.
• Corset a lingerie item that wraps around your bust and waist usually to squeeze your waist into a certain required shape.
• French maid, women’s fantasy wear.
• G-string, or thong, a thin piece of fabric goes between the cheeks of your bottom, this joins another piece of fabric that goes around the waist forming the g-string.
• Garter, a piece of fabric, normally lace that is put on one of your legs to complement a stocking or dress (very popular with weddings and brides).
• Garter belt, or suspender belt, needed to keep your stockings up.
• Girdle, a lingerie product used to gain support in the lower region of your body.
• Granny panties, normally panties that are not fashionable and also panties that can be pulled up to your waist area and are very non-appealing to the opposite sex.
• Hosiery, another word for tights or deniers or stockings.
• Jersey nightshirt, Jersey is normally a long t-shirt type garment that can be used in a similar way to a babydoll.
• Knickers, another word for panty, panties, underpants, pants, thong.
• Leotard, a long piece of fabric that covers almost all of your body apart from your legs and arms, generally some female sports stars wear these.
• Negligee, a long flowing lingerie item, similar to a nightgown or nightdress.
• Nightgown, either babydoll or peignoir, peignoir being the longer nightdress and babydoll being the shorter version.
• Nightshirt, a long shirt style piece of underwear worn at night.
• Panties, another word for pants, knickers, thong, etc.
• Petticoat, an underskirt that usually has many layers of fabric so as not to be completely transparent and create lift to that special dress.
• PVC lingerie and clothing, a waterproof rubbery textured man-made fabric usually associated with kinky and erotic behaviour due to its tight-fitting and constrictive nature.
• Slip, an underskirt.
• Spankies, colourful cheerleader style panties.
• Stockings, a form of tight or denier that can either come up to thigh length or knee length, usually requiring a garter belt and straps to keep them up.
• Suspender belt, is another name for a garter belt.
• Tanga briefs , panties with a front panel in a more triangular shape from hip to inner thigh.
• Trashy Lingerie – any kind of lingerie that makes a woman look like a wild temptress using the ethos of less is more . Tempting and revealing, not really trashy in the sense of the word, but trashy meaning hot and a more streetwise style of lingerie.
• Teddy, a tight or sometimes loose piece of lingerie, with similarities to a leotard except the teddy usually has thin straps that go over the shoulder and is usually low cut in design.
• Undergarment, any type of lingerie but just a different way to say it, since lingerie is a french word then obviously there is another word out there.
• Unitard, one piece, skin tight garment. Similar to a monokini.