Working an interesting line of Art Deco detail this garment brought a smile to everyone’s face. The bust is secured high in the cups, with the result that ones nipples point gently skyward, implying a youthfulness not all of us can legitimately claim. Full cup in design, but hardly modest in execution, this made us think what the stratified categories of bra design mean to us.

Model: Yuu Takahashi Model Name: 高橋優 Source: Bobx

A picture that we can truly describe as a revelation. Not, you understand, because of a sudden damascene conversion to the molded bra (a format about which we are at best ambivalent). Rather this picture serves to finally resolve the conundrum as to which railway company was conveying our heroine on her journey to the Big Smoke. As you may recall, the chocolate brown and cream colour scheme can only by the Great Western Railway of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. And we are pleased to report that engineering worthy of the great man has secured our lady’s bosom most efficaciously.

An open-bottomed corsolette from Rago. American tan stockings make an appearance also, generously held by six suspender straps. Nothing smoothes and shapes quite like a corsolette. It is essentially a compromise between the rigid control of a traditional corset and the elastic liberation that the 20th Century gave us. This particular garment employs a curious colour scheme, as a result drawing our attention to bust and full hips. Our lady wears a look that suggests tolerance rather than delight.

Model: Yuu Takahashi Model Name: 高橋優 Source: Bobx

Model: Yuu Takahashi Model Name: 高橋優 Source: Bobx

Model: Yuu Takahashi Model Name: 高橋優 Source: Bobx

Maturity is, of course, not the same as age and we think Jessica Lavoie exemplifies this admirable quality in her lingerie modelling career. Framed by a scene of banal domestic tranquility, our lady seems most comfortable in a black-and-tan set. Possessed of an abundant, broad figure Jessica’s assets rest within delicately scalloped cups and a very discrete underwire that provides quite, confident support. Briefs tend away from the brief and raise their game to full tummy control, allowing us the merest hint of a glimpse at our lady’s belly button.