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Welcome to our New Site
Welcome to our new website, Swankypins.co.uk. With our new design, we wanted to make your shopping experience with us simpler and enjoyable and we hope you love the new look like we do. It has taken 3 months to build from the ground up with lots of bells and whistles that were not on theContinue reading
Wearing a Vintage Girdle
Vintage Girdles – from the 1920’s-1960’s Girdles have been around for 100’s of years although were more commonly called corsets until earlier this century. Originally they were fairly heavy and difficult to get into and a helping hand was needed to tighten the lacing at the back, but all this changed – fast forward toContinue reading
The Glamorous 1950’s Housewife
In the 1950s, glamour was what women wanted most following the austerity of the 1940s. They saw the big screen stars and pinup girls that had curves, nipped waists and high pointed breasts and style icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn & Grace Kelly and wanted to imitate the look. Under those full circleContinue reading
What Lingerie Looked Like Back in The Day
Swanky Pins’s insight: This type of vintage lingerie may well be a far cry from what we buy today, with tight girdles and rigidly boned corsets being constrictive and uncomfortable to wear, but the glamorous retro styles recreated in today’s modern fabrics are as hugely popular now as they were back in the day. Infographic:Continue reading
Swanky Pins Summer Retro Lingerie Sale
Our swanky Summer sale is NOW ON! Don’t miss out. Massive savings of up to 50% on our sexiest lingerie, stockings, suspender belts, shapewear & more. FREE UK shipping with worldwide shipping available. SHOP NOW!!
Do Women Need to Wear Bras?
Do we Really Need our Bra or is it Purely a Lifestyle Choice? I was scanning through other lingerie blogs recently & I remember seeing a post from somebody which got me thinking. She stated that the “need” for women to wear bras is a failure in our human evolution. Wow I thought, that’s one wayContinue reading
How to bring Couples Closer – 13 Simple Ideas
13 Simple Relationship Boosts to Help Bring Couples Closer Been drifting apart from your partner a bit lately – not quite as close as you once were? We believe great lingerie is the answer to many a problem but sadly it doesn’t work for everything so we’ve searched around for other answers that may help. 13Continue reading
The Biggest Challenge for ‘Secret’ Cross-Dressers
Swanky Pins have a large percentage of buyers who are male wearers, many of which keep their CD activities a secret from their wives/girlfriends/family and who want to buy lingerie discreetly. I personally take a lot of calls from guys who buy lingerie for themselves, far more male customers contact by telephone than women asContinue reading
The 80th Anniversary of DuPont Nylon
11 Things You Might Not Know About Nylon
A Satirical Look at Pantyhose/Tights
The truth about pantyhose – Global Times
Stockings or Tights?
Will you be seduced by the return of stockings? They are hidden from view but surely there’s no mistaking who wears stockings There’s more choice in the shops, but is it really so easy to tell who wears what? Helen Carroll asked five women to reveal their secrets Hidden from view they may be, butContinue reading