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Article: Intimately speaking: what women really want. (Lifestyle Monitor).(intimate apparel)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- September 12, 2002
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On a recent shopping trip, 38-year-old Toni casually mentioned to her husband, Mark, that she was looking for intimate apparel. He immediately thought va-va-voom! But in Toni's mind were the words comfort, elegance, luxury and ease.
Was our happy couple destined to come home less than happy?
"I know the word 'lingerie' to Mark means something totally different than what it means to me," Toni declares. "He is thinking of some runway show or catalog item and I am thinking of something a little more, shall we say, tasteful and realistic?"
Designer Chris Arlotta, who founded her eponymous collection of intimate apparel, apparently agrees about the ...