Sexy Teddies and bodysuits – brief history

It’s hard to believe how quickly women’s lingerie has evolved in the 1900′s. Prior to the 1920′s, lingerie was long and fully covered a woman’s assets. While it might have been sexy enough for men back then since all they could see of a woman not in lingerie was her face, it certainly wouldn’t cut it now. Thankfully, women started taking a stand for themselves and showing men that they were beautiful, and they started by showing more skin.

There isn’t much to the history of sexy teddies, but the transition is certainly an interesting one. As women began to bare more skin and wear shorter skirts, they no longer could wear the long bulky women’s underwear of the day. Once mini-skirts came into the picture, sexy teddies did too. During the 1920′s when teddies made their first appearance, they still provided a lot of coverage for a woman from her chest to her hips, but it was still much more appealing than the previous garments women had to wear under their large dresses.

At the time, teddies were more for comfort and less for sex appeal, although famous women who would do pin-ups embellished the traditional teddy for photo shoots. On average, the teddy wouldn’t show more skin when considered “sexy” but would have better embroidery and special designs which made them more attractive. However, after World War 2, the popularity of teddies went down since there were other forms of women’s lingerie starting to make their way onto the market.

While teddies still existed after the 1940′s, they were hardly the talked about style for women’s underwear. During that time other lingerie styles such as babydolls and the extremely showing thongs and g-strings had taken the front of the market. In the 1990′s, teddies were able to make a comeback although they had to take on some of the traits of the new forms of sexy lingerie.

Unlike the original teddy from the 1920′s, the new 1990 sexy teddies were scandalous. They showed a lot of skin by either using a sheer fabric or the design of the teddy itself was altered so that coverage was less and less. The length of the hips shortened so that a teddy would just cover a woman’s private area, and some of them even had a thong backing to show off a woman’s posterior.

Even sexy teddies of today still tend to cover women more than most types of lingerie so bodysuits and teddies will often be in the same category. Bodysuits have been made popular by famous people, such as Catwoman or any other female superhero. Traditionally bodysuits would cover the entire body, but now even a full coverage teddy might be considered a bodysuit as well. While bodysuits haven’t undergone the same test of time that sexy teddies have, both types of women’s lingerie have found their niche in the modern world and are still evolving as women’s and men’s taste in sexual appeal changes.