Silk and Satin Lingerie - Divinely Smooth UK Delicates

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Silk and Satin lingerie has a wonderful smooth texture and feels great next to the skin. Both men and women get excited by the feel of silk, which makes it good for lingerie. Silk can be very flattering to wear as it clings to the figure, accentuating curves and it is a very sensual material. It allows the skin to breathe and it is very soft making it very comfortable to wear.

It is particularly good in warm weather as it is a very thin fabric. Silk lingerie can be sexy, romantic and practical at the same time and tends to suit most women.

There was a time when it was thought that the advent of synthetic fabrics such as nylon would spell the end of fibres spun by little worms or grown on sheep. Yet many decades and a few static electricity shocks later, we still want to feel like a natural woman. And silk is still the queen of fabrics for lingerie. Silk lingerie has a long history - thousands of years in the case of China, which was producing the cloth while other parts of the world were still making do with wool, flax or cotton. In fact, it wasn't until a few hundred years ago that China allowed anyone else the secret of how to make silk.

It was during the Renaissance that western Europe really cottoned (silked?) on to the potential of this material. Layer upon layer of it, stiffened, intricately decorated, added to damask, satin and velvet, adorned the rich and powerful of Spain and Italy and gradually spread further into the hitherto woolly north. In a finer knitted form, it also found a place on ladies' legs - including the regal pins of Queen Elizabeth I, whose love for these stockings made them a fashion necessity in the Elizabethan era. When less heavy and ornate fashions came into currency in the years after Elizabeth's death, the material did not lose its prominence.

Lighter silks produced in Lyons became popular and Lyons' manufacturing industry grew and grew - it still exists today with all the wisdom of its centuries of development. The cloth fared badly under the French Revolution, however - along with other rich materials that were perceived (correctly) as a sign of opulence, it was banned. Silk was also attacked in the late 19th century for health, rather than class, reasons. The suitably austere-sounding Dr Gustave Jaeger, professor of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Stuttgart, combined his two disciplines in a near-religious crusade to make people ditch airy-fairy finery and wear only hairy animal fibres next to their skin. This, he asserted, had cured his own chronic ailments and would improve the health of anyone who tried it. Dr Jaeger's ideas had a very important effect on British thinking and the clothing company founded in his name of course still exists - although happily, it no longer recommends the wearing of woollen drawers, stays, petticoats and stockings.

In fact, the company eventually started producing its own silk underwear. Today, a multiplicity of fibres, man-made and natural, are used in lingerie - elastics and lycra in particular opened up a vista of technical possibilities. Technology has also done things with silks that weren't possible before, making them easier to take care of, mixing them with other fabrics to produce different effects. It may be a long way from ancient China, but silk lingerie has stayed the course.

Care for Silky Lingerie

Silk is very delicate and needs to be looked after carefully. Silk products can be handwashed in cold water with a mild detergent, or the lingerie can be put on a "delicate" cold water wash - but first check the label as some silk items are unsuitable for washing and need to be dry-cleaned. Garments made of satin and silk dry pretty quickly and should avoid being tumble dried.

 

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