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Triumph Lingerie Awards Jun 10: Good News for UK Designers
Triumph have announced their Lingerie Design Inspiration Award winners – have a look at this link for the winning designs – they are fabulous. We are so lucky in this country to have our own dedicated lingerie design course at De Montfort University in Leicester. One of the winners entered from this Uni, two others [...]
Stamford Endowed Schools Foundation Card
We have become members of the Stamford Endowed Schools Foundation Card scheme.
This allow the schools to provide more fully and partially subsidised places for bright, local children who would otherwise not have the means to attend the schools. Finding a school place is an incredibly stressful time for parents and often the children too, particularly [...]
Online Bra Sales Success!
A higher percentage of UK adults bought or ordered goods and services over the internet in 2009 than in any other EU country.
Eurostat figures highlighted in a chapter of Social Trends published by the Office for National Statistics showed that 66 per cent of people aged 16–74 had bought goods or services online in the [...]
Valentine’s Lingerie
The two highest peaks in sales for lingerie retailers are 1. Christmas and 2. Valentine’s Day. Opinions vary as to whether the peak is for gift purchases or just women buying their own lingerie in time for a romantic liaison. What do you think?
Have you ever bought lingerie as a gift, or had it bought [...]
Let it Snow!
Well it may be snowing and the country is grinding to a halt, but life in bra world continues apace! A lady has just phoned having received the letter I sent her in August, to order 5 bras, a perfect order for a day like today. So if you are snowed in, why not stay [...]
Happy New Year from Harwayes Lingerie
A very Happy New Year to all our customers and suppliers – Let’s hope 2010 is a good one for Harwayes after our difficult year last year! If you haven’t already received your 2010 catalogue of mastectomy lingerie, please give us a call to request one. We have had such a huge demand from hospitals [...]
In time for Christmas: Freya Active Sports Bras
Our new stock of Freya Active Sports Bras will be arriving in time for Christmas, so hurry if you would like a stunning red and black sports bra under your Christmas tree this year!
2010 Lingerie Design Trends
With new brands seemingly popping up daily, and every celeb endorsing a lingerie launch, how is a retailer to continue to ensure excellence of fit, whilst responding to the demand for fashionable undies?
Harwayes mastectomy catalogue
New mastectomy catalogue to be published November. At last, a fashion led approach to mastectomy lingerie: bras that are comfortable and look good too, making you feel sexy and feminine again. If you would like a copy, send me an email and I’ll add you to our list.
UK bra size conventions
Why is measuring and bra fitting such a black art? Is it possible to reduce your shape to a set of numbers?
We are all individual and unique so to make a ‘one size fits all’ bra is an impossible feat. When bras were first introduced in the UK they were based on dress sizes e.g. [...]