Baci Lingerie Announces Winners of Dreams Collection Retail Contest

Baci Lingerie announced the winners of their recent Dreams Retail Display Contest: Adult World, Fantasy Gifts, and Spice Lingerie garnered the winning votes from Facebook fans. The submissions required the stores to create and submit eye-catching Halloween displays featuring Baci Lingerie’s Dreams Collection of sexy costumes. The contest enlisted the participation of each Baci retail partner store, which entered the contest by creating fun, eye-catching floor displays within their stores. Retail partners were encouraged to embellish their display submissions with Baci accessories such as gloves and hosiery. Contest participants also utilized exquisite handmade Italian Masquerade Masks, which feature Swarovski crystal embellishments, and Baci’s award-winning selection of Eyelashes, which are also a wonderful addition to any lingerie and costume selection.

“The Baci Lingerie Dreams Display Retail Contest on Facebook was a great way to engage our retail stores and their customers in a way that exemplifies the power of social media,” says Baci Social Media Manager Veronica Rajadnya. “The entries for the contest were as creative and evocative as the line itself, and we saw an exciting amount of participation from our followers. Great work to all of the stores that entered, and congrats to our winners!” A range of prizes will be awarded to the winning retailers, including cash, merchandise, and an HDTV. First place in the contest was Adult World; second place was Fantasy Gifts; third place was Spice Lingerie. “The Baci display contest was a big success! I know myself and our sales staff were all extremely excited to take part in such a great event,” says Adult World’s lingerie buyer, Eric Morrow. “We have definitely seen an increase in sales, especially from the Dreams line.

I will continue to keep Baci as a highlight of our stores!” The Dreams Collection features luxurious, titillating costumes perfect for roleplay scenarios both in and out of the bedroom, including nurses, flight attendants, schoolgirls, police, and more. Baci Lingerie prides itself on the fine fabrics and flattering styles utilized in all its styles, designed to compliment every woman, enhancing her innate and unique sex appeal. The brand continues to evolve with new collections and designs, including its plus size collection, which encourages women of all shapes and sizes to embrace their sexy side.

From corsets to flappers:Lubbock costume shops help create outfits from a century of fashion

With the Vernacular Music Center hosting its annual Dancing with Mr. Darcy event, this year with an added “Downton Abbey” theme, many Lubbock attendees are in search of a period Sexy Costumes for the 19th century-themed event. Though the vintage look may be tricky to capture, Lubbock costume shops are home to many essential elements that can be used to create the perfect period costume.

Duke’s Duds Costume Rental at 2806 Avenue A supports Lubbock Moonlight Musicals and is home to hundreds of costumes representing more than 100 years of fashion. Duke’s Duds shop manager Gatlin Alldredge said he’s been helping customers achieve the “Downton Abbey” and Jane Austen’s England looks by providing vintage 1960s and ’70s outfits that were modeled from those periods.

Although Jane Austen’s novels, which inspired the Dancing with Mr. Darcy events, were published in the early 19th century, “Downton Abbey” does not take place until the early 20th century. This gives event attendees a wide range of fashion styles to choose from. Alldredge said a popular style with customers is a look closer to the “Downton Abbey” trend.

“The style that we’re going with is a little bit later in the 19th century,” Alldredge said, “when they had gone to the thinner look with layers.”

Alldredge highlighted many of the era’s styles, including dresses with single overlays, tulip style dresses and skirts, beaded pieces and the shift away from corsets.

“They don’t wear corsets, it’s not the skinny waist,” Alldredge said. “It’s more of an A-line cut, a no-waistline kind of a thing.”

Cynthia Ward, owner of Vintage Rose at 3424 34th St., also said many Dancing with Mr. Darcy customers have rented outfits from the “Downton Abbey” era.

“The period is Edwardian, starting around 1901,” Ward said. “Dancing with Darcy is Jane Austen period, and they did that for years. It was problematic for everybody because that’s pretty early. That’s 1800s; with the corsets and the bustles, it’s extremely difficult.”

Ward said she was happy to see the addition of the “Downton Abbey” theme, as it gave event attendees more costume choices. She emphasized the popularity of empire waistlines in the Edwardian period, as well as large hats, dainty jewelry and high gloves.

Ward said 1920s costumes are also popular for the Dancing with Mr. Darcy event, and guests can accessorize one of their own straight dresses with beads, feather boas and headbands with feathers and jewels to achieve a ’20s look.

“I have some dresses from the ‘20s that work, because ‘Downton Abbey’ is moving in on that era,” Ward said. “For the most part, the ‘Downton Abbey’ crowd likes the ‘20s.”

Ward emphasized the trend of dainty necklaces with drops, while Alldredge said popular jewelry included pearls, lengthy and asymmetrical necklaces and silvers. He said these styles should be easy for event attendees to mimic with their own jewelry.

Along with imitating jewelry styles, Alldredge provided a few tips for how event guests can make their own costumes from things they have at home.

For women, Alldredge said, layers are necessary.

“Doing over-the-shoulder shawls or tying a shawl around the waist to create that sort of v-look that was the overlay for the skirts,” Alldredge said.

He also included high neck collars, heeled shoes and rounded updo hairstyles.

Ward said any dress with an under-bust, empire waistline could be appropriate for the Edwardian era and that a ‘20s shoe can be mimicked by a strappy modern shoe with a short heel.

For men, Alldredge said, a normal black or gray suit can be worn if it is accented with whites.

“It would be very appropriate for a man to have a white dinner vest,” Alldredge said. “They generally would have had tailed coats, but they also would have had dinner coats, so a square jacket is acceptable.”

He added that shiny shoes are a plus.

With the already popular Dancing with Mr. Darcy’s addition of a “Downton Abbey” theme, event attendees have more than a century of fashion trends from which to choose. Fortunately, they also have a few costume shops in Lubbock that are ready and eager to help create the perfect outfit.

“I like that they added ‘Downton Abbey, it gives them some choices,” Ward said. “Even if it is originally based on the Jane Austen story of getting Darcy to dance.”

Dancing with Darcy at Downton Abbey will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Museum of Texas Tech, 3301 4th St.