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Miley Cyrus's nine-year-old sister is set to raise eyebrows again with news she is launching a clothing line for children. Noah, who is not even high school age yet, is teaming up with best friend Emily Grace Reaves, eight, and Ooh! La, La! Couture designers for the project. The two youngsters will release the 'trendy, sweet, yet edgy' designs in time for Valentine's Day. However, parents may raise an eyebrow or two at the grown-up nature of the slightly risqué designs. But whatever spin is put on it, some will see the venture as a little perverse. Back in October,...

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. -- Police are searching for clues surrounding crimes involving women’s unmentionables. At least three homes in Slippery Rock have been hit by a thief allegedly seeking out women’s underwear. Police said the robber enters a home, ignores money and jewelry and goes straight to the bedroom to get his hands on lingerie. According to investigators, the burglar entered a home on Saturday night and took more than $400 in lingerie. Butler police believe the person responsible for the crime could be a repeat offender as several unsolved burglaries in the area have involved stolen underwear.

We all recall how well the Islamic world handled the cartoons of Muhammad. This led to protests across the Muslim world, some of which escalated into violence with police firing on the crowds (resulting in more than 100 deaths, all together), including setting fire to the Danish Embassies in Syria, Lebanon and Iran, storming European buildings, and desecrating the Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and German flags in Gaza City. While a number of Muslim leaders called for protesters to remain peaceful, other Muslim leaders across the globe, including Mahmoud al-Zahar of Hamas, issued death threats. . . . Danish Prime Minister...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Beauty queen Miss Singapore World has given up her crown after it emerged that she had stolen credit cards to go on a shopping spree for lingerie. Ris Low had come under public pressure to be stripped of her 2009 title, after local media reported she stole seven credit cards last year while working at a medical clinic, buying goods worth about S$8,000 ($5,662) including gold anklets and phones. Organizers of the pageant ERM World Marketing said she had resigned Tuesday of her own accord. She will no longer represent Singapore at the Miss World finals to...

Dallas' lingerie football team smashes Denver in opener The Denver Dream loses to Dallas Desire 20-6 in Dallas Desire's season opener on Friday at QuikTrip Park in Grand Prairie. The teams are part of the Lingerie Football League.

A Saudi princess has been sued over $126,000 in unpaid lingerie and clothing bills at a Paris boutique, AFP reported. Another upscale Paris store, lingerie store "Aux Caprices de Lily," told AFP Maha al-Sudairi, wife of Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, owes them $98,000. In total, the princess owes millions in unpaid shopping bills to a string of high-end Paris retailers.

How's this for a celebrity endorsement? Model and actress Angie Harmon, who was part of a group of Hollywood celebrities that supported John McCain [*] last year, loves NewsBusters. In fact, she told In Style magazine that NB's her favorite website (from June 2009 edition via LexisNexis, no link available, h/t NBer Stacy Bergfeld):

Before her wedding last year, Huda Batterjee went abroad to buy her bridal lingerie — she just couldn't bear the humiliation of discussing her most intimate apparel with a man. She had little choice: there are almost no saleswomen in Saudi Arabia. Now a group of Saudi women — sick of having to deal with male sales staff when buying bras or panties, not to mention frilly negligees or thongs — have launched a campaign this week to boycott lingerie stores until they employ women. It's an irony of the kingdom's strict segregation of the sexes. Only men are employed...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Before her wedding last year, Huda Batterjee went abroad to buy her bridal lingerie — she just couldn't bear the humiliation of discussing her most intimate apparel with a man. ... Now a group of Saudi women — sick of having to deal with male sales staff when buying bras or panties, not to mention frilly negligees or thongs — have launched a campaign this week to boycott lingerie stores until they employ women. .. .. Fitting rooms are banned in the kingdom .. "I have bras with sizes ranging from 32 to 38 because I...

By documenting the lingerie culture of Syria, the book 'The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design' reveals a previously unknown side of Arabic design, fashion and sexuality. The most outrageous and exuberant lingerie in the world comes from a place yoùd probably never expect: Syria. Adorned with everything from faux fur, artificial flowers, and feathered birds to plastic toy cell phones, these intimates flash lights, play music, even vibrate. In Damascus and Aleppo, approximately 200 lingerie companies vie for a highly competitive domestic market, where styles change from season to season. The lingerie forms part of the popular...

When We Are Queen, lingerie trumps football! Can you imagine the followig scenario? (If you are a man into college football, of course you can!) Queen walks into the room wearing only brand new Betsey Johnson black underthings…QC says, “In a minute,” while barely looking up from Sports Center. Queen says to self, “Hunh. Let’s try outfit #2.” Still, no appropriate response from football-enthralled husband. Go figure. And it wasn’t even the Sooners, which I could understand and wouldn’t even have tried to interrupt. Of course, this is a man who threw out a brand new, BRAND NEW, running top...

The Agent Provocateur ad campaign reminds one of the “gothic decadence of Hogarth, Caravaggio, Rubens and Delaroche’s Execution of Lady Jane Grey, it is a seething orgiastic scene of girls on top, girls on girls and boys and beasts,” reports Time Online.

The blog redstate.com posted an item today questioning the experience level of Andrea Robinson, director of greening for the Democratic National Convention Committee. Posted by Eric Erickson - read the post here - it notes a profile done by Jerd Smith of the Rocky that calls Robinson "thirtysomething." According to Smith, neither Robinson nor the DNCC wanted to give her age out. But if you read Robinson's profile on the DNCC Website it says she has "more than 25 years in the environmental field." That means she started when she was 13. [snip] What was not included on her resume...

Many girls dream of having their faces appear on billboards, and now the dream may come true. The lingerie giant Wonderbra is looking to recruit 1000 women to strip for the world’s biggest ever underwear photo shoot, reports Marie Claire.

Solar bra brings conservation closer to the heart Wed May 14, 2008 8:53pm IST      A model (C) displays lingerie maker Triumph International Japan's "Photovoltaic-Powered Bra" during an unveiling in Tokyo May 14, 2008. The camisole bra, which the company calls it as "earth and human friendly", features a solar panel which can display messages on the removable small electric board when the cell generates electricity. The bra is also equipped with pads designed to hold beverages so that the usage of cans and plastic bottles can be reduced, the company said. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao    Related Video Solar...

THE bonds of marriage should be reinforced with satin, lace and a truckload of Federal Government cash, a Melbourne fashion retailer said today. Gail Lee, managing director of clothing business Leethal Fashion Accessories, has called for the Federal Government to subsidise half the cost of sexy lingerie to keep the zing in Australian marriages. With about 40 per cent of Australian marriages ending in divorce, Ms Lee said a woman wearing sexy lingerie would spice up a flagging marriage and dissuade wayward partners from straying. "Financial difficulties have many marriages under pressure and, if there are arguments and problems, they...

See for example this thread first. The cop said he'd ignore the tix If she posed for lingerie pics Does that seem too strict or the "red light" district? So that's how police get their kicks!

Lingerie giant Victoria's Secret is waging a cross-border bra battle with La Senza over who can lay claim to selling the world's comfiest brassiere. In documents filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, U.S.-based Victoria's Secret accuses the Canadian panty purveyor of stealing sales with a "knock off" push-up bra, one that is inferior to its patented IPEX wireless offering -- the "world's most advanced bra." "The defendant is passing off its wares" as Victoria's Secret bras, the claims says. Staff are pushing La Senza's new bra line when they answer the phone at the Canadian company's Toronto Eaton...

Lingerie Store Window Has Live Models 1 hour, 32 minutes ago AUGUSTA, Maine - In this town, window shopping is attracting a lot more guys than usual. A lingerie store called Spellbound is grabbing attention with live models in the window. Some people have complained, but police say there is nothing illegal about the lingerie models. "It's tainting the wholesome businesses down here," said Carrie Rossignol, co-owner of Video Game Exchange. "I think it's selfish, and I think it's morally reprehensible." Another downtown merchant likes the idea, saying the models are attracting more potential customers to the area. "It's like...

Woman Testifies In Victoria's Secret Lawsuit POSTED: 11:12 a.m. EDT April 13, 2004 UPDATED: 11:31 a.m. EDT April 13, 2004 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A woman described to jurors Monday how her full-length Victoria's Secret nightgown caught fire in a 1998 accident. Linda Rossby is suing the Columbus- based lingerie chain for more than $10 million in damages. She appeared in court in Little Rock, Arkansas for the first time Monday. Her lawyers said scars keep Rossby from sitting for long periods. Rossby testified that her right arm caught on fire as she reached in an oven to get a...