October is World Menopause Month, and if you’re one of the 8 to 10 million women estimated to be experiencing active menopausal symptoms in the U.S. in any given year, you’ll know just how greatly it can affect your sleep quality. Between intense hot flashes and the clammy feeling that follows...
Read MoreVelrose® Cotton Batiste Full Slip Struggling to sleep comfortably in summer? You might be wearing the wrong fabric to bed. It’s not enough to just choose a nightgown or pajama set with a relaxed, unrestrictive fit and soft touch feeling. Those are great, but it also needs to be breathable, and that means paying attention to the fabric. Breathable sleepwear allows air to flow and moisture to evaporate away, ensuring your skin can breathe and aiding your body’s temperature regulation so that you don’t wake up in a puddle of sweat. Read on to discover the best sleepwear fabric options – for year-round comfort, but especially these hotter months. Understanding Fabric Type vs. Fiber Content A quick note: when we say “the best fabric”, what we actually mean is the...
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For some of us, a good night’s sleep comes easy – we fall into a deep, restful slumber the moment our head hits the pillow. For others, night-times are more about tossing, turning and struggling to stay (or fall) asleep. While there are many lifestyle or décor changes you can make to improve your sleep quality, from dietary tweaks to blackout curtains, what you wear to bed certainly makes a difference. Here’s how to choose the perfect sleepwear, something that delivers that blissful kind of comfort that lends itself to uninterrupted shut-eye. Shadowline® Beloved Flutter Sleeve Lace Babydoll Long Nightgown Choose roomy, non-restrictive sleepwear Few things are as annoying as rolling over in bed while you’re half asleep and getting tangled up in your nightwear! Similarly, a waistband that’s...
Read MoreShadowline® Rochelle Satin Full Slip with Adjustable Straps Have you ever read “bias-cut satin” in one of our product descriptions, or someone else’s, and wondered what it meant? The need-to-know answer is that “bias-cut” is a mark of quality, but if you want the full explanation, today we’re going to explore the reasons why: what exactly it is, and how it improves the look, fit and feel of a garment. Shadowline® Simply Charming Satin Chemise What is a "Bias Cut"? When it comes to crafting high-quality sleepwear, a nice fabric is only half the equation. Equally important is how you use that fabric. A fabric’s ‘grain’ is the direction in which the individual threads run. Bias-cut fabric is cut diagonally across the grain. The downsides are that you can cut...
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Here at Shadowline Lingerie, while we haven’t been creating nylon sleepwear and lingerie since the very beginning, it’s only because we’ve been in business since before nylon even existed. As soon as it became an option, we jumped on it; our 100% nylon Dixie Belle® Scallop Trim Full Brief Panty for example is a design we’ve been producing since 1946. And once we’d started creating pieces in silky nylon tricot, we never stopped. It’s simply too good a fabric! All of our nylon sleepwear is made from one of two Shadowline®-exclusive fabrics, materials we developed in-house to be even better than what was already out there, and which we produce right here in the USA. But more on those specific fabrics in a moment. First, let’s talk about why we...
Read MoreNow that we’re heading into summer, you might be paying extra attention to the fiber content of your clothing to ensure it will be cool and comfortable. And nowhere does this matter more – in summer or otherwise – than our underwear, the layer that sits closest to our body. Here at Shadowline Lingerie, we’re huge fans of both nylon and cotton – all of our panties are made from one or the other. But the two are very different! So today, let’s talk about why we chose these fibers for our underwear collection, and which one you should choose for your lingerie drawer. Left: Shadowline® Cotton Hipster Panty Center: Shadowline® Cotton Full Brief Panty Right: Dixie Belle® Cotton Full Brief Panty with Lace Waistband The advantages of cotton panties...
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Nylon, a man-made fiber, is a particularly durable option for ‘delicate’ clothing such as lingerie. It’s created by tightly bonding together lots of tiny, twisted threads to form a very smooth yarn that is incredibly strong and abrasion-resistant.Nylon stockings were first introduced in 1939, soon after followed by nylon lingerie, slips and nightgowns. Their popularity quickly spread – here was a fabric that felt as lightweight on the body as silk, yet was cheaper and far more resilient!At Shadowline Lingerie, we’ve been making nylon lingerie since the early days of its existence, and we’re still huge fans of this fiber today. Our exclusive Opacitrique® and Satintrique® fabrics offer two different takes on nylon underwear and sleepwear: one ultra-saturated and opaque, the other beautifully sheer and with a shimmer finish. We...
Read MoreNo one likes having to throw clothes away, especially when it’s a piece they really loved. Wouldn’t it be fabulous if everything we bought stayed in perfect condition forever? Unfortunately, whether faster or slower, all fabrics eventually wear out. The good news is that there are steps you can take to prolong your clothing’s lifespan, and today we’ll be sharing our tips on best washing practices for delicate items such as underwear and sheer nightwear.Washing and drying is where a lot of the damage happens. Sometimes it’s bleach causing the color to fade. Other times it’s the physical friction of being tumbled about with other garments. More often than not though, it’s a result of heat (hot water, tumble dryers, draping garments over a radiator, or hanging them out in...
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© AbrakadabraartHere at Shadowline Lingerie, we’re big fans of nylon – it’s the primary fabric type we use! A fun fact that many people don’t know about it is that in its early days of existence, nylon was more expensive than silk. (Nowadays it’s a more affordable alternative). So what properties does it have that make it so special? And where did it come from? Today, we’ll be delving into the fascinating history of nylon lingerie…What is nylon?Nylon is man-made fiber, and a very versatile one – yes, you can make delicate, diaphanous nightgowns and ultra-sheer stockings from it, but it’s also used to make things where strength and ruggedness is key such as climbing ropes and seatbelts. That’s because, thanks to their structure at a molecular level, nylon fibers...
Read MoreDid you know that some of the fabrics we use for Shadowline® garments were developed in house, especially for use by our brand, or that we often use the same fabrics across multiple ranges so that you have the option to mix and match?Today, we’re introducing you to six of our most commonly-used Shadowline® fabrics. Read on to learn the differences between our Opacitrique® and Satintrique® nightwear (just because they’re both 100% nylon, doesn’t mean they look or feel the same!), which fabrics are best suited to hot or cold weather, and how our cotton batiste pieces differ from our cotton knit ones… Shadowline® Short Sleeveless Nightgown in Opacitrique® nylon Opacitrique® One of our signature fabrics, Opacitrique® is a made-in-the-USA Shadowline® exclusive which we developed in the 1960s, and it’s...
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