Brooklyn Decker - Want To Bet?

The image above may be how you're used to seeing Brooklyn Decker. Certainly you've noticed her on one of the biggest magazine covers of the year:



Poor girl needs help with her strings. And her bowling, apparently. She lost a bet to her husband, Andy Roddick, and she and his coach's wife ended up on an evening on the town in outfits picked out for them. To wit:


From Ms. Decker's twitpics

The complete outfit. The worst part is the boys applauded everywhere we went so that people would turn & stare. As if my puppy purse and rainboots weren't enough...

You know, I could think of some rather interesting bets for my girlfriend and I to try, though I don't know if this would be the result. But you have to give her points on a sense of humor.

Apologies if you had already heard the story: it's one I'd been meaning to post, and when I was quoting Ms. Decker's twitter feed for our Adriana Lima post earlier this week, it reminded me it was past time to get to this one.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Girl Bar Refaeli - Don't Forget She Does Lingerie, Too

True, it's a great honor for a model to be on the cover of The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. 2009's choice is Israeli beauty Bar Refaeli. (Hey, look; she obviously didn't get any tan lines during the shoot..)



While the above cover of Ms. Refaeli barely contained and peeling her bikini bottoms down is more than a little striking, let's recall a basic fact. A swimsuit is meant to be seen in public. Maybe you won't see her or anyone looking close to her at your local pool or beach anytime soon, but it's still, if barely, apparel for public consumption. Lingerie on the other hand, is, despite some relatively recent fashion trends, by nature intimate. Think of it as meant for private consumption, then.
Seeing Ms. Refaeli or anyone else undressed as such is then a more intimate experience. Or, just go with the 'Forbidden Fruit' idea. One of the reasons this is a lingerie blog, and not a 'hot swimsuit' blog. Not that there's anything wrong with that idea; it's just, given the choice, we'll continue to celebrate the fact that Ms. Refaeli and others look fantastic in their underwear and aren't shy about demonstrating that fact.

RRRRR! Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008

Once again, time to celebrate International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Annoy your coworkers, classmates, friends and enemies alike
by coming up with any excuse to -HARRRRRRRR!- roll yourrrrr RRRRRRRRRRs, matey!

Speaking of excuses, unlike last year's Talk Like A Pirate Day post in fufL, as well as all the other posts here, you'll note the technicality that, while Selita Ebanks' costume above may indeed be Pirate, it isn't lingerie. It's from one of her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition photo shoots. So, to keep things legal and on-topic, have one of Ms. Ebanks from last year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, which is most defiantly Lingerie: