Survey Says: Women Hate Shopping for Lingerie!

A recent survey shows that women are actually terrified of shopping in lingerie stores. Most women find the task tedious, exhausting, and frustrating. Poorly fit underwear, bra size challenges, and fitness issues are some of the complaints—making women head for the exits and change their minds to not buy any lingerie at all.

While some may shudder at the idea of shopping for lingerie, it’s good to know that there are lingerie stores that go the extra mile in letting their customers feel comfortable. High-end lingerie stores have trained professionals who make sure that women don’t feel intimidated whenever they shop for intimate wear.

Online lingerie stores also have added benefits, like helpful advice and tips, detailed fit guide, as well as one-on-one customer service. All these are attempts to make lingerie shopping more fun and less painful for old and new shoppers alike.

The next time you shop, make sure it’s going to be worth it! A credible lingerie store will do you good.

Lingerie Products Gain Sales In Jeddah

It has been reported by owners and shop assistants that sales have been increasing at lingerie and accessories stores in Jeddah where they have employed women.

Because of the recent progress in women and their capability to work in the country, the owners had until last Thursday to act in accordance with a government order to substitute their male employees. A number of businesses had started employing female staff over the last two months.

The increase in sales is noticed by many as public approval of the Royal Decree issued last year by King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. Customers have allegedly welcomed females working as assistants, supervisors and accountants.

A worker of a lingerie shop in Roshana Mall, Rania Abdul Fattah, said that employing women at lingerie shops is a relief for both customers and Saudi women seeking stable jobs. The owner of this business, who was quick to implement the Royal Decree, noticed a sharp rise in sales over the past two months. She has been particularly busy at the store since the beginning of this week. The women who come in are relieved to see her. They are not shy to ask her help to find the right size and colour, and about special bargains and discounted items.

Even though Fattah enjoys working as a saleswoman, she said there are some negative aspects. She urges business owners to offer their female employees with medical insurance and additional money to face transport costs. She complains that at her prior sales job her salary was only SR2,500, with part of it being spent on paying for private transport to-and-from work. She also said that owners have to pay their workers a minimum of SR3,000 a month, as specified by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Female advocates are pushing for a monthly salary of SR5,000.

The necessary working hours are eight hours a day, divided into two shifts - one in the morning and the other in the afternoon until 10 P.M.

Order For The Closure Of Lingerie Stores

A resident Uzbek government official has appeared to have ordered the shutting down of stores displaying and selling items such as lingerie, for the reason that it is offending the view and thinking of the children.

The Kremlin-sponsored website and television channel Russia Today (rt.com) writes and Uzmetronom.com publishes the story last December 25 that states:

“Women in the Uzbek Capital Tashkent will have to buy their underwear ‘under the counter’ from now on. Local media say Otabek Sadykov took a walk through a local market and was shocked by the sight of bras and panties on sale. He immediately issued an order putting a stop to the display of women’s lingerie in shops.”

The narrative may have appeared in from semi-official uzmetronom.com, but this Russian-language Tashkent-based site often leaks from government sources and covers a variety of scandals and information of the day.

In accordance with the information from our readers, in Sergeli district of Tashkent, all shops retailing underwear are closed, and it has vanished from the shelves of specialized departments in other stores giving out or not disclosing any reason. At the present underwear is being sold underground. Consistent with merchants who were affected they are forced into the underground; the forbiddance on the sale of underwear in the district was imposed by the new khokim - the head of the local administration.

The article goes on to speculate sarcastically that next, recommendations from the commission on spirituality and education will be issued to regulate even the design of underwear and when, where, and how it can be worn -- and purchased only with a husband or wife or close relative present.

Not any of the sources utters whether this command from one khokim applies all over the place in Tashkent, and it appears mainly to be about displays, and not a ban on the sales.

It is also unclear if this new forbiddance stems from any spiritual authorities, even though there have been signs of a bit of a morals movement lately, with a concentrated effort on obscene lyrics in hip-hop music and art works.

This sounds like a chance for Gulnara Karimova, President Islam Karimov's designing daughter, known for her trend triumphs and failures.