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"  Dear FKIA, All the lingerie looks for spring remind me of Tom Hanks&amp;#039; secretary in Splash, but has the day really come when it&amp;#039;s okay to wear your bra on the outside of a blouse?   Innerwear as outerwear is nothing new. And contrary to urban legend, the trend doesn&amp;#039;t even have its origins in Madonna&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Like a Virgin&amp;quot; days. True, it was de rigueur in the &amp;#039;80s to expose athletic tops and neon lace Deborah Marquit bras under cardigans and boyfriend jackets. But what about Madonna&amp;#039;s forebears? As late as the 1890s, blue-blooded snobs were posing in transparent undergarments in tableaux vivants, not to mention Toulouse-Lautrec&amp;#039;s beloved, pudenda-revealing cancan dancers kicking and cartwheeling in Montmartre in their ruffled knickers (without center seam). Even in the 1920s, many women were more lax and liberated in the way they dressed\u2014sans unmentionables in sheer shifts\u2014than we are today. Those were the days! Such laissez-faire attitudes bespeak a joie de vivre that women yearn for.  The most irreverent and irresistible lingerie-inspired looks were the ruffled petticoat minis and bustier tops at D&amp;amp;amp;G, appropriate for a young starlet tripping the light fantastic. John Galliano at Dior channeled Lauren Bacall from her film noir whodunits as Humphrey Bogart&amp;#039;s leading femme fatale, though the only possible way to wear expensive lacy underpinnings (unless you are Sienna Miller on the red carpet or Kate Moss, who can get away with anything and everything) is to treat them for what they are: lingerie so pretty it deserves to peek out from under a spectacular structured jacket and thigh-split skirt.  Marc Jacobs took a refined approach\u2014one that evokes everything from deconstruction and Comme des Gar\u00E7ons to a ballerina&amp;#039;s ease and dishabille\u2014a look so elegant that even the normally dowdy midcalf hobble skirt morphed into something sexy and modern with a provocative waist-high girdle encircled in a thin belt and worn with flats. It reminds me of how women like art dealer Holly Solomon used to captivate New York City by pushing notions of propriety in an individual, spirited, and elegant fashion. All in all, it&amp;#039;s Jacobs&amp;#039; version that transcends the &amp;quot;trend&amp;quot; and in all likelihood will end up in a museum someday. Or, I hope, my closet.  \u2014Submitted by Sonia from Champagne, IL "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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