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Victoria's Secret has forgotten the refined art of the tease.(Columns)(Limited Brands Inc. Victoria's Secret Stores Div.)(Column)

Advertising Age, March, 2008 by Skenazy, Lenore

Byline: Lenore Skenazy

you walk into Victoria's Secret and the music is blaring, the decor is Bordello Barbie and you find yourself caught up in a whirlwind of g-strings. Some are frilly, some silly, some are cotton-candy pink covered with red-lipstick kisses, and a customer says, "What I like about the store is that the stuff isn't trashy.''

It isn't?

I'm trying to think of something trashier than Victoria's Secret, and all I can come up with is preteen pole-dancing classes at the Y, which I don't think actually exist. (Yet.)

The plastic mannequins are wearing garter ...

 

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