What do we call Greekstyle lingerie? It is lingerie that is made of light and airy cloth, usually colored in all shades of summer and the sea: cream, show-white, sky- and cobalt blue, rosy and yellow. It can be as well trimmed with posh lace, transparent tulle or silk.

Ancient Greeks believed that the human body is the standard of beauty and perfection. In their opinion any of its parts meets certain requirements: everything is proportional and symmetrical, and has the appropriate function. And the clothes were made according to the same principles.

Greek clothing was of a high aesthetic level, it showed proportions and harmony in the lines, and was absolutely symmetrical. It is striking that the Greeks managed to create perfect works of art out of two rectangular pieces of cloth, the works of art that could be worn by both men and women.

Women’s dresses stressed natural body lines. The secret lay in the fact that two notions were combined to create a single whole: elegance and variety of Ionian fashion and simplicity and strictness of Dorian style. The most important in clothes making was the way of the material draping, as it is individual for every woman and underlines her taste.

The 19th century saw the revival of interest in Greek culture and a famous fashion designer Pole Puree did much to bring Greekstyle lingerie and clothes back to life. Present-day trendsetters also pay attention to this antique style. Meanwhile, transparent airy items of clothing are coming nowadays into fashion.

Lingerie manufacturers have already discovered a booming market of teenager girls for whom shopping in a lingerie department is a real adventure.

As young customers is the biggest demographic group, and it quickly increases, the sellers take into account their tastes and likings which can be very different from that of the elder generation.

They are fond of spangles and bright colors, but nevertheless they see the border between relaxedness and dissoluteness and tend to choose more modest lingerie units that they are supposed to do according to the common prejudice.

That’s why the manufacturers strive to find the golden middle. Recent survey conducted among adolescents in the U.S.A. show that they like some playfulness in lingerie they wear but still don’t appreciate completely transparent things.

But sale results tell us another story and disclose a big interest of young people towards open bras and almost invisible panties. But should it mean an increase in adolescent sexual activity? We should rather treat it as their attempt to imitate a “grown-up” style.

The undergarments for grown-ups have made their way from comfort to a more stylish design, and we can expect the same for youth lingerie. And pop-stars whom teenagers admire will definitely encourage such tendencies. However, it happens not for the first time. Remember the 90-s? Then Madonna’s style made a revolution in youth clothing.

Though there exists another opinion coming from the organizations guarding family values. They claim that it’s very difficult to bring up children when the pictures of half-dressed women hang everywhere. They maintain the idea that if there were less such sexual pictures all around, teenagers wouldn’t choose such open underwear.

The manufacturers don’t want to quarrel with them and claim that their lingerie is for 18-year-olds and older at the same time admitting that a great many of their buyers are teens. Statistics says that only 10 percent of young people prefer traditional lingerie while the others wear bright, provocative and very sexual garments.