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Nice job engineers.
Victoria's Secret: Respectably naughty for the middle classes.
Frederick's of Hollywood: Lingerie for trashy, fun girls and strippers.
Agent Provocateur: Lingerie for the decadent rich girl.
Dunno where this fits in, but the article reminded me of an incident when I was a civilian programmer for the USMC PX system.
The PX had some pretty savvy auditors and periodically sent them around to the various exchanges. Upon their return, one guy told me of the following mystery:
The Exchange at Quantico, VA had a section for the trooper's wives, including feminine hygiene items. For some reason, medium-sized Kotex pads could not be kept in stock, no matter how often the reorders were placed.
Intrigued, the auditors wondered if someone was siphoning off money or selling the goods on the outside market.
It took them a week to solve it and then only stumbled on it when they had a "coupla beers with the NCOs". It seems that the medium-sized pad, when used as a cleaning patch, perfectly fit the bore of the 105mm howitzer. It held the powder solvent better than the military issue, and with all the artillery training going on, the pads were in high demand.