Find All Your Back to School Necessities: For You, Him, Her & Everyone
No matter how old you are, this time of year always incites back to school butterflies. And like spring makes you feel the need to clean out the house, for whatever reason, fall feels like the right...
View ArticleAll-Out Sexy: Lingerie Steps Out of the Bedroom
Follow the Fashion Week catwalks or pick up any magazine right now, and you’ll notice the lingerie-as-daywear trend. Yep, it’s totally okay to leave the house baring your bra—thanks, Millennials!—if...
View ArticleMeredith Bodgas Helps Make the World a Fairer Place for Working Mothers
Meredith Bodgas has built her career on walking women through every major life stage and milestone. She’s been an editor at some of the most prestigious websites and magazines like The Knot,...
View ArticleFrom 38C to 34D, April Salazar Proves Size is Just a Letter
Feeling confident in her own skin is really what April Salazar, 41, was after with this bra-fit makeover: “I’m finally at a place where I feel confident about who I am and where I’m going.” Which isn’t...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Awareness Month: 10 Ways to be Supportive
Breast cancer touches most of us, directly or indirectly. What happens when someone you love is diagnosed, and the world keeps turning? So often, well-intentioned family, friends and coworkers want to...
View ArticleThe Sexy Halloween Costume Shop
Halloween is creeping up on us, and we at Bare Necessities are here for it with our annual cheeky collection of lingerie costumes intended for the bedroom. Because if now isn’t the time to have some...
View ArticleWe Have Amazing News to Share!
Today we announced Bare Necessities has been acquired by Walmart. We couldn’t be more excited about this news. Over the past two decades, we’ve built a talented team and strong business focused on all...
View ArticleTop 3 Reasons We’re Loving (and Living in) Stepped-Up Sleepwear
It’s pretty much scientifically proven: Sleep and loungewear are key not just to surviving but to thriving in the cold months. Plush, polished pieces designed to give you the warm fuzzies are all...
View ArticleFall’s 15 Best Bras—and Shapewear
Welcome to sweater weather! Though there’s less skin on display, what you’re wearing underneath your clothes matters. From T-shirt bras that sit smoothly under thin knits to shapewear that refines your...
View ArticlePlanning for Thanksgiving: What to Wear & What Not to Forget
Whether you’re driving to the next town over or flying across the country, Thanksgiving entails pretty much the same degree of travel planning as any vacation, and it means dressing strategically....
View ArticleFrom 32D to 30DDD, Lauren Russo Finds Her Best Bra Brand
Lauren Russo, 36, is a mom of two, a teacher, a certified personal trainer who runs a baby boot camp class and, with her husband, a partner in a health and wellness business. “I love being an advocate...
View Article2018 Holiday Gift Guide: Who are You Shopping for?
The holiday season goes hand-in-hand with cozy sleepwear and lingerie that invites snuggling to chase away chills. We just so happen to know a thing or two about those worlds here at Bare Necessities....
View ArticleAuthor Virginia Sole-Smith Debunks Some of the Most Harmful Food Myths
Virginia Sole-Smith wrote the just-released book The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America and co-hosts the new podcast Comfort Food, about the joys and meltdowns of feeding a...
View ArticlePajama Party! We ❤ The Season’s Coziest Sleepwear
Wintertime, and the hibernating is easy when you stick to Bare Necessities buyer Megan Irvine’s handpicked mix of pajamas, loungewear and the like. Her gift-worthy favorites are a surefire way for you...
View ArticleReal-Deal Stocking Stuffers
We’re all in on the holiday traditions right now, including (but not limited to) Christmas stockings and the goodies that gets stuffed into them. Those kinds of tiny, thoughtful tokens go a long way,...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Perfect Bra
Bras are one of those things in life that prove you get what you pay for. Because when there are $17 bras and there are $170 bras, there are differences. So what makes a splurge bra so special? Bare...
View ArticleHow to Rock New Year’s Eve Shapewear
Whether you’re going to a black tie party or a dive bar, if you’re leaving the house to ring in 2019, you’re going to want to start by layering on the shapewear. It’s the farthest thing from...
View ArticleAuthor Rachel Bertsche Writes About What Women Want
Rachel Bertsche’s calling card as a writer is throwing herself into uncomfortable situations to find the lesson so that we don’t have to. That’s what she does in The Experimentalist, her monthly...
View ArticleFrom 36DDD to 36G, Irene Wins in Wacoal
Irene, 38, works out at The Max Challenge with Torrie Rathjen, and once she saw her workout buddy’s bra fit makeover, she had to have one. Now that her three young sons are getting more independent,...
View Article10 PERFECT SPORTS BRAS FOR ANY WORKOUT
Forget reinventing your life because a calendar page flipped. Call it a resolution or don’t, but working out has always been on the to-do list, and it continues into the new year. When you’ve already...
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