If you read my last blog, you will know what led me to start LoveRose Lingerie.
I’ve always loved lingerie. Before cancer, I was that girl who wore matching sets even under a tracksuit! It had the power to help me feel good about myself, it gave me a secret confidence and was my armour throughout my day. But that was all BBC (before breast cancer).
I am not going to focus on treatment here; there are lots of informative blogs for that. I want to focus on recovery and specifically, the mental health aspect of recovery. Post-surgery, my scars were healed but my head wasn’t. I certainly never shared openly about the emotional rawness I felt; my mood; my sense of loss. I couldn’t talk openly about my emotional recovery because I was ashamed to have those feelings. I should be grateful that I no longer had cancer, everything else was vain and superficial… right? Wrong. I now know that emotional recovery is just as important as physical recovery.
After breast cancer, the simple task of getting dressed becomes extremely stressful due to the kind of lingerie you’re limited to. I couldn't find any underwear that made me feel or look good. On the outside my outfit looked put-together, but I knew that I was wearing a bra made from some poly-nylon-yuck fabric that wasn’t breathable; and with industrial size straps on my 5ft 3” frame, I felt like I was wearing another top under my top! Deciding to find out how other women who had gone through breast surgery felt, I discovered that I wasn’t alone in feeling that I had been forgotten by the lingerie market. It’s ironic really as it’s a market worth billions and yet, our ever growing sector of now 1 in 7 women, is being left to be catered for primarily by medical brands. I was compelled to change this.
My personal experiences, along with the experiences of all the amazing women I have met along the way, have massively helped when designing LoveRose Lingerie’s initial collection. We aim to cover as many outcomes of surgery as possible. It’s really important to us at LoveRose that we not only create great designs, but that they are sustainable, long lasting and luxury garments. Our lingerie is made with a combination of 100% recycled lace and mesh, 100% silk and jersey and have been thoughtfully designed to take into account scarring, swelling and the support needs of our wearers, including pocketed bras for women who wear prosthesis. The bras have been engineered and crafted with hidden support hammocks that negate the need for damaging underwires but still allow for full support of the breasts or prosthesis! We’ve created an easy online sizing calculator to get you into your underwear. The sizing currently ranges from a XS-1X; we strive to carry on increasing both our size and our product range. Look out for Swim in 2023!
The LoveRose team is spread over the UK and Romania. Our models are ordinary women who are part of our breast cancer community. If you want to join us as a model we are planning all sorts of pop ups and events, and we are always looking for fit models. Become part of the community and please sign up to our website
www.loveroselingerie.com and get in touch!
We have to stick together and show the lingerie market that we deserve to have a choice. Stand with us to make change. We matter.
LoveRose, Love yourself xoxo
I’ve always loved lingerie. Before cancer, I was that girl who wore matching sets even under a tracksuit! It had the power to help me feel good about myself, it gave me a secret confidence and was my armour throughout my day. But that was all BBC (before breast cancer).
I am not going to focus on treatment here; there are lots of informative blogs for that. I want to focus on recovery and specifically, the mental health aspect of recovery. Post-surgery, my scars were healed but my head wasn’t. I certainly never shared openly about the emotional rawness I felt; my mood; my sense of loss. I couldn’t talk openly about my emotional recovery because I was ashamed to have those feelings. I should be grateful that I no longer had cancer, everything else was vain and superficial… right? Wrong. I now know that emotional recovery is just as important as physical recovery.
After breast cancer, the simple task of getting dressed becomes extremely stressful due to the kind of lingerie you’re limited to. I couldn't find any underwear that made me feel or look good. On the outside my outfit looked put-together, but I knew that I was wearing a bra made from some poly-nylon-yuck fabric that wasn’t breathable; and with industrial size straps on my 5ft 3” frame, I felt like I was wearing another top under my top! Deciding to find out how other women who had gone through breast surgery felt, I discovered that I wasn’t alone in feeling that I had been forgotten by the lingerie market. It’s ironic really as it’s a market worth billions and yet, our ever growing sector of now 1 in 7 women, is being left to be catered for primarily by medical brands. I was compelled to change this.
My personal experiences, along with the experiences of all the amazing women I have met along the way, have massively helped when designing LoveRose Lingerie’s initial collection. We aim to cover as many outcomes of surgery as possible. It’s really important to us at LoveRose that we not only create great designs, but that they are sustainable, long lasting and luxury garments. Our lingerie is made with a combination of 100% recycled lace and mesh, 100% silk and jersey and have been thoughtfully designed to take into account scarring, swelling and the support needs of our wearers, including pocketed bras for women who wear prosthesis. The bras have been engineered and crafted with hidden support hammocks that negate the need for damaging underwires but still allow for full support of the breasts or prosthesis! We’ve created an easy online sizing calculator to get you into your underwear. The sizing currently ranges from a XS-1X; we strive to carry on increasing both our size and our product range. Look out for Swim in 2023!
The LoveRose team is spread over the UK and Romania. Our models are ordinary women who are part of our breast cancer community. If you want to join us as a model we are planning all sorts of pop ups and events, and we are always looking for fit models. Become part of the community and please sign up to our website
www.loveroselingerie.com and get in touch!
We have to stick together and show the lingerie market that we deserve to have a choice. Stand with us to make change. We matter.
LoveRose, Love yourself xoxo