Have you bought anything from Ann Summers? What products would you recommend?

[TinaMumsnet]

Hi everyone,

We're looking to gauge general interest in Ann Summers and would love to hear about the products you've tried, thoroughly tested and would recommend to others.

The brand have also expanded their collection to include a maternity and nursing range, so we'd love to hear your thoughts on this too. Are there any pieces you think would be particularly good for expectant/new mums?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

My settings won't let me look at Ann Summers, but have seen the photos another poster posted. What makes those items maternity or postpartum underwear? I can't see how you'd be able to fit a maternity pad in those knickers! And they don't look like they'd support a post natal belly! What is the point of them??

What makes those items maternity or postpartum underwear? I can't see how you'd be able to fit a maternity pad in those knickers! And they don't look like they'd support a post natal belly! What is the point of them??

Exactly @Frogartist !!!

My husband bought me a "wand"
Brilliant

@UnicornMadeOfPinkGlitter I have friends who have cried because they want pretty underwear during pregnancy and post partum.

Your friends are a bit odd, to be brutally honest.

Eeh, cock rings next to maternity stuff, yeah slightly off putting.

I would actually really like a 'sexy' nursing bra. After having spent 5 years in total breastfeeding I would love to be able to have a choice that not black, white, nude or flowery brawise! (Or £££££)

I know i could just buy a non breastfeeding bra. Just can't be bothered with the faff of constant changing bras just because I felt like having a nice underwear day.

This is news to me anyway and I'm off to have a look...

Won't outside me to have a party or become a rep for them though!

‘ Sexy nursing bra’ googled no one ever

Come on mumsnet what are you thinking ?!

Honestly can imagine anything worse than cheap, scratchy lace on breastfeeding nipples

*cant

Oh FGS can we pack it in with the snobbery?

Some people enjoy sex when pregnant/soon after birth.

Some people like wearing what they consider to be sexy underwear (and actual both AS and LH do a decent selection of stuff)

No everyone has an Agent Provacateur budget.

If you're not interested in sex during/after pregnancy or don't want to wear fancy undies, that's great but there's no need to bash people who have other preferences.

Wearing plain black pants at all time doesn't make you morally superior to those of us who like a bit of funky coloured lace.

God, do people actually still shop at/with Ann Summers?

I associate it with 90s/early mid 2000s
...being in my 20s and sniggering a dildos during Ann summers parties, cheap, awful, tacky costumes and the likes.

I cant believe Ann Summers is still ongoing, and presumably successful?

How is it snobbery to promulgate the view that women should be sexually available for their men in the immediate days/weeks after giving birth?

MNHQ has been hijacked.

"Who are you and what have you done with MNHQ?!"

@BIWI

How is it snobbery to promulgate the view that women should be sexually available for their men in the immediate days/weeks after giving birth?

I'm not referring to that but to the use of words such as cheap, tacky and dated to describe products that these apparently oh so enlightened MNers presumably haven't been near in donkeys years.

Not to mention casting aspertions on the women who have posted an alternative view that actually they did want to look/feel attractive/sexy when pregnant and or post partner and denouncing them as 'weird'.

Not to mention casting aspertions on the women who have posted an alternative view that actually they did want to look/feel attractive/sexy when pregnant and or post partner and denouncing them as 'weird'.

Literally no one has done that though. I mean, feel free to find a post that proves otherwise.

[quote Waveafterwaveslowlydrifting]**@UnicornMadeOfPinkGlitter* I have friends who have cried because they want pretty underwear during pregnancy and post partum.*

Your friends are a bit odd, to be brutally honest.[/quote]
Here you go @snowallspring

"Plenty of women enjoy sex during or after pregnancy. Most of us don't need to spend money on tacky overpriced 'sexy' [sic] underwear in order to have sex.

"You do, however, seem to be the only woman on this thread who thinks it's necessary to buy special underwear in order to have sex....Strange. I normally take my knickers off."

All really unnecessary

“Sexy nursing bra” 🤢🤮

@GentlemanJay

I've bought Ann Summers lingerie before as gifts. I've never had any issue re quality.

Are you a female? In what way you have tested the quality of the product?

I didn't say it's odd to want sexy lingerie whilst pregnant or post partum. I did say it's odd to cry about it.

I was one of the people who said they cried, or felt like it. A long time ago now but I'd always prided myself on having nice underwear, mainly lacey, mostly black but other colours, I like dark green and burgundy. I buy sets. To begin with when I was pregnant I just upped the sizes but then I needed nursing bras, the main make then was "Emma Jane" It was all white, very voluminous, I thought to myself " is that how they see me?" someone who only deserves that ugly rubbish. I felt ashamed of myself and very upset. There was no choice, I felt repulsive not because of how my body looked, I rather liked that , but because of what I had no choice but to wear.
AS might not be the most upmarket underwear but it is not plain cotton, it looks as if a bit of care went into designing it and it is only short term anyway.

ExConstance I’m honestly not being chippy I just don’t understand why you would place so much value on having nice underwear, especially as you say you rather liked the way your body looked (which is fantastic and so you should !) but why on earth have you tied up your personal self worth in what underwear you are wearing ?

I love beautiful lingerie but really dislike Anne Summers. Their products looks cheap and tacky. I also dislike their soft porn window displays on my local high street. I have nothing against women looking sexy but it’s not appropriate for it to be plastered all over a family shopping area. Their models look like sex dolls pumped with botox, collagen and implants. I think these fake looking images of what a sexy woman is supposed to look like are harmful to girls, boys, young women and young men.

This is Style and Beauty! I find it hard to understand why anyone would spend upwards of a thousand pounds on a handbag, but I wouldn't criticise them for it. I was used to wrapping my body up in silk or lace and wanted to carry on doing so. The thought that there was some bra co;mpany designer out there thinking I would have to like or lump something that was contrary to my sense of style was quite upsetting.

Their models look like sex dolls pumped with botox, collagen and implants.

Have you looked on their website lately? Because that's definitely not what I'm seeing.