Semper Ubi Sub Ubi

Mary Green is a self-made woman, eponymous head of a company that makes and sells lingerie, virtually all of it silk. She's been in business twenty-some years, and has done enough savvy marketing to get herself in Cosmo, Elle, Glamour, Vogue, Seventeen, Redbook, People, WWD, O, Maxim, Lucky, Allure, Variety, and so on and on. And to get herself worn by the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Kate Hudson, featured on Sex in the City, talked about on The Today Show....

One of her most popular items is the "Days of the Week" panties in a silk pouch. UK sexpert Emily Dubberly, in a review on knickersblog.com, gives these panties 5/5 in every category, from practicality and value to sexiness and style.

At upwards of $100 a set, they're out of reach for me. But not for a friend, on whose coffee table we photographed these. I'll have to go unembroidered for the nonce. As Mary says, semper ubi sub ubi.