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Fashion’s current love affair with luxury means delicate fabrics as light as a cobweb and just as transparent. Chiffon blouses, lace camisoles, loose knit and sheer mesh dresses offer many tastefully revealing options.

To sport such diaphanous designs, the right underwear is key. Runway models can get away with little more than a strut and a pout.

Unless blessed with a perfect figure, you can’t.

Fortunately, supportive yet subtle underpinnings are plentiful. Bodyslips, bustiers and briefs in every shade from flesh to black prevent overexposure.

It’s still up to you to match the innerwear with the outerwear, though. A brown bra under a sheer black top or cream tap pants under a pure white dress? Sheer disaster.

But if you choose correctly, there’s no reason you can’t go a little see-through. An undergarment closest to your skin tone or to the color of the outergarment may most enhance your look. Keep looking until you find it.

The right lingerie will give you the most important accessory you’ll need to carry off these sheers: confidence.