Buying Lingerie online can be a really good idea if you're a little embarassed about heading off to your local lingerie shop and asking some intimidating assistant what you want to buy.

As a result of this need, a whole crop of online shops appeared over the last few years offering a huge range of lingerie and underwear options for every possible occassion.

As the market for lingerie got more and more competitive the online shops selling it had to become more competitive, offering higher quality goods while at the same time offering better and better prices. As a result of this the online lingerie market is now very competitive with some great deals available at discount prices.

Naturally, as the online lingerie shops got better and better, more and more people now choose to buy their lingerie online, not through embarassment, but because they know that they can get the best lingerie, at the best prices from online shopping sites.

Probably the most prominent of these new online lingerie shops is Figleaves, who've grown from a start up company to almost a household name in only a few short years. We've included a selection of their excellent range of lingerie products below.

So what should you be looking for in an online lingerie shop? Well, a good range of lingerie from designer names is a good start and all the shops we list here stock only the top brands, including La Perla, Love Kylie, Agent Provocateur, Wonderbra, Calvin Klein, and many more.

So if it's stockings, underwear, g-strings, bras, teddies, nightwear and glamorous eveing wear you're looking for, these lingerie shops should have something to suit your needs.