"What's Your Nude?"

Here at The Window Sex Project we are all about celebrating, taking care of, and having pride in our bodies! Which is why I was so excited when I came across this Huffington Post article about a woman named Tara Raines who has started a campaign encouraging lingerie retailers to manufacture bras in more shades of brown.

Just a couple weeks ago my dancers and I were remembering the days when we all wore "nude," "flesh colored," or "suntan tights," though rarely did these shades ever match our skin tones in the way their titles suggested. I believe that brown skin ballerinas at the pro-level just dye their tights, but back in all of our dancing school days, we generally just suffered looking awkward.

Do you know many brown people that fit into these three shades?

That's the dancer's perspective. Now think about the every day woman who suffers the same trouble when all she wants is to wear a nude bra that is actually nude next to her skin, under her white blouse. Author Julee Wilson writes, "The blushes, buffs, off-whites, fleshes and "barely there" colors offered don't represent the millions of brown-skinned women ready and willing to spend some cash."

She goes on to quote Raines: " 'I don't think it's too much to ask that bra makers include darker hues when manufacturing their collections... Women of color deserve to look and feel sexy, and a big part of that is looking like ourselves.' "

Amen!

So Raines has a plan: she is asking that on February 1 women click the "like" tab at Facebook.com/morebrownbras, and contact their favorite bra manufacturer or retailer by mail, phone, e-mail or social media (Twitter handle: @whatsyournude #whatsyournude).

I'll be contacting my favorite: http://www.bravissimo.com/.

How about you?