Launched in mid-August by
Linda Parrish-Smith, former lingerie buyer for the local Westgate Department
Stores Group, the website www.Double-D.com sells quality brand name
lingerie, concentrating on hard-to-find cup and back sizes. The company
believes it can give customers a simpler, more convenient and more enjoyable
on-line shopping experience than any other on-line lingerie retailer,
as well as a much wider choice in the harder to find sizes.
Linda commented "In my
12 years buying for Westgate I'd seen the difficulties fuller figured
women had finding top quality, flattering and sexy lingerie. Traditional
bricks and mortar shops can only serve a small area and print-based
mail order also has a limited reach. So I put together some beautiful
ranges that all include D, DD and E cups then set up www.Double-D.com
to provide convenient mail order style home shopping to a global audience."
The site has been designed
to be simple to use, easy to navigate, quick to load, secure when purchasing
and very informative. And that aim appears to have been achieved with
customers and Internet professionals making comments such as: "The
site is a joy to use, I must say." Site designer Nick Summers said,
"We wanted to provide an enjoyable place to visit, not just a catalogue.
So we've included interesting articles, help for men buying lingerie
(50% of our early customers are men!), and of course plenty of information
about our links to breast cancer research."
As a purely Internet-based company it was decided
to put the savings in overheads to good use by donating 50p of every
order to breast cancer research. Linda had been involved in fund raising
events, particularly for breast cancer charities, so this seemed a natural
progression. Customers can also pool orders to fund-raise, with Double-D.com
giving an extra £10 for every order over £150. All the money raised
is divided equally between breast cancer research projects at the Imperial
Cancer Research Fund (registered charity 209631) and Breakthrough Breast
Cancer (registered charity 1062636) (-Please Note: We no longer
donate directly to either Charity-).
For more information:
Visit: http://www.double-d.com/media/index.html
Email: info@double-d.com
Tel: 0870 241 2767
Write:Linda Parrish-Smith, PO Box 18, Peterborough, PE4 7WR