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The lace institution, after hours.

By FashionMix Editorial · July 31, 2026

Hanky Panky built a forty-year business on one American-made signature lace — stretchy, unreasonably durable, famously comfortable — and the After Midnight line is that same institution loosening its collar. This teddy runs the house lace over a bodysuit cut, engineered by people whose day job is making underthings women forget they are wearing.

That pedigree is the real difference in this category. Occasion pieces from fast-fashion labels are built for the photograph: scratchy florals, seams that dig, elastic that surrenders by the third wear. A house that spends decades on how lace behaves against skin builds the same piece to be worn, washed, and reached for again — which is why the name gets typed into search bars while a hundred cheaper listings scroll past unnamed.

At $85 it costs what house lace costs. The swap below gets the silhouette from a rival with its own lace credentials, at half.

The piece

Lace teddy bodysuit

Hanky Panky — After Midnight Signature Lace Open Panel Teddy Bodysuit

$85at Bloomingdale's

Find it for less

Cosabella — Never Say Never Lace Bodysuit

$43— $43 less from the Italian-lace family label that is Hanky Panky's only real rival in the comfort-first lane. The lace runs finer and the cut simpler; what the hero holds is the signature stretch lace itself, the one with the cult, and the more deliberate after-hours construction

at Bloomingdale's

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