I love Stacey Dash (sometimes Stacey without an “e”) because she does 40 year old plus women serious justice and it’s wonderful to see. She’s not out there trying to relive her youth or recapture anything, she’s just in the moment and if the moment just happens to be hip and trendy so be it. Her lingerie line Letters of Marque is so pretty and feminine and that’s so moi. Here is one completely cotton set below.

Here’s what she said in an W Magazine interview about the line.

Several years ago Dash discovered that she had an actual pirate in the family tree (her great-great-grandfather on her father’s side) and stumbled upon the term “letter of marque” while doing additional research on buccaneers. Basically, it was a license to seize and capture. “[The document] was given to a pirate by a particular country to act on behalf of that nation,” she says. “It’s permission to invade. I thought, That’s perfect for lingerie.” Translation? “When you wear Letters of Marque, you’re giving whoever you’re wearing it for permission to invade.” With a notion like that, one might reasonably expect the collection, which sells at Lingerie on Lex in New York and Ann Dessous in Berlin, to veer toward salacious. After all, Dash is talking pirate booty here. On the contrary, Letters of Marque is subtle, demure even, and—pop tarts, take note—that’s the way the actress thinks it should be. “I want to bring pretty sexy back, without being too provocative.

Read the rest of the Interview here.

Visit the Official Letters of Marque Website for Local Retailers.