Sales of sultry lingerie among older women are booming in Britain thanks to the glamorous 40-somethings of “Sex and the City 2″ and “Cougar Town,” retail chain Debenhams reported on Thursday.

The hit TV show, and forthcoming movie, featuring the bedroom antics of women in their 40s and 50s and their much younger partners, is being credited with a rise in demand for lingerie from women of the same age, Debenhams said.

The department store said a nationwide analysis of the most popular lingerie styles from October 2009 to April 2010, revealed that women over 40 have given the more seductive side of the lingerie industry a big boost.

“Positive female role models in this age group such as the women in the Sex and the City movies and Courteney Cox in TV’s Cougar Town are giving the women confidence to splash out on themselves,” Debenhams head lingerie buyer Annette Warburton said in a statement.

Women over 40 were rediscovering their figures, often after having children or getting divorced.

Previously, the store said, the main purchasers of cleavage-enhancing bras, basques, thongs, stockings and suspenders, have been women in their early 20s.

“With women’s 40s being touted as the new 20s, and lingerie designers stepping up to the mark to feed this demand, it’s a market we expect to see grow further in the future,” Warburton said.

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Blippy is a new social media service in the same vain as twitter, that records and broadcast your spending to the rest of the world. its an interest but dangerous service. I can see two things happening here. First off, business will be put on alert, the fact that you know someone is pay 30% less for the same item that you you just bought somewhere else in the country; could really help consumers in the long run.

The other is having your miscellaneous expenses out there for everyone to see, (escort services, secret lingerie buys, e.t.c). Let’s hope some peoples wives don’t find out about Blippy or sign that husband up for it secretly.

In Philip Kaplan’s world, no credit card purchase is private — not even the $70.06 “sexy gift” he bought from a gay-themed shop called “Does Your Mother Know.” He posted that transaction online.

Kaplan is the co-founder of a new site called Blippy. On the site, which launched last week, people enter their credit card information and Blippy automatically sends out short, public “blips” of information about what people are buying — including the prices of the items and where they were bought.

It’s like the financial version of Twitter, and Kaplan, the 34-year-old author of the book and former blog “F’d Companies,” who looks and talks somewhat like the actor Seth Rogen, says it’s going to change the way people think about privacy and money.

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