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Victoria’s Secret: Not So Angelic

by Gabrielle Hennessey

Victoria’s Secret may be in the business of dangerous curves, but some VS consumers have gotten more pain than they bargained for.

Numerous complaints have been filed with the lingerie mega-giant for faulty garment construction that left everything from rashes and hives from (possibly) formaldehyde-tainted materials to poorly-secured (and projectile-like) metal hardware.

Victoria’s Secret, meanwhile, maintains that these injuries are a result of “misuse and/or abuse of the product” (how exactly does one “abuse” a bra?), and the company’s reluctance to address these numerous complaints in a more thorough manner makes us uneasy. Sometimes beauty is pain, but this may be going too far.

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