Playboy After Hours

March, 1988

Truck-Stop TeddiesOn a road trip a couple of years ago, Vicki Lewis surveyed the shopping at a great many interstate truck stops. She found lots of tacky coffee mugs, key rings and bumper stickers. Lewis, a former fashion-design student with no prior business or trucking experience, sensed a market for something sexier, the type of thing a guy could carry home to his significant other after a week of white-line fever.So she came up with an appealing item--a sultry little black-lace teddy with a...