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I have to buy more bras; I'm down to 2 and they're both in very sorry shape. Sometimes I feel like I'm singlehandedly putting Omar the Tentmaker's 17 children through college Posts: 957 | Registered: Aug 2002
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I'd go, but uhh fugu, I think you'd be easily bored, you just get to sit outside dressing rooms and hold purses.
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Try shopping for bras in a country where the average woman is a size -4 and you're . . . much larger than that. I have no idea if I'm even going to be able to find bras that fit here. The concept of anything over a C cup seems to be lost. . .
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Grrr! VS has discontinued my bra size in stores, and I just don't feel comfortable buying a bra online 'cause it's one of those things you want to fit perfectly. Gap Body sometimes has my size, I discovered, but sometimes not. Everywhere else I've looked (except online) does not sell my size. I don't think I'm that strange size-wise. How many women can't find a decent-fitting bra in stores?
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quote: Try shopping for bras in a country where the average woman is a size -4 and you're . . . much larger than that. I have no idea if I'm even going to be able to find bras that fit here. The concept of anything over a C cup seems to be lost. . .
Try the reverse!
EDIT: "Oh, sorry, we don't stock that size anymore."
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*reminisces* My baby brother used to be my shopping buddy. He was a world champion at bored purse-holding.
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Sure, guys can like shopping. But going underwear shopping with a girl usually means you are not shopping, you are waiting.
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Unless, of course, you're planning on buying something for yourself. In that case, by all means, enjoy yourself.
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Um, when I was at the store the other day, I noticed the bras were labelled in that way - 14D. How does that translate to North American 32Ds and such?
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It was my impression ElJay was advocating a more generalized shopping trip, though I could be wrong.
And 'sides, most places that sell women's underwear one can buy other things in the vicinity, if not the same store.
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I recently found that built in bras work for me. They used to never have enough support, but now that I am 2 cup sizes down I don't seem to have that issue. It is nice to not have to wear underwires, but it is also would be nice to actually have breasts.
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but fugu, Eljay hadn't posted that by the time you said you wanted to go shopping, it was raia and stray.
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Meanwhile, I've finally found an underwire bra that I can wear without wanting to remove and burn it halfway through the day. It's pricey, but I think it might be worth it.
Edited to add: No boys allowed at bra-shopping! *thwacks fugu*
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Megan, i know exactly what you mean, I haven't wanted to burn an underwire in a few months now, that's an improvement.
A shopping con would be tons of fun, maybe just a clump gathering locally though would be easier (lately i've actually been thinking about logistics of things) so if megan, stray, raia, allegra, blacwolve, and others wanna go shopping sometime, that'd be awesome.
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At the risk of sounding dumb, I'm assuming you're in the Bloomington clump, lucy? Even more embarassing, are you someone I've actually met? Posts: 4077 | Registered: Jun 2003
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Mall of America is 5 minutes from my house. Just sayin'.
I do need to go bra shopping, too... I've got a fabulous new dress that is cut kinda odd, and none of my current bras really work with it.
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I hate shopping, and I hate bras. Bra shopping is about my most hated activity, right up there with being chased by a pack of rabid dogs.
I say, instead of getting together and buying bras and supporting the machine, we Hatrack women get together and stage a large scale protest against bras. Jatraqueras Against Bras Unite!
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Yeah, and you should all totally burn them! And then we Hatrack men can get together and have WatchingTheJatraquerasTakeOffTheirBrasAndBurnThemCon! Woooo! Power to the people! Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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I hate, loathe, and despise shopping for clothing of any kind. I dislike shopping in general, but clothes shopping is by far the worst. I have no choice but to buy bras online, as no lingerie shops within a 100-mile radius (at least) have my size. And yes, buying them online sucks--it took more than a year of trial and error before I figured out what my size really was (because the sizing charts lie, usually).
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Sorry megan, when I posted earlier I was at school, but I actually knew that password and needed to reply to something so used it.
Oh I did go to Victoria Secret today and try on the Ipex, it was different, but I couldn't tell exactly what was so special, it fit, and was about $10 more than my normal bra which I love. So needless to say, I didn't buy one today, though it did feel more comfortable and make me look very perky. Posts: 5362 | Registered: Apr 2004
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<---Remembers the time he got dragged into a Victoria's Secret by his friend Jenny.
<---Remembers he was glad when they left and went to Sears to look at power tools.
To add on to the first: It is impossible to stop a 5'4" blonde with blue eyes from doing what she wants. I was forced into that place I tell you!
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Stan-Does the same apply to a 5'11" blond with blue eyes? Because if it does I have wasted far too much time being diplomatic.
I would love a shopping con! I think we should do it in Chicago. Still close, but many more options. We could do it sometime in the last couple weeks of June.
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I'd get rid of bras too, but I really can't, so I just go for comfortable ones, and not when possible.
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I went shopping over lunch, and noticed a bra with a huge sticker on the front proclaiming "HIDDEN POCKET."
My initial response was "Great! A place to slide your key and some mad money, so you don't have to lug around a purse when you're out dancing and don't have any pockets! What a neat idea!" I figure women have been sticking things in their bras for long enough it's about time someone made one with a pocket for it.
Then I got closer and read the fine print... "Use with Silicon, Water, Foam, or Air pads."
Oh. Well what fun is that? *sigh*
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*grins* It occured to me that there were specific things women could carry in such a pocket - ID, a credit card, a few cash bills, things like that.
Articles carried would have to be smallish and thin - coins, keys and so on would obviously be out.
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I'm just thinking of the barperson's face when I start to respond to the question "Do you have any ID on you?"
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quote:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (And I had my eyes open and was watching the light... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OPEN?
Really twinky? Having your eyes open while kissing seems strange? I'd say that my eyes are as likely to be open as closed when I'm kissing.
Years ago Christine and I were taking a class together, and one of our classmates was trying to freak her out by talking about subjects he thought were taboo, hoping for a fluttering handed, flustered response from her. Everything he was saying was almost laughably tame though. I remember that his ace in the hole was asking Christine if she looked into her partner's eyes while having sex. She freaked him out pretty badly by telling him that it depended on the position. It was pretty funny to see him express exactly the flustered response he'd been hoping to elicit from her.
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quote:Having your eyes open while kissing seems strange?
Reviewing the thread, were we?
When I'm kissing someone, and I mean really kissing her, I'm so focused on the her lips and tongue and body that having my eyes open for most or all of the time would be information overload.
I had a lot more here originally, but I guess I should save that stuff for Sakeriver.
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Yep. When I read Papa Moose asking somebody to be less explicit I started trying to remember which thread it had been in that the conversation had warbled between the clinical, the ribald, and stories about childhoods spent in the woods, and wondering whether this kind of thing would continue to be allowed to be on this forum. This really is a great thread, you know? It's one that I consider almost archetypally Hatrackian.
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