You just made my day. I think I'll just wear a tight shirt layered underneath something and hope for the best?? I could do THAT.
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quote:Originally posted by sweetbaboo: So rivka, do you just walk in and ask to be fitted for a bra...
Sure. Or, you can just walk into the bra place looking awkward. And when they ask if you'd like help, admit you're not sure what size you need.
Actually, IME, even when you tell them what size you want, unless they think you're right on target, they'll suggest a fitting. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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You just made my day. I think I'll just wear a tight shirt layered underneath something and hope for the best?? I could do THAT.
Yeah, I usually just either wear a close-fitting tank top under a jacket or a small-ish tshirt. It only took them about 15 seconds to do the actual measuring (at VS), and then they asked me what kind of bra I was looking for, and they brought me about ten different ones to try.
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I've had issues being fitted at VS because they don't have any sizes over DD, and not lots of that, they'll just tell you those.
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Oh, and I've had professional fittings, and the more recent one was completely wrong. The lady put me into a bra with a too-big band and a too-small cup. So, um, you know, they don't always know what they're doing. Luckily, I know what it's supposed to fit like...
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quote:(My husband thinks it is hilarious that I'm so uncomfotable with being fitted for a bra since I've had 3 children...maybe they could give me some drugs to cope with the discomfort?)
The only reason childbirth isn't more embarrassing is because you're in pain and you'll do whatever it takes to get it over with.
Maybe if they gave you drugs that caused you pain that would only go away with the proper-fitting bra ... that would help.
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Ya JennaDean, that would be helpful as long as they carried the proper size
The spelling in that post you quoted is offending my eye...sorry for blinding you with it. It's corrected in the original (I hope).
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quid, I was looking for something else entirely and came across a page with info on sweing bras. Here are two links from it--sounds like you totally know what you are doing already, and have probably read similar if not the same info, but thought I'd pass it along just in case:
Underwire and Bra FAQs (not formatted nicely and a lot extraneous stuff, but looks like lots of detailed info)
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Uprooted, I've come across both of those before and read them - fantastic information in both. Thanks for reminding me to re-read them - I'll probably learn a bunch of stuff all over again.
And, no, I don't know what I'm doing already. I'm just willing to go ahead and do it anyway. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Went to Victoria's Secret tonight and was fitted for a bra...with my shirt on (tight with the layered) and it worked fine. I was happy/a little surprised to find out that I've been purchasing the correct size of bras over the years!
Thank you for your encouragement and help.
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So*, I am, if nothing else, the queen of procrastination. I have not yet sewed my own bra. I have not located underwires, nor have I had any made.
Within the last month, my last two underwire bras have decided to die.
One, which had a great fit - perfect fit, even - used the wrong fabric for the construction. Too stretchy, so not enough support. Well, the lace is giving way and, well, it's just not worth attempting to fix.
However, because the actual fit is perfect, I can take it apart and use it for a pattern. Then I really will have a perfectly fitting bra. And the underwires in that one are still intact, so I'm going to use them in making another bra.
My second bra... The fit wasn't as good, but what the hay, it was fairly close. But then, three days ago, one underwire snapped. Then today, the other one went. >_<
I'm now desperate.
I did manage to find one non-underwire bra that fits reasonably enough that I bought it - and that's a whole other story, in and of itself - although it's not comfortable and doesn't have the support I want, and it tends to make my boobs into sausages. Still, it'll do me for now.
So, I found a few places online that willsellunderwires and ship 'em out. So, that's what I'm going to do. Sometime in the next couple of days. I just have to figure out the proper underwire size first. But luckily, one of the sites had a printable page that I could use to compare to my existing underwire to find out its size. Only I've lost that page, so I'll have to hunt it down again. :grr:
So*. That's where it stands. Or droops. As the case may be. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I'll have to order channelling for the underwire, too. As I'm taking this bra apart (I need to photograph it - my memory being as lousy as it is - so I can make sure I construct the new one in the proper sequence with the proper details) I've discovered that the channelling is multilayered. It's also why the underwire in this bra never poked through, which has in other bras with cheaper channelling. I want to get me the good stuff.
I also discovered that I may not be able to recycle these underwires after all. Inside the channelling, holding the underwire in place (another reason it never poked through, I'm guessing), was some black sticky stuff. I'm really really really not sure what it is. The other bra I disassembled didn't have it. I'm wondering if the underwire was glued into the channelling before the channelling was sewn into place or something like that. Or, yeah, I dunno.
Anyway, what I need should be a fairly small package, light enough and small enough that it should (hopefully) land here direct without going through customs.
Meanwhile, I can still get everything else ready and maybe make a bra or two using the cups from this soon-to-be-disassembled bra and the the non-underwire bra pattern that my sister brought me.
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