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dragonlady7Crass materialism: I just got a new email from Bravissimo.com and I want this, this, and this... i should stop now, because it's horrifying how acquisitive I can be and then after everything arrives I'm still all, "I don't have anything to wear!"
It's true, though: no bra I've had in the last decade has ever fit me *quite* perfectly. (I estimate conservatively; they didn't fit before then but nothing did when I hated my body as much as I did during puberty.)
I seem to have narrowed things down a bit-- I now know what it is that I like in the fit of a bra. The styles of bra that work on me tend to be the kind that don't cut in at the top of the breast-- I like the kind where one seam goes straight up the center of the cup, and the cup is in parts that are divided diagonally rather than horizontally. I look for a line across the side of the breast that goes straight up to connect to the shoulder strap. Those lift me up rather than constraining me; they're a lot more flattering, and also (this is crucial when you're as clueless as me) are a lot more forgiving of being the wrong size. If I spill out the top a little, the overbulge is a lot more subtle in balconette or demi-style bras than the obnoxious Old Lady Full Cup ones that assume that the breast is entirely semicircular including at the top. (It isn't. Stoppit.)
So, good: vertical seam, diagonal piecing:FY14, which I've had for months and love so much I'm afraid to wear it for fear it'll wear out. (Its flaw, since every bra has a flaw: the metal loops at the shoulder seam are an inconvenient shape and leave tiny bruises on my inner upper arms if I cross my arms across my chest. Suck!)
Bad, in that this bra makes me look like a dumpy heifer: See the horizontal seam? Right across the middle? And then there's a piece at the top that seems designed to push the top of your breast down into a circle? Why? Does that look good? No, it gives you old lady boobs is what it does. And then it doesn't fit right, so you've got two extra boobs sticking out the top. Gross.
I'm pretty sure my size in the UK is 36FF, but it might be 36G, and I really wish I could just try a couple bras on but, you know, the US stores don't seem to have the size at all in any kind of style that anyone under 90 would be interested in. So I kind of can't. I really really really really thought that with all the exercise I'm getting, what with rollergirls and, you know, all these 8-mile shifts, and not eating all that much, would mean that I'd get a little skinnier, which would mean that maybe my goddamn boobs would shrink just a little (I'm not asking to be a B. DD would be OK. DDD would be ok. Hell, F would be all right if they'd just stay like that. Frederick's of Hollywood carries Fs and is in the mall. Can you imagine? I could buy a bra in a mall? Please?) But no. I work out like every damn day now, and not only have I not lost so much as a pound, my breasts remain incorrigible.
Anyway. I also want this, Title Nine's Last Resort Bra, because maybe it'd give me better protection. I've shown you all the bruise on my face, but there are fainter bruises all over my breasts where I landed on them. I think a bra with more compression would make a landing like that hurt a little less, maybe. I'd like to try it.
So yes, that was just like 2000 words about my boobs. I hope you all enjoyed that. I needed to rant.
NaNoWriMo: I'm over six thousand words. But it's not really going where I wanted. Too early to be dismayed. I'm just going to have to suck it up and do my best to come up with a plot. I have half the book plotted. But then I just haven't figured out where to go. Durr. I'm an idiot. But I digress.
Last night I went to a NaNo write-in, mostly just for an appearance. Then I went to the Wednesday night open skate and showed off my bruise, which is in fine form-- it's really kind of grody and purple and weird-dark-red. It looks awful. I wore a Band-Aid over it at work and told everyone I'd cut myself shaving.
And yes, there are bruises on my tits too where I landed. It's sort of horrible. And sort of not that bad. I need more supportive bras, though. Or at least cuter ones, that will fail more adorably than the sexless ancient sports bras I have left over from fencing. (I have no idea whether my bra size has changed, or whether I just became more interested in finding ones that fit. I honestly don't know. Stupid boobs. I mean, I like them and all, I just wish they were a little more, er, cooperative.)
I can't stop talking about my boobs today! God.
Time to get back to writing.
It's true, though: no bra I've had in the last decade has ever fit me *quite* perfectly. (I estimate conservatively; they didn't fit before then but nothing did when I hated my body as much as I did during puberty.)
I seem to have narrowed things down a bit-- I now know what it is that I like in the fit of a bra. The styles of bra that work on me tend to be the kind that don't cut in at the top of the breast-- I like the kind where one seam goes straight up the center of the cup, and the cup is in parts that are divided diagonally rather than horizontally. I look for a line across the side of the breast that goes straight up to connect to the shoulder strap. Those lift me up rather than constraining me; they're a lot more flattering, and also (this is crucial when you're as clueless as me) are a lot more forgiving of being the wrong size. If I spill out the top a little, the overbulge is a lot more subtle in balconette or demi-style bras than the obnoxious Old Lady Full Cup ones that assume that the breast is entirely semicircular including at the top. (It isn't. Stoppit.)
So, good: vertical seam, diagonal piecing:FY14, which I've had for months and love so much I'm afraid to wear it for fear it'll wear out. (Its flaw, since every bra has a flaw: the metal loops at the shoulder seam are an inconvenient shape and leave tiny bruises on my inner upper arms if I cross my arms across my chest. Suck!)
Bad, in that this bra makes me look like a dumpy heifer: See the horizontal seam? Right across the middle? And then there's a piece at the top that seems designed to push the top of your breast down into a circle? Why? Does that look good? No, it gives you old lady boobs is what it does. And then it doesn't fit right, so you've got two extra boobs sticking out the top. Gross.
I'm pretty sure my size in the UK is 36FF, but it might be 36G, and I really wish I could just try a couple bras on but, you know, the US stores don't seem to have the size at all in any kind of style that anyone under 90 would be interested in. So I kind of can't. I really really really really thought that with all the exercise I'm getting, what with rollergirls and, you know, all these 8-mile shifts, and not eating all that much, would mean that I'd get a little skinnier, which would mean that maybe my goddamn boobs would shrink just a little (I'm not asking to be a B. DD would be OK. DDD would be ok. Hell, F would be all right if they'd just stay like that. Frederick's of Hollywood carries Fs and is in the mall. Can you imagine? I could buy a bra in a mall? Please?) But no. I work out like every damn day now, and not only have I not lost so much as a pound, my breasts remain incorrigible.
Anyway. I also want this, Title Nine's Last Resort Bra, because maybe it'd give me better protection. I've shown you all the bruise on my face, but there are fainter bruises all over my breasts where I landed on them. I think a bra with more compression would make a landing like that hurt a little less, maybe. I'd like to try it.
So yes, that was just like 2000 words about my boobs. I hope you all enjoyed that. I needed to rant.
NaNoWriMo: I'm over six thousand words. But it's not really going where I wanted. Too early to be dismayed. I'm just going to have to suck it up and do my best to come up with a plot. I have half the book plotted. But then I just haven't figured out where to go. Durr. I'm an idiot. But I digress.
Last night I went to a NaNo write-in, mostly just for an appearance. Then I went to the Wednesday night open skate and showed off my bruise, which is in fine form-- it's really kind of grody and purple and weird-dark-red. It looks awful. I wore a Band-Aid over it at work and told everyone I'd cut myself shaving.
And yes, there are bruises on my tits too where I landed. It's sort of horrible. And sort of not that bad. I need more supportive bras, though. Or at least cuter ones, that will fail more adorably than the sexless ancient sports bras I have left over from fencing. (I have no idea whether my bra size has changed, or whether I just became more interested in finding ones that fit. I honestly don't know. Stupid boobs. I mean, I like them and all, I just wish they were a little more, er, cooperative.)
I can't stop talking about my boobs today! God.
Time to get back to writing.
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Date: 2006-11-02 07:22 pm (UTC)Anyhow - I LOVE your bio and especially your picture for the QCRG site!!!! How did you do that picture? I'd love to do something fun like that, but have no idea how. Teach me?
See you tonight?
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Date: 2006-11-02 09:00 pm (UTC)I keep telling mine this, and they're not listening. I'm going to give them a pep talk later. "Come on, girls. We could get back down into the D range. It could be a high D. There could be several Ds lined up. And that would be okay! As long as they're Ds and not any later letter in the alphabet, I will count it a reasonable compromise."
They don't listen, though. I think they don't hear. Well, given that they don't have ears, it's probably reasonable.
I had fun with the bio. I did it in Photoshop, not very skillfully-- I figured as it's low-resolution I didn't really have to erase the background that well because who'd be looking? So I took a picture of myself in front of a white sheet and then found a picture of a plane on the Internet and combined the two. I do wish I'd managed to get a better pose wherein I actually looked like a girl who would be on the nose of a plane, but most of the poses were too overtly sexual and I didn't think it'd quite be appropriate. I also wish I'd managed to find a decent picture of a B-17 for the background, as they were generally olive-painted rather than silver, but I wasn't going to spend that much time on it.
If you give me two photos you want combined I'll happily stick them together, but I'm warning you I do shoddy work. (Check out the wheels on the skate I'm wearing in the picture. They're not actually all part of the skate. Yeah, I figured it probably wasn't important.)