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[commotiocordis]

I slept funny and now I can't raise my left arm very much. Which is sad. And v. painful if I forget and decide to try.

I found the perfect bra at Value City today. Except it was two sizes too small. We actually were there on a trip to buy my sister sneakers, and she couldn't find anything decent either, so we then went to Target. Where I found another great bra. That was (supposedly) in my size. But then I tried it on. And it wasn't. And naturally, they didn't make them in the next size bigger that I would thus need to move up to.

I hate dumb bra shopping. They've never got any that fit me. (Or if they do, they're $20-25, which I'm not spending on undergarments.) I thought about looking online because there'd be a bigger selection, but there's such variance in sizes (you'd think there shouldn't be, but it's nuts) that I'd end up wasting my money on something that'd never fit.

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[rainbowjumpsuit.livejournal.com]

I love that you have Value City. *rofl*

Their shoes DO suck anymore. hmph

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I found shoes there one time that I almost had to buy: think of a big mess of tangled up yarn in different shades of orange, yellow, and brown. Paste it on a shoe. Add an orange puff-ball on the toe. Trufax. They were atrocious.

[vinny-life.livejournal.com]

I have absoltely nothing to say about this topic.

My instinct was "you could just skip it" but I decided that it was probably pretty unchivalrous.

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I would have been very. . . interested if you had. My dad was there with me, and he comes to find me after picking out shoes and is all "Umm, hurry up. I'm not waiting in the women's undergarments section."

[opium-lips.livejournal.com]

I loathe bra shopping. I think it's because I love sexy underwear so much, yet it's so hard to find it in my size (16-D to 16-DD - not sure what that is in US). I've resigned myself to the fact that I have to spend at least AU$50 for a decent bra. So I tend to wear mine to death.

Despite this, I actually have a large and pretty collection (I also tend to buy cheap bras that don't quite fit for the pretty value).

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm one band size smaller, but it's the same deal. You'd think, from watching TV and movies and such, that it's the most common size on the planet, but no. I think if I went to special bra-type stores (Victoria's Secret and such) that it wouldn't be as bad, but those are so expensive. So as a result, I've got two that I can actually wear, which makes it easy to choose in the morning, but isn't very conducive to not wearing them 6 times in a row.

And I know what you mean about the pretty. I go for the cheap more than the pretty (mostly because if you want my size and pretty, you're looking at hugely expensive; most things in a D and up just look like a harness), but there's just something about knowing that you're wearing sexy underthings (even if nobody else is going to see them).

[chaosity.livejournal.com]

*butts in*

there's just something about knowing that you're wearing sexy underthings (even if nobody else is going to see them)

Exactly! Though, sadly, the first thing I think about when browsing is how someone else would appreciate them. It's sad because soon after these thoughts comes the realisation that it could be a while before someone else sees them and it makes me >:c. Then, in typical *facepalm* fashion, the word "picspam" flits into my head. Because I'm embarrassing like that.

But something about knowing I've got sexy underwear on, even if it's hidden beneath clothes, does put an extra bounce in my step. Like my special little secret!

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Though, sadly, the first thing I think about when browsing is how someone else would appreciate them.

LOL. That's hilarious. I don't think about that consciously at all, really. I think it's always there, but I tend to think more about how it will make my boobs look through my shirt.

Like my special little secret!

For some reason, when I read this, the first thing that came to my mind was vibrating panties. IDK why. I must not be getting enough.

[chaosity.livejournal.com]

NEW LAYOUT! :D

I literally pounced on this entry. Because I love bra shopping and underwear shopping and talk of bra/underwear shopping. Even though bras can be ridiculously priced, even in Target, I still can't resist buying them. Though I often have to, due to lack of funds :(

I went shopping by myself (YES, BY MYSELF. IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME) the other day while my mum was at her dentist appointment and the main goal was to buy a strapless bra for the ball. And NCIS S3 for my brother's birthday, but let's not talk about that. I went into BNT/Bras 'n' Things and found a nice nude/beige/skin coloured pair AND THEN THE GIRL MADE ME TRY THEM ON. I knew they're inclined to do that in the actual bra shops (and Myer or David Jones, the more flash stores. IL watching my mum go there, because the ladies are always the older busybody types who are very persistent and generous with their hands) but I'd hoped I could get away with it. So I went and tried them on and she asked how I was doing and opened the curtain and had a good little fiddle with the straps etc. While I stand there in my bra and jeans probably blushing like a schoolboy. It's happened before, but that time it was a women wearing PJs and devil's horns, which somehow made it feel better. Plus this most recent assistant was INCREDIBLY ATTRACTIVE. I felt so awkward. They shouldn't be allowed to hire hot bra sellers. They just shouldn't!

Then I had a giggle to myself on the way out after wondering whether bra shops accept job applications from 16 year olds.

It annoys me that all the pretty bras seem to be in the smaller sizes, though. I have a field trip sifting through them all and finding a ton of 12Bs for myself. But my mum and my best friend both have trouble because they're in the larger sizes. How much trouble is it to sew on some extra lace or use a little more polka dot material? Same goes for plus-size women's clothing. There's hardly any of that around, and if there is it's either a small selection in a little store, or a really ugly selection in the back of the Target women's section. This frustration comes from being with my mum as she struggles to find nice clothes. It just doesn't seem fair.

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

NEW LAYOUT!

Yup! I was fiddling around with this new Photoshop-esque thing (that I don't quite know how to work yet), and I made the little banner thing (fueled by a plot bunny for a fic about those two and Anna Nalick's album on repeat), and so then I decided that I wanted to use it, so I changed. The old one had been on there for nearly 2 years, methinks.

Though the picture sort of makes me angry, because that's a cropped DVD capture that I shrank to like 80% to try and get rid of the funny bits, and it's still sort of crappy quality looking. That's how the DVDs look, which is sad, because you can't really tell when you're watching, but capping it isn't easy.

the main goal was to buy a strapless bra for the ball

That's what I was trying to find too. Not for any particular cool event like that, but just because both of the ones that I have that I wear have the hugeo straps that come with having to harness in a D chest, and it'd be nice to have something for tanktops or whatever. (Because the kinds with built-in bras lie. They're not really bras, just another layer of fabric most times. Trufax.) And then I found the perfect one at the first store I went to, but they only had it in A and B. Hee, I should have gotten one for you!

AND THEN THE GIRL MADE ME TRY THEM ON.

LOLZ. She just wanted to see you without a shirt on. I always try them on anyway, because I tend to shop at the clearance stores (like Value City, the first one) and then the sizes lie half the time. It's a good thing too, because I was about to buy bra #2 because it said it was in my size, but was too small. Which scared me a little, because that means for that bra I'd need a DD.)

So I went and tried them on and she asked how I was doing and opened the curtain and had a good little fiddle with the straps etc.

Toldya. She just wanted to feel you up.

It's happened before, but that time it was a women wearing PJs and devil's horns, which somehow made it feel better.

Yeah. I've only had that happen once, when I went into some store at the mall (Fredrick's of Hollywood, I think, which is full of sexy undies and I wanted to buy them all) and tried on a corset just because I wanted to. The lady came in to lace up the back for me. This was like 5 years ago, though, and I don't remember thinking she was particularly hot.

I was thinking about going to Victoria's Secret sometime this week, though, because they're supposed to have some kind of sale going on, and they do the whole measuring you, try it one thing, which would help me get one that actually fits. And have practically pornographic pictures of women wearing their underwear on the walls. They're kinda objectionable, though, because it's obviously not supposed to be just modeling the underwear by the poses they're in, it's like something out of Maxim, which just makes it pointless objectification of the female body. Which is what the moral half of me is saying, while the hornyteenage half is just drooling.

Then I had a giggle to myself on the way out after wondering whether bra shops accept job applications from 16 year olds.

Hellyes. My parents have been nagging at me to get a job all summer, but everything I want to do, you've got to be older. I'll have to look in to that.

There's hardly any of that around, and if there is it's either a small selection in a little store, or a really ugly selection in the back of the Target women's section.

Yup. There are whole stores for it around (which I only know because there's one relatively close to my house, but I've never been there), but in normal stores it tends to be crappy. It's hard to find larger non-plus size clothing that doesn't make you look like a hussy too. Mum brought home a bunch of tanktops a while back that were on sale in Target or Walmart or something in M, L, and XL so I could try them on and see which would fit. Well, the medium's body fit, but my chest was hanging out of even the XL. Which was not fun.