Tantrum in a (double) d cup
Have just spent 6 hours on a fruitless search for a new bikini. After hours spent staring at myself in changing room mirrors and seriously effing off F as he waited outside various lingerie sections of various lingerie departments of various department stores I’m close to killing someone with my bare hands. Could someone please enlighten me as to the thinking behind putting padding into a 32dd cup? I ask purely for information.
November 20th, 2006 at 4:00 am
Sorry I didn’t quite catch that. Did you say “32DD?” That’s what I thought you said. You’re not allowed to complain about anything. ever again. fin.
November 20th, 2006 at 10:57 am
Gah, the horrors of bathing suit shopping. And my sister is in a similar predicament, although she is larger than a 32 inch around…but also larger than DD. There have been many tears shed over outfits, bathing suits, dresses and shirts that just don’t fit properly.
Best of luck, and I have no idea what the bathing suit manufacturers were thinking.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
CB. Believe me, havng a chest this size gives you plenty to complain about. It completely ruins the line of anything you wear for a start. Forget running - even with a proper sports bra - its just too damn painful. Those lovely little spaghetti straps tops that everyone wears in the summer with the straps of a really pretty bra showing too. Forget it. You can’t find bras that fit because most manufacturers start the sizing of DD’s at 34 not 32 and those that do make them tend to design the sort thing you’d wear to work in a brothel and while such garments have their place (in a brothel) I like underwear which lifts, separates and flattens!
Christine. I can completley empathise with your sister. I don’t tend to go shopping very often because of that. By the time I left John Lewis today (the last of about 8 shops I tried) I was in tears. Which, as you walk through a shopping mall at the side of your fuming other half who is muttering things like… “you left me waiting in the lingerie department for twenty minutes. People were giving me funny looks” is not the pleasantest of experiences. Bad enough the dressing and undressing in front of mirrors designed to make you look (and feel) like shit about how your body looks. But to come out of there (and it was a close call on a couple of occasions as there were one or two tankinis I thought I’d spend my life trapped in) empty handed and convinced that you’re not only butt ugly but a freak of nature to boot is even worse.
However there was a happy end to the story. Came home. Looked on ebay. There’s a lovely lady who specialses in underwear and swimwear for those of us with more difficult shapes!. Got a brand new bikini which, had I bought it in the shops would have cost me an absolute fortune but didn’t. No padding, no horrible patterns, no halter neck, correct cup size (and proper shaped bottoms to go with it - what is it with these “boy short” things - no one looks good in them!). Better still when I told her I needed it in a hurry she arranged to have it sent by guaranteed next day delivery so that it arrives in time. I suggest that if your sister knows her correct size she looks on eBay. It will save a lot of tears.
November 20th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Ok fair enough. It’s just that i’ve got the dead opposite problem: 36A. Most manufacturers only make A-cups up to 34, and it’s getting worse. My 36s are getting tight because all the weights i’m doing are developing my pecks. Lord knows what i’ll do when i need 38As.
But i can totally sympathize with the odd body shape issue. I’ve left many a department store in tears as well. And I havn’t been able to buy trousers off the rack since i was 14. I have to have every pair custom made to fit. (hence the reason I only own two pairs of trousers.) and don’t get me started on shirts. my arms are too long, my shoulders are too broad, my torso is too long, and my tits are too flat. sound familair? i’ve got a man’s body! the only shirts that fit me are blokes’. I don’t have cute girl clothes at all.
anyway, engough of that rant. i hope you have a stunning, stunning time in India. It sounds absolutely amazing. Take lots of photos and post them on your blog so we can all share the experience! xxx
November 20th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Well I’m going out on a limb saying i can empathize, but really I do. I have a huge ass and a very short chest, so my ass starts somewhere just below my nipples. Finding pants is impossible.
That said, i think staying home in a state of permanent undress is a viable solution I’m looking into.
God bless the internet, for therein one size fits all, and beauty is only CSS deep, amen.
November 21st, 2006 at 6:44 am
CB. Sounds very familiar. When you think your a 38 though get yourself to John Lewis and get measured again.(the ladies are properly trained fitters and will spend hours running around to make sure you get stuff that fits properly) It might be that you have to move up a cup size to get the fit across the back. Mum has a similar problem. No chest to speak of and broad shoulders and back and that worked for her.
I have the same problem with shirts as you do except the other way round. Extremely narrow back and waist (hence ridiculous bra size) means that any shirts which fit across the shoulders gape across the bust and as far as finding trousers to fit across the eastern european childbearing hips I’ve inherited…well lets just say that I’ve been wearing hipster jeans for years because the only ones that fit and didn’t look ridiculous were mens 501’s worn low with a big belt. So I don’t have any girly clothes either because they tend to make me look like a caricature. (but I do own 12 pairs of jeans - stockpiling against the day that hipsters for women go out of fashion). Most of the time I do like my body but going shopping is guaranteed to have me suicidally furious by the time I get home. This is why I only ever shop for clothes on the net now - at least then I don’t have to face changing room mirrors.
B. You’re not out on a limb at all. We’re not partisan here. I guess that somewhere we seem to assume that men don’t have any problems when it comes to finding clothes that fit and don’t have the same issues about their bodies as women do but of course that isn’t the case!
November 21st, 2006 at 7:19 am
um… i look good in boyshorts
i can’t buy clothes from normal shops though. i have short legs and wide shoulders, which pretty much makes me the wrong shape for everything. ho hum. back to that lovely japanese clothes website…
November 21st, 2006 at 10:48 am
i gave up hating my body and took up hating the fashion industry instead. i highly recommend it.
November 22nd, 2006 at 5:22 am
what’s interesting is that beyond the undeniable reality of the challenge that is finding well fitting clothing (wich in a glass half full kind of way is a tribute to individuality and the fact that average/standard proportions are a myth) the way we decribe ourselves is such a funhouse mirror version of the way others probably see us.
November 22nd, 2006 at 5:58 am
Bon voyage, my love! xoxox
December 8th, 2006 at 8:10 am
hmmm. my guess: wishful thinking.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:48 am
are you back yet? how was the trip??? enqiring minds want to know.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
try bravissimo they do swimwear as well as bras…
welcome back!
December 13th, 2006 at 12:56 am
Sal - Wishful thinking? I wish! Welcome back!
CB - 3 A4 notebooks filled with scrawling experiences, over 500 photos taken, jet lag and about a million work emails to wade through. As soon as I’ve sorted them all out I’ll be posting a “what I did on my holidays” special
M - I’ll check out bravissimo although the bikini I eventually got was brilliant having more wiring in the top than the Forth Road bridge. This meant that the 6 foot waves coming in off the Indian Ocean held no fears for my modesty!