Egads!
This weekend I went bra shopping at my staple lingerie store, Victoria's Secret. Learning that my instinct for a smaller band size with a bigger cup is valid (thank you very much, Oprah), I needed bras in the size I feel most comfortable in...a 34DD. Fabulous bosoms for me.
See, on Oprah they had a bra guru on and she says most women wear the wrong bra size. For the most part, women wear a band size that's too big. If your bra rides up in the back or you are adjusting yourself throughout the day, your band size is too big and it isn't staying in place. A smaller band size doesn't ride up. Have back fat? Get a smaller band size; trust me on this, a looser band rides up and pushes your back fat into view. Think you're a 36 or a 38 or higher? Doubt it. Try to go down a band size and go up in cup sizes. Cup sizes are different for each band size, a D for a 34 is not the same as a D for a 40. Play around or get fitted by a specialist, you'll be soooo happy you did.
Okay, point is...I have found my best comfortable size is the 34DD. I know I like Victoria's Secret bras. So I GO to the Victoria's Secret store. Despite the fact that most women are not 32A's, apparently Victoria's Secret is no longer carrying "bigger sizes," as my oh so kind sales lady said. This is a newer trend in stores. Although you can get their ahem, bigger sizes online, stores are now pulling their in-store garments. Stores cite that the people who wear these sizes are more comfortable shopping from home...who did they ask? If we are uncomfortable at the store it's because we are made uncomfortable by sales people. Other than that, why wouldn't I want to try things on or just shop around, you know, looking at actual clothes instead of jpegs. The kicker is that clothing stores say that basically, fat isn't fashionable. Karl Lagerfield said, "What I created was fashion for slim, slender people." He is 5'4" and weighs 80 pounds in order to look "good." Read about it in the Washington Post, Here.
Now, I can't buy my bras in the store because I have boobs? What?? Does this make sense to anyone else? No, I am not a size 2 and clothes shopping is a whole other issue. But are my boobs considered fat?
Have they seen my boobs? They're not fat, they are FANTASTIC.
See, on Oprah they had a bra guru on and she says most women wear the wrong bra size. For the most part, women wear a band size that's too big. If your bra rides up in the back or you are adjusting yourself throughout the day, your band size is too big and it isn't staying in place. A smaller band size doesn't ride up. Have back fat? Get a smaller band size; trust me on this, a looser band rides up and pushes your back fat into view. Think you're a 36 or a 38 or higher? Doubt it. Try to go down a band size and go up in cup sizes. Cup sizes are different for each band size, a D for a 34 is not the same as a D for a 40. Play around or get fitted by a specialist, you'll be soooo happy you did.
Okay, point is...I have found my best comfortable size is the 34DD. I know I like Victoria's Secret bras. So I GO to the Victoria's Secret store. Despite the fact that most women are not 32A's, apparently Victoria's Secret is no longer carrying "bigger sizes," as my oh so kind sales lady said. This is a newer trend in stores. Although you can get their ahem, bigger sizes online, stores are now pulling their in-store garments. Stores cite that the people who wear these sizes are more comfortable shopping from home...who did they ask? If we are uncomfortable at the store it's because we are made uncomfortable by sales people. Other than that, why wouldn't I want to try things on or just shop around, you know, looking at actual clothes instead of jpegs. The kicker is that clothing stores say that basically, fat isn't fashionable. Karl Lagerfield said, "What I created was fashion for slim, slender people." He is 5'4" and weighs 80 pounds in order to look "good." Read about it in the Washington Post, Here.
Now, I can't buy my bras in the store because I have boobs? What?? Does this make sense to anyone else? No, I am not a size 2 and clothes shopping is a whole other issue. But are my boobs considered fat?
Have they seen my boobs? They're not fat, they are FANTASTIC.
posted by Sugared Harpy at 10:05 PM
2 Comments:
I read the article and I am mad, but not surprised. Being fat is the absolute worst thing that you can be in this society, especially for women. Apparently being mean or evil or diabolical is better than being, oh my God! FAT!!! And the thing is, they put their shit online because they don't want fat people in their stores, they don't want to have to even look at a fat ogre, let alone wait on one. Look at Lane Bryant. Their plus sized models are like what a 12 or 14? How about a 30, now that is plus sized and a better reflection of the actual people who shop there. Now, admittedly, we have a serious issue in this country with being overweight and it is going to adversely affect the healthy of this country. However, what I find disgusting, is that people aren't concerned with losing weight for health benefits, but because they will look better and because they will be acceptable in our society. I too feel this way sometimes. However, when a little halfwit like Karl Lagerfeld (his name means "self absorbed jack off" in German)writes a book about losing weight by eating three bites of a carrot, half a bamboo shoot, and licking a bullion cube, I wanna scream and he ADMITS to doing it to fit into designer clothes, not for health reason, which is what is really important. And that's all that matters anyway really, fitting into designer clothes. Not art, not intelligence, not humor, not a flippin PERSONALITY. So, now that I have coming to this realization courtesy of this raging chode Karl Lagerfeld, I think I will have my three parsnips today so that someday, in the near future, I can wear a Versace on my emaciated body and hopefully get a Louis Vuitton purse that matches not only my vacuous visage and sunken eyes, but also my dialysis machine. I'm out.
YEAH! Say it sista! Fuck Lagerfeld and his mindless bullshit. What a freak'n jackass. I cannot believe people would read into this crap. That turd will die a very skinny, sick, sad, lonely man! Lagerfeld can suck the fat directly from my ass cheeks with his well moisterized Channel glossed lips!
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