today i went bra shopping at macy’s and now i must vent.
now some people, understandably, may think bra shopping is a wonderful feminine mystery of lace, silk, and pushed up, pushed together boobage. let me gently disillusion you. bra shopping sucks like being broken up with sucks. there’s a sense of worthlessness and a complete apathy towards continuing with your life afterwards. this is compounded if you really liked the dastardly dumper/have a large chest.
i’ll tell you something about having an enormous rack. it’s not all double-D jokes about being top-heavy, my friends. having a cup size in the double letters means you basically have access to the most hideously ugly fabrics known to man. it’s all synthetic polyfibers with a dearth of lace and an even greater paucity of colors. when you’ve got big breasts you’re offered 3 main colors: white. black. khaki. that is all.
people with A-C cups get offered lacy confections of pure artistry! they’e offered MUTLIPLE COLORS in the same bra. what i wouldn’t give for multi-colored bras! sometimes there’s even lace ON TOP of lace. i’m offered bras that promise to minimize my bounty. you know what this actually entails? pushing the breasts out and down. that’s not minimizing, that’s accentuating the sag of old age.
i hate the bra industry and now i hate my life and my day. thanks a lot, macy’s.
You know what *I* hate about bra shopping? “Sister sizes.” Has anyone heard of these? This is when the sales-beotch at Vix Secret or wherever says, “Oh we don’t carry 32C. But why don’t you try on it’s sister size, 34B?” Well maybe I would, if I had a bigger ribcage & smaller tits. But that’s not my size, lady!
It’s not just painful for the big-tittied, M. It sucks for everybody.
wow. that’s awesome. you come to the door in your tux, corsage in hand, and your date’s mom says “oh, i’m sorry, vanessa has been throwing up in the sink for an hour and can’t make it to prom. why don’t you take her 36 year old three-toed sister, lucretia?”
It does. And Macy’s is HORRIBLE! The sales ladies are mean and don’t care that they have gaping holes in their inventory. I understand that there aren’t enough women with serious racks for manufacturers to bother with lots of different colors, but you could at least carry what little variety they do make. You should write up a little letter about how miserable your experience was and I’ll put it together with mine and get Ed on it. He’ll get them into line.
I feel compelled to explain to you all what happens when I read this thread and its associated comments.
“blah blah blah enormous rack blah blah big breasts blah blah serious racks blah blah.”
On my end of the size spectrum if you don’t like the selections you can just stop wearing the damn things. So while I’d like to offer sympathy and solidarity and say that I feel your pain, well, I’d be completely lying.
it’s about damn time somebody said that.
i completely agree with dianna.
wait, what? who’s ed, christine?
i wish i could stop wearing the damn things. but that would be unpleasant.
you should check out Torrid’s bra selection. The colors are still boring, but they don’t do the whole “push your breasts down and make them old thing.” I get most of my bras there and my rack looks great in them. I get all kinds of compliments backstage at shows.