oh, what the *hell*.
Oct. 26th, 2009 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trueloveMy mother gave me $200 to get new bras because, uh, most of mine were disintegrating. (Sadly that is not an exaggeration.)
So my order from bravissimo came today. One of my bras is back-ordered, they'll send it when more stock comes in, okay. The other two fit me! My new sports bra is cute and colourful and maybe not quite as immobilising as my old Goddess bras when they were new, but much, much more so than the beat-to-hell two-years-plus Goddess bras. It fits properly, and all. And the lace black underwire fits very nicely, too.
The strappy top that I ordered in the same size (34H, for those who are curious, and no I'm not actually quite that large as yet, apparently UK sizing is just that bizarre) as the two bras that fit me perfectly? It is at least two cup-sizes two large. I am not even exaggerating when I say that there was an inch of cup flattening down against my chest.
Seriously, just, what. Is it really so much to ask for some faint attempts at consistency? I'm not asking for everything to fit exactly the same. I'd just like not to have TWO CUP-SIZES worth of variationin the same size . This isn't a wacky UK sizing vs. US sizing thing, either, because these are all sized a 34H in UK sizing.
The truly depressing thing is, I'm counting 2 for 3 out of this order fitting to be a total success in ordering mail-order. Something fit, at all! Yaaaay!
Auuugh, can I have a clothing industry that isn't stacked against me at all turns, please.
(So unsurprisingly, yeah, I'm really terrified of having to shop for nursing bras when the time comes. Thank god that's not for at least another year or so.)
So my order from bravissimo came today. One of my bras is back-ordered, they'll send it when more stock comes in, okay. The other two fit me! My new sports bra is cute and colourful and maybe not quite as immobilising as my old Goddess bras when they were new, but much, much more so than the beat-to-hell two-years-plus Goddess bras. It fits properly, and all. And the lace black underwire fits very nicely, too.
The strappy top that I ordered in the same size (34H, for those who are curious, and no I'm not actually quite that large as yet, apparently UK sizing is just that bizarre) as the two bras that fit me perfectly? It is at least two cup-sizes two large. I am not even exaggerating when I say that there was an inch of cup flattening down against my chest.
Seriously, just, what. Is it really so much to ask for some faint attempts at consistency? I'm not asking for everything to fit exactly the same. I'd just like not to have TWO CUP-SIZES worth of variation
The truly depressing thing is, I'm counting 2 for 3 out of this order fitting to be a total success in ordering mail-order. Something fit, at all! Yaaaay!
Auuugh, can I have a clothing industry that isn't stacked against me at all turns, please.
(So unsurprisingly, yeah, I'm really terrified of having to shop for nursing bras when the time comes. Thank god that's not for at least another year or so.)