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Del.icio.usThere are two kids of advertisements on TV for bras. First you get the writhing, sex-obsessed hot babes in their Victoria’s Secret demi-bras with the matching underpants. The models look like they haven’t eaten a real meal in years, and oh, those silicone enhanced boobs. I don’t think those are the bras for me.
The second type is the Playtex 18-hour bra type where the woman is considerably older than those VS hot babes. She looks like she gets up at 5:30 am, fights traffic for an hour before she gets to her job as an executive assistant at a big city law firm, then leaves work at 6:30 just in time to meet hubby for dinner and a movie. By the time they get home she just wants to rip that bra off and scratch under her boobs for a couple of minutes because that elastic band just itches like crazy. Those bras are white and sturdy and formfitting and have no lace or bows or pretty embroidered flowers. This isn’t the bra for me, either.
But the problem is, I never know what the right bra is for me. I’ve got an issue. I wear a weird bra size. I have a very broad back and I’ve got some extra poundage on my very large frame, so I wear a 42 band size. However, since I’ve lost 48 lbs and I’m still going down, my boobs have shrunk from a D to a C cup. That’s the problem. Very few bra manufacturers make a 42C. They evidentally believe that if you are wide, you must also be huge. Well, they’re wrong.
On the recommendation of a bra expert at Lady Grace, I looked at the Wacoal web site. They have bras in my size, beautiful sturdy bras. With lace. And embroidered flowers. And bows. In pretty colors. In pretty styles. Like demi-bras. Like push-up bras. Minimizers. They are sexy. And oh, do they fit well. But… and this is a big but….they are pricy. As is $60-80 smackers for a bra. Which seems to me to be a bit overpriced for a tiny bit of fabric draped over a wire frame.
However, they fit my body like a dream. No gaps under the arms. No underwire sticking into my sides or my ribs. No back riding up. No puckers on the cups. They lift and separate and they look hot. What else could a girl want? Oh yeah, a lower price.
Well fret no more, my pretties. I found several Wacoal bras at Marshalls. Marked way way down. How far? How about $16.99 each. Which is such a bargain I had to snap up more than one. I got this one, for example. Isn’t it pretty? And it looks great. My boobs are so happy!
by Margalit
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I keep hearing about how awesome Wacoal bras are but I\’ve never actually seen one. Sadly, after weaning my son, me and my lopsided boobs don\’t have much use for bras other than for some minimal support.
You know, this is such a great post. I think every woman deserves a bra that makes her feel good, a bra that deserves to be hand-washed and has a special place in your underwear drawer. I didn’t know Marshall’s sold Wacoal but that’s where I’ll go to get my next one! I do love expensive bras. I’m completely sold on the whole bra revolution idea.
Oh, and this line? “she just wants to rip that bra off and scratch under her boobs for a couple of minutes…”
Love it! That right there sums up the private moment shared by all women. hehe.
Are those your happy boobs? Or are they someone else’s happy boobs? In any event, that’s a very pretty bra. Did you have someone check to make sure you are wearing the right bra size? You know Oprah says something like 99.9 percent of the women in America wear the wrong sized bras. Maybe that’ll explain my bad moods sometimes.
My problem is finding a bra in my tiny size. I refuse to shop in the training bra section, so I can’t find any bras appropriate for me! Even the so called small sizes are too large for me. If anyone finds smaller than small bras, let me know where please!
Just make sure you do not machine wash those Wacoal bras! Unbeknownst to me, my husband was machine washing my bras. How did I discover this? Well, one day I was at work and my 23 year old co-worker (male) said “Um Devra, you packin’ some kind of heat?” Huh? I look down and there is a weird point in my shirt. Oh Bonjour underwire!
Also, my other advice on bras is if you find one you like, buy several. They bra makers seem to get sadistic pleasure out of discontinuing a bra style between the time you purchase the bra and the time you pull out of your parking space at the mall.
Packin’ heat…lol!
And that part about discontinuing bras is SO true!
Wacoal are expensive, but worth every penny!
I am a girl with a chest of cartoony proportions. Once you get into those larger sizes, it’s really hard to find comfortable, pretty bras. Somehow they all look like bad fifties prison-matron-missile-type white (always white) things you’d find in your grandma’s drawers right next to the belts used for “aunt flo”–ugh.
I am so glad I found Wacoal!
My boobs go off to the side theres like almost 2 inches between my boobs?? whats up with my boobs??