At last, my torso is complete again!

[featherynscale]

After a year and a half without a leather jacket, I picked up a very nice one at the motorcycle shop on North Oak. It's properly heavy, and even has a zip-in liner. Unrestrained glee! triadruid tells me that it will not stop bullets, but perhaps musket balls. Good enough, I say.

Also, while apparently there was only one strapless black corset to be had in all of Kansas City after Halloween, I was able to pick up a dark red one with black mesh overlay and sequins from Priscilla's Cirilla's with my Stripper Card. I gotta tell you, if I'm ever feeling overly petite again, all I'll have to do to repair my self-image to its normal perception of monstrous ogreness is go lingerie shopping. On the other hand, I did discover that I can wear a large from Shirley of Hollywood, apparently the only lingerie company in the United States that caters to women with breasts. So there you are. I can now order lingerie from the internets. I will be unstoppable. Or something. :)

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[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, I did discover that I can wear a large from Shirley of Hollywood, apparently the only lingerie company in the United States that caters to women with breasts.

I have a new theory:

Lingerie is designed and marketed primarily to women who are tiny and not curvy/do not have breasts, because those are the women who need the most help to look sexy.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I refut your theory with large breasts that swing by the belly button. They need *lots* of support to look right. Srsly.

42 II

I will be ordering it soon... hehhehehehehehehehe

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

I address your refutation with the concept that women with larger busts will find simple, unadorned undergarments, allowing their natural curvy beauty to be the source of attraction, while the 10-year-old-boy waifs need the sort of lingerie that was being discussed to allow themselves to look like a real woman.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I agree to disagree as you are outside looking at.

I am inside.

Unadorned undergarments for larger ladies is actually disappointing. I would like something other than white or off-white that will lift the boobs up to a more appropriate position.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Which is completely understandable. I'm sure there are a lot of geeks would love eyeglasses with lasers in the side, there's just not enough to make it profitable.

There are a lot more waifs who need help looking feminine than there are curvy women who want help. (and will pay for it)

[stregalunae.livejournal.com]

It's not necessarily that us curvy types "want help" but that we would like something that doesn't look like our grandmothers'!

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

I stand by my statement:
Plain white on curvy, even on Grandma trumps anything on a waif and 'The Market' knows that, so the ones who can't do without help buy more fancy stuff, and thus there is more fancy stuff for them to buy.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I drove by the Cirilla's on North Oak on the way to work this morning, noticed the name change, and thought of you.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Motorcycle shop! What a great idea...all the leather jackets I can find these days seem to be made of tissue paper. I also prefer them to feel kind of like armor. Good for you!

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Motorcycle Closeouts, on North Oak. Go there, be happy. :)

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

While I like my cotton Lip Service biker jacket, I agree that any actual-leather version should be identifiable as made from the hide of a tough animal. That jacket used to be a *bull*, dammit!

On the subject of lingerie and women-sized women, the Corsetry and Lingerie section at Chateau Bizarre links to quite a few places that specialize in larger lingerie. (as always, I shop so you don't have to!)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've found a place through Chateau Bizarre that I'm going to have my next made-to-measure corset done by. The thing is, a made-to-measure, you have to order a really long time before you really need it. So that'll be for DragonCon. :)

As for off-the-rack stuff, alas, it's more that there's a dramatic size differential between bust and waist. I can usually wear neither a plus-size garment nor a standard-sized garment, because manufacturers, even small ones, generally have the idea that any cup size above a D must go with a band size of 38+. It's sort of like pants for short men -- if you're short, you must be fat. It's weird.

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

Ah. I'm not well versed in the arcana of women's sizing, so I wasn't sure if "plus sizes" always referred to girth, or if it could refer to cup size independently. Thanks for the correction.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have discovered that in most lingerie, Small = 32B, Medium = 34C, Large = 36C, XL = 38C, 1X=38D, 2X=40D, 3X=42D, and so on. It makes NOSENSE.

[stregalunae.livejournal.com]

yeah... I hear you... 36 F is not easy to find! (and that's when they're not doing the milky thing!)

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

And also: I am chagrined that it took me until just now to recognize the Sweeny Todd reference in the post title. Clearly I need more coffee.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Unstoppable, and something.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Or that. :)

[gr8wolf.livejournal.com]

Why does it not surprise me that you have a stripper card? *chuckle*
And as for pants...try to find 28x36 for men (28x38 if I wear boots)

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, and I thought I had it bad when shopping for 32x34 and 32x36.

I take it you do a lot of mail order shopping? 'Cause I've not seen the store carry either of the sizes you mentioned (mine are rare enough).

[crookedface.livejournal.com]

Oh, there are other companies that make lingerie in sizes for non-models and strippers. I dedicated a part of my store to lingerie in larger sizes, lo, those several years ago to the delight of many women who stumbled in the store to look at gag gifts and found such delights.

I don't recall the names of the companies, however, so you could ask if Cirilla's still deals with those manufacturers. Most of the store will process special orders of that sort (or would when I was with the company).