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. :)

Comments

[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!)