I went shopping today. I needed new clothes because I have lost a lot of weight since my husband died at the end of May. Specifically, I needed new bras. Being relatively proficient with a sewing machine I have ‘taken in’ most of my clothes, but bras are different.
I decided to go to a proper shop and be measured, all that measuring your rib cage and your ‘fullest’ bits, then adding on the difference to reveal cup size was too much for my poor fried brain to cope with.
I was instructed to choose the bra I liked and go and put it on in a cubicle, where upon a dragon appeared with a tape measure. She sniffed, she frowned, and poked, and prodded. Then she began to hoist, shortening the shoulder straps, until I had a double chin! All that was contained in the bra appeared under my chin. The dragon decreed that I required Underwiring, in no uncertain terms. Off she went, presumably to the Chamber of Torture, and returned with what looked like a medieval device, complete with straps and buckles. I am guessing that it came with a matching chastity belt. It came in two ‘colour ways’, beige and salmon pink. She had the coldest, boniest hands, it took all of my courage to say ‘Thank you very much, I will think about it, but it is very attractive.’
I made a quick getaway, stopped at Next and bought a couple of crop tops and a pair of sparkly wellies.
I am, after all, part of the generation that burned our bras!
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Haha i remember it well, good job getting the sparkly wellies
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well done indeed thanks for sharing made us smile…
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That made me smile xx Thank you xx
Reminds me of a cartoon where someone is looking at an old lady and asks
“Are your knees swollen or have you forgotten to put on your bra?”
One for the older ladies 
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What a lovely set of posts. Was feeling a bit down until I read this and the chuckle has made my day start right. Thank you ladies.
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Lol Willow why is it our boobs cause such a issue. I have just got some crop toos too. As my old bra i can spin round in them.lol.will make good knee warmers in the winter . Xxx
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I am certain that the dragon keeps her tape measure in the freezer.
I will wear a hat and sunglasses if I have to walk past that shop in the future. If she recognises me I will say it must have been my twin sister. I haven’t got a twin sister.
I am very happy with my comfortable crop tops.
Not very glamorous, but who is going to see them but me? Besides, they go well with my widow pants and snuggly pyjamas and bed-socks.
Not that I ever went down the thong and furry mule route.
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Probably why are they always so miserable too. Thats what I think there’s only me to dress for now.
Not that it would have mattered what I wore Gra always told my I looked lovely. Xxx
Made me laugh. I hate under wire bras apart from being an instrument of torture, one of mine broke our washing machine when the wire came out and got in the works. xx