Perci ([info]perci) wrote,
@ 2009-01-11 20:41:00
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I enjoy being a girl
I was just checking the Victoria's Secret sale catalog and noticed that a whole bunch of the bra descriptions read, "If you don't have the same size, why would you have the same padding?"

I thought they meant, you know, on each side, because most women are slightly lopsided, but nothing to get excited about, and for awhile I felt like I had crossed some threshold and ever after this, life was going to be one endless needlessly precise decision after another. You know, like the couch will have a cushion contoured to the ass of each member of the household, and when I buy a phone they'll measure the size of my hand and the distance from my ear to my mouth.

After a few moments of something like panic, I realized it's just marketing trying to make it seem innovative that they don't put the same amount of padding in a B cup as in a D cup.

But then I started to wonder: if it's a push-up bra, does a B cup get more padding in order to help create something to push up, or does a D cup get the most padding, because it has to lift more?

All this because VS writes terrible sentences.


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[info]parisgreen
2009-01-12 03:06 am UTC (link)
Although I'm large, my breasts aren't really, proportionally, and they're also a bit walleyed. So I was curious about what a push-up bra would do. But it turns out that they don't even make 'em in my size! So I think the answer is that a D cup (which I am not -- I'm a B, but I'm assuming) doesn't get a push-up at all. Also, Victoria's Secret can bite me.

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[info]parisgreen
2009-01-12 03:06 am UTC (link)
Also, Victoria's Secret can bite me.

Hmmm, probably a lot of guys say that too.

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[info]brickhousewench
2009-01-12 04:08 am UTC (link)
Do you know how hard it is to find a push up bra for a C cup? I wanted a little extra oomph when I wear my wench outfit to faire, but I spent ages looking for one (even tried VC) before I finally found ones in my size at Lane Bryant. I think the bra industry thinks that if you've got 'em, they're naturally perky and don't need any extra help to fight gravity.

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[info]sarakate
2009-01-12 05:08 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I was gonna say -- they don't even MAKE a push-up style in a D.

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[info]perci
2009-01-12 05:16 pm UTC (link)
Weird, the catalog has those sizes listed under the descriptions of the push-up bras and padded bras and suchlike. However, I've never actually shopped for a D--if I ordered one of those styles in a D, would I just get a bra that looked the same but had no pushup bits?

(I'm not even sure why I want to know this. I have no surgeries scheduled.)

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[info]emmacrew
2009-01-12 11:02 pm UTC (link)
I think they do, but don't carry them in the stores, or if they do, it's just a few and they sell out fast. I had a hard time finding anything above a C last time I went into a VS (which was a long time ago, I doubt very much they make anything in my current size).

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[info]dkw
2009-01-12 02:50 pm UTC (link)
I can't help remembering A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown. Please bear in mind it was written in 1956. Somewhere I still have the little paperback, a collection of science humor essays, with that title. I also found this: the author himself presenting this work 50 years later.

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[info]greyaenigma
2009-01-12 04:53 pm UTC (link)
I like how Bikini is still capitalized. ("It hardly covers anything atoll!")

The 50 years later link seems not to be working.

Also, I was wishing the diagram read "cantilevered highbeam".

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[info]perci
2009-01-13 03:58 am UTC (link)
That's great, in a "don't let the radical feminists know I said it was great" kind of way.

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[info]greyaenigma
2009-01-12 04:49 pm UTC (link)
You mean this wasn't about codpieces?

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[info]dkw
2009-01-12 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Whoops, for that "50 years later" story, in the Annals of Improbable Research, try starting here, then clicking the PDF button.

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