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[mrissa]

How is my morning going?

"It took two skalds, a god, and my little sister to stop it," said Kjartan grimly.

Like that.

I got my inspirational amber shinies from elisem yesterday. I looked like a Viking princess in them. If a Viking princess wore blue jeans and a black camisole, that is, which I feel confident she would have if she'd had the chance. (The camisole is the kind you can order in your actual bra size -- and, more to the point, in my actual bra size -- so it is a structural garment rather than a merely decorative one. Hurrah. With wires and everything. Way more comfortable. Yay internet.) And elisem and I geeked about books and the way history rolls over and does tricks for writers who pay it any attention at all. Also I got an artist's challenge of the month piece, so we'll see where that goes. Probably after I'm done drafting MSS and at least one other short story. Also I saw more sparklies to covet, but I was a virtuous Mris and did not buy any of them.

I don't dream that timprov has died nearly as often as I did before he went into the hospital, but I still do dream it. So I checked. He isn't dead, or wasn't an hour ago. So that's good.

Still hovering about two inches over the phone in impending auntiedom....

Comments

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I agree aout Viking princess clothing choices.

Camisole from where?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Here (http://www.normthompson.com/jump.jsp?itemID=4421&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C4%2C14%2C165&iProductID=4421). They have them in cup sizes B-DD for band sizes 32-42, with A cups available for 32s and 34s. (American sizing.) And they don't cut out the larger cup sizes for the smaller band sizes, and therefore they win. I have white and black and have thought about getting red and chambray. Or another black. Because I really like the black one. I had to wash it a couple of times to get it to go all right, but then it goes.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Well, hmph. I need bigger cups than that. But I'm glad you found something good for you!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, it says there's a 34DDD, but only in black, and things (in my experience) have frozen up when you try to order it. So they're not the ultimate source. Just a good source for some people.

On the cup-large end of a 34DD, it's hard to find things because very few "full-figure" lines go down a 34 band size. They assume that girls with bigger breasts have bigger ribcages to go with them, which is probably statistically true but still frustrating for me.

(I got spam yesterday with the subject line "DDS," and it took me a minute to figure out that it was not likely advertising dentistry.)

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Heh. And I sat there staring at it thinking, "Then, what /is/ it advertising?" for a minute, in spite of context.

I very much know whereof you speak about smaller band sizes and larger cups. I've observed that they're not available at all for some sizes in most places, and even for me, there's problems: I basically need something along the lines of a 38 G. I could maybe wear a 40, but that would be pushing it. (I used to be a 36, but I've gained a lot of weight since then.) I've tried getting 44 DDs and taking in the bands, but it's not the same.

(Do you know about the way cup size changes with band size? According the the information I've read for sewing one's own bras - something I've researched extensively but never actually had the gumption to attempt - the physical size of a cup goes up incrementally with the band size. By which I mean that, say, the /cups/ of a 34 D bra would be the same size as the cups of a 36 C. I find this to be useful information when I'm trying to cobble things together to make them work for me, even though so far I always give up and revert back to the largest size of Hanes sports bra, monobreast and all. Of course, for me, the issue is vastly complicated by my refusal to wear anything that isn't almost entirely natural fibers. I'm so fussy.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

A salesperson tried telling me once that I could just get a 36D and wear it on the inner hook. I told her I was already doing that in order to buy bras in the first place. She was stymied. Stupid salesperson.

I'm sorry you've had to revert to the uniboober. The world should accommodate my needs and the needs of my friends! So there, world!

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

I could just get a 36D and wear it on the inner hook

Who tells salespeople these lies? They keep reciting them to me, and I can only stare blankly and shake my head.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, it was the only way she was going to make a sale that day, was if I decided to believe her. So.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I think that's right - the difference between a 34B and a 32C is only the band size.

[loup_noir]

I was just going to ask where, too. They're pretty and they support? Time to pull out the credit card and order one. Thanks for the link!

(And I love the mental image of the Viking princess in her camisol and amber.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's not supportive on the order of a top-of-the-line sports bra, but it's at least as good as my average bra.

[sculpin.livejournal.com]

Oh, hooray! A built-in bra that's actually supportive!

I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I've done well with the 34DD Bodysuede bras from Wacoal, though I hate spending that much for a bra and would prefer natural fibers. Wide, padded straps, yay. Plus, it's nice that 34DD and 32DD actually exist in their range. (So does 32DDD. Good bra manufacturer; have a biscuit, Wacoal.)

As for clothes, I've just dug out my sewing machine's manual and have been looking at it with a speculative eye. It was an advertisement for a new, more fashionable, more cylindrical t-shirt cut that did me in. Grrr.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"More cylindrical"?????

[sculpin.livejournal.com]

Well, they didn't call it that, exactly. "Cut closer to the body", was the phrase, I think, but the torso of the body they were presuming was sort of an ovoid cylinder, straight up and down at the sides, without much in the way of waist or breasts. Mine isn't much like that, which really does not seem all that bizarre to me.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, "closer to the body" does not mean "cylindrical" for most women I know, even the ones who are shaped very little like me.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Do we get to see the viking princess in her amber? I'm imagining big chunky beads like some I've seen at rock, gem, & mineral shows. Hmm, now where I can I find you a bearded axe for your birthday to complete the picture? ::goes off mumbling to self::

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will definitely try to get pictures taken of it. They're big chunks but not beads -- big chunks woven into nests of silver. I got to pick out little chunks and watch elisem make them into earrings for me, which was very cool.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Nifty! Does that mean you don't want an axe for your next renn faire outfit/trip? ;)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I didn't say that at all.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

"It took two skalds, a god, and my little sister to stop it," said Kjartan grimly.

Take two skalds and call me in the morning ?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Very few people can take two skalds, in series or in parallel.