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I got a new bra

Hattie's Kitchen

14:48 / 19.04.04

After wearing the same few pairs of tatty ragged bras for a while, I realised that I was feeling as droopy as they were, so I treated myself to some lush new undies at the weekend, now that I have rediscovered what it is to be bouncy and pert again. I feel like I have two thermo-nuclear woman-bombs in front of my chest and all of a sudden, I'm jutting my chest out at passers-by and fondling my devil's dumplings in public. I never knew that updating my underclothes could have such an effect on my morale...does anyone else find that the state of their underwear affects their confidence or am I just a mad bint?

pomegranate

14:55 / 19.04.04

i don't think yr mad, hattie. wearing a crappy bra makes me feel like crap. if it doesn't fit right, then yr adjusting it all day and that sucks. if it gives you quadraboob, then you feel insecure and weird, and that's the worst.

miss wonderstarr

14:57 / 19.04.04

This is true and also for men. I threw out three pairs of "boxer trunks", what on girls would perversely be called "boyshorts", because the edges were ragged from repeated washing. I couldn't have worn them anymore and felt good about myself, unless I was on some slumming-it, wearing awful clothes and not shaving because I have a day off and evening in kind of devil-may-care defiance tip.

marwood

15:53 / 19.04.04

There is no pleasure quite like that given by a new piece of sexy well fitting laungerie.

~happy sigh~

I can be wearing sackcloth (well, not quite) and a good set of undies will still make me feel like a million bucks. Even if I don't look it.

Persephone

16:15 / 19.04.04

I made an important decision this weekend: FUCK BRAS. I have no breasts. Why do I have to hang a pair of foam cups in front of my chest every day? Plus I can never get the straps to stay on my shoulders. I went to Old Navy and bought eight cheapy camisole tops with built-in bras. I'm so comfortable. I'm never wearing anything else.

pomegranate

16:17 / 19.04.04

i would kill to be able to wear those camisole tops with the built in bras! alas, they don't do enough to rein in my 36D's, giving me one oddly-shaped breast, kinda, and the straps dig in to my shoulders. i'm jealous, persephone.

miss wonderstarr

16:18 / 19.04.04

Doesn't "secret support" of this type count as a bra, then? You just said "built-in bras".

I'm no woman! but I would have thought bras have a few benefits besides support.

1. look pretty

2. look even prettier with matching "briefs"

3. can be used to turn men on

4. mean you don't show your tits as soon as you take your camisole off, eg. when trying something on in a communal shop changing room. But maybe you would keep the camisole on in such circumstances.

Persephone

16:23 / 19.04.04

It's hardly a bra. It's more like a light elastic bandage.

Persephone

16:30 / 19.04.04

Don't be envious, I love women with lush figures. When you have breasts, you can have a little belly & hips and look great. Not like a tube of toothpaste with all the toothpaste squeezed to the middle.

w1rebaby

16:56 / 19.04.04

I must admit that a nice soft yet tackle-hugging pair of boxer briefs is much preferable to nasty ripped boxers that you get tangled up in and have to extricate yourself from in the middle of a meeting, but I'm not sure their actual appearance really crosses my mind much. If they're new they're probably more effective - fewer holes, better elasticity and so on - which is what makes them nicer to wear, rather than their actual newness.

Ganesh

17:19 / 19.04.04

New briefs are always self-esteem enhancing - which is not to say there's no pleasure in slobbing around the house in a pair whose elasticity died looong ago. So long as one doesn't mind the occasional testicular slippage.

dirty toes

17:29 / 19.04.04

a pristinely new bra is one of the greatest inventions ever in the world of clothing science. i have some purdy big old baps on me, so it doesn't take too long for bras to look pretty baffed out on me- they've lost their mojo after a month or so's solid wear just because i only buy very expensive bras, and with the measly pittance i call an income i can't ever afford enough of them at one time to not have to wash them every other day. so the first week or so of wearing a new bra, when my babies are all front and centre and looking Oh-so! is just a total kick in the ass and i am never more likely to think that i am, essentially, all 57 heinz varieties of Hot. a month later, when the bra has settled i'm just a lady with big old baps again. but oh how i love that month or so.

Benny the Ball

18:47 / 19.04.04

I just threw out all my old pants and treated myself to new M&S Authentic shorts - I feel great, but haven't thrust my crotch out at any strangers yet.

Mazarine

18:51 / 19.04.04

I had a camisole with a really supportive built in bra, underwires and everything, that my mother got me for Christmas. Unfortunately, my unruly two were clearly visible with far more cleavage than I find seemly.

My undies are tattered to hell; most of my bras are at least three years old, if not much older. Trying on new bras is one of my ideas of hell, second only to bathing suit shopping. I love new shorts and bras, unfortunately, I'm really not willing to shell out the money for them. They're costly!

I suppose I'll learn my lesson when one of the unruly two breaks free and I have to walk around class severely lopsided all day.

Squirmelia

20:37 / 19.04.04

Bikini shopping is something I have never succeeded at, so any hints on how to purchase such necessary-seeming sea accessories would be appreciated, otherwise I shall have to wear strips of seaweed. I can't keep jumping into the sea in a swimming costume that is several sizes too small for me, covered up with an old band t-shirt. Swimwear is almost like underwear, but it's on show to the jellyfish, the octopus, and the seagull, so I find it can have a negative effect on confidence if it looks just too ridiculous.

pomegranate

20:45 / 19.04.04

just wondering, how many times do you bra-wearers wear yr bras before you wash them?

miss wonderstarr

21:02 / 19.04.04

Dirty Toes, you sounded just like Nicholson Baker there.

But this

I just threw out all my old pants and treated myself to new M&S Authentic shorts - I feel great, but haven't thrust my crotch out at any strangers yet.

rilly hit the spot for me. I love the way those boyshorts are labelled "AUTHENTIC UNDERWEAR"! It amuses me every time I wear them, like thank God this isn't "INAUTHENTIC" underwear.

Mazarine

21:23 / 19.04.04

just wondering, how many times do you bra-wearers wear yr bras before you wash them?

Depends on whether I have time to wash them. I am not above smelling them to check which is cleanest.

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