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Wednesday, December 17, 2003

sizing rant

Any other tallish women get frustrated trying to find lingerie that fits? I'm not extraordinarily tall, so come on, how hard would it be to make a backless bra with an extra two inches of length in it so that it could actually reach from my waist to my breasts (hello googler! nothing interesting here, go away please!)? And yet I guess it must be pretty difficult, since I have just spent 45 minutes searching for one online, after spending considerable time struggling with the two I own, trying to force one to behave properly and failing. They all just size by bra size. How stupid is that, when the stupid thing has to go around your waist as well? I've worn the same bra size through three pregnancies (OK, so not QUITE the same, but the same BAND size anyway), 40 pounds of weight gain, and 25 pounds of weight loss; that's quite a bit of fluctuation in some other measurements which are pretty important when considering anything beyond the most basic lingerie. Obviously these companies must be headed by men, or else by irritating 5'5" size six women (not that all women of this description are irritating, although there are moments... but that's certainly not THEIR fault) who bat their eyelashes in perplexion when presented with the idea that any normal person might be sized differently from themselves.


And I won't even go into the bizarre-but-common method of sizing bras which would make one think that I have negative-sized breasts. They really are convex; I can see them; why then should I be wearing a negative B, if such a thing existed, according to their goofy measurement system?


Speaking of googlers (well, I was): of all the things Andrew intended when he designed the stats section here at Diaryland, I don't imagine he planned that one of them would be to make diarylanders feel more normal. However, seeing probably half a dozen people find my diary in the past few days by searching Yahoo and Google for "sugar makes my stomach hurt" and "anxiety attack tingling" has done just that. Whew, I am not the only one.


Now, that doesn't mean that all Googlers are normal. Nuh-UH. Some of the things I have seen in there make me shudder.

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