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[the_rck]

Fruit of the Loom has apparently stopped making bras. This is unfortunate because the four front closure bras I have that fit are from them and don’t seem to be available anywhere in my size. Hopefully, by the time these fall apart, I won’t need them any more, but it would have been nice to be able to get more.

I just ordered four shirts from Blair. These have high enough collars that I’m not worried my bra will show, but they cost five or six dollars more each than the others did. I really do need them, though. I’ve got five short sleeved shirts now that don’t show my bra, and two of those bunch up at the waist. Doing laundry twice a week isn’t terrible, but I’d like to have more flexibility about when to do it.

I have eighteen emails to answer, and I really need to work on my WIP Big Bang. I think I’m awake enough to do it now (after four cups of coffee). But part of me wants to do something— anything— else, even basement cleaning. I’d try going for a walk to see if that might help, but I’ve been having intestinal issues and don’t quite dare leave the house yet. And I’m not absolutely certain that taking a walk wouldn’t be just a procrastination technique. Well, I suppose that, if it were, it would at least be something that I ought to do today in addition to writing.

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

I have a problem with my bras showing in sleeveless shirts. The arm holes are too big or the straps are too small. And of course each of my bras is different and I never remember which one to wear with which shirt.

[the_rck]

Before my surgery last August, I never wore bras, so I never worried about that sort of thing. I'm hoping that I'll get back to the point that I don't need them, but right now, I've got enough lymphedema issues that I'm better off wearing one. It's just really, really hard to find front closure bras with no wires or lace in 3x or 46DDD size. I spent about three months last year looking for all of that in a compression bra. Nothing I could find online went that large.

[nucleosides.livejournal.com]

Bras are always very weird for me to find because I have a... weird size. :P

I also have bras in three sizes here to acclimate for my asthma-- normal size for normal days, one rib size up for "showing some symptoms but not too bad, for me anyway" days, and two rib sizes up for "fuck this all", haha.

[the_rck]

::nods::

I feel very fortunate that my asthma isn't bad.

I just generally hate bras. They're expensive and finicky and uncomfortable. I suppose I should be grateful that I had twenty five years when it didn't matter if I wore one or not.