Oh for heaven’s sake, some underwear company rep keeps contacting me to see if I want to try their shapewear and promote it on here. NO I DO NOT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [Ed. – Of course your roly-poly PB uses shapewear religiously, but she does not want to get into all that promotional nonsense and she is not Jane Russell. Raise your hand if you get that cultural reference. – PB]
Did I tell you that I went for a bra fitting recently and the woman at the store laughed at my bra? It’s not so much lingerie as furniture, and she thinks I should have a more “natural” look. I bought a bra from her but decided that I rather like my powder pigeon look.
That’s hilarious – but such a tease.
You really need to show us an example of such furniture now – I’m so intrigued! (I’m not asking you to model it – I just want to know what you’re talking about!!)
Okay, I’m old enough to get the Jane Russell reference. Apparently, Howard Hughes wrote pages and pages of copious instruction for how her breasts were supposed to appear on screen in “The Outlaw”. Not particularly helpful for women who don’t feel the need to hide ourselves, but are a bit horrified by the new standard of decolletage. Sure, there were girls in my high school who adhered to this standard in 1979. The trampy ones. But I digress. What do you mean by your “powder pigeon” look?
I think perhaps PB was referring to Pouter Pigeons, known for their unique shape and full breasted look.
Canuck Clergy
We need pix of the furniture. And pigeon.
The next question will be thong or granny panties! Give me the later!!
Just so’s you know, it’s “pouter pigeon.” Maybe this will help everyone understand what you mean:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rY7HiV-yKzo/S-p1MtLMglI/AAAAAAAAEYM/9h0GQQcK2W4/s400/Reversewing%2BPouter%2BPigeon%2B8.jpg&imgrefurl=http://pigeon-kingdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/reversewing-pouter-pigeon-pictures.html&h=340&w=328&sz=16&tbnid=ETTnR6yRfyIkwM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=87&zoom=1&usg=__ahXSv4OKQo1FU6zaV8cLgC90ZbA=&docid=DmoeCWprJ5tckM&sa=X&ei=AzGyUartO6jDiwL27IGADQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDgQ9QEwAg&dur=49
(There’s probably a shorter way to do that.)
Laughed at your bra? Not much of a relational salesperson! Bra-shopping is traumatic enough.
How to be delicate about this?
There’s lingerie, and then there’s industrial scaffolding. (I tend toward the latter.) Lingerie is for entertainment (your own, or your partner’s.) Industrial scaffolding is for rearranging your abundance of figure so your clothes fit better.
The thing about bras is that if your bra doesn’t put the girls where your shirt thinks the girls ought to be, then you end up with Scary Tetra-Boob effect. This was how I figured out I have entered middle age and need to stay out of the Juniors department…
I will out myself as a LONGtime reader by sharing this Link of Disambiguation.
PeaceBang on “powder pigeons”: http://beautytipsforministers.com/2006/08/07/worship-leaders-and-pouter-pigeons/
[Well BLESS YOUR HEART, my little powder pigeon!! – PB]
Too often “natural look” means nipples showing
raising my hand. . . . .
Thank you, C.
This is one of the funniest remarks I’ve read about lingerie (I, too, am in the scaffolding department now):
“There’s lingerie, and then there’s industrial scaffolding. (I tend toward the latter.) Lingerie is for entertainment (your own, or your partner’s.) Industrial scaffolding is for rearranging your abundance of figure so your clothes fit better.
The thing about bras is that if your bra doesn’t put the girls where your shirt thinks the girls ought to be, then you end up with Scary Tetra-Boob effect. This was how I figured out I have entered middle age and need to stay out of the Juniors department…”
I am reading this wearing a bra several years old because I just haven’t eaten enough Wheaties lately to make it to a fitting room!