#Closet; Marzena

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🏷 tag drop; Marzena Stilinski

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Marzena Stilinski; Muse Info

Full Name; Marzena Claudia Stilinski Pronunciation;  mah-ZHE-nah Nickname; Zee, Zena, Mar Face Claim; Danielle Campbell Gender; Female Pronouns; She/Her Marital Status; Single Sexuality; Bisexual Age; 18-28 Date Of Birth;  April 8th 1994 Occupation; College Student  Residence; Beacon Hills Species; Human Family; Mieczyslaw ‘Stiles’ Stilinski (Twin), Noah Stilinski (Father) & Claudia Stilinski (Mother) Verses; None Biography; Under Construction; Origin Story; Marzena  (mah-ZHE-nah) Claudia Stilinski, born exactly two minutes and 5 seconds before her twin brother Mieczyslaw (Me-Che-Slaw) Stilinski. Their parent’s Noah and Claudia were so excited when they found out they were having twins, even more so when they found out they would have a boy and a girl. Of course Noah wasn’t as excited when Claudia asked to give their children true Polish names. Noah couldn’t tell her no, he caved and that’s how the twins were given names no one but them could pronounce. Everything was great until her mother ended up getting very sick. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), is what the doctors had called it. Towards the end of her sickness, Claudia had no idea who her children were, she could only remember when they were smaller. At the age of 8 Marzena had lost her mother. Things had gone downhill faster for her after that. She, unlike her brother, went down the path of rebellion. She started getting into trouble at school, getting detention a few times a week. Getting suspended for a week or more. There was one time where she had almost gotten expelled from school. Once her father had a stern conversation with her, she stopped acting up at school and started it outside of school. Spray painting anything she could reach. Stealing things from the stores in town and the mall just outside of town. She would do just about anything and everything just to get herself into trouble. To get her father’s attention. Who, after the passing of his wife dove head first into work. Working all the overtime hours he could get so he didn’t have to be in the house, so he didn’t have to deal with the ghost of his late wife. He wasn’t a bad father, not at all. In fact Noah was a wonderful father, he just couldn't figure out how to deal with the loss of his wife. By the time Marzena was twelve she had a record as long as her arm if not longer. Her father had done everything he could to get her record clear. Marzena took this as the go ahead to continue doing what she was doing. Along with being a rebel, Marzena had excellent grades at school. Even with her rebellion, she didn’t let her grades slip. She graduated in the top three of  her class, just behind Lydia Martin and her twin Mieczyslaw (Stiles). College Life; Not long after graduation,  Noah Stilinksi took his two children on a trip to Poland to spend some time with their aunt. Who is a sable mom and runs a small bookstore. The twins were able to see her once in a while and received cards on Holidays and Birthdays. Once they returned from their trip, Marzena had to pack up and head off to college. Thankfully, she chose a school that was located in California, so she could visit her father as much as possible. She had signed up for some occult extracurricular classes, she wanted to learn all that she could when it came to medicine. Since most of the people she knew were immune to modern medicine. She knew she wanted to be a doctor since her mother’s passing. And she also knew she wanted to be an Emissary to Alpha Laura Hale. Her college life was always crazy busy, she took as many of the occult extracurricular classes that the college had to offer, along with the classes she needed to become a doctor. Home Again; Marzena returned back to Beacon Hills after her college graduation. She hadn’t told anyone she would be coming back to Beacon Hills, keeping it a secret until she was able to tell her father that she would be moving back to town for her residency at Beacon Memorial Hospital. She couldn’t wait to surprise her dad and her brother with the news. 

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CLOSED STARTER for @ofslythcrins​

           Today started off great and radiated that nothing bad won’t happen today,                                                oh how Marzena was SO wrong. 

So much pain radiated throughout the witch’s body as she watched the Headmaster fall to his death. Not even bothering to tell the students to move out of the way, Marzena managed to get to where the wizard’s body laid and instantly broke down. “No ... no, Merlin please no.” She muttered it over and over again like a manta; hoping for this to be some nightmare. The Pendragon witch fell down to her knees and crawled over to Albus Dumbledore whose eyes were still open but no longer filled with life in them. This man ... he was one of the wizard’s Marzena had looked up to the most. He was there for the witch when her parents and brother had fallen in the last Wizarding World. He was there for the witch when she felt her powers become unstable and guided her with books of Magic of the Old World. Hell, Headmaster Dumbledore was an honored guest at her wedding. Before Marzena could process anything more she felt a familiar presence and she looks over to see a student of her’s -- Harry. “He’s ...” She didn’t have it in her to finish the sentence and that is when Harry’s face became stained with tears as well. Raising a hand to Dumbledore’s face, she closes his eye lids and that only made the witch sob harder. Though her grieving was cut short as she noticed many witches and wizards, both students and professors raising their wands to the air in memory for him and -- a gasp escaped Marzena’s lips when she looked up to see HIS dark mark high in the dark clouds. Rising quickly to her feet the woman’s first instinct was to run straight to her cottage outside of the school -- to her daughter. Not saying another word to anybody Marzena quickly ran away from the crowd and to her home. She refused to stop for anybody or anything, but seeing Hagrid’s hut on fire made Marzena run faster than she ever could before. 

Bursting through the front door of the cottage and shutting the door right behind here Marzena didn’t bother to stop there. “Davina!” She calls out throughout the house. NOTHING. Panic began to rise even more so in her and she ran a hand through her dark long locks. The witch walks past the present she was going to give to her husband of the surprised news that her hostile uterus decided to work once again seven years shy after having their miracle daughter. “Davina Lilith!” Slamming her daughter’s bedroom door wide open, she began to search frantically for the little girl and her search came to an end to find the red head witch when she found Davina hiding in the darkest corner of her closet. It broke her heart to see Davina coward down to the ground with her head between her knees and somehow clutching the teddy bear Aleister gave her tight. Relief washed over Marzena to see her daughter in one piece and not a scratch on her head. “Oh Dav -- “ She brought her daughter’s tiny frame to her’s and held onto her tight. “Mommy! What’s happening?” The young witch sobbed into Marzena’s chest. The Pendragon didn’t have the heart to tell her that Dumbledore had passed away and what Marzena had gravely feared finally came true. She pulls the crying child away from her chest to wipe away her tears. “H -- Hagrid told me to run and I didn’t know where to go -- I’m so sorry if I scarred you Mama...” Just hearing her daughter like this and apologizing, Marzena forced a small smile on her face despite the tears in her own eyes. “Don’t you apologize for doing what you were told Davina, that was very brave of you.” Embracing the ginger witch into a tight hug Marzena picks her off the ground and began to walk back to the living room. She needed to get the two of them out of there and knew Aleister would catch up -- oh Aleister. Marzena came to a complete stop as she knew she shouldn’t leave without him, but Marzena could hear him now saying to go on without him and he’ll catch up. “Let me get this started honey.” She places Davina back down as the child continued to hold onto her teddy bear tight and revealed she was holding a card she made for her father, informing him she was promoted to big sister. 

Hearing a knock on the door and before Marzena could do anything, Davina ran towards it screaming out, “Daddy!” It all happened so fast for the Pendragon witch and her heart sunk even lower when it wasn’t Aleister on the other side of the door. “Davina, get away from there!” Marzena jerks her daughter back towards her body as a familiar face entered the house who wore the dark mark proud on her arm. “Hello Bellatrix.” She always hated the witch and loathed her even more when the woman became a Death Eater for HIM. “What brings you here?” Marzena practically kept a death grip on Davina as the deranged witch kept her eyes on them. It was almost as if they were the prey and she the predator. “I heard dear ole’ Allie got hitched and spawned a child with you,” her voice just as crazy as herself. “and she is quite hideous, are you sure she is his? Or ... yours for that matter? She must be one of the ugliest lookin’ half bloods that I have laid eyes on and that includes you, Lazar.” Bellatrix let out a giggle before becoming serious. “Bring him in.” Marzena’s eyes then dart to the door to see Lucius bringing in Aleister by the arm with an unfathomed look on his face. 

The Pendragon witch kept her daughter close as more Death Eaters entered their home. She was thinking of strategies in her, of ways how to get both Davina and her husband out of there. “Let him go, Bellatrix -- please.” She never thought she would have to talk this way to the deranged woman and knew it was a long shot. 

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Wiktoria’s Secret: The Best Bras Might be Made in Poland

A few years ago, I stumbled upon the subreddit ABraThatFits, where people share their struggle to find a bra and pass along what they have learned. While scrolling through the forum, I often came across a specific piece of advice: go Polish.The Redditors mentioned a few brands in particular, Ewa Michalak and Comexim, but there are 47 companies listed on their “Polish guide.” As it turns out, lingerie experts and enthusiasts hold a special reverence for bras made in Poland, and a growing number of boutiques in the United States carry them.Laura Henny, the owner of the Rack Shack, a boutique on Central Avenue in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, gets calls every week about whether she stocks Ewa Michalak bras. She herself wears Ewa Michalak bras most of the time. “They’re extremely comfortable, and I just really like the shape that they give,” Ms. Henny said.Tina Omer, the owner of Aphrodite’s Closet in San Antonio, said she wears mostly Nessa, another Polish brand, and stocks Nessa and Ewa Michalak in her shop.Both proprietors praise these brands’ materials and the construction. Most Polish bras, even those made by larger manufacturers, are still designed and constructed in Poland by hand, with fabrics and laces from Italy and Spain.And unlike in the United States, where confusion and misinformation abound about bands and cups, care is taken with sizing. Many Polish designers follow the principles of “brafitting” (in Poland, one word), which begins with the idea that regardless of whether your breasts are small or large, simply measuring across and under the bust will not produce a bra that fits.

Grade Inflation

To understand Polish bras, you first need to understand brafitting. The practice originated in Britain, and it’s touted and heatedly discussed by an online community of frustrated bra shoppers, fitters and manufacturers scattered around the world.The fundamental tenet of brafitting is that the band of a bra — the number in someone’s bra size — provides most of the support, and in many cases should be smaller than what standard sizing methods spit out.There is plenty of technical terminology (my breasts are not “saggy” but “pendulous”). And, of course, community spats spring up (“Strapgate”).One basic agreement among brafitters? American bras, for the most part, don’t fit.“When I see the underwear in the U.S., even in the movies, it’s a disaster for me,” said Agnieszka Jablonska, a brafitter trained in Britain who works in sales for the Polish brand Samanta.For a long time I thought I was a 36C because that’s what they told me at Victoria’s Secret. When I entered five (!) measurements into a calculator that approximates brafitting principles, created by the Reddit folks, it said I was a 32F.Producing a wide size range is complicated and expensive, so companies producing bras for big chains avoid it. Many American brands — with notable exceptions, like Rihanna’s line Savage x Fenty — only go up to D, DD or DDD cups.But brafitters say that D cups, when properly fit, are for breasts generally perceived to be small, and that many women wearing them might prefer the fit of E, F, G, or H cups (and beyond). If someone at a chain store measures you and says you’re a DD cup, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have enormous breasts, they say — it might just be that DD is the biggest size the store has, and they want to sell it to you. The brafitting community is leery of Big Bra. The cultural notion that D cups are big is actually just a quirk of industrial production, and decisions by individual companies to increase margins wherever possible.In 2008, Julia Krysztofiak-Szopa started an online Polish discussion forum “bra community” called Balkonetka. Thousands of women posted detailed reviews and photos of their bras.A few years later, she moved from Warsaw to Palo Alto, Calif. When she looked for bras in her size, 34HH, at Macy’s and Nordstrom, she found that nearly all of them stopped at D.So Ms. Krysztofiak-Szopa started ordering her bras from Poland. For several years, she and her sister sold bras made by Comexim to American women, through a company they started called Wellfitting.“I thought, this is really weird — supposedly the largest economy in the world, with a massive consumer market, massive shopping malls, and they have no freakin’ D plus bras,” she said. “And Americans don’t have a tiny frame, at the end of the day. So I was very surprised to see there is something off about how American brands treat their consumers, trying to lock them into just four sizes, and trying to tell women that if they do not fit, there’s something off about them.”

The Hang Over

On a recent trip to Poland, I decided to see whether I could find the perfect bra, and find out for myself why the ones made there are said to be so special.I began my quest in Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter of Krakow that is now trendy, at a tiny boutique called Brafitteria. I noticed a few brafitting certifications on the wall, including some from courses by the British lingerie company Panache.British lingerie companies were the first to produce wider size ranges. In the mid-2000s, after Poland joined the European Union, bras made by these brands made it back to Poland. Local manufacturers began expanding their own size ranges about 10 years ago after pressure from online communities like Balkonekta.After trying about 10 bras under the gentle guidance of a brafitter named Ludmila, I bought a sheer Prussian blue one with sprays of pink floral embroidery on the cups, from the brand Samanta (209 zloty, about $55). It looked like it had been tattooed onto me. (A signature of Polish bras is narrow wires and deep cups that mold closely to your body.)“The Polish wire just so perfectly fits,” said Agnieszka Socha, who started the Academy of Professional Brafitting, which teaches and offers certification in the practice, in 2011. She prepped me on the basics of Polish bras before my trip. “If you just put it on the chest, it fits like somebody made it only for you. It’s not too wide — it’s just perfect.”Next: the mall. I figured I had to. At Ewa Bien, a store in Galeria Kazimierz, I tried on my favorite design of dozens of bras I tried on my trip: a beige balconette with yellow and green floral embroidery, and salmon pink piping on the cups. It reminded me of a botanical drawing, and it was on sale for 158 zloty (about $40). At another shop near the mall, the brafitter said my breasts were asymmetrical. This wouldn’t bother me, but it was never mentioned any of the other times I was measured. That shop made me tired, so I stopped at a pierogi shack before going to bed early.The next morning, I took a train to Lodz, Poland’s third-largest city, three hours north of Krakow. Ewa Michalak and Comexim are based there, and a lingerie trade show was happening that weekend. I wanted to see if I could find a perfect bra at the source.One could call Lodz and the surrounding region the lingerie capital of Poland. During the years of the Polish People’s Republic, one government-run lingerie company in the area was a major employer. In the early 1990s, that factory broke out into hundreds of independent lingerie companies.“Almost every second house did something in lingerie,” said Marzena Pudlowska, the co-owner of KrisLine, founded in 1992. KrisLine is one of few companies that managed to survive past that period — in part, Ms. Pudlowska thinks, because of its decision to respond to consumers by expanding its size range.New designers like Ewa Michalak and Comexim had the perfect ingredients to make bras with a global reputation: makers with decades of experience, access to high-quality materials and a willingness to produce bras that fit pretty much everyone.There are no fluffy couches at the Ewa Michalak factory. Once in the fitting room, you will be asked to take off everything on top, and bend over at a 90 degree angle. You’ll be measured with your bare breasts hanging toward the floor.About 100 women visit the factory every month for this experience, coming from as far as Canada and Australia. The designer has a reputation for engineering some of the best-fitting bras in the world, particularly for larger breasts.Ms. Michalak’s cousin Gosia, who works at the company, put on latex gloves and draped a tape measure on my back, measuring the circumference around my dangling nipples. I braced my hands on the wall for balance. The precision and awkwardness of this method gave me absolute confidence in it.Ms. Michalak — long blond hair with pink ombré tips, pink high heels, cat's-eye glasses — observed from the corner, offering notes to her staff in Polish. I’m not sure what she was saying, but it sounded expert.Ms. Michalak used to design lingerie at other companies, but she got bored. She started attending meet-ups of the online bra forum Lobby Biusciastych, or “Busty Lobby.” There, she asked women to try on bras she had designed herself. This is how she developed her unique sizing method. She explained to me that if someone has pendulous breasts, measuring while she is standing up doesn’t really tell you how much breast the bra must support. Neither does measuring someone who is already wearing a bra.“With bigger and therefore heavier breasts, different technical solutions are needed for bras,” she said in Polish, with her staff helping to translate. “In fact, a whole other approach to constructing bras is in order.”I had never bought a padded bra before — they never looked right — but I left with two that looked great: a tan plunge with a pearl drop in the center (about $54); and a black lace plunge with decorative straps (about $61).No one needs to be reminded that there are many more important things to be concerned with than underwear. (In Poland, as in the United States.) But many women wear bras every day, and like other banal aspects of daily life, considering them in any depth can reveal subtle injustices of the market. The market determines which bodies are normal, and by extension, who is deserving of clothes that fit.I didn’t find one perfect bra in Poland, but I left with five new ones that help me stand a bit taller. Before I discovered the brafitters I would often catch my reflection in a window while walking. I’d feel a little embarrassed about the excessive movement of my chest, and my hunched posture. But I didn’t perceive the bras as not fitting me. I just thought that my breasts had a weird, abnormal shape.Ms. Socha said that for a while, Polish bra makers looked abroad for validation, the way a woman might look to clothes to validate ideas about “normal” bodies.“Sometimes, we think, as a country, that maybe we’re not good enough,” she said, “but we are.” Read the full article

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The Best Bras Might be Made in Poland

A few years ago, I stumbled upon the subreddit ABraThatFits, where people share their struggle to find a bra and pass along what they have learned. While scrolling through the forum, I often came across a specific piece of advice: go Polish.

The Redditors mentioned a few brands in particular, Ewa Michalak and Comexim, but there are 47 companies listed on their “Polish guide.” As it turns out, lingerie experts and enthusiasts hold a special reverence for bras made in Poland, and a growing number of boutiques in the United States carry them.

Laura Henny, the owner of the Rack Shack, a boutique on Central Avenue in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, gets calls every week about whether she stocks Ewa Michalak bras.

She herself wears Ewa Michalak bras most of the time. “They’re extremely comfortable, and I just really like the shape that they give,” Ms. Henny said.

Tina Omer, the owner of Aphrodite’s Closet in San Antonio, said she wears mostly Nessa, another Polish brand, and stocks Nessa and Ewa Michalak in her shop.

Both proprietors praise these brands’ materials and the construction. Most Polish bras, even those made by larger manufacturers, are still designed and constructed in Poland by hand, with fabrics and laces from Italy and Spain.

And unlike in the United States, where confusion and misinformation abound about bands and cups, care is taken with sizing. Many Polish designers follow the principles of “brafitting” (in Poland, one word), which begins with the idea that regardless of whether your breasts are small or large, simply measuring across and under the bust will not produce a bra that fits.

Grade Inflation

To understand Polish bras, you first need to understand brafitting. The practice originated in Britain, and it’s touted and heatedly discussed by an online community of frustrated bra shoppers, fitters and manufacturers scattered around the world.

The fundamental tenet of brafitting is that the band of a bra — the number in someone’s bra size — provides most of the support, and in many cases should be smaller than what standard sizing methods spit out.

There is plenty of technical terminology (my breasts are not “saggy” but “pendulous”). And, of course, community spats spring up (“Strapgate”).

One basic agreement among brafitters? American bras, for the most part, don’t fit.

“When I see the underwear in the U.S., even in the movies, it’s a disaster for me,” said Agnieszka Jablonska, a brafitter trained in Britain who works in sales for the Polish brand Samanta.

For a long time I thought I was a 36C because that’s what they told me at Victoria’s Secret. When I entered five (!) measurements into a calculator that approximates brafitting principles, created by the Reddit folks, it said I was a 32F.

Producing a wide size range is complicated and expensive, so companies producing bras for big chains avoid it. Many American brands — with notable exceptions, like Rihanna’s line Savage x Fenty — only go up to D, DD or DDD cups.

But brafitters say that D cups, when properly fit, are for breasts generally perceived to be small, and that many women wearing them might prefer the fit of E, F, G, or H cups (and beyond). If someone at a chain store measures you and says you’re a DD cup, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have enormous breasts, they say — it might just be that DD is the biggest size the store has, and they want to sell it to you. The brafitting community is leery of Big Bra. The cultural notion that D cups are big is actually just a quirk of industrial production, and decisions by individual companies to increase margins wherever possible.

In 2008, Julia Krysztofiak-Szopa started an online Polish discussion forum “bra community” called Balkonetka. Thousands of women posted detailed reviews and photos of their bras.

A few years later, she moved from Warsaw to Palo Alto, Calif. When she looked for bras in her size, 34HH, at Macy’s and Nordstrom, she found that nearly all of them stopped at D.

So Ms. Krysztofiak-Szopa started ordering her bras from Poland. For several years, she and her sister sold bras made by Comexim to American women, through a company they started called Wellfitting.

“I thought, this is really weird — supposedly the largest economy in the world, with a massive consumer market, massive shopping malls, and they have no freakin’ D plus bras,” she said. “And Americans don’t have a tiny frame, at the end of the day. So I was very surprised to see there is something off about how American brands treat their consumers, trying to lock them into just four sizes, and trying to tell women that if they do not fit, there’s something off about them.”

The Hang Over

On a recent trip to Poland, I decided to see whether I could find the perfect bra, and find out for myself why the ones made there are said to be so special.

I began my quest in Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter of Krakow that is now trendy, at a tiny boutique called Brafitteria. I noticed a few brafitting certifications on the wall, including some from courses by the British lingerie company Panache.

British lingerie companies were the first to produce wider size ranges. In the mid-2000s, after Poland joined the European Union, bras made by these brands made it back to Poland.

Local manufacturers began expanding their own size ranges about 10 years ago after pressure from online communities like Balkonekta.

After trying about 10 bras under the gentle guidance of a brafitter named Ludmila, I bought a sheer Prussian blue one with sprays of pink floral embroidery on the cups, from the brand Samanta (209 zloty, about $55). It looked like it had been tattooed onto me. (A signature of Polish bras is narrow wires and deep cups that mold closely to your body.)

“The Polish wire just so perfectly fits,” said Agnieszka Socha, who started the Academy of Professional Brafitting, which teaches and offers certification in the practice, in 2011. She prepped me on the basics of Polish bras before my trip. “If you just put it on the chest, it fits like somebody made it only for you. It’s not too wide — it’s just perfect.”

Next: the mall. I figured I had to. At Ewa Bien, a store in Galeria Kazimierz, I tried on my favorite design of dozens of bras I tried on my trip: a beige balconette with yellow and green floral embroidery, and salmon pink piping on the cups. It reminded me of a botanical drawing, and it was on sale for 158 zloty (about $40).

At another shop near the mall, the brafitter said my breasts were asymmetrical. This wouldn’t bother me, but it was never mentioned any of the other times I was measured. That shop made me tired, so I stopped at a pierogi shack before going to bed early.

The next morning, I took a train to Lodz, Poland’s third-largest city, three hours north of Krakow. Ewa Michalak and Comexim are based there, and a lingerie trade show was happening that weekend. I wanted to see if I could find a perfect bra at the source.

One could call Lodz and the surrounding region the lingerie capital of Poland. During the years of the Polish People’s Republic, one government-run lingerie company in the area was a major employer. In the early 1990s, that factory broke out into hundreds of independent lingerie companies.

“Almost every second house did something in lingerie,” said Marzena Pudlowska, the co-owner of KrisLine, founded in 1992. KrisLine is one of few companies that managed to survive past that period — in part, Ms. Pudlowska thinks, because of its decision to respond to consumers by expanding its size range.

New designers like Ewa Michalak and Comexim had the perfect ingredients to make bras with a global reputation: makers with decades of experience, access to high-quality materials and a willingness to produce bras that fit pretty much everyone.

There are no fluffy couches at the Ewa Michalak factory. Once in the fitting room, you will be asked to take off everything on top, and bend over at a 90 degree angle. You’ll be measured with your bare breasts hanging toward the floor.

About 100 women visit the factory every month for this experience, coming from as far as Canada and Australia. The designer has a reputation for engineering some of the best-fitting bras in the world, particularly for larger breasts.

Ms. Michalak’s cousin Gosia, who works at the company, put on latex gloves and draped a tape measure on my back, measuring the circumference around my dangling nipples. I braced my hands on the wall for balance. The precision and awkwardness of this method gave me absolute confidence in it.

Ms. Michalak — long blond hair with pink ombré tips, pink high heels, cat’s-eye glasses — observed from the corner, offering notes to her staff in Polish. I’m not sure what she was saying, but it sounded expert.

Ms. Michalak used to design lingerie at other companies, but she got bored. She started attending meet-ups of the online bra forum Lobby Biusciastych, or “Busty Lobby.”

There, she asked women to try on bras she had designed herself. This is how she developed her unique sizing method.

She explained to me that if someone has pendulous breasts, measuring while she is standing up doesn’t really tell you how much breast the bra must support. Neither does measuring someone who is already wearing a bra.

“With bigger and therefore heavier breasts, different technical solutions are needed for bras,” she said in Polish, with her staff helping to translate. “In fact, a whole other approach to constructing bras is in order.”

I had never bought a padded bra before — they never looked right — but I left with two that looked great: a tan plunge with a pearl drop in the center (about $54); and a black lace plunge with decorative straps (about $61).

No one needs to be reminded that there are many more important things to be concerned with than underwear. (In Poland, as in the United States.) But many women wear bras every day, and like other banal aspects of daily life, considering them in any depth can reveal subtle injustices of the market. The market determines which bodies are normal, and by extension, who is deserving of clothes that fit.

I didn’t find one perfect bra in Poland, but I left with five new ones that help me stand a bit taller. Before I discovered the brafitters I would often catch my reflection in a window while walking. I’d feel a little embarrassed about the excessive movement of my chest, and my hunched posture.

But I didn’t perceive the bras as not fitting me. I just thought that my breasts had a weird, abnormal shape.

Ms. Socha said that for a while, Polish bra makers looked abroad for validation, the way a woman might look to clothes to validate ideas about “normal” bodies.

“Sometimes, we think, as a country, that maybe we’re not good enough,” she said, “but we are.”

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51 Cozy Bedrooms With How-To Tips & Inspiration

If there was only one place that we could choose to make cozy in our homes, it would just have to be our bedroom. A few may just see the bedroom as a place to crash after work/study/partying–you fill in the blank–but to most people the bedroom provides a private sanctuary in which to unwind, chill out and recharge after the day is through. Whether you have a huge master bedroom that is crying out for the cozy factor, or you want to get the most out of a small bedroom, you are sure to find a good fit in this inspirational gallery of warm and welcoming bedroom designs.

Visualizer: Filip Sapojnicov   Build a nest in the treetops. If your room has high ceilings and high windows, consider building a raised platform to put your bed up by the view of the swaying treetops – or overlooking a twinkling city skyline. This platform also makes space for a little reading spot to take advantage of the natural light at the windows.

Photographer: Paulina Arcklin   Turn up the texture and pile on the layers. An all white bedroom might not be first choice as a cozy colour scheme, but ‘cozy’ is more of a feeling than a design aesthetic. Coziness can be created with use of texture and layering: Deep marshmallowy pillows and woollen throws look even softer when contrasting against this upcycled scaffold plank headboard, rough brickwork wall and heavy metal floor lamps.

Photographer: Paulina Arcklin   Add in earth tones. The neutral fabric and wood tone touches inside this nomadic style bedroom create a wonderfully warm and earthy look. Styling should be casual and unkempt to properly achieve this laid back look – and to make it a place you can flop with a great book and a steaming hot coffee without worrying about ruffling the sheets.

Source: Ivy Muse   Get some roommates. The rejuvenating effects of inviting living indoor plants into a room is like a receiving a big healthy hug.

Designer: Jagody Studio   Photographer: Kuba Szopka   Use softer storage solutions. Matching storage bags have been used as a casual storage solution for extra bed throws, art supplies and magazines too. The lack of hard furniture in this artist’s bedroom makes for a soft and relaxed feel, where you can quickly pull out the paint brushes and a canvas to let creativity take flight.

Visualizer: Alesya Kasianenko   Love your lighting. Even the simplest of spaces can be made cozy with the right lights. Try hanging pretty pendant lights or lantern shades in clusters to create a larger feature. Add glowy table lamps and floor lamps, and incorporate reflective surfaces into your decor to double the effect. When creating your lighting layout, think relaxation and romance.

Visualizer: he.D Creative Group   Make a feature of cozy nooks and recesses. Light up little architectural features like the book nook behind the headboard of this bed. An LED strip makes a glow inside the recess, inviting you to come pick a title from the library. Also note how the bedroom pendant lights have been hung in a cluster on this side of the room to prevent stiff symmetry.

Photographer: Marzena Marideko   Add a cozy bedroom chair, like this beautiful swing chair by the window where you could while away the hours. A set of globe string lights have also been strung from the wooden rafters for magical effect come nightfall.

Photographer: Magic Of Decor    String lights are a festive way to create a cozy Christmas bedroom when the holiday season rolls around…

… or use LED string lights to pack out a high ceiling space with heart warming sparkle all year round.

Visualizer: Arq 2 Design   Make more of window dressings. Having a bedroom with a small window doesn’t mean that you can’t live it large with pooled drapes, gathered voiles, or window blinds that go the entire width of your window wall. The expanded window treatment will warm the wall both visually and physically. Then, pull them closed on the world and snuggle up. Hang a pendant light low over the window to create extra interest and reading light – caged pendant lights work great in industrial style setups like this one.

Visualizer: Ana Cogoljevic   Enlarge elegance. The elegant features in this bedroom have been blown up to unexpected proportion, such as giant decorative tassels on the bed throw that dominate the look, and a wide modern light shade that dangles low over the bedstead. Playing with proportion creates a surreal dream-like effect, so dream away.

Visualizer: Masquespacio Design   This cozy bohemian bedroom has just one wall of pattern in pure white surroundings, leaving space to breath, meditate, relax.

Visualizer: Denis Svirid   Craft a cozy cabin bedroom. If ‘cozy’ to you means a smaller space, then why not craft yourself a room within a room, like this wood clad cabin style bedroom? Let the rain hammer on the rooftop while you bed down for the winter.

Source: JJ Locations   Sleep under the stars. Living in an open plan studio can present challenges in creating a segregated sleep space, but not in this home. Framework floats the bed directly under a skylight, as if drifting up to the Milky Way. You can see more images of this gorgeous home here.

Visualizer: Viz People   Line the walls with storage. This attic is cocooned in closets beneath the rafters.

Visualizer: Peter Ang   Bask in the sunlight of roofline feature windows.

Visualizer: Fernando Morrisoniesko   Create a cozy rustic bedroom with wide wood cladding, raw stone walls and decor inspired by nature. Then kick off your slippers and warm your toes by a roaring wood burning stove.

Source: Solonge Scherazad   This treetop bedroom has an encircling teepee effect. You can find more inspiration for attic bedrooms here.

Designer: Ofist   Line ceilings with wood to craft a boat-like cabin where you can sail off to sleep.

Visualizer: Alberto Maciel   Let your dream destination inspire your dream space – like this Paris lover’s scheme where a floor bed design camps out under the Eiffel tower.

Visualizer: Tomas Sciskala   Let the window view inspire the colour palette of your room, especially when the hues are as warming as this autumnal scene. More pictures of this gem of a home here.

Visualizer: Max Kuczkowski    Allow your home library to decorate your space with the help of some bespoke bedroom bookshelves. Imagine being lost amongst the pages in this amazing glass wall bedroom, as the seasons change beyond the glass.

Visualizer: Lesinge Julien   Invest in librarian ladders and stack the bookshelves even higher.

Be a cozy camper under a glass pitched roof, and melt your marshmallows in a cup of hot cocoa instead of on the campfire.

Visualizer: Marcin Kasperski   Choose an upholstered bed for the warmth and tactile factor. This winged bed has cushiony sides that make it look super snug. Two globe pendant lights float like full moons above.

Visualizer: Dmitri Reviakin   Let the storm wash over whilst you cuddle up in a dark cozy cave. Dark decor makes even a large, glass wall bedroom into a restful hideaway.

Visualizer: Rajnikant Kumawat   Now this really is the stuff that dreams are made of!

Source: The Grace   Recreate a luxury hotel look with crisp white bed clothes, layered pillows and bolsters that make you want to run and jump in! This pure white bedroom scheme is sweetened with a pink accent rug and orchids.

Visualizer: Elif   Fill the room with floor furniture. Floor hugging beds, low storage cubbies and floor pillows create restful vibes. Stretch out on an area rug in a pool of sunlight and cushions – like a spoiled cozy cat!

Visualizer: Kateryna Senko   Chase away the chill with a bedside rug. Wooden floors and laminates are easy for cleaning and beautiful to the eye, but if you don’t have underfloor heating those boards can feel a little chilly underfoot in the small hours of the morning. Sink your toes into something softer.

Visualizer: Alesya Kasianenko   Build a den. A large room can be a daunting place to sleep for a small child, but children adore little dens. If you can make your kid’s bed feel like a cozy den then there should be no problem getting them tucked up at night.

Visualizer: 敦强 陈   The bed in this studio apartment is raised on a bespoke platform to create storage space underneath, but it also helps separate it from the rest of the living space. More images of this cozy little apartment here.

Visualizer: Your Project   A sleep box is another cozy way to section up a studio.

Visualizer: Vlad Mishin   Even a minimalist bedroom can gain cozy points with the help of a colourful throw and wall art.

Visualizer: Stephen Tsimbalyuk   A bespoke storage platform bed can be fitted snug up to the walls…

Designer: Rue Temple   … This wooden version offers storage cabinets all the way around.

Designer: WCH Interior   A tiny studio space can feel cramped rather than cozy, but a calming colour scheme and subtle room dividers can make all the difference.

Visualizer: Ibrahim Alameer   Finish off a cozy guest room design with tea and coffee making facilities to give house guests a warm welcome.

Visualizer: Safdie Rabines   This should be under reading nook but we just had to include this here anyway! What could possibly be a cozier bedroom window than this?

Designer: JPDA   Hide away in a lofted bed. More pictures of this tiny apartment here.

Visualizer: Michał Jaroszewicz   Dark wood tone adds a comforting richness to a cold colour scheme, like mixing hot chocolate into milk.

Source: Hunting For George   Raw red brickwork visually heats an industrial style room.

Visualizer: 2B Group   Bookshelves that frame windows not only take advantage of unused space, but warm up the look of a window wall. Imagine snow falling softly through the stacks as you peruse your library this winter.

Visualizer: Konstantin Kildinov   Add hot pops of colour to an established scheme. Add in a cheerful stool, or switch out boring pendant light cords for something brighter.

Visualizer: Ngoc Bau   A bedroom lounge area pushes up the comfy factor. Pick out a couple of cozy bedroom chairs and a small side table to hold drinks and current favourite books.

Visualizer: Plasterlina   Put book nooks within a bed nook…

Visualizer: Only Studio   … Or sleep inside a reading nook.

Visualizer: Sergey Petrov   A bit of romance will warm the cockles of anyone’s heart.

Designer: LMD Studio   Photographer: Karel Balas   Rustic romance.

Architect: Kupinskiy & Partners   Visualizer: Elena Sedova   Combine strong accents with soft elements. This decor has densely patterned monochrome wallpaper and a solid grey wall, lifted by feathery light pendant lights and pastel pink bedclothes.

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