#does that make me a NeverRedditor

[bomberqueen17]

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“i just spent forever brushing and oiling my hair. I need to trim it,...”

My ex always used to say he could tell when I was bra shopping online because I would hunch over the computer and start muttering numbers to myself. I assume you are familiar with r/abrathatfits?

I don’t Reddit, actually. I get that it’s great for specialty stuff and I’ve read some great threads. But, I don’t use Reddit.

I learned all my bra-fitting lore from a couple of communities on Livejournal. (Yikes! I’m old.) Back then it was really hard to find anything, and shipping from the UK was expensive, but DD+ sites have downright exploded in the, yikes, decade since then. I still can’t walk into a store within 60 miles of my house and find a single bloody thing, but the Internet is vast and I know all the major manufacturers like the back of my hand. (There’s a specialty bra boutique four miles from my house and I called them and asked what Freya, Fantasie, Curvy Kate or Panache they stocked and they said uh... we carry... Wacoal? and I said never mind then and hung up. If you don’t have British bras I’m not shopping with you.) (I lie, I did go in, and they fitted me, and I wound up with the single least-supportive underwire bra I’ve ever owned, and the straps won’t stay on my shoulders because the thing is so poorly-designed, and I look old and fat in it. And it was $60. So, fuck ‘em. Fuck Wacoal entirely. British and Canadian fitters never have a problem, but American fitters universally insist on adding random amounts of inches to my bra band measurement and then can’t figure out why my nipples are down to my elbows and the back of the bra band is up to my neck. Fucking, duh? so I don’t go to fitters anymore.)

I’m just so old and tired of fucking dealing with it that now that I’ve discovered how cute Torrid’s bralettes are and that several Freya dealers ship through Amazon, I don’t shop around much anymore. I have two styles of underwire that I buy one of every two years or so, and I wear those when I really have to look sharp, and otherwise, it’s wire-free for me, baby. Maybe I look old and saggy but guess what... yep, that’s right, I am old and saggy, so.