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underwear-buying woes
Luna 2 is totally a real spacecraft, but it looks remarkably like a Star Trek prop. Maybe a cousin to Nomad. ♥ wikipedia! I totally WANT one. Maybe as a Christmas ornament or something.
And now for something completely different.
Back when I used to think that my preference for knitted cotton jersey underwear meant it made no sense to buy other than Hanes and Fruit of the Loom, I always just got their smallest size and it didn't fit because it was too big - the legholes, the ass space, the rise (so it would bag and ride up to my waist if i let it, which it was not designed to do!). This is despite the fact that the largest kids' size didn't really fit, mainly because the style was so different.
So when I was about sixteen I was converted to Victoria's Secret, a comparatively affordable lingerie source which was most of all reliable and pretty well-made. The VS Cotton line is trademarked and has existed with pretty much identical styling for years and years, always at the $5 a pair rate. So my woes were over and I never ran out.
But they don't have VS in Finland. They have a lot of tiny lingerie boutiques intended for old ladies mainly, and department stores where everything is department storish and expensive and not sized the same, and then there's H&M where I buy pretty much everything else. H&M makes jeans smaller than the size that fits me, and yet their smallest size of underwear has the same problem as the cheapo Hanes, without the benefit of being 100% cotton (although the prints are cuter). What are the size 25s supposed to wear, children's underwear? I know for a fact it's not that all Finnish people have fat asses - on the contrary, many are quite thin - or that they all have, like, bodacious asses, because there's a strong strain of nearly-East-Asian flat-assedness. So what's the deal? Is it the low rise? Is it the ratio of hips to thighs?
Whatever it is, I'm ready to start buying kids' underwear again, but I'm not happy about it.
And now for something completely different.
Back when I used to think that my preference for knitted cotton jersey underwear meant it made no sense to buy other than Hanes and Fruit of the Loom, I always just got their smallest size and it didn't fit because it was too big - the legholes, the ass space, the rise (so it would bag and ride up to my waist if i let it, which it was not designed to do!). This is despite the fact that the largest kids' size didn't really fit, mainly because the style was so different.
So when I was about sixteen I was converted to Victoria's Secret, a comparatively affordable lingerie source which was most of all reliable and pretty well-made. The VS Cotton line is trademarked and has existed with pretty much identical styling for years and years, always at the $5 a pair rate. So my woes were over and I never ran out.
But they don't have VS in Finland. They have a lot of tiny lingerie boutiques intended for old ladies mainly, and department stores where everything is department storish and expensive and not sized the same, and then there's H&M where I buy pretty much everything else. H&M makes jeans smaller than the size that fits me, and yet their smallest size of underwear has the same problem as the cheapo Hanes, without the benefit of being 100% cotton (although the prints are cuter). What are the size 25s supposed to wear, children's underwear? I know for a fact it's not that all Finnish people have fat asses - on the contrary, many are quite thin - or that they all have, like, bodacious asses, because there's a strong strain of nearly-East-Asian flat-assedness. So what's the deal? Is it the low rise? Is it the ratio of hips to thighs?
Whatever it is, I'm ready to start buying kids' underwear again, but I'm not happy about it.