Tim Gunn's Guide to Style > How Lingerie That Fits Will Change Your Life

[cimorene]

Meanwhile, if you weren't sure how great Tim Gunn is, his motto about changing people's lives apparently applies to you, the viewer, too, and not just to, you know, his fashion victims. He's already changed my life and Wax's.

Now, you should understand about Wax several things:

1. She hates reality television.


2. She hates fashion, but especially women's fashion.


3. She hates fashion television most of all. She somehow hated Project Runway.


4. Shopping for shoes or clothes with her is a giant ordeal because, even if she NEEDS them such as because there's snow on the ground already and she doesn't have any shoes she can wear in the snow that don't have holes in the soles, I have to drag her out to the stores and then she'll stand around pouting and refusing to pick anything because she feels oppressed by shoe fashion and doesn't like anything with fur or the wrong kind of heels or the wrong colour or too tall or blah blah blah and she'll eventually have a panic attack right there in the store and when I try to coax her into rationally discussing her options she'll just stand there like she's comatose and not even answer. She hasn't shopped for bras, in general, since before I moved in with her in 2004, and she's lost 30 pounds since then.

Well, Tim Gunn is so awesome that she watched every single episode of Tim Gunn's Guide to Style that played while she was in the room, and she liked all of them. She made running commentary and craned her neck to see my monitor with lively interest. One of the first steps in this show is that Tim Gunn and Veronica the supermodel go through the woman's lingerie drawer, throw out the inappropriate items, and take her to a lingerie expert to be fitted and purchase some really good lingerie that will form the foundation for her wardrobe.

Wax was inspired to go bra-shopping, so we went bra-shopping the other day and she found her size (75E/34DD) and bought a few bras that fit. Myself I'd kinda given up on bras a while ago because I wear a 32A, but at the very small end of it such that in about 75% of brands I'd need the non-existant 30AA; since my boobs are so tiny I haven't really worn bras... pretty much at all... for a couple of years. But I decided not to put up with non-fitting lingerie either and we bought a bunch of bras for her and a bra and some underwear that's not too big for me, and then we spent the day out yesterday and it made such a difference. Wax kept exclaiming aloud, "My breasts feel great!" or "My bra hasn't moved at all!" or "Look, my breasts are still where they're supposed to be!" - To the somewhat consternation of the young gay guys we were out with. I didn't subject them to a similar discussion of my panties, but believe me, I'm in love with them. I want to run back to Stockmann and buy ten more pairs right now.

My Tim Gunn buddies, we're having a minor IP address issue. We'll consult Brother Linux and hopefully get the remote logins straightened out in a couple of days.

US residents - you lucky bitches - Tim Gunn airs on Bravo on Thursday.

Comments

[calicoa.livejournal.com]

Yesyesyesyesyes. It makes SUCH A DIFFERENCE.

Rigby&Peller in London have this amazing fitting service where they don't use tape measures, they just look at how your current underwear is ruining your shape/shoulders/posture/whatever and size you up by eye, and then you put on whatever they bring you and it changes your life. Truly.

Sadly then you have to throw away all your pretty nonfitting bras and that is an ordeal. But the new pretty ones that actually *work* more than make up for it! :)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Wax insisted on doing the sizing herself although I told her repeatedly to ask the nice salesperson. My view is that a large, upscale department store where all the employees speak four languages is the best place to ask for assistance. This employee is dedicated to a lingerie section the size of a boutique and is probably happy and well-paid! But she's afraid of employees so she determined her size by grabbing one of every size in the store from like 12 different brands and taking them in the dressing room with her, and then when she found the ONE that fit I convinced her to ask the salesperson cause she was afraid they didn't stock any. Wrong! The salesperson was an angel and she found four that fit and all of them except one cost under 60 euros. Obviously she should just always take my advice.

I have to say though, as someone with breasts the size of Milla Jovovich's, that although I'm perfectly comfortable without any bra at all, wearing a nice perfectly fitted one felt wonderful anyway. CHANGE YOUR LIFE! It will!

[perhael.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous, I would love to have a bra that actually fits. Lingerie problems SUCK.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Are you a size that's hard to fit? You should try a lingerie boutique or a big department store where they have those little assistants whose job it is to help you. Maybe if you got your friend - is it Jen? - to go with you? Or your mom.

the hazards of being a 36D

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

YES. Up until mid-high school, I had been buying cheap bras at random from inadequate department store lingerie sections (thanks, Mom). I well remember my first purchase from Victoria's Secret - there may well have been a chorus of angels. "You mean...bras can be COMFORTABLE? I don't even notice I'm wearing it!" They have since discontinued the only style that fits me properly (bastards), but I've found a new one. It is, of course, French and $70 per bra, but such is the price of having your boobs in the right place.

Re: the hazards of being a 36D

[cimness.livejournal.com]

:( The Esprit bra was 34 bucks. It's really cute, but I've never paid that much for one before. Wax was like, "Hahah. I've never paid this LITTLE for one!"

[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

awwww.

She's so lucky to have a gf to properly care for her breasts!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent way to look at it! Breasts need a caretaker. They require upkeep.

[thelionforreal.livejournal.com]

congratulations, in order, to tim gunn, waxlet, and princess. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SUCCESSFULLY NON-ILL-FITTING LINGERIE EXCURSION.

i need to do that. my bras are totally ill-fitting.

tim, why do i not get bravo? WHY CAN YOU NOT SCHOOL ME.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

:(( You should do it. It will CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

[nicocoer.livejournal.com]

Wow. *blinks*

and Tim Gunn is a god.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

He's amaaaaaaaazing.