how big are your boobs and your bum? (or, ally's clothing size thread.)

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so, out with it then.

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how big are YOUR boobs and bum, jess?

di, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

being i are a Uber-tall Mutant (with big feet, no less, and ronan shut up, because you obviously know not from what you speak [as always, har har.]) i have a devil of a time finding pants long enough outside of the Devil Dockers at ye old Tall Man's shop at JC Penny's. bah. so, my pants are always hangin halfway down my ass to make up. right now, they're a robust 38, up from a 36 because i are thick in the middle at the moment. (and refuse to let it go any higher, although it's threatening.) shirts are usually a large, but, you know, robustity. don't even ask about hats. and shoes...shoes...::sob::

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and just to clarify, no i do not WEAR dockers, just in case that wasnt clear. and apologies to those that do, but, as ewing said to me earlier today, may God help you Sir, because I cannot.

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My boobs are normally sized, I guess. Rather flat-chested. Feels nice.

My BUM, however - I have to wear Size 38 to get my ass in a comfy pair of slacks that won't cut off the circulation to my legs. I think I've mentioned this before. My butt just won't quit. And this is not a good thing.

David Raposa, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Girls in clothing stores squeal and coo over me. I am a walking paradox, size wise.

rainy, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*scratches head* But whatever does it mean?

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have cool bitch tits, flab galore there, but just a handful of ass to behold.

Geoff, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, nedward, i are too confused. moreso than usual. arrrrrrr. (god, no more rum for me. evah.)

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have no tits but i have 37 trousers

anthony, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

38C, don't really know the size of my hips/ass. I do know, though, that, proportionally, my waist is gigantic compared to the rest of me. :\ My hips and ass are really quite small, compared.

Melissa W, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, and i have no boobies either. even at my chubbiest i never developed the manbreast. which is kinda disappointing on some level...

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

stickboy here wears 32 trousers

turner, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I now have like a 46 waist! I'm one real fatty! But I think I lost weight recently. I like my belly.

Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've a 30" waist. Call me Stick Boy Tad.

Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why is everything blamed on me around this bitch? 34C-26ish waist-38 hip. I wear size 6. BUT WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT ME?

Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Silence! Its your ass we need, not your yapping!

Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a b-cup but there's room for more. I used to be much bigger. Guys maybe fancy big tits, I however was always afraid I would get hit by my boobs when I was out running.

Helen Fordsdale, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't really know how big my arse is, cos i don't see that much of it. i am a 34DD.

di, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to be 36/36 in the old trouser department, but now all my trousers slip down so I geuss I must be 34/36 now. Colar size 17 although I only have one shirt. medium large or extra large in everything else

Ed, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My arse is relatively compact (note "relatively") but my paunch means a 40 waist is my fate. And I have man-breasts, bah.

Tom, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I should have taken advantage of the bra fitting service at La Senza last night as I am not sure if I am a 34 or a 36 due to well, laziness and poor memory but my guesstimate for ILE = 36.. uh... B. ACKSHIRELY I know at LEAST two ILE boys have tried to guess my size, they probably knew better than me. As for my bum, ooh flipping heck I don't know! I wear a size 12. I think I am nice and hem hem, "cuddly". I could do with eating less pies, though.

YUM YUM, a samosa for breakfast? Go on then...

Sarah, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Clothing size: British 8 on top, 10 on the bottom. My waist is right around the 22" mark, which makes finding trousers that fit a real hassle.

suzy, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have trousers that fit me in 32",33" and 34" though the 34's require much beltage. My arse is considerably bigger than those numbers might suggest.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd like to now inform you that whatever bra I am wearing today is the wrong size (and also mingy due to having to nick it off my STEPMOTHER who is considerably bigger than ME!) and that my chest is large enough for me to have to cross my arms underneath myself when sprinting about up and down stairs putting together a rubbidge briefing pack for some posh nobs. Yah boo hiss.

I have no idea my LEG measurements, but they're probably quite little.

Sarah, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an hourglass figure (code for boobs and bum = not small). English size 12 for trousers and skirts and 12-14 for tops depending on stretchiness of material and whether or not there are buttons down the front due to 'generous' bust. Not telling you my bra size.

Madchen, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have trousers that fit me in 34, 36 and 38 (only one pair and they're very baggy now thank goodness), however despite being 6 foot 3 I only have a 32/33 inside leg! This is the same as some girls almost a foot shorter than me!

tops = xl some L but they're a bit tight

chris, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no idea. My waist size is between 32-34 inchs, is all I know. My shoe size is 8 (9 USA).

jel, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am the same as Madchen. Except in H&M where they have the world's strangest sizing and I can get into Small tops.

Emma, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

being i are a Uber-tall Mutant (with big feet, no less,
Big feet on women... *drool*

Kodanshi, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

29 inch waist, but that's falling rapidly. I have a tiny ass, frankly, but very large pointy hips. I think my frame is bigger than me, if that makes sense...

Paul Strange, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As part of the New World Order, can we not insist on clothes sizes being THE SAME EVERYWHERE!!! I know some ppl like stripping off in a see-thru cubicle on Oxford Street, ten times in an afternoon, but they are intrinsically gorgeous hardbody supermodel vanity cases, and I am, er, currently not.

mark s, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ahem.

"What would a thread about bra size and clothing size reveal? I'm all for it, let's start, I want to see what it reveals about me. It's like fortune telling, with articles of clothing.

-- Ally (garance80@yahoo.com), October 09, 2001."

and kodanshi, for the last time, i am not a woman, damnit! so that better have been one of those general remarks. (i'm not getting *that* operation again...)

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

STANDARD SIZING REVOLUTION NOW! It really pisses me off that I have to try on every ruddy T-shirt I buy because the sizing varies so much.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's all a test of BRANE POWER and MEMORY Mr T. For example I remember that in Paul Frank sizes I am a small or a medium, both will do. In Topshop sizes I am a 12 top and JOY JOY JOY have actually been a size 8 in trousers (!!) - oh, a Mark One size 10 trousers too... you see? If they were all standard a PART OF OUR BRANES WOULD DIE.

Actually sod that, it's vvvv ANNOYING. Especially in the embarassing situations where you find a 12 doesn't fit. Or a 14. Then you storm out. I REFUSE to be a size 16, to be honest. I'm only little!

Sarah, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My bony front is all I have in common with a proper suppamodel, 32A will do at Marks and Spencer, 32B somewhere else. My jeans say 28/34, how does it read? They are oldskool oldlooking Levi's, sure

Laetitia, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, but sizes mysteriously vary in shops as well. Frexample I swear that Hennes pick sizes randomly. I've got some large stuff from them that fits me snugly, yet sometimes their medium is huge on me.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My waist is 32" but I believe I could go smaller. And my ass is small. I found out I am perfectly capable of wearing a t-shirt meant for 11-12 year olds, and I am near 19. I think I must be underweight!

Bill, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a 29" waist and no boobs or bum. There, isn't that interesting?

I don't believe Ally is size 6. Are sizes different in the US? I mean size 6 is like Victorian midget size.

Nick, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sizes in the US are different. Although MY MUM is a size 6, Dastoor.

Then again she's 4ft10 and anorexic so one must make their allowances eh whot?

Sarah, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My bum is not big enough to be called raunchy, thankfully, and my breasts are a good handful.

I'm a 32C or 32D depending on the brand.

Actually, I don't have a body, I have an inverse-tardis. I fit everything from a size 8 to a size 14 (these are Australian sizes, so that's about a 6 to a 12 in American sizes).

toraneko, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a size 6, except at the GAP, where I am a size 4. I think that US sizes are a size smaller, ie that actually makes me an 8 in the UK, at least this is how it was explained to me? Why Victorian midgets?

I have to wear pants with 34" inseam. It's ridiculous. This is why I wear skirts all the time.

And yes, jess, I did ask that question - but no one has answered it! My point wasn't to sit about and discuss our size, my point is I still wanna know what it says about you!

Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I are ENORMO-DAVE! I don't know my measurements and don't want to. I have a fetching pair of man-breasts, though.

DG, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Big feet on women..
I have submarinne sized feet. Now I bought a pair of pointy boots. They are so big. The difference of the tips entering the room and the rest of my body finally appearing in the room is about 15 seconds.

Helen Fordsdale, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it sez i are a slovenly mess. a-duh. ;)

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, I had said in another thread that a thread about bra or clothing sizes could be very revealing, in the context of finding people sexy online.

I mean, you sit there, in front of your computer, fantasising that all those with whom you communicate online are complete babes and then a thread comes along where they reveal that they weigh 100kg and that their 40DD breasts rest on their size 20 tummy which in return rests on their massive thighs as they are sitting there typing. It's just gross.

toraneko, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ahem. (again.) some of us like the...ample human more than the stick 'un. whatevah floats ye boat, ya know?

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm, 38C, US size 8, shoes, 8. I don't what that says about me other than I'm nicely proportioned.

Samantha, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Goodness knows what thread you've been reading Toraneko but I've been sorely disappointed that the ladies of ILE are so skinny. There go my online fantasies.

Tom, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't fantasise about anyone here though (no offense).

Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my waist is 27" but i wear 32" pants for comfort. my feet are sized 12 (us), but the shoes i'm wearing right now dispense with numerical size: they just say "LARGE."

fred solinger, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd be worried if anyone actually did, Ally.

Tom, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"but the shoes i'm wearing right now dispense with numerical size: they just say "LARGE""

where can one find such shoes fred? (even tho i'm sure they still wouldnt fit...)

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but the shoes i'm wearing right now dispense with numerical size: they just say "LARGE."

What the hell kind of shoes are those -- bunny slippers?

Nicole, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, if we're on to foot size mine are 12s UK. Though let it be noted that other ILE posters have publically disbelieved this.

Tom, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

16. that's amurrican.

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You know what they say
big hands
big feet
big nose
three out of four aint bad

anthony, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hey! i have a *fine sized* nose thenk you very much.

and, despite what that cad ronan might have you believe, the rest of me is...proportional.

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they are as close to being slippers as shoes can possibly get! they're nike "running" shoes and you just kinda slip into them. they come in three sizes: small, medium, and large. i never want to take them off and i hope that i don't ever have to! it feels like...foot sex.

fred solinger, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ewww

Samantha, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you (or anyone) by saying that.

In real life I'm not too fussed about how people are physically, so long as they don't smell or ooze pus. I would rather cuddle up to or otherwise maul someone who was on the larger side of average. In my fantasies I want things to stay strictly soft-core porn style though.

If I was more good at putting things into words I would ask some sort of question about how destructive the media's portrayal of beauty really is and whether short, fat, curly-haired, befreckled, ugly, hairy people are being rendered partnerless for life because they, and all the other short, fat, curly-haired, befreckled, ugly, hairy people, are wanting the tall, skinny, straight-haired, smooth-olive- skinned, beautiful people that populate magazines & billboards. Something like that. You know, the idea that we are bombarded many times a day with images of such profound beauty that, if we were living in nit infested villages, we would probably never see, that we are becoming ultra-fussy and setting standards that cannot be reached. I mean, I don't think any magazine ever tempted me to become anorexic or bulimic, at least not whilst I was a teenager but now that I'm getting closer to 30 I am obsessed with how revolting I am compared with the chicks in the magazines and I think I *NEED* plastic surgery, laser hair removal, fake-tan, coloured contacts, make-up, new everything. In fact, how could someone as imperfect as me DARE to go outside where people might see me??? Can anyone else ask what I'm trying to ask because I can't work out how to say it.

toraneko, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Jess, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you (or anyone) by saying that."

none taken. not a bit.

jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is one of those Big Topics that come up here occasionally. Your spin on it is interesting because it's something I've found myself thinking occasionally. A lot of people feel aggreived about common standards of beauty and their enforcement, and a lot of this aggreivement might be kind of selfish. So for instance a fat woman might say "well it's bad that men only want thin women" but then would herself bristle at the idea that she should fancy both fat and thin men. (NB the genders here are not fixed, obviously). What "it's bad that men/women only want thin men/women" means a lot of the time is "it's bad that the men/women WHO I FANCY only want thin men/women".

And the obverse holds true which is that men - and here I think it may be men more often - who express a preference for, eg, big women then feel that big women somehow owe it to them to fall for them. Which is crap, obviously.

About the only thing you can say is that you shouldn't get your regret at the general state of things - that the spectrum of human desire is poorly represented in the media - confused with unfairly expecting individuals to fancy anyone other than the people they do already.

Tom, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Im a 34 waist unless its levis then I drop to 32 for some odd magical reason. I do have a pair of 28" Levis that I have been known to wear when my dirty and smelly pile of clothes grows larger then the dirty and not smelly pile of clothes.

Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, jess, I know. Or "yes i no", if you prefer. Your comment merely made me think about big feet on women which today, up until then, I hadn't thought about.

Kodanshi, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

FACT: the feet/hands/nose thing is a total myth. FACT: I have size 10 feet, US. I have the biggest feet of any girl I know, it kicks ass. Leave it to Solinger to post the most awkwardly disgusting thing possible, ie foot sex. I only fancy myself on this message board. I am quite delirious with 102 fever at work right now.

Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"curly-haired" ????

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and on the media tip: the problem is, no one goes to buy or see things involving people that don't fit that certain mold, it's a statistical fact that is unfortunately used to justify not using different people. So go out and buy and support if you want to see varied people!

Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"befreckled"????

Nick, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

quiet demon Nick...inside joke? not if you look at the Nick thread...buah haha!

Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm 5'11", 145 lbs, with a 30" waist. I've been this same size for at least 15 years. I used to think I was too thin. Now I love it.

Sean, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not giving specific sizes, but I must be the reverse J.Lo -- no butt/bum to speak of and boobs that go into rooms 10 minutes ahead of me.

As for media representations of women who wear double-digit sizes, it can be distressing at times to think that, according to Hollywood and NYC you simply don't exist. But what I really find offensive is when clothing manufacturers and retailers buy into that myth, and thus there is no clothing in my size that I find particularly attractive. This becomes incomprehensible when I see a clearance rack overflowing with small size garments that no one is buying even at deep discounts.

j.lu, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It can be as bad for men... I like to buy my work clothes at Brooks Brothers, and they don't do a size 30 waist. My jacket size is 38R, and there's not that much selection in that size either. My ex had a 28 waist, and was skinny up top too; he had to shop in the kid's department a lot.

Sean, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can someone please, please, please tell me where these fantastic small-size-only clothing stores exist? Because they don't exist in California or NYC (unless we're talking Barney's here), which is ironic cos those are the two places always blamed for this. They just simply don't exist here. I go into the GAP, any GAP, it don't matter, and if I find something in my size, I'm lucky. That's why I end up paying full price - I know if I wait for sale on something I really want, the item will only be in medium or higher when I go to get it. The GAP and Express and H&M in NYC are overflowing with items in sizes that are "normal sized" (I hate this term incidentally, cos I think I'm pretty damn normal) and absolutely nothing that I can wear.

It pisses me off because, for example, the GAP is so, so, so damn proud of the fact that it has like 8 trillion different sizes and colors and styles of jeans, but god help you if you're looking for a size 6 long in that store. Not only do they never have it, but if you ask they look at you like you grew three more heads and then tell you how they have size 10 long, as if 10 = 6 somehow. H&M pulls this horrible similar trick of stocking each item in one size only (seemingly). If I find an item I like, if the first one is a size 12, I need look no further cos ALL of them are size 12, always. Sometimes you find that with a size 6, but it's usually size 10, 12 or 14.

I would gladly trade with anyone who shops at these other stores I keep being told about that only stock size extra small and small.

The problem is, clothing manufacturers don't seem to make clothing for ANYONE if you look at what both sides say. No one here can find clothes that fit properly in nice styles without hunting, but it's not like we're all clones. What the hell is that about?

Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, you're in New York City? I'm in Washington, DC and the stores here would be your happy hunting ground.

j.lu, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alright, I'll have to take a gander next time I'm in DC cos it's hell shopping here. Not that I don't still do it but I get sad about it when I can't find stuff I want, and then I HAVE to buy something, so I buy something I don't like that much cos it's in my size.

Isn't there some store that just stocks all the sizes?

Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mass-market oriented department stores profess to stock something for everyone, but when you get to the "fringes" -- plus sizes (or whatever euphemism they're using these days, and where I must shop), petites, talls -- they don't have nearly as much stuff.

In the case of the plus-size section, most of what any given store has is c***; when these section stock larger versions of clothes available in the "misses" department the plus size version tends to cost more. (I find that not just insulting but inexplicable, in light of the clearance racks I see dripping with petite and small garments that aren't selling even at deep markdowns.)

j.lu, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Theoretically it costs more cos it takes more material (I am not advocating this! I am just stating the excuse), but in reality the difference in material is so small between a size 2 and a size 16 that it makes no sense at all. Even more inexplicable is the fact that petites cost more than regular, but tall doesn't 90% of the time. I have no idea what that means.

Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Perhaps it is projection of anxiety or something like that. I wear a small or medium shirt at the Gap, and I can always find extra smalls, mediums, and extra larges, but smalls and larges seem to be rare. I have no idea what size pants I wear there.

I have a fairly small chest. I do not know about the size of my ass, but I think it's a pretty good size. I wear a range of five sizes, 2 at Old Navy to sometimes a 7 at the Weathervane, and I wear my pants with big heels and never buy petite sizes even though I am short.

Maria, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

29 waist and I love the boobies, but alas I have none.

Hank, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my boobs are as big as a mountain and my butt is as small as a pin and my waist is a monad

maryann, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

actually I am very pretty, despite my strange proportions. Who else can attract boys by simply existing?

maryann, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I take that back. I am not attractive at all, it is probably the monad.

maryann, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when I said that I was attractive, I meant to imply a necessary relationship between myself and the other. But I'm pragmatic enough to realise that this sort of implacability hardly counts in your 'spatiotemporal' world!

maryann, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not much in the breast department, 32" waist, size 9 (UK) shoes.

My bum is exactly the right size.

Ally C, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

32" but they still hang on my hips.

Speaking of cabooses: Here come the Wonder bum.

bnw, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Trying not to stereotype or offend anyone here but I do think there's probably some kind of actual size norm disparity between big cities/fashion centres and the normally more casual rural areas - as in the average size in some places, really is much lower than the average size in some others for myriad reasons. No hard facts, but my personal observations definitely confirm this. Here in the downtown - good luck getting the small or medium in any chain store, unless you're in the day they stock it's all large and extra large. Meanwhile, out east where the 'rents live, I'll go to the same store and finding the small is never a problem. It's as if they've yet to latch on to it, or have done cost analysis on specializing to region and have found that it's too expensive, so they ship the standard range to both with the end result being this scarcity on either one of the two extremes. Anyhoo... Arrrr... me bra is a robust 34D at the mo, but 34C is more normal for me... pants 11 or 12. I'm a classic hard to fit - tiny waist, huge hips - so like Ally, I wear skirts galore, and I'm especially hippy now as I've slacked off on the excercising, but even when I was 117 pounds, I was still a size 10 if that tells you anything. I have size a 7 or 7.5 foot. Two of them actually.

Kim, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, the other thing with wearing a size 10 is that in the past 5 years clothing sizes have shrank dramatically. I mean, what I used to have to squeeze into at 115lbs fits me perfectly now at 130lbs. Which doesn't make much sense to me. At 115 I was a size 6. I still am. *shrugs* I don't know what that implies cos I'm not exactly a super fit person so that the growth was all lean muscle that barely shows size differential.

Ally, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Theoretically it costs more cos it takes more material (I am not advocating this! I am just stating the excuse), but in reality the difference in material is so small between a size 2 and a size 16 that it makes no sense at all. Even more inexplicable is the fact that petites cost more than regular, but tall doesn't 90% of the time. I have no idea what that means.

-- Ally (garance80@yahoo.com), October 10, 2001.

1) The most remotely rational explanation I've ever heard is that the plus sizes require special rescaling, adaptation, etc. I find this difficult to believe given modern computer-assisted design. And assuming that this is true, why aren't petites or talls subject to similar cost recovery?

2) Petites costing more than average? It's probably a matter of where I shop, but in my experience petites cost the same as average, and they simply don't stock special stuff for talls.

3) I know what you mean about the smaller garment requiring less material (and probably labor), but when the size 16 flew out of the store and the size 6 doesn't sell before the really deep markdowns start, any savings must be lost. Are manufacturers sitting so pretty that they can ignore store buyers requesting more size 16 and fewer size 6?

j.lu, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the problem being described is with the shops you're visiting. They're not buying the right stuff for their shoppers or they're not marketing to their target customers. The manufacturers really don't connect with the stores. Wholesalers are in the middle, buying from manufacturers and supplying retailers. I work for a women's apparel wholesaler. We deal primarily with larger sizes 14 and up, and do business hand over fist.

Samantha, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

3) I know what you mean about the smaller garment requiring less material (and probably labor), but when the size 16 flew out of the store and the size 6 doesn't sell before the really deep markdowns start, any savings must be lost. Are manufacturers sitting so pretty that they can ignore store buyers requesting more size 16 and fewer size 6?

Well, they're apparently sitting pretty enough that they can afford to ignore store buyers requesting more size 4 or 6 that isn't in petites, so I imagine size 16 isn't much to them either.

Let's face a hard cold fact: unless you are a size 8/10/12, you aren't getting clothes in this country without searching for them. And god help you if you are thin and NOT petite (or heavy but not average to tall - why is plus size clothes all so long?)

Ally, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BTW I'm an 8, sometimes 10 and have never had a heard time finding things in my size.

Samantha, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why don't you just admit that you're the person behind this conspiracy, eh? ;)

Ally, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dammit Ally, you got me. Through my dank little corner office in a wholesale warehouse I'm secretly manipulating the country's supply of mid-sized clothing. And all this time I bet my boss just thought I was screwing around on this board.

Samantha, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I have the world's oddest body: 5'7", shirt size = 32/33 with a 16" neck, pants range from 32-34/30 (but if I actually measure my waist it's closer to 31"), and I weigh 170 pounds. I think I have the densest fat cells in the universe.

Dan Perry, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah Dan, you're a big odd freak. In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic. You crazy if you think you have the world's weirdest body.

Ally, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It depends on what age range the stores you shop at are targeting, too. In general, I see 8s and above at adult stores and 0 to 9, 11 if you are very lucky, at teen stores.

Maria, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One of my best friends is actually a size 0, sometimes a 1 or 2. Clothes shopping presents a very real challenge for her.

It's a very interesting question when you start to wonder why this sort of thing isn't considered discrimination in the same way something like an entertainment complex built far more chaeply without wheelchair access usually would be.

Kim, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cheaply that is.

Kim, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My hat is an 8
My neck is 18
My Shirts are Extra Large , i have not been mesaured in about 8 months
My waist is 38
My inseam is 36
My Shoes are 13 EE
My Ring Size is 12.5
My hands themself are short,stubby and have abusrdly wide palms .

anthony, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a friend who is also a size 0, but she's short so she can buy all her clothes at Strawberry's and Mandee's (which seem to only sell size 0 - 6), and not look weird, i.e. I'd go shop there too but all the pants are DAMN ASS SHORT.

Ally, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I don't ave the world's oddest-looking body; it's just that everyone I know whose weight even approaches mine and is near my height is a good deal stockier than I am. I guess I'm no longer allowed to abuse hyperbole... *sob*

Dan Perry, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Only I am allowed to abuse hyperbole, cowboy.

Ally, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If my ass was the size of Timaru, my boobs would be size of Oamaru, relatively.

lily, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

are you from dunedin? you're my favorite of them, if you are.

ethan, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you saying that because you did the math for my equation above?

lily, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have no idea what those words mean but the dunedin people are always talking about them. i like you because you talk about bears and have a nice email.

ethan, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My arse has to be big to fit the sun in it

Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

Big feet on women... *drool*
-- Kodanshi, Tuesday, October 9, 2001 5:00 PM (5 years ago)

gershy, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

When the world looks back on America in shock post-9/11...

Eazy, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 04:38 (seventeen years ago)

whatever happened to that dude?

strongohulkington, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 04:40 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/NMAWWBF.jpg

gershy, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 04:42 (seventeen years ago)

Silence! Its your ass we need, not your yapping!

-- Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, October 9, 2001 8:00 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

Good to know my boob size has grown 2 inches in 6 years. Although I suspect this has more to do with my general growing. :/

Hanle y is missed. . .

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

I don't think I'd ever heard/read/thought "32D" before reading this thread.

nabisco, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

It sounds like an elf on a fantasy-novel cover.

nabisco, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

I know intellectually how it would work but it is hard to visualize.

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

i lost a ton of weight between initial posting to thread and now, i was down to about 100lb, 105lbs. i'm back a lot closer to my previous posting size now, tho maybe about 10lbs less.

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

I've gained alot. Oh help me synthetic thyroid hormone, you're my only hope!

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

small boobs
big ole butt

bell_labs, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago)

nice!

I don't think I'd ever heard/read/thought "32D" before reading this thread.

I dated a girl that had to squeeze into a 32D. she told me she should be a 32DD but the size pretty much did not exist.

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I was going to comment on the foot thing too although now I want to know what Gershy's getting at. While worshiping big feet is a little strange, bashing them is mean! I'm 5'10", if I didn't have big feet I'd probably topple over or something. End rant.

small to average boobs
big hips
medium sized butt

ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

I honestly wouldn't even know what to do with tits that big. How did she find clothes!?

x post

ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

I worked at a maternity clothing store and one day was stocking a 32E bra. "Who wears these?" I thought. But the next day in came a short woman who, yes, ended up being a 32E when I sized her. She had a really beautiful back piece of a phoenix rising from flames. It felt unintentionally voyeuristic, sizing her bra.

Abbott, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

I am a fatty.

jessie monster, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

explain how this looked Abbott. Were her boobs broad? Did they protrude much from the front?

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

i posted earlier on this thread at the skinniest and cutest time of my life, never to be replicated unless i start running marathons while eating only vegetables. i'm bigger all around now, but i too find it comforting that my boobs grew as well. (xpost)

Maria, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

How did she find clothes!?

she got a breast reduction!

i remember she used to wear alot of rugby shirts.

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

big tits these days. i refer to them as udders tbh. i'm wearing the ONLY FUCKING bra i could find in the whole FUCKING city when i was pregnant with ophelia. i feel like frigging jordan. *sigh*

stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

so i'm guessing the breasts are double ds. i so do not want to check the size of the bra.

stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago)

in the age of Google Images, we need to ask what 32D boobs look like?

milo z, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

If we're at work then yes, yes we do.

ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

32B-23-36. I have a bizarrely tiny waist and a huge butt.

my ex-housemate is a 32D. She's hot.

Roz, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago)

Thank you ENBB.

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago)

they look like udders. to me anyway. yes, you got it, i don't feel particularly sexy.

stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah I've never thought of measuring the actual length (?) of the boob from chest to tip. The number measurement is all around the chest at nipple height so some of the less smaller among us could have higher numbers without actually being as large as those pixie 32Ds. (tech details for benefit of guys or whatever.)

FTR, I'm 40 C/D these days, depending on the bra. Hopefully I'll get back to my normal 38 soon.

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

I should really stop reading this thread before I start making encouraging comments and whatnot. Or any comments at all.

nabisco, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

I thought the number measurement was taken just below the boobs and cup size was measured according to the deifference between that and the measurement around the nipples at the largest point. I could be wrong though it's been a while since I've been properly fitted.

ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

Yep ENBB got it.

Roz, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago)

Okay, I knew the difference was btw the rib cage measurement and the nip measurement.

omg, how far around am I at nip level then???

I really need to be properly measured.

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago)

I just checked for the bra size label. No label. I will never know. Good.

stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

Wait, one comment: a problem with this discussion is that terms like "big butt" and "huge ass" have lost all meaning these days, or anyways have a meaning such that there are maybe three women in the world who would not claim to have a big butt / huge ass. (There's also some vagueness with regard to the direction of bigness/hugeness, like big-booty roundness vs. wideness vs. "normal in terms of dimensions, but I deem it fat in, like, shape and quality.") It gets confusing, this shape-versus-size issue.

I'm just noting this, not asking anyone to get more specific or post pictures or anything.

HEY NABISCO DON'T POST THIS

nabisco, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

36c/d-25-38

luna, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago)

whoops - that was to Nabisco, not Luna obv.

ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago)

on wobbly ground

Just got offed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago)

My ass is okay. Average. Fine with me.

stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

I don't trust stores (ESPECIALLY FUCKING VICTORIA'S SECRET) to measure me because the last time they did they were extremely, obviously wrong.

My mom had to have a breast reduction (her boobs are HUGE still) and ever since my metabolism collapsed I am becoming increasingly paranoid I will eventually need one.

That said, I weigh a good bit more than I did three years ago, but my clothing sizes haven't changed that much--I carry all my weight around my belly.

jessie monster, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

Victoria's secret is horrible and their bras suck. They've never worked for me.

ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

I think the term apple bottom should be employed more.

I have an adequate/average butt. Fills out tight jeans nicely. I do wish it was more apple-y/beyonce-ish though.

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

Me too but I wish I had Jessica Biel's ass. It's something else.

ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, I think it's better to measure yourself for bras. I went to a fancy specialty shop and it sort of seemed like a BS tell women their boobs are bigger than they are because women are cripplingly insecure and they don't want the truth operation. they straight up lied to me about my cup size.

horseshoe, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago)

So true about Victoria's secret being terrible. Best bras I've had are always the cheapo-but-cute ones from Target.

Ha Ms M, my dance teacher used to call me apple-butt. I like my butt now but this was not necessarily something one wanted to hear during the very awkward, self-conscious age of 14.

Roz, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

xxpost You just want Justin's hand on your bum. ;-)

stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

Yes well that would be nice too.

ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago)

Bubble butt is different from Apple butt, right?

milo z, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago)

Jessica Biel = Bubble
Beyonce/J. Lo = apple

Roz, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

Ha, sorry, I just have years of memories of people going "oh, my ass is SO big, I've got junk in the trunk, Sir Mixalot would LOVE me," and then you look and it's like, pfft, you barely have an ass, it's just a little chunkier than you'd like! This got really bad around 2001 or whenever, when everyone started writing articles about how big asses were hot, and then people said "great, I've got a big ass," when of course it's, like ... so does your middle-aged mother, but that's not really the definition of "big ass" people are using when they talk about Jennifer Lopez.

(To be clear again, I am talking about social patterns and nomenclature here, and respect and support whatever kind of ass anyone has going. They all have the potential for greatness, which makes it all the more important that we use our ass-terms with elegance and specificity and a minimum of confusion.)

DON'T POST THAT EITHER

nabisco, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

no photos here huh

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

I would think similar.

Damn I just posted a J.Biel and Bey butt comparison but I think the post was eaten. I'd rather have Jay Z's hand on mine.

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

Honestly I may be a freak of nature but VS bras DO fit me better than any other bra.

jessie monster, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

fuck that was Biel!

Bey

it's big so linked.

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

goddammit!!!

I do not like jessica biel.

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

I think I have more of an apple butt than bubble, but who-t-f knows? I have posted far too many other revealing pictures and this time will rein myself in.

luna, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper410/stills/1176i6yt.jpg

How I feel.

stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

You have good reason to feel that way Nath.

Bey gets spanked. for realz this time

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

MM - I have no opinions towards her other than that her ass is amazing. That's not even a great pic and it still looks excellent.

ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

nb, I'm not saying you have udders but you are pregnant so obv you're going to feel larger and more uncomfortable.

(I just do not like her b/c that stupid link of her kept posting when I meant to put a different one.)

Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

Oh yeah, I realize that they grew massive for a reason, hence why I call'em udders. I just don't want'em to remain that size once I quit breastfeeding. Which I know won't happen, been there before. I also had bigger boobs when I was a teenager. Boy, I did not enjoy running then.

stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

well my ass may not be quite j.lo's but it is the only part of me that ever got curvy so it uh, sticks out.

bell_labs, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago)

The lady w/the 32E breasts had large, round front boobs. I wouldn't have guessed her cup size would be that big had I not measured her.

I was hella good at bra sizing, way better than the three other women who asked there, to the point where they'd tell women to come in tomorrow when I worked there. I would never have guessed I had some amazing talent for it.

Actually, come to think of it, it was not some amazing talent. They had a measuring tape that you had to do some simple math to figure out the actual sizing after using the measuring tape. The instructions were right on it. I felt like Bart when he starts working for the mafia and they tell him he makes really good mixed drinks, when all he did was dust off the recipe chart and use it accurately.

Abbott, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

bra size = measurement under breasts + 5 inches
cup size = measurement of fullest part of breast - bra size

I think?

I read in Glamour that if you are a size 8/10 top you should be wearing a 34 and for 12/14 a 36, hmmm.

tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 16 August 2007 02:06 (seventeen years ago)

I have a skirt that's a size 5 and fits, and pants that are 15 and fit, so I have no idea what size to wear anymore.

tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 16 August 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

36c/d-25-38

-- luna, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:09 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

-- ENBB, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:09 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

whoops - that was to Nabisco, not Luna obv.

-- ENBB, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:10 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I dunno, the "haha"s weren't so obviously directed to nabisco to me. Is luna a paper doll?

kenan, Thursday, 16 August 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago)

And if those are her real dimensions, can I speculate that they were not before surgery?

kenan, Thursday, 16 August 2007 02:53 (seventeen years ago)

And can I forward that as 1000x more reason she should not be parading around in front of her son?

kenan, Thursday, 16 August 2007 02:54 (seventeen years ago)

You do have a way with words, Kenan.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 August 2007 04:36 (seventeen years ago)

wtf, dude?

horseshoe, Thursday, 16 August 2007 05:59 (seventeen years ago)

Can I point out that you are a flaming asshole?

luna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago)

Staying up too late again, Kenan?

Tuomas, Thursday, 16 August 2007 07:59 (seventeen years ago)

Seriously, sometimes you just need to log off and go to sleep before posting whatever comes to your mind.

Tuomas, Thursday, 16 August 2007 08:00 (seventeen years ago)

34AA-25-30, size 4 shoes. :(

Gaia1981, Thursday, 16 August 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago)

Gaia, if I remember rightly you're absolutely gorgeous, though

Mark C, Thursday, 16 August 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago)

this thread has inspired me to take my measurements for the first time in a long while;
i'm not sure how your bra sizing works cuz here i'm a 12B, but if it's inches than i'm:
34B-29-40

Rubyredd, Thursday, 16 August 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago)

Some NASA-level doucherocketry there, Kenan.

Rock Hardy, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago)

i feel like frigging jordan. *sigh*

-- stevienixed, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:52 PM

don't let anyone here stop you :-)

CharlieNo4, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

oh god i am so sorry.

CharlieNo4, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

that's how i first read it too... and i was confused ;)

Rubyredd, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago)

I don't know what my top measurement is as I'm thouroughly confused by the bra sizing business now. Although I do know the most recent bra I bought was 40D. I think the rest of my measurements are probably 34 (insert frownie) 38 or something.

Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago)

have a skirt that's a size 5 and fits, and pants that are 15 and fit, so I have no idea what size to wear anymore.

same here. today i'm wearing a skirt borrowed from a friend that's a size 6, but the dress that i wore yesterday is a 12. who knows.

lauren, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

Was the dress vintage? They always run large.

Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago)

no, it's not. i'm sure it's just the skirt running big, because i'm usually more like a 10. this kind of size variance happens often enough to confuse me, though.

lauren, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago)

I vary between a (UK size) 8-12, but I'm pretty much basically a ten.

Shoe size 4.

34B, 28, 36 (I think the last is correct, I haven't measured my hips for ages.)

Anna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago)

Also, the dress sizing in H&M is mental and apparently done at random - I run between a 6 and a 14 there.

Anna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago)

that's very true. i never know what size i'm going to be at h&m.

lauren, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago)

You know you've been reading ILX too long when you read:

I'm 40 C/D and 36c/d

and you want to yell "CLASSIC!"

onimo, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago)

BIG BOOBS IN ONLINE APPRECIATION SHOCKER!

Mark C, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

I don't trust stores (ESPECIALLY FUCKING VICTORIA'S SECRET) to measure me because the last time they did they were extremely, obviously wrong.

oh god one time i had the misfortune of being in a vs and was basically ATTACKED by a sales girl who kept insisting i was buying the wrong bra size. she was being VERY LOUD and just kept yelling at me that i wear a 34D, which i DO NOT (i wear a 34C). then she just started groping my boobs in the middle of the sales floor. i was basically way too weirded out by this and left immediately.

THE THING WAS THAT I WAS NOT EVEN BUYING A BRA BECAUSE I DO NOT ENJOY VICTORIA'S SECRET'S BRAS ONE BIT.

also hey males can you be any more creepy, the lot of you?

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

sorry.

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

Lol Ally you love the attention

Mark C, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

you weren't being creepy, i didn't want to be specific though. xpost to thermo

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

i dunno, mark, between nabisco's multi-paragraph missives on asses and kenan's repulsive "lol u has surgery" comments, i think the attention is kinda creepy. sorry!

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

not as creepy as that sales girl though.

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

i'm not bothering to take mine but actually ruby i think i'm quite close to your size!

wow xpost with SALESGIRL ATTACK! twice

Maria, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

This is only because it so far impossible to reach physcially through computer screens.

Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

I find it interesting that several women have posted as having virtually the same measurements, but I'M clearly the one who has had "surgery."

luna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago)

You are picked on too much Luna, this is true.

Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago)

luna, i'm not sure what kenan is on about since your measurements seem pretty believable to me - beautiful proportions which i would love to have, but certainly not odd or freakish or unbelievable.

Rubyredd, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

Kenan is crepey. This is well-established.

Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

awww... kenan's cool, he's just a bit.. odd. but his comments here seemed uncalled for.

Rubyredd, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

You haven't been here long enough, Rubs.

luna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago)

haha! I've met Kenan before and like him fine as a person but he is what he is.

Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

Well said.

jaymc, Thursday, 16 August 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

I AM BEING CRITICIZED FOR TALKING ABOUT ASSES
BY A WOMAN WHO STARTED A THREAD CALLED "I HAVE A BIG ASS"

nabisco, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

And I'm being criticized by a man who has posted things about me - unsolicited things, I might point out - such as "I really want to have sex with Luna. I mean, really. I think even her horniest admirers here cannot approach the zeal with which I admire our Miss Aimee. She's funny, she's lovely, she's above all unknown. I may have a girlfriend, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't punch someone out cold to get at Aimee."

Life is unfair, n.

luna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

He was criticizing you? Don't re-qoute him. It only resurrects the horror.

Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

i think N. is talking about A.

Mr. Que, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

He was. And L. was talking about K. Speaking in initials is fun.

Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

I'm nothing special

RJG, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

He was criticizing you?

I don't see another way to read things like And if those are her real dimensions, can I speculate that they were not before surgery? and Is luna a paper doll?, do you?

luna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

I'm surprised it took this long for this thread to get creepy and nasty

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

I have poor memory and little discipline to re-read. :)

Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

<un-derailment attempt>I have almost no ass and no boobs at all.</un-derailment attempt>

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

I am just a brain in a jar

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

jesus is this thing still going

Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

I'm so sorry that my misplaced HAHAHAHAHAs seemed to have caused K to post that in the first place. :-( Also, he said WHAT?!

ENBB, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

who is kenan's gf? he says she posts on ilx.

chaki, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

i think he means jaymc

strongohulkington, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

this thread is actually giving me a bit of a tummyache

Will M., Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

I think I'm going to take a nap.

Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

he is what he is
he is what he is
he is what he is
he is what he is
he is what he is
he is what he is
he is what he is

mookieproof, Thursday, 16 August 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago)

http://img38.picoodle.com/img/img38/9/8/16/f_carm_a28b679.jpg

RJG, Thursday, 16 August 2007 23:32 (seventeen years ago)

I went to Bravissimo and got measured and now I know that I was kidding myself with the DD. The matronly lady did not use a tape measure - she just looked - and got me right first time. Nath, here's their fitting guide:
http://www.bravissimo.com/info/brafitting.aspx

So (deep breath) 34G - 30 - 40 and 5'10" tall. I mentioned I was curvy back in 2001, didn't I?

Madchen, Friday, 17 August 2007 05:23 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, hi, guys.

I think I owe all of the boobs and bum thread an apology, not least for derailing it so totally. I have some irrational emotions tied up in this. We could all tell tales out of school, and I would almost always come up short on that scale. But I do apologize. I really do.

I'm sorry, Luna.

kenan, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:17 (seventeen years ago)

I have a few female friends with incredible hourglass shapes that involve what have got to be DD or more chests. They wear it well though, employing corsets and such to awesome effect.

I'm so not contributing to this thread :(

Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:23 (seventeen years ago)

So (deep breath) 34G - 30 - 40 and 5'10" tall.

G? Did you get water balloons implanted? I hope that's not insulting, but G seems back-injuriously ginormous.

libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:42 (seventeen years ago)

There are certainly less insulting ways of framing your question. I've never had surgery, or back ache for that matter. My size is less uncommon that you'd think. It's just that so many people wear the wrong size bra.

Madchen, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:51 (seventeen years ago)

I feel a bit sorry for most of the guys on this thread, this is a minefield of foot in mouth for them to be honest :)

Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago)

Especially because guys are always on about big boobs, but then make women who have them feel so damn self conscious!

I'm non existantly erm, attired, and to be honest I think I'm kind of relieved I dont have to deal with the attention :/ Though I've had negative attention and mockery when in swimsuits at school and such :(

Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

For referral:

Boob etiquette (a question for the ladies).

Tuomas, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

(x-post)

Tuomas, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:55 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.evilkillers.com/Ted%20Bundy_files/Image-Ted_Bundy_4.jpg

I have some irrational emotions tied up in this. We could all tell tales out of school, and I would almost always come up short on that scale. But I do apologize. I really do.

am0n, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:07 (seventeen years ago)

this thread is overwhelming the senses
im sorry

the sir weeze, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:12 (seventeen years ago)

xpost Maybe the logic is lacking, but I don't kill people.

kenan, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago)

(yet) XD

am0n, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:15 (seventeen years ago)

OK come on I dont think comparing Kenan to Ted Bundy is at all fair or polite regardless of this stupid thread gees.

Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:22 (seventeen years ago)

I think insulting people is this Amon dude's only schtick, don't mind him.

Tuomas, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:26 (seventeen years ago)

"schtick"

gershy, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:28 (seventeen years ago)

have some irrational emotions tied up in this. We could all tell tales out of school

Although I'm really not sure what this means, nor what it has to do with me, I appreciate that, Kenan. If there's something you want to talk to me about, email me.

luna, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

water balloons
Whoah. Also: US/UK bra sizes don't seem to be the same, by a long shot.

stet, Friday, 17 August 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

I feel a bit sorry for most of the guys on this thread, this is a minefield of foot in mouth for them to be honest :)

There are certainly ways in which men could post here without having to put their feet in their mouths. They just aren't doing it.

Will M., Friday, 17 August 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

A pictoral reference. NSFW, possibly, but not necessarily pornographic.

libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

There are plenty of guys on this thread with feet nowhere near their mouths -- let's not get Kenan and Mr. Waterballoons reflecting so badly on everyone else!

nabisco, Friday, 17 August 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

I apologize.

libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago)

NSFW, possibly, but not necessarily pornographic.

LOL, clearly you didn't scroll down a bit more.

Will M., Friday, 17 August 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago)

That is a completely silly excuse for a bra sizing chart. Tho it's be funny to go to a lingerie store and have the saleslady match the boob photos to yours & buy bra.

Abbott, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago)

I used to know of this flash thing that showed how much some company's jog bras would reduce the amount of jiggle. There were three animated women, one with no top, one with a normal bra, and one with the super-duper jogbra. That would have been the right link to post. Alas, but I can't recall where it is.

libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, and the point of it was that you put in yr size and watch how much you jiggle.

libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

Try a google search for "where da titties at?"

Abbott, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

Here is is. Probably NSFW, but as you can see, I'm unreliable as a judge of that.

libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago)

NB: I actually didn't find that by googling "where da titties at".

libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

Whoever made that page has no idea what a 40 inch back size looks like.

Madchen, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago)

I just loaded that page while listening to Depeche Mode and seeing boobs jiggle in time to "Behind the Wheel" was um... disturbing.

Trayce, Saturday, 18 August 2007 07:24 (seventeen years ago)

I think we had a thread about that site. It's quite hypnotic.

Tuomas, Saturday, 18 August 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago)


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