I when read it, it was so unexpected it just cracked me up! You on meds?

I think they make under garments for that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gloria - Actually, they do. Like I mentioned earlier when I said that I worked at a specialty boutique, we had a whole wall with bras to prevent things of that nature. Our smallest was a 42C and our largest was a 54H, but we could order larger if necessary. It was part of my job to help these ladies into their new boulder holders.. I would make it rather fun for them as they'd be embarrassed, but I explained, hey, you got 'em, flaunt 'em! Point them to the sky!

OH TONI I can just see you helping them I bet you had them comfy in no time !!!!

I'd have 'em bend over, unhook their old one (if they were wearing one), sling the new one around their chest while bent at the waist, snap the first few on the bottom to make sure that it was a proper band size, tell the lady to reach inside & point 'em forward, once they were in place, start snapping snap snap snap (the larger cups had more snaps.. up to about 25 eyehooks), and once completely hooked, have the lady stand up straight & then I'd start to "wiggle". I'd grab their shoulder straps & gently tug up & down, seeing if there was any.. uh.. overflow. Once I had wiggled everyone in place, then I'd have the lady "lift & separate!" by stretching her arms up as high as she could and then out to her sides to make sure that everything was comfortable, then arms straight down. If I didn't see any overflows & everything was comfortable, then we were good. If we had overflow or if something pinched, I'd see what I could do, including getting a different size. I tell ya, ladies who are naturally well endowed have the funniest sense of humor, but they loved it when I would tell 'em to "point 'em straight like headlights!". But, to be honest, putting one of these humungo bras on a lady kinda reminded me of saddling a horse. After that job, I was grateful for what I was given and the fact that I didn't need a specialty size!!

I used to work in the "foundations" (that's what we called them then) section of a department store and the largest size we carried was 36C. Times certainly have changed.

It was a very odd experience. Lots of cross-dressers used to come in, pretending they were buying foundations for their girlfriends. "She's about my size," they'd say. Some of them would make up various excuses to try them on, but we had to draw the line there, saying men weren't allowed in the dressing rooms . This was back in the days when they didn't admit they were cross-dressers and we didn't admit we knew they were.

Toni, how did your customers get dressed when they were home alone? I never realized things could be so complicated!

Most of the time, they'd snap the foundation in front of them and then move it around so that the hooks were on the back. They'd do this under their breasts, swivel it around, and then pull the straps up over their shoulders.

Also, realize that almost 100% of NONE of these foundations were underwire!!

Okay, I understood the directions until the last sentence (?)

what part of what sentence did you not understand? Mind you, I don't write very well.. my brain's too weird.

"100% of none", does that mean they all were or were not underwire, and what difference would it make?

Ah. Like I said, my brain's weird.

Almost all of the larger bras were NOT underwire. They stopped w/the underwires at like.. oh, if I can remember.. size 48? And none of the bras size DDD or bigger were underwires.

Oh.

I see you have happily continued the conversation and advanced on to big breasts and cross dressers no less!

hey! Boobies are important!

Excellent!

Vicky - Was thinking about you this weekend, hope you're doing well! How's the progress going? You're an inspiration!!!

I'm doing well. Thanks for asking. :smily:
Just 6 more lbs. and I will have 50 lbs off!
I've been buying some new clothes which is fun/strange to be in smaller sizes (so MANY options) that I haven't been in for years. Still would like to lose another 30 - 40 lbs which seems a little weird to me... wondering WHAT will I look like?! I'm still chubby enough to look like my old self but with alot of loose skin developing. I hardly feel like an "inspiration" losing weight in such a drastic way (seems like cheating to me)
but that was kind of you to say.
I will post new pics when I reach the 50 lbs. off mark.