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I am enjoying another vacation, of sorts. I haven't gone anywhere, but my friends are away for the entire month of June, leaving me free to indulge in some long overdue ... experimentation. I've been making some online purchases over the last few weeks in preparation, and I'm prepared to make a few preliminary observations:

  1. Corsets aren't nearly as uncomfortable as I expected, and what they do for my figure is worth it. Care does need to be taken, however. I got a little too enthusiastic lacing it up last night and my legs started getting numb.
  2. Breastforms are likewise a pleasant surprise. If you've ready my stories you probably know I have a thing for large breasts, and so I got forms that are supposed to be DD. The glue i got with them was the spray kind and it was a major pain, very messy. Fortunately, I anticipated this possibility and got a couple of jars of Uro-bond IV, a medical adhesive that uses the same ingredient as the spray, but brushes on. It holds these puppies quite well without any support, and since it brushes on, you can touch up as needed too.
  3. High heels are torture. I probably went overboard here, and the fact that I ordered a size to large probably isn't helping. It's not the walking so much, it's the standing that hurts. At least I haven't fallen yet.
  4. The bra isn't as bad as I feared either. This isn't the first time I've worn one, but it is the first time I've worn one that was properly sized. Unless I actually think about it, I really don't notice it's there.
  5. Long nails are kinda like being handicapped. Every task involving my hands takes much longer than normal, like typing this blog. I'm sure I can eventualyy adapt; I'm actually doing much better already, but simple things like picking up a quarter are still major challenges.
  6. Dresses feel good.
  7. Stockings feel really good, especially on smooth, hairless legs. on that note, I found this hair remover at Walgreen's called Hansen for Men that works really well. Other products I've tried did okay on my legs, but were useless on my chest. This stuff left eve that stubborn area very smoooth, and while there was a little irritation it's nothing compared to what I get from shaving.
  8. Applying false eyelashes is DEFINITELY an art.

I was out on the back porch a few minutes ago, just enjoying the night. We don't have neighbors on one side, and the people on the other side have a tall privacy fence so I felt safe. I did get a little nervous when I saw a boat not far away on the lake, and when it started up the canal towards me I got real nervous and decided to go inside. I couldn't move very fast in these heels, and by the time I got to the sliding doors they were passing right by our dock. I figured since all the light was coming from inside, the best they'd see was a silhouette. Then I heard a very loud wolf-whistle.

I guess he liked the silhouette.

Comments

Responses

1. For corsets to do any real good you have to have some body fat to begin with. I look like a refugee from a Calista Flockhart lookalike contest. :-)

2. Ugh! I'm a very modest "B" and quite happy, thank you very much! At least I can run without ending up with my face black and blue! ;-)

3. Heels are an acquired skill, and some are never totally comfortable. I suggest starting with shorter and larger heels and finding some with a rounded toe. A stiletto with pointy toes is gonna hurt no matter what, so that is not the sort of thing you wear if you are going to be standing. There are exercises you can do to stretch the tendons and ligaments before wearing high heels that help make them more tolerable, I'll send you the link if I can find it. I wear cowgirl boots much of the time so I'm used to having some sort of heel, but then I don't work in a conventional office environment.

4. Proper fit! I got professionally fitted last year and the grand opening of a new upscale store, and the difference is amazing! Slightly smaller cup and proper strap adjustment made all the difference.

5. Bet you haven't tried to open any car doors yet! I have acrylic nails right now my niece insisted I get. Big PITA! Work is hell! Forget a quarter, try picking up a single sheet of paper without wrinkling it. I have adapted, but in about two weeks these suckers are GONE!

6/7. Jeans, a blouse and my cowgirl boots are daily attire for me, so I wear socks. Hose is H-O-T in the summer.

8. Yes, but I bet you did the full lashes, which can be tricky to manipulate. Especially with long nails. I've found the individual lashes (actually small bunches with a single attaching point) are actually easier to use and get right. A pair of rounded-tip tweezers and I can pop them right on.

Sorry, this is a more detailed response than maybe you were expecting, but once I got started . . .

Karen J.


"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

Using the convenient numeration

Edeyn Outlined by Karen. ^.^

Now, the purpose of this is NOT to criticize your choices or to make you feel bad in any way, shape, or form -- on the contrary, I'm glad you've gotten an opportunity to experiment and have fun! My response is simply to provide a contrasting experience set.

  1. I like corsets, too, Scott... but I've not tried one since all the weight gain. Between the times I was a size 10 - 14 I wore one pretty much to every social event. Not in the accepted way, though, I was rather, ah, goth... at the time. So the corsets and such were over the lacy and see-through stuff.
  2. Sure, you like the DD for now... but I'm "only" a C-cup, coupled with nerve damage that gives me chronic back pain. Braless? Why would I do that to myself?
  3. I'm one of the lucky few that have never had any problems wearing heels. The first time I put a pair on (age 13, going to the semi-formal ball/birthday for one of my friends that knew me as Hannah) I walked in them as though I'd worn them for years. Never really hurt my feet, either.
  4. In my introduction posts in all my online classes, I say several things the same each time... one of these repeats is something I truly believe in: Nothing says, 'Comfort,' like a well-fitted bra. I mean, a professional bra fitting is dismissed by most women today as an unnecessary expense, because who doesn't know their bra size? The answer is, most women of today.
  5. Have you ever read Heinlein's, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by any chance? Sometimes funny, always funny, never funny can translate handily to most situations with a slight paraphrase. Acrylic nails fall into the sometimes category.
  6. I wear skirts quite a bit, but mostly because I had a "professional attire" job that caused pants and sweats and jeans for the most part to migrate out of my (somewhat vast) wardrobe. I have 2 pair of jeans (one in the classic sense and one pair of slouchy denim pants with a tie-fasten-top), 2 pair of jean shorts, and three capri-length cargo pants (green khaki, beige khaki, and denim). But I have lots of flow-y skirts, knee length, ankle length, even a couple of minis... pleated, diaphanous, layered, straight, etc...
  7. As ventilated as hose is, you'd think it'd be cooler... not so! I actually went last weekend and purchased new socks because all the ones I had were too thick for summer.
  8. I've only worn false lashes when I was going to be onstage for something, as I don't have an issue with my natural lashes. They don't look right on me, either -- I mean, an asian chick with umgawa-long lashes?
  9. You need to check your email and get back to us on a certain secret project!


Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...

Proper fitting heels should not...

... be causing much of a problem. If it hurts after standing a just a little while, you need a new pair. (I don't care how cute they are, and how well they go with your outfit!)

It's well worth the effort to try on 100 pair of shoes, to find the one that REALLY fits and supports well (and that you can walk in, of course).

Annette

Style vs. comfort

I've long been convinced that women's shoe designers are sadists at heart. It seems the more "fashionable" the shoe the less comfortable they are. The sharply-pointed stilettos of a few years back are a case in point. I had to wear a pair of them for a wedding, I'm 5'5" and the bride was 5'10", so she had me in 5" stilettos, very narrow, pointed toe. Very "in" style, Italian-made. Something she saw on "Sex/City" on HBO. By the end of the ceremony I was sure I'd never walk again. Those puppies went straight to Goodwill.

KJT

"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather


"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

No, Karen

If I had eve been subjected to such unnecessary torture for the sake of someonellses fashion senceI would have burned them or added to weight to them and used them as sheets at the gun club ........................

after I used them to permenently *rearange* that woma's face.

Stilettos?

Even Chuck Yeager hated them.

Ooops, that was the Douglas X-3 Stilletto he hated. I don't recall him being a crossdresser. Mind you those early G-suits do look like a kinky Goth corset.

P.S.John in Wauwatosa

Blouse, jeans and ???coyboy??? boots? That should be cowgirl boots, right, Karen?

John in Wauwatosa

Not a woman

You're not a woman, John, and you've never been in a bridal party. I swear, every bride-to-be starts out promising she won't be that way, but once she gets going . . . And a bride always gets her way, it's in the Constituation I believe. Or one of the Ten Commandments, sumpin' like that.

John, time to clean your glasses. I did say cowgirl boots. Twice.

BTW, I didn't say Calista Flockheart was cute, I said I had the same skinny-type build. No boobs, no butt, skinny waist. If I looked like Audrey Hepburn do you think I'd be hanging around here?

Now pay attention, son, when I'm talking to ya. ;-)

Karen J.

Looks like it's getting noisy up there again.

"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather


"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

Um, maybe I should get glasses?

And the weather is not that bad up glub... glub... glubble...

John in Wauwatosa

P.S. My sister has been a bridesmaid a few times and Bridezila is a suprizingly common phenom. I remember something about getting showes dyed to match and them not being fully dry and ...

John in Wauwatosa