Introduction to Bras

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When did you first learn about/start wearing bras? Interesting stories about bras... That sort of thing.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

esp. if it's about leopard print ones (sorry rosemary - see the "I Blame Hstencil" thread).

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha, is this cause of my comments on the parents sex talk thread?

I was about 12, maybe even 11. I had already started wearing vests to cover up, and my bathing costume had a shelf in it. But we "won" this weekend at a Poconos resort hotel (really a thinly disguised sales pitch for timeshares) and I went without taking a bathing costume, so I had to buy an unsupported one in the hotel shop. Running up and down the stairs, I realised that it actually *hurt* me. I had developped "bouncing problems".

As soon as we got back home I was taken to Macy's and bought a bra. I thought I'd at least get a training bra like the rest of my class, but no, I jumped straight to a B cup. And I was a year younger than the rest of my grade!

I can remember discussions of bra cup size in the locker room in about the sixth grade. It was endlessly fascinating.

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

You know about Cup sizes George? You got the A, the, B and the C.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah, there's also Double A, Double D and even E. I think E is maternity, though.

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I worry about your esteem, kate, the way you always refer to your body parts as "problems."

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Body parts that cause pain are definitely problems, hstencil, no matter how much pervey joy they may cause other people. ;-)

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Wasn't Troy Maclure in 'Hurrah For Boobies' or was that something my college rez made up?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

He was

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Good, further proof I am not as insane as other people think.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, Kate, you inspired this thread.

I was 11. I was standing in front of the water fountain at school and this guy who I had a major crush on (also, my first bf) came up behind me and whispered in my ear, "Sarah, Don't you think it's time you started wearing a bra?"

Then I suddenly got really self-consious of my chest. My mom took me to get a bra, but it didn't fasten very well. It would come unhooked at random times/places. I remember one day in gym class feeling it snap open. I didn't know what to do so I ran out of the gym despite my teacher yelling out at me, "Sarah, where are you going? What's going on?" I hid in a corner in the hallway and snapped it back. I thought I would just die of humiliation.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I *need* an introduction to bras. I can't be arsed wearing the things most of the time. Or rather, I need a good reason, i.e. better than the sage-like advice I was once given: 'They'll go saggy if you don't.' The person who said this was getting on a bit and *incredibly* saggy...

(Okay, I'm just guessing about the saggy bit. But she looked the sort.)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I once read that you're supposed to wear your bra to bed when you're pregnant so that you don't end up saggy, but it was in a fictional book so I dunno.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Made me wonder when was the last time I wore one of these contraptions now. More than a week, surely.

Fortunately, whatever the case, the less there is to sag...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

ONe day when I was 16, my mom rallied us to come into her bedroom. She had some bras out on the bed. She gave us scissors and we all helped her cut the wires out of all of them (including mine). LIberation!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to know a girl who always wore a bra to bed becuase her grandmother had told her to (again, a sagging issue).

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I fisrt started wearing a bra when I noticed I had tatoos of Evil Ribic's cube on my nipples. But the guysin the locker room didnt like it, so they all wore bar's too, to foil me.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

somedays i really wish i was a chick

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl... so I could **** myself in the SHOWER!!!

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

i dont think looks have much to do with ability in this context

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother bought me a bra (34AA) in 6th grade, but I never wore it. Then I started menstruating that summer, so when I started 7th grade, I thought I should start wearing it. (And I had to buy a new size.)

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish kate thought better of herself.

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

You used your bra as a sanitary towel?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Sigh. I can't believe NONE of you recognise a Robyn Hitchcock quote whe you read it... what, with him being my dad and everything...

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I knew where Kate's quote is from.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry kate, I only know selections from Element of Light.

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean I could have had Robyn Hitchcock's broken Sun computer parts?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

kate, i think many of us were hoping it was a legitimate sentiment

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder what happened to the Sun workstations when my dad had to move... And I wonder if the offer is still open (Guess how many computers are in this room, and you get to take yer pick of them home. No one EVER got it right... The offer should have been "and you get to take my daughter home..." and he might have had more accurate answers!)

Heh heh. You perverts. Actually, playing with yerself in the shower is quite difficult if you are female. Makes it difficult to get any kind of friction, and friction is necessary.

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

it's not very easy if you're a guy either!

(i find)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't it easier for the uncircumcised? Then again, isn't masturbation, fullstop, easier for the uncircumsized? Isn't that half the reasons that almost all American males are cut, regardless of religion?

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

What? To keep them from masterbating?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

i wouldn't know :``(

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think the shower thing - ummm- is that difficult. But the bath is.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Friction is not necessarily needed in masturbating. Plus showers sometimes have those wonderful removable shower heads.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread is a joy

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I got one when I was 11. Not because I needed one, but because wearing one was something all of the other girls were doing and if you didn't wear one you were totally uncool. I was totally uncool anyway, but I did have to make one last valiant attempt to fit in.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Bath is actually much easier, cause yer lying down. I guess it's more the standing up thing than the wetness. OK, condoms don't work in the shower, have had that problem before...

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

the butt works a lot better in the shower, i find (ahem)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

again with the shower heads...

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

In the bath, though you have the motion of the ocean to go with.

Ummmm bras...dud. I would never wear one but I get really nipply and that tends to look inappropriate at times.

Pop a wheelie!

What is this thread about?

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Perving on Kate.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Bras and masturbation and, erm... god knows, actually!

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

it's about how pathetically undersexed ilx is

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

People are PERVING on me?!?!?

YES, THANK YOU, GOD!!!!

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah baby, call us: 1-900-MIX-A-LOT

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, it's been two weeks since I slept with anybody. Please forgive me for needing the perving out... pathologically undersexed, that would be me in a nutshell. Sigh.

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i understand...my life is a shambles, too

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Two weeks ooh ooh. Jesus.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

You do NOT want me to start whinging about Whoreton. I don't think anyone here wants that! Don't tempt me, N!

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate, no perving on Whoreton or I'll post picures of lil' Jay where he looks like a horse.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't say perving, I said whinging. I meant going on at great length about how I miss him, and how I'm convinced that I overreacted and projected all kinds of evil impulses onto him that he didn't actually have and were just my paranoia, and how I've totally fucked up everything and will continue to fuck up everything, and here I've ruined it all over utterly nothing and WWWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

kate, jeez, just let me buy you a plane ticket already. ; )

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay I think I just officially crossed a line there.

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

No whinging or you'll get kittens.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, but are you a dirty dronerock boy, huh, huh, are ya? And post photos of yer ARSE to this thread so I can evaluate yer JCA quotient. ;-)

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

kate just talk about shower coochie some more before you lose the audience

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

photo of dirtydronerockboy (with shorter hair) in dirty New York City bar bathroom.

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I just want a DDB to put in a bathtub and SCRUB.

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

No arse photos yet.

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Good grief, one thread is inviting us to imagine which ILXors we would like to see lezzing up, and Kate is talking about masturbating in the shower. Listen, I don't exercise much, I smoked for decades, my diet is bad and I am 43. Odds are my heart will stop any second.

Oh well, at least I'll die happy.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a tub in my parents' house in Louisville, kate, but I dunno about that when there's 15 or so of my friends around...

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, this is the sort of flirting that *I* understand. Posting links to yer vinyl dronerock/free jazz/electronica collection is getting me all hot and bothered. I might have to have a bit of a liedown. Phew! Is it getting hot in herrre or what?

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Kate's gonna take a shwoer soon.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

wow, I think I'm in love!

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

All that and quoting Spiritualized songtitles = Kate has her dream man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Now who djs the wedding?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

What Nick said.

― Mandee, Friday, 7 March 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

DJDDB.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah and i'll say it again mandee
two fricken weeks is a drought? what planet are you from, obviously one where it's so far from the sun and spinning so slowly that a single revolution takes, um a long time.

― minna (minna), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

On an excursion to the mall with my (ex)girlfriend she had to pick up a couple new bras, so while she was trying them on I waited on this couch near the checkout for the lingerie dept. A really chipper middle aged woman kept running past in and out of the dressing rooms w difft bras; she said something like "tedious, isn't it?" to me.

When we were checking out this woman was there with her prob 13y/o daughter, and the bras were hers, apptly her first. The mom was really smiley and proud and the girl seemed a little embarrassed (probably due to the big dumb unshaven DUDE standing there). I felt like I'd seen some rare and secret thing. I felt really intrusive but wierdly, deeply touched. I got a little teary on the way out.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 7 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn Suzy kicking me off her computer, just as the thread was starting to heat up!

― kate (suzy), Friday, 7 March 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

g.cannon that's just creepy. ('tis more embarrassing when the cashier is a teacher at a second job, though.)

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 7 March 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

ok, wait, that's not JUST creepy because i can see where you're coming from. it's creepy from the 13-year-old point of view.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 7 March 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't it easier for the uncircumcised? Then again, isn't masturbation, fullstop, easier for the uncircumsized?

since ive never been circumsized i wouldnt know if its um harder to masturbate circumsized.

― kephm, Saturday, 8 March 2003 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i mastered the unhooking with one hand maneuver early on, i havent tried it in years though. now i am sad

― sIrcumsized, Saturday, 8 March 2003 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Just catching up with this thread now.

1) I developed at a young age. I started wearing a bra when I was 9. My grandmother took me to one of those old Jewish wholesale garment shops on the Lower East Side and let me pick one out. It was embarrassing, but afterwards I felt like one of the girls in Are You There God, It's Me Margaret.

2) I recognized the Robyn Hitchcock song. It's on I Often Dream of Trains.

3) That's all I'll share on this thread. Anything more, you'll have to buy me dinner first.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 8 March 2003 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

heh heh, Dave didn't pick up the tab for us last night, hahahaha.

― hstencil, Saturday, 8 March 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

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