changing up yr style and/or new look 4 u in 2012

I've been tempted with jeggings. And leggings as pants. All my style rules.. :*( but I am sick of baggy pants. I find that pants either fit me really nicely in the back (tight against my awesome butt!) or nicely in the front (no camel toe/not too grabby on my tummy.) I can never find both. I think the real solution here is a ton of situps or something, but.. I have dresses.

I got a $50 Macy's gift card from work so I'm going to go lacy expensive bra shopping. Maybe today!

no bad self-talk in 2012, for real!!

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yes!

yay for lacy expensive bras! My husband bought me two for Christmas (plainish, not very expensive ones) which fit poorly so I exchanged them last night and now I have plain but exceptionally comfortable new t-shirt bras in black and beige. The straps are so nice and stretchy! I gave in and moved up from a 38 to a 40. So much more comfortable.

i'll be your toady too

xp

i mean, really the cheapest/easiest way to have better style is to have more confidence, right?

And more better posture!

oh i ordered some patterns from folkways btw! takin steps in 2012.

the posture thing is definitely a "needs improvement" area for me.

Robyn - it sounds like we do!

I just bought the red dress :)

^^^ me too, big time xp

yay i love that red dress, E!

Okay, what does anyone think of

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61TydFXsq-L._SL1500_.jpg

love!

Amazing, now coveting

would chop off one leg if i could but wear that boot on the other one

Now now, no hacking off body parts in 2012, remember?

Oh god those boots yes get them now

it's a blood sacrifice for the privilege of wearing those magnificent boots

or boot, i guess

yes those boots!
tho unless they have a zipper, they will own you as much as you own them. not that that's a bad thing.

yes they do look like a lot of work. but then, Laurel seems v industrious.

I am, it's true. Also I like hardcore things that are v inconvenient/uncomfortable, I don't feel like I'm doing Accomplishment right unless it hurts somehow.

But they do have a zipper.

http://static2.slamxhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/henrik-vibskov-spring-summer-2012-collection-1.jpg

^^ if any dudes reading this thread are getting tired of their current look

first look makes me wonder about the ethics of whether designers should really be cultivating a mentally ill street person "look"

tbf things are p bad but im not homeless yet

haha :) i do love the sweater + leggings though!

erica, i thought so! now we can ILX-ILS online shop together! ;) :)

Wardrobe that pays for itself: people will come up and give you money when you wear it! ;D

:)

Okay, I ordered the boots. So much for winter wellies, eh?

I have very standard proportions, so most clothes fit me just right... I mean, except I am very large-chested, and wide-hipped.. and pretty much big everywhere. Still, I work it. Damn, gurl.

I also will wear just about anything these days, "flattering" be damned.

I procured a new fancy bra and panty set from Agent Provocateur on SALE and oh my god the bra size that fit best was a double D! A DOUBLE D!

Having worn the same model of Wacoal 34C bras for ages now, it now occurs to me that omg maybe I one of the 99% or whatever of women who has been wearing the wrong bra size. Me! Wrong size!

This would so explain the escaping left nipple problem, perhaps?

Anyhow I am going to suck it up and try on a D bra and laugh as I do it because I spent so many years as the chair of the itty bitty titty committee.

I know that ladies often wear the wrong size but how could you spend years not knowing you had a secret huge rack!? I want pretty lacy bras now. Would def not be a DD though. :(

a C is not itty bitty?

Yeah a C is pretty big in my book!

No I agree that a C is not itty bitty, but throughout high school and much of college, I did not have a lot of boob going on. I hit a C sometime after grad school when I had a grown up job that paid enough for me to eat more delicious foodz.

I think the DD was an oddity of this particular fancy AP bra, but I will try the D in my boring old Wacoal model and see if that is better at keeping nipples in check!

Laurel - i am envious of your shoulders because that means you can fit into way more vintage dresses and tops than I can. I first learned to sew so that I could expand the shoulders and sleeves of vintage dresses to fit my peasantly dimensions.

I'm going to look at the AP website as soon as I get home.

will the AP website make my boobs bigger?

^^^

lol

Cup sizes vary w/ band size, so a 34 DD is a smaller cup than a 40 DD. So there's not really an objective C cup.

it's relative, right? like cup size is determined by how many inches larger the biggest boob part is vs the bust measurement

Aye.

You could totally be a DD and have been wearing the wrong size this entire time. A friend of mine just recently got measured at Nordstrom and should be wearing a 32DD when she's been wearing a 34C for years.

Oh, and I wear 38G so I HAVE to buy expensive bras.

i guess i really have no idea what bra size i am

have been thinking of going to nordstroms and getting properly measured since i followed the instructions on a link someone posted here that told me i was a 40DD, and i was like ???!?