Same everyone that says you're a cowgirl?

No, I mean a completely different everyone.

Yeah. It's a stupid garter.

The bullshit consensus from the alt.gothic.fashion girls is that no matter how tight those garters are, the little pocket thingamie makes it slip down.

When I used to have long slim legs, thigh highs stayed up beautifully. I think they're designed for the Barbies among us.

These are supposed to be very comfy: [link]

I think well of VS Very Sexy bras. I don't need padding, God knows, except I don't want headlights flashing my student...or grocery clerks, for that matter. They're pretty, but low key and fit me well, at least.

I can wear thigh highs once or twice, and then the elastic expires.

eta:

The problem with (this has been bothering me all day, since my bra is lined) the lined ones is that the edge of the bra is completely visible through anything knit. I prefer my nipples, basically, because they're mine.

Erin, those panties are totally cute. As is practically everything on that site. Which reminds me, in that way that a thing can sometimes remind you of its complete and total opposite, of the lingerie shower I went to last weekend for my cousin who is a member of a FAC.

I was nervous about getting sexy underwear for a church girl, but gulped hard, steeled my nerves, and found her a pink-and-black bustier and matching panties, very womanly and retro and dead sexy but in a grown-up sort of "I am Woman, hear me roar, or, more specifically, I am Jean Harlow, hear me purr" way. It was all just terribly pretty and sensuous and she has a sensational body that I knew would look great in that, but I felt horribly nervous that it was way too risqué for an FAC virgin and I even wrote an apologetic "I hope this is okay and doesn't freak you out" note in the card.

And then when I got to the shower, it turned out that mine was one of the top three most tasteful and least hideous pieces of underwear anyone got her. All these FAC girls had run out and bought her pasties and fishnet bodysuits from Frederick's, thongs with marabou feather bunny tails from VS, and assorted other appalling garments that are just going to get worn once and then wadded up in a drawer and never spoken of again.

So now I'm all baffled. Is a lingerie shower supposed to be one long dirty joke where you get your friend the most whorish thing you can find instead of anything genuinely beautiful or sexy, even if that's the only shower she's getting (this was it for my cousin)? Or, I'm wondering whether devoutly FAC single women, having possibly less experience of the world of lingerie than other women, just get all overexcited at the thought that one of their own is finally going to get to have sex and run out and buy up all the naughtiest stuff they can find because they don't know any better?

I have chunkt thighs, so thigh highs aren't my friend. If I'm going for slutty leglook, I prefer a garter belt, with lace top stocking and a skirt short enough for a glimpse of stocking, if I so desire.

But usually I just wear Target tights. The best, most comfortable tights were Express tights, but they don't make them anymore. Land's End are the softest and most long lasting -- I've had a pair for...6 years now.

So now I'm all baffled. Is a lingerie shower supposed to be one long dirty joke where you get your friend the most whorish thing you can find instead of anything genuinely beautiful or sexy, even if that's the only shower she's getting (this was it for my cousin)? Or, I'm wondering whether devoutly FAC single women, having possibly less experience of the world of lingerie than other women, just get all overexcited at the thought that one of their own is finally going to get to have sex and run out and buy up all the naughtiest stuff they can find because they don't know any better?

IMO, it's supposed to be about 80/20 sexy v. slutty. You have to have a couple of funny s;ut outfits to wear once (*and rip off in animal lust, or whatever) but most of it should be stuff she can wear a feel good in. I think maybe you were dead on about the girls' overexcitement = overcompensation thing.

ita, could it be that the cup doesn't fit properly? The breast should run smoothly into the cup. Or maybe when I think knit, I'm thinking a slightly thicker fabric -- I have that line with my best fitting bras in a t-shirt fabric, too.

EDIT: JZ, FWIW, this is what I plan on getting my friend for her bridal shower: [link]

I remember the first "personal" bridal shower I attended was for a friend of my sister's--everyone gave her the usual sexy lingerie, except for her very conservative mother, who actually gave her a flannel nightie, full-length!

could it be that the cup doesn't fit properly?

I guess it's this -- I've never found a non-full-coverage bra that fits properly, then. Because even unlined, if it's demi, I just have to inhale, and they're leaping for freedom again. Or pulling away from the cup. They're very willful, my breasts.

I hate them.

At least today.