Does anyone here subscribe to the journal Nature? I want to, but purely out of curiousity, and it's expensive, so I'm wondering if it's worth it, or if everything cool will eventually trickle down to the "popular" science mags anyway.

Most of the articles themselves are hard for a nonspecialist to understand. So the people who are reading the first paper in an issue probably can't understand the third paper. Or I may be projecting, because I can never understand more than one paper in an issue.

But the cool stuff usually gets a more accessible editorial summary, and those summaries are usually freely available on the web at nature.com or if you really only want things from the flagship journal, nature.com/nature.

All universities have an online subscription, so I bet that a Buffista could set you up with any paper you can't get for free.

And anything that fits in the bust is too tight in the waist... Jesse, you're right! I just need vintage undergarments! A girdle and a bullet bra! Oh, as usual, dear.

Rick, thanks, that's about what I expected. Sometimes I can access the abstracts, which are really all I need, but sometimes I can't get even that without a subscription. I'm going to check with our librarian to see if our institution has a subscription (I doubt it).

And anything that fits in the bust is too tight in the waist... Jesse, you're right! I just need vintage undergarments! A girdle and a bullet bra! Oh, as usual, dear.

It's such a universal problem, and I don't think my proportions are so odd, that I'm really convinced that's the problem with vintage.

FWIW, a longline bullet bra will usually do just as well to fit you into vintage dresses as a regular bullet bra and a girdle, and they're not impossible to find on eBay. Plus, a fair number of vintage longlines have some light boning in the body but no underwires in the bust. The lack of underwire is just sheerly blissful.

Ah, but if I did that, then I might discover that they STILL don't fit, and that would never do!

Question: If I go back to my hairdresser to get my cut fixed, do I tip her again?

Well, even if you tried it and the dresses still didn't fit, at least you'd still have a lovely non-underwire yet perkytastic bra. And you could sell the vintage dresses to buy more bras.

Plus, I could live vicariously through you since it'll be approximately forever before I can get back into mine (which I frequently wore under regular non-vintage stuff, it was that comfy).

Anything that fits in the waist is too big in the chest, because I'm not wearing a girdle and a bullet bra.

Man, I'm suited for vintage in a way they never could have predicted...actually, my problem is more often that the chest is too small, and since the Incredible Hulking incident, I have to add on extra measurement for actually moving to anything that has sleeves.

Even in vintage, my problem has always been fitting the boobs and butt.

If they fit, the waist bags.

I'm ReversoJesse.

I'd have to find the perfect candidate before figuring out new underwear, and that hasn't happened yet, so I'll just keep buying dresses that fit!

Apropos of being a busy-body: JZ, you know underwires are a no-no post partum (and maybe even at the end of pregnancy--I disremember), right?