Totally agree on both the straps and the mannequin boobage.

Daniel just called. He's headed home over roads that have had freezing rain/mist drifting down onto them all day, after having chipped a sheet of ice 1/2 inch thick off the van.

(Yes. I Have Views about undergarments.)

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I have found several comfortable underwire bras that look great, and I love them.

My mom is totally pancake flat. She has big loathing for underwire bras, and no real use for them. And my whole adolescence she bad-mouthed underwire bras to me (her NOT-pancake-flat daughter).

College rolls around, and I decide that I'm an adult, and I need a "pretty bra." So my roommates and I go to Vicki's Secret, and the sales associate fits me -- a 34 or 36 B at the time, oh how I miss it -- with an underwire bra. When she brought it to the fitting room, I was all "No way! Underwire bras SUCK!"

And then I tried it on.

Ever since then, all my bras (except for sports bras) have been underwire. LOVE them.

And I have to have a bra with some kind of light padding because other wise, well, my nipples show through. Which means I can't wear the pretty balconette bras at Lane Bryant.

Uh, you can buy them and wear them on occasions that you might not be wearing a shirt over them. IJS.

I practically lived on those in Mexico City so I'd call them actual Mexican.

From what I understand, tortas are way more common than the Americanized burrito down Mexico way.

The outfit I wore to Prom, each piece was $40, give or take $10 (the overdress was more, the underdress was less). You can probably get more use out of that skirt, so long as you don't mind the handwash issue.

I'd end up paying $35-40 in a store somewhere, I know. So it doesn't seem horrendously expensive, especially if you can vouch for the workmanship.

Stay safe, Daniel! Our piles of snow are now covered with a glistening glaze of ice.

I can haz warmth! I'm presently in Abu Dhabi airport en route back to Bangkok. Yay!

Again, what do I know about bra's?

Oh, so many many times I have bitten my tongue rather than appear rude, but - Omnis, mate, please stop hurting the apostrophe. It is a hard-working and elegant little punctuation mark, and shoving it haphazardly into random plurals makes the Baby Jesus cry.

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The one time I tried an X-back, I ended with all sorts of neck issues. And yet the alternative isn't THAT much better. It's just I cannot have anything pressing on the tendons that run neck-shoulder/collarbone bump. I actually need something that rides right along the bump, which is bone, not muscle or tendon.

I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll never have a perfect bra without a custom made one. Even the really exspensive nice ones, like Wacol and co, just aren't cut for my shape. I gave up.

Daniel just pulled in the driveway.

I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll never have a perfect bra without a custom made one. Even the really exspensive nice ones, like Wacol and co, just aren't cut for my shape. I gave up.

I know Town Shoppe does alterations. It's included in the price of the bra, even not so spendy ones. Maybe other swank stores do too?

World's Best Boyfriend. I kid you not. The man gets home from work two hours later than he should due to work wackiness plus weather, and yet he is out there right now clearing the ice off my car.