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The Perils Of Ample Cleavage

Posted by inspirationalley at 03:09 AM on January 28, 2008

I usually hate shopping in any form, but, last week I dragged Eric out kicking and screaming to buy clothes. The intention was to buy clothes for me....which I did with a vengeance, but we also ended up buying a few things for Eric and Ashleigh.

The one thing that always strikes me when I go shopping for clothes is that manufacturers always seem to design for some bustless woman. This is definitely a problem for me! First stop on my shopping trip was Marks and Spencers. None of my bras fitted properly, so, taking advice from Trinny and Susannah I decided to have a bra fitting session. Only problem was, there were only two bras in the entire store in my size. That's right two. Not two styles, with several in each style...TWO bras only. Now this is why I hate shopping for clothes. I always end up feeling like some kind of freak, which obviously I am.

Normally at this stage I would decide it was all a very bad idea and slink back home, but for some reason last week I continued shopping and unusually for me, I wasn't even feeling bad or deformed. I needed some new trousers and tops, and a few other things took my fancy along the way. It wasn't easy finding tops. Being somewhat busty, but still having a waist is obviously unheard of. To find anything that fitted my bust but wasn't a shapeless tent that made me look double the size I am, was difficult to say the least. Believe me, smocks and tops that fall from the bust do not look good if you're large busted. Something with sufficient material across the bust and then fitted and shaped to your body with a lower neckline does. Things that button down the front gape, tops without buttons work far better. Now this is not exactly rocket science, and I can't be the only woman with an ample cleavage, so why do designers not design for us?

This brings me on to problem number two. Trouser leg length! Designers and buyers please note, not all women have legs that go up to their arm pits. I wandered round the men's departments with Eric and there were a variety of leg lengths in all waist sizes, most relatively easy to find. However, returning to the women's section no such luxury existed. True the petite sections do tend to stock trousers with a shorter leg - usually too short, but the whole cut of the garment is different and they tend to be too low on the hips as well. So, I ended up buying trousers that are too long and being useless with a sewing needle, will now have to find someone to shorten them for me so that they still look half way decent.

All this reminds me of exactly why I don't usually go shopping for clothes - I end up feeling deformed and close to tears. I'm told that most women love clothes shopping and I think that if I could ever find anything that fitted properly I could too, but that day seems as far away as ever. But, last week was an achievement for me, I no longer felt odd or close to tears. I am who I am. When I look in a mirror with my rational head on, I know that I'm not a freak. The problem isn't me, it's the designers and the buyers and the commercial world that places us all in little boxes.

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