"These are sooooooo cute! I wish they have this in my size!!! " Divya longingly puts back the light pink bra which is covered in dark pink tiny li'l strawberries.
"Ma'm Try this one... I'm sure it'll fit you like a gglooouurve" The saleswoman literally 'coos' desperately trying to convince Divya into buying a bra after trying almost all the ones in the store.
"Oh man! I think i better ask my cousin to get me some lingerie from the states...Why god why?!" We walk out of the store leaving behind the angry saleswoman.
We Indians have pretty much been shy when it comes to lingerie shopping and most of the times end up wearing the wrong size. Thanks to the charts in the trial rooms these days that most of the women are getting 'indirectly' educated on wearing a right fit.
Even though we have a million brands marketing lingerie, the size does vary from company to company ( in spite of knowing the size! ), so do not ever make the mistake of buying it without trying it on or make sure the store has an exchange policy.
Obviously Indian women are much voluptuous (the average population - not everyone is blessed with long legs-size zero-model like body! )compared to the other Asian women ( i'm keeping in mind the stick think Tibetian, Nepali, Singapore, Chinese women ) and the Bangalore girls have at least shopped once at the Tibetian Plaza ( Dubai plaza on Brigade road ) where they sell very cute lingerie in all colours/shapes/patterns and mostly the size which fits the thin ones! :(
Recently, I read you're supposed to replace the lingerie every 3 months and that got me thinking.
Unless i'm off on a study trip, I'm not really bothered about them ( the pain of washing clothes on a study trip puts me off and I stack up clothes for the number of days i'm travelling.. damn! its high time i stopped being so lazy! )
I've not really had much problem finding the 'right' size and fit, but it does make me sad when I see few of my friends who hardly wanna invest in them just because 'no one will see it ya! whats the point in buying high-priced' ones?' . I want to literally pull out their brains and scream 'Of course no one will see rite now! but you're not gonna stay young forever! and probably in another 5 years, you'll be looking at a pair of saggy sad ones' ( I'm leaving out the your bf/husband mite get turned off part :P ) and put back the brain into their heads!
I used to make fun of those advertisements and articles which wrote about 'wearing the right fit' and wondered how this small piece of clothing could 'Ooze confidence' , 'bring out the superstar' and stuff like that in you! But When of my classmates ( whom we actually had adviced a million times to wear a right one and who gave us back this lecture on 'saving money' - It was outrightly sagging!! even with piles of clothing on! and thatsy we told her ) actually 'invested' in the right fit from an expensive brand and stopped piling up under layers, and started talking more and 'poking her nose' in all things, she revealed , 'I'm glad you guys told me.. I did look at the pictures and i felt so pathetic and thatsy I literally poured all the internship money into buying good lingerie and i feel i have some weird confidence out of no-where!' (Even though she did sound like a 'healed person from one those tele-brand advertisements', we are glad we told her that and made her realize the value of 'small clothing'! )
Seriously! this is nothing to be so shy about! Its a part of your body and just the way you take care of your face,hands etc, its pretty much the same here. :) Even though it takes a lot of time to find the 'puuurfeect' one, once you've found it, its def. worth it! :)
If you aren't sure of your size, please measure and find it out! :) it hardly takes few minutes.
"Ma'm Try this one... I'm sure it'll fit you like a gglooouurve" The saleswoman literally 'coos' desperately trying to convince Divya into buying a bra after trying almost all the ones in the store.
"Oh man! I think i better ask my cousin to get me some lingerie from the states...Why god why?!" We walk out of the store leaving behind the angry saleswoman.
We Indians have pretty much been shy when it comes to lingerie shopping and most of the times end up wearing the wrong size. Thanks to the charts in the trial rooms these days that most of the women are getting 'indirectly' educated on wearing a right fit.
Even though we have a million brands marketing lingerie, the size does vary from company to company ( in spite of knowing the size! ), so do not ever make the mistake of buying it without trying it on or make sure the store has an exchange policy.
Obviously Indian women are much voluptuous (the average population - not everyone is blessed with long legs-size zero-model like body! )compared to the other Asian women ( i'm keeping in mind the stick think Tibetian, Nepali, Singapore, Chinese women ) and the Bangalore girls have at least shopped once at the Tibetian Plaza ( Dubai plaza on Brigade road ) where they sell very cute lingerie in all colours/shapes/patterns and mostly the size which fits the thin ones! :(
Recently, I read you're supposed to replace the lingerie every 3 months and that got me thinking.
Unless i'm off on a study trip, I'm not really bothered about them ( the pain of washing clothes on a study trip puts me off and I stack up clothes for the number of days i'm travelling.. damn! its high time i stopped being so lazy! )
I've not really had much problem finding the 'right' size and fit, but it does make me sad when I see few of my friends who hardly wanna invest in them just because 'no one will see it ya! whats the point in buying high-priced' ones?' . I want to literally pull out their brains and scream 'Of course no one will see rite now! but you're not gonna stay young forever! and probably in another 5 years, you'll be looking at a pair of saggy sad ones' ( I'm leaving out the your bf/husband mite get turned off part :P ) and put back the brain into their heads!
I used to make fun of those advertisements and articles which wrote about 'wearing the right fit' and wondered how this small piece of clothing could 'Ooze confidence' , 'bring out the superstar' and stuff like that in you! But When of my classmates ( whom we actually had adviced a million times to wear a right one and who gave us back this lecture on 'saving money' - It was outrightly sagging!! even with piles of clothing on! and thatsy we told her ) actually 'invested' in the right fit from an expensive brand and stopped piling up under layers, and started talking more and 'poking her nose' in all things, she revealed , 'I'm glad you guys told me.. I did look at the pictures and i felt so pathetic and thatsy I literally poured all the internship money into buying good lingerie and i feel i have some weird confidence out of no-where!' (Even though she did sound like a 'healed person from one those tele-brand advertisements', we are glad we told her that and made her realize the value of 'small clothing'! )
Seriously! this is nothing to be so shy about! Its a part of your body and just the way you take care of your face,hands etc, its pretty much the same here. :) Even though it takes a lot of time to find the 'puuurfeect' one, once you've found it, its def. worth it! :)
If you aren't sure of your size, please measure and find it out! :) it hardly takes few minutes.
Images from Google
:P :P
Oh come on! nothing to be 'shy' about and block the 'pervert' in you! :P
P.S : I'm sooooo sorry for MIA... This post was there in my draft for quiet sometime and i finally completed it..I hope you guys had a great Deepavali :)
