an idea I tossed off

[redbird]

Last week, a user who will not be identified here (because it was in a locked post) asked, offhandedly. for someone to write 800 words about bras. I replied as follows:

I see the one about bras as a madcap comedy/chase, with dark undertones.

A woman is dashing frantically about, trying to find her missing bra. Hilarity ensues, as she bemoans its absence and her inability to do various important things without it. Cut to the person who took it home from the laundry by accident, then to her eight-year-old who is enchanted because it's purple...

In the denouement, we discover that this bra is special not because it's purple but because it's the magic Bra That Always Fits.

Zie didn't take me up on that, but I may play with it anyhow.

Comments

[eleanor.livejournal.com]

I did write around 800 words about bras, right here, a couple of years ago.

[treadpath.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... magic bra that always fits... Have you read the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants? It's about four very different girls who find a magic pair of jeans that looks awesome on all of them... I would love to read your bra story! I hope you decide to write it!

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

I used to know some folks who owned a Magic Dress. It looked good on everyone, including men.

MKK

Sigh

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose there's more than one Magic Bra That Always Fits, is there? I certainly need one, and I'm sure lots of others would line up as well.

[intelligentrix.livejournal.com]

Not quite, but almost off topic: I have found a bra that Fits Well, which is a thing devoutly to be wished. Oddly enough, I found it at K-Mart for $13.00. The brand is Joe Boxer, and it has a little gold emblam right in the center which has no discernable purpose and is engineered upside down. But the bra fits. And looks damned good. So I have bought five of them.

[ala-too.livejournal.com]

I have never found a problem finding the bra that fits. The bigger issue is finding my size. If they have it, it's going to fit. Now jeans are another thing. When I lost weight a few years ago I thought all my jeans problems were going to go away. Well it certainly helped but it still wasn't true. Whatever the magical figure is that I'm supposed to have at the correct weight, I don't resemble it, apparently.

I finally found a couple of styles at Gap (of all places) that fit perfectly by having the the store help actually be helpful (I actually needed a size smaller than I could imagine and that's why they weren't fitting right). Unfortunately Gap has decided to stop offering those styles so I'm now back to no well fit jeans again. *sigh*.

Why is it that the most popular clothing in use seems to be the one everyone complains doesn't fit right?