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A note from Dee... Remember that I have cropped and resized the pictures Wendy sent me so they'd fit better here and load faster. To see the whole original as Wendy sent it to me, simply click on the picture, and to return, use your browser's return button.

The pictures in this first part of lesson 4 are older (some even from the 1950s and 1960s!) advertising artwork. They fully (amply?) illustrate Wendy's points (er -- the points she's trying to make -- or something like that ;-))

Having been seduced into bras by my first sight of a decollete bra, and thankfully so, I was an accolyte of the half-bra (or demi-bra) and could not bring myself, except in moments of extreme distraction, to wrap myself into any other bra style. In my Sears padded decollete bra, I had achieved the immense and deeply primal satisfaction of becoming an assisted A cup. Every full-cup design (and I take the literary license of defining a full-cup as when the upper cup is intended to be a structural member) I tried in A-cup depth rewarded me with a less than full cup and a very desultory experience. Going up in cup size would be the wrong direction.

This experience continued for over 20 years. It was not until a few years ago that I discovered a class of bra that is decidedly unique and astoundingly correct, for me at least. And that is the full-figure bra. You would think, that by its very definition, full-figure bras are intended for more amply endowed women, and they are. Most of these bras are manufactured in a minimum cup size of C or D, and band sizes that rarely trend below 36 or 38. With the discovery of the Lady Marlene 592, I had smashed a seemingly insurmountable barrier, I had graduated to a B cup, and very credibly at that (now I wish I had had the foresight to order more 36-Bs than I did [I have one left in the wrapper], and at least one, if not many more 36-C specimens, today I might fill a C-cup in that bra)(alas, the 592 was discontinued years ago). So now, verily a B-cup, I tended to smile wanly at certain designs that had, at a minimum, C-cups in my band size or close, but were otherwise irresistably fetching.

Such a bra I found in a Sophisticated Intimates (highly recommended!) catalog in 1995. It was produced by Goddess (I owe it all to Goddess!), and was available in 34-C up. No 36-B. It was beautiful, though had a wider band than I was enamored at the time, but it had a hybrid rigid/stretch band, and the cups were to die for. Wonderful nearly horizontal seamed lower non-stretch cups coupled with non-stretch nylon eyelet netting upper cups verged with a not-as attractive outer upper cup expanced border (presumably an accommodation of fuller breasts on fuller figures, i.e. more fabric to encompass more upper breast etc.). It was gorgeous! I lamented over the lack of a B cup model no end, even though I did not fancy full-cup designs at the time. Many such catalogs came with the result that I did order several Smoothie Always 21 open bottom girdles (but that might be another manifesto, if you so will it), but just could not conceive of anything in a C-cup for me.

As an aside, I distinctly remember a second-year college experience of arranging with a girlfriend of my best friend and first-year roomate for a temporary room while I found a more permanent housing condition. While sharing a flat with her for a month or so, she floored me once by coming home one day in a negative funk complaining that she had just grown to another cup size. This was hard to conceive as she was a dead ringer for Dolly Parton as far as I could see already. To have graduated to a larger cups size seemed to me, at the time, an incomprehensible circumstance. I could not imagine that the bra alphabet had enough letters. It was also incredibly arousing to both hear this and look at her! I cannot ever remember being so frustrated in so many ways at the same time. I wanted to take her bra off, not try it on (ridiculous), and do what would come naturally with such natural assets.

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