Sizing for a particularly delicate area

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Starling" <starling823 at y...> wrote:
 
> I cannot find bras.  I am, thanks to the delightful genetic code I 
> got from my parents (and I'd gladly give this part back)  a DD cup.
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> I am a student, I can't exactly toss away $30 for one bra.
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> but it would be nice to own something other than white.

I wish I were still a DD cup, like I was back when I was in college 
(class of '78). In those days, it was nearly impossible to find *any* 
DD cup bras, even the huge ugly ones made of white plate armor, but 
nowdays (supposedly due to the new high-tech materials invented for 
the space program) there are numerous DD cup bras offered for sale, 
and I often gaze longingly at the (Lane Bryant and Roaman's and other 
fat-lady stores) catalog pictures of lovely bright-colored lacey bras 
in sizes up to DD... but never in MY size (which is either G or H, I 
can never remember). 

I *did* find a style of bra in those fat-lady catalogs that fits me 
(!) and comes in white AND black AND beige (I usually wear beige, so 
it shows less beneath my gauzy clothes; if I thought I would EVER 
*wear* a purple bra, I would dye a white one with Rit dye; back in 
those days I bought three-quarter-length gloves, which in those days 
only came in white, and dyed them green for a costume) and even in a 
front-fasten style! They *do* cost $36 each, but it's worth it. 

> Shopping for shirts and blouses is also difficult.  I'll find a 
> great blouse, only to find it doesn't button quite properly down
> the middle.

Which happens even with shirts that are Way Too Big everywhere else. 
With shirts/dresses that I can pull over my head, I just sew the 
button fronts together. When the button front is actually necessary 
for putting the garment on, I use small safety pins (on the inside) 
to hold it shut. I have been advised to sew a zipper into the button 
placket (thus turning it into a zipper front garment with illusion 
buttons), but I am much too lazy to do that.