As those of you, Dear Readers, who follow my blog know, she is losing weight.. it has been of enormous benefit to her body, poor old wonky knee is giddy with the joy of not having to carry the extra 25.5 lbs that she was lugging about and she has been known AND seen.. steady lass.. to run up a couple of flights of underground escalators!
The loss of 25.5 lbs means that she has shrunk, she's lost, as of today, four inches off her bust, NINE inches off her waist and five off her hips! The female readers of this blog will know that your bras have two measurements, one in inches or centimetres which is the measurement taken around the top of your ribs and the other is in letters which is the 'cup' size.
Having lost four inches, she is tiny, she never did have a big 'back' but the problem is to find pretty bras in glorious colours! Now, if she was in California she'd head for a remarkable lingerie company called The Wizard of Bras.. they stock every possible bra, in every possible shape, colour and design and are simply wonderful!
But she isn't in California, she's in London and after she trudged down the steps tonight, she had with her two bras, black and nude.. (ok but boring).. and as we had tea, she said "You know GeeGee, every single assistant in every lingerie department in every shop on Oxford Street agreed with me that the choice is dismal, they told me that none of their buyers listen to them, they fill their bra sections with styles and colours that are as dreary as hell and they're not catering for slim customers with breasts".
The bras she found came from Bravissimo on Tavistock Street, in Covent Garden, their fitters are fabulous and the range extensive but even there, there wasn't the enormous choice for her small size in the range of pretty colours, patterns and designs that bras which are only two inches bigger have.
Sigh..
But to make her happy, I reminded her that when she tried on her old Hermes belts today, they're well over forty years old and have not been able to be worn for 'some' time, that they had fitted her today but she was shocked to realise how small her waist had been, for the old fashioned Hermes leather belts are adjustable by moving the leather strap over a brass rod, this marks the leather slightly and she measured the smallest mark to the hole.
Twenty four inches.. that, Dear Readers, is 'quite' a small waist! She tried on another belt that her lovely French sister in law, Catherine, gave her when she was 19, it was a little too snug on the loosest hole and is not adjustable but she'll be wearing it in another month or two at this rate.
Her 'proper' shoes and boots are more comfortable as her feet and calves are smaller, her watch strap is now loose, she'll have to fiddle with that tomorrow.
She's off on a jaunt tomorrow.. to Orpington! To purchase all manner of exciting things! I will write about this company and what she finds when she comes back but here's a little taste to wet your appetite!
Jerk seasoning (yum) and other such delicious spices and Cake decorating things.. tomorrow will be here quicker than you think, so come back tomorrow night and read all about them..'cos they're very slurpy!
GeeGee Parrot.
December 1st, 2015.
The loss of 25.5 lbs means that she has shrunk, she's lost, as of today, four inches off her bust, NINE inches off her waist and five off her hips! The female readers of this blog will know that your bras have two measurements, one in inches or centimetres which is the measurement taken around the top of your ribs and the other is in letters which is the 'cup' size.
Having lost four inches, she is tiny, she never did have a big 'back' but the problem is to find pretty bras in glorious colours! Now, if she was in California she'd head for a remarkable lingerie company called The Wizard of Bras.. they stock every possible bra, in every possible shape, colour and design and are simply wonderful!
But she isn't in California, she's in London and after she trudged down the steps tonight, she had with her two bras, black and nude.. (ok but boring).. and as we had tea, she said "You know GeeGee, every single assistant in every lingerie department in every shop on Oxford Street agreed with me that the choice is dismal, they told me that none of their buyers listen to them, they fill their bra sections with styles and colours that are as dreary as hell and they're not catering for slim customers with breasts".
The bras she found came from Bravissimo on Tavistock Street, in Covent Garden, their fitters are fabulous and the range extensive but even there, there wasn't the enormous choice for her small size in the range of pretty colours, patterns and designs that bras which are only two inches bigger have.
Sigh..
But to make her happy, I reminded her that when she tried on her old Hermes belts today, they're well over forty years old and have not been able to be worn for 'some' time, that they had fitted her today but she was shocked to realise how small her waist had been, for the old fashioned Hermes leather belts are adjustable by moving the leather strap over a brass rod, this marks the leather slightly and she measured the smallest mark to the hole.
Twenty four inches.. that, Dear Readers, is 'quite' a small waist! She tried on another belt that her lovely French sister in law, Catherine, gave her when she was 19, it was a little too snug on the loosest hole and is not adjustable but she'll be wearing it in another month or two at this rate.
Her 'proper' shoes and boots are more comfortable as her feet and calves are smaller, her watch strap is now loose, she'll have to fiddle with that tomorrow.
She's off on a jaunt tomorrow.. to Orpington! To purchase all manner of exciting things! I will write about this company and what she finds when she comes back but here's a little taste to wet your appetite!
Jerk seasoning (yum) and other such delicious spices and Cake decorating things.. tomorrow will be here quicker than you think, so come back tomorrow night and read all about them..'cos they're very slurpy!
GeeGee Parrot.
December 1st, 2015.
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