Re: Dave R or Sarah
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 09, 2003 01:37AM
Thanks Ptollers, 3rd generation retailer, natch. (Have I moved to the USA since I started going to the chat room????)
I've had customers who've had operations both ways. I think there is more of a need for bespoke manufacture for 'minority' sizes and shapes. There must certainly be enough ladies in the USA to make it pay.
Honestly Twila don't be too set on it till you've seen Sarah. She has a friend who used to think she was 36DD who asked me to pop round. As soon as I arrived I knew she wasn't, so said nothing until she'd tried them all on. She came back down and described her 'symptoms', and when I advised this must mean she was a 34E (I didn't say, or larger cup) she practically burst into tears. Why? Insults and bad service from bra shops just for being a double D. Dead set on a reduction.
Sarah encouraged her for a while - she wasn't working for me then - and we gradually coaxed her to try some 34E's, then 34Fs. Suddenly, wonderment and comfort! And, a figure most men would --- well, you can guess. She's gone up to a 34FF now, and we are still able to get her fancy bodies, colours, matching suspender belts, prettty panties -- not hard in a 12 at the bottom, but hard to get a match to a 34F/FF bra. Now she just thinks she's gorgeous, and she is too. Any woman that thinks she's gorgeous, pretty much is. (Gentlemen take note. Want a sexy girlfriend? Tell the one you've got how wonderful she is. WARNING - GENERALIZATION!)
Oh, and a customer in 48D who liked bodies. Got her any amount of variety of them in any colour you like from Ulla of Germany, special import. Happily paid £500 for 8 (reduced!) and took then home and took the wires out as they were too low for her as she was tall. She got what she wanted. I say Bravo! (By the way, for Bravissimo customers, did you know that was the masculine of Bravissima?)
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REGRETFUL ANOUNCEMENT
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The best bras for a combination of comfort and shape are the Lov'Ring bras by Lovable Italiana. Why the regret? They are no longer available in this country by reason of being bought out by Sara Lee (makes sign of cross) who have many companies in many countries. To rationalise, they decided not to advertise, or sell products out-of-country.
And the bloody things are patented!