As another one who has graduated to granny panties, all I can tell you to do is grin and bear it! And be grateful with them, that at least you don't have a "creeping" problem! lol

Eileen--

Hey! I, too, have a lot of hair and linebacker shoulders! Sadly, unlike you, I am flat as a board so I have no lingerie-shoppping advice for you. I have a whole 'nother set of problems in that department.

Oh Eileen. Just imagine me shaking my head. I will never dance to Love Shack again without having a visual of you shaking your bootie in your Granny Panties.

Now repeat after me. Victoria's Secret is a wonderful store. If I can an angel card I can get free panties. Sexy, Lacy, Panties.

Child of the seventies here. I refuse to wear a red hat. And I will not wear Granny Panties!

Beth,

You do not know from linebacker shoulders. You're the barest slip of a thing.

Cindy,

VS is 'spensive! That's why I loved the ones at Target. Did I mention that in addition to having too much hair and big shoulders, I am also cheap?

Eileen

In defence of Granny Panties, they can be very stylish and still cover all of the appropriate bits (except when they pop up through one's cleavage, of course), but I just can't do thongs. I mean, a thong just seems like a knickerless knicker to me...

(And Cowboy slinks out of the room, red-faced and shaking his head).

Oh Eileen (huge sigh), you of all people should know that, other than adding a decade to your birth year (which I shamefacedly, well almost, have done in strategic situations recently...please don't tell), you of all people should know that the best way to feel young and sexy is to buy lovely, lacy underwear. I confess to preferring white and light pink to bright purple and apple green...but even we conservative yankees need to feel sexy sometimes!

Besides, its your responsibilty to teach all those men that you live with that pretty, lacy underwear is ALWAYS worth the cost!

Eileen, try the high-cut bikinis from VS. They're cotton, not lacy, but they come in fun colors and patterns, and they cover a multitude of (pregnancy-caused) sins under the belly button. I can almost forget about my boring beige and black bras when I'm wearing pink undies with blue and turquoise polka dots, or a groovy 70s-style swirl pattern, on 'em!

Eileen, There's only one word for a cheap wallet like yours and that is "sale". VS has killer sales in January and June. Stock up then, babe. There's nothing like a red laced bra w/matching panties to make you feel non-granny and non-BCGish. Your asp deserves the best!

G'way, Cowboy, this is GIRL talk!! Ok, Eileen, I hear you about the Granny Panties. I wear them also because I can't stand the creepy crawlies--nothing worse than picking at your butt every time you get out of the driver's seat on the bus!! *grin* A friend of mine talked me into wearing thongs a few years (and pounds) back, and I have to admit, she had a pretty good argument for wearing them! I mean, what would you rather have--a big fat wad of cotton crawling into your nether regions or a nice slim piece of elastic? Hardly notice it and it beats picking your undies out of unmentionable places!! I don't wear them much any more, but depending on the clothes I do if I don't want a panty line. As for sales--TJ Maxx seems to carry nice under wear and bras for reasonable prices, and if you are busty (which I am) they are a godsend! VS doesn't believe that large women want to be pretty I guess--never have found anything there for women like me! *sigh*

Oh, dear. ;+)))) You know, if you spend a fortune on the designer undies you can still get matching sets. But for some reason, they only come with either, as you say, Big Country Girl Panties, or thirty dollar wedgies, er, thongs. No bikinis, no French cut. It seems to be either full coverage or dental floss.

What's an 80s chick to do?

Ha! I bet for a shorty I still outdo most of y'all in the linebacker shoulders department.

Eileen, my love-- all the people who have said VS & sale, listen to them. Also, believe it or not... if you can trot your Big Country Girl Panty-wearing butt anywhere near a Macy's, they have AMAZING sales on any kind of undies your little heart desires.

But for the love of God, step AWAY from the Costco 27-Pak. Down that way lies madness. Madness, I tell you.

Barb
(who spent far too many fat girl years in Granny Panties)

LOL about the linebacker shoulders. I have them, too, but I've decided to like them. Now that I've been doing push-ups again, they've gotten nice & buff.

Eileen, as for the panties, do what I did last year--whine, bitch, & complain about your lack of nice ones. My mom & my daughter provided me with bunches of lovely ones for Christmas, thus killing a bunch of birds with one stone--new panties for me, I didn't have to angst about the cost, and a gift idea for them (they think I'm hard to buy for--geez, how complicated is a Barnes & Noble gift certificate? LOL).

Okay. Cowboy has now said that he is getting me VS gift certificates from now on for every occasion (although I can't help but suspect he thinks this will pay off for him in some other departments). It sounds like fun although I did kind of want a case for my auto harp.

The LC Eileen

Oooh- if you have big boobs there are very few good bras. All the fun bras are in the smaller sizes. The clerks laugh at you if you want them in larger sizes. It is like the cost of lace to cover large boobs if prohibitive. If you have hooters you get the bras that close with a giant metal buckle in the back.
Eileen- the other one

My husband went bra shopping with me--once. He couldn't understand my reluctance to buy bras until he confronted the beast with me. The stores just don't carry them in my size--if you are over a 38DD for some reason they don't think you want to buy your bra in the STORE--that you PREFER to order the durn things out of a catalogue or something! And then he says "Why don't you just ASK?!"... Yeah, like THAT'S gonna help--like you say, I prefer not to be laughed out of the store!! I absolutely HATE to shop for bras, and I really need to go buy some again. My MIL gave me a gift certificate to Mervyn's--nice idea, but I don't think they carry my size either. (sigh) I want to know where those big gals in the hooter magazines buy THEIR bras--probably cast a small fortune...

Sheri and Other Eileen,

I feel your pain! The cute bras stop at 38C. Sadly, I can tell you that Mervyn's does carry sizes bigger than 38DD. It's just that they're all black, white and beige.

The LC Eileen

Sheri,

A little late to the party, but try Lane Bryant. They actually sale sizes abouve 38DD in the store.

just bought a new bra this weekend. The best place is the Lane Bryant store. They have big ones in pretty colors and they are having a sale right now.

Their panties are the french cut kind, or the granny kind. I have been on a search for bikinis since Warner's stopped making my style! Gasp, shock!

I don't shop at VS because they do not act like us big girls exist.

I forgot about Lane Bryant. We have one here, but then that would mean I would have to go to the (gasp) MALL! Argh! If Mervyn's carries them, I will be happy with whatever color I can get at this point! My DH thinks that those commercials about "lifting" and "seperating" are intended for ME! I told him the only way these babies are going to be "lifted and seperated" is if there is an industrial-sized crane involved... Good god--if I wore a push-up bra I would probably be suffocated!! No thanks! I asked him if he would like me to find something to "lift and seperate" HIS package--he didn't seem real keen on the idea!