I just had an entire world of lingerie options opened up for me

At the risk of being "way TMI", I'm going to talk a little about my bra size today (yep, that's right, speaking candidly of the lumps of fat resting on my chest.)

I think it goes without saying that if anyone has ever seen me in person or seen the pictures I post on here, I have a rather large pair of boobs. I have, in fact, since I was 13. I never went through the nice, normal phase of increasing one cup size at a time as I slowly went through puberty, and waiting until my fully formed teen years to pick a cup size and stick with it. I left 7th grade in an A cup, and came back to school 3 months later in a fully formed C cup... in need of properly lined, wired adult bras.
At the time, I was in the delightful "32 C" size, a size at that time impossible to find in cheap stores like Target... thus forcing me to purchase expensive bras from Nordstrom, in the upwards of $40 range (at that time, you couldn't even find a 32 C at Victoria's Secret, believe it or not...)... by the end of junior high, I'd jumped up another cup size, placing me in the even more dreaded "32 D"... about a year later, Target and VS started carrying 32 C, but not D... leaving me still picking from the cheapest (but still expensive), most boring styles possible at Nordstrom. I left high school a 32 DD... just in time for VS to start carrying 32 D, but not my new found, much more aggravating size. I'd like to say it stopped there, but over the next few years and a series of bizarre measurements at Nordstrom, I landed in 34 DD (able to buy some solid black, boring numbers from VS), a 30 G followed by a 32 FF (I wish I was kidding. These both resulted in solid black, completely boring, $70 bras from Nordstrom), to my finally adequate size of 34 D... able to buy some really boring bras from Target (more often than not, they have like... 3 styles in that size at any given time), or some really cute but rather expensive things at VS.
Lately, that size was just... killing me. And the way my bras were fitting, I'd assumed it was the cup size that had increased, NOT the band size. So I made the rather dumb mistake of dropping nearly $50 on a 34 DD from VS, only to find myself just about dying from how tightly the band was squeezing my rib cage (my old bras were so stretched out I'd failed to make the connection), and the cups sliding all over the place because they're too loose (now I need to see if VS will give me a refund after wearing the damn thing out twice...)
Sooo, last night, I opted to try a *drumroll please* 36 D from Target... guess what... IT FIT PERFECTLY... I have never in my life been SO EXCITED to go up a number size. In anything. It's like my ribcage finally expanded to a nice, normal size. And I bought two REALLY CUTE BRAS for less than the price of the boring one I picked up at VS the other day.

And now, because I can FINALLY wear a size that's so readily available, I'm thinking of all the options this gives me:
I can buy shapewear (not because I feel fat, but because Target had a really sexy shapewear slip that would fully show off my hourglass figure underneath my multitudes of dresses, AND look a little vintage chic were anyone to ever undress me... hey, a girl can dream)
I can buy fitted lingerie. Gone are the days of thinking the sexiest I can ever get is a loose, silky nightgown a size too big so my boobs will fit. Here are the days in which I could consider buying those sexy nightgowns that come in actual bra sizes.
I can go to Target any ol' time I want and buy bras. Cute bras, plain bras, t-shirt bras... I can FINALLY AFFORD TO OWN MORE THAN ONE BRA AT ONCE! OR MORE THAN TWO AT MY BEST!
I can buy cheap corsets. I can buy properly fitted, bra top bikinis. And I can buy any lingerie I possibly could ever want at a really, really freaking affordable price.

Now that I've declared far too much about my breasts on the internet, I just want to say that I'm thrilled how much this does for me in terms of fashion.
Getting larger has never been so wonderful.

A few different outfits

First off, I bought a lovely new blue dress with white polka dots:



I suppose this one is the more casual one? I still adore the other one, but this one has a slightly longer skirt and no corset wiring, so it's less of a pain to wear. It's also not as figure flattering, but I certainly don't consider it UNflattering. It's all about accessorizing, anyway, right?

Then, I bought this lovely new Converse top, full of fluttery goodness. And unearthed my red skinny jeans that I bought three years ago. Because, you know, I actually really like my red skinny jeans:



I am seriously in love with this top. I put it on and felt like a freaking princess. And red jeans? They're just fun.

This one? Well, I know I've shown off this dress before, but I don't think I have EVER shown off my Anna Sui vest. I bought it from the Anna Sui boutique in none other than Tokyo. And yes, I enjoy the bragging rights that gives me.
It's such a shame this photo is blurry, because I love how it came out:


Yep, that's from Tokyo. And yep, it's as cool as it looks. Cost me about $60, which isn't that much considering it's Anna Sui. And after the untimely death of my Anna Sui sailor blouse, I'm glad I still have this one...

And finally, an outfit I rocked many a time this summer and never did get around to doing a photo shoot with:



I fell in love with the "shorts and tights" look this summer, and this was one of many shirt pairings I did with it. Unfortunately, I only one those denim shorts and a pair of REALLY short olive green shorts. I'm thinking I may have to invest in some more this summer. Not that I don't ever wear them with bare legs... I do quite often. When it's absurdly hot out and I need to cool off. The tights just make a seasonal transition a little easier.