Adventures in Shopping (Bathing Suits at Torrid)

I actually had this photoshoot today (Sunday) but I forgot to post this before so I'm doing it now...

Also! Look! I moved my blog!

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For the Cherry Dollface photoshoot this weekend, Christie (the photographer) mentioned that she's working on a beach scene for the studio. She had a few vintage suits but suggested I check out Torrid if I wanted to look for something for myself. And since my local bra shop closed, I thought what the heck I’ll check this out. It’s been a while since last I looked.

(Cherry Dollface is a YouTube personality who is known for her pin-up/rockabilly stuff. She’s partnering with the photographer who’s done my other pin-up photoshoots (grinkie.com) for a mini-session in town. Cherry will do hair and makeup and then Christie will do some photos. I gave myself a private session for my 40th birthday and I’ve been doing annual mini-sessions since.)

Oh, man, I forgot how laughable Torrid's lingerie is for me. They don't put actual sizes on stuff, which ok sizes are pretty meaningless for a lot of women's clothes, but with bras, sizes actually do mean something most of the time. So I got bikini tops in different sizes (0-5, I think? I only grabbed from 0-2 since those are generally what I look at in their tops/dresses). And oh, wow, they did not fit. None of them did. I got one top that almost fit and looked cute and provided a little bit of boob support but only as long as I didn’t move much (or I could just spend all day readjusting my boobs). Even on clearance, it was more than I wanted to spend on something I might at best only wear for a photo shoot. I had been hoping to find something to use for actual beach wear but I knew the chances were slim before I went in.

I suspect that the woman they are trying to fit is not me. I’ve got a smallish ribcage measurement and a large cup size. My guess, from the problems I was noticing with fit, is that their bras are made for women with larger ribcage measurements and smaller cup sizes. I understand there are a lot of women with that problem so it’s awesome that Torrid has stuff for some of them, but I was still a little disappointed. They had some really cute bikini tops!

Also, all their bras are padded. I ... do not need padding. And padding on swimsuits has always seemed extra weird to me. Why would you want to wear something on your chest that’s going to hold water and get heavy (when you’re out of the water) or float weirdly (in the water)? I do not get it.

Anyway, I do have a sports bra that I’ve been wearing for a while as a bikini top so I figured I’d look for some cute bottoms to go with it. I do not really like the bottoms I have right now. And I did manage to find two pairs of cute bikini bottoms. One pair is black with mesh on the sides and the other pair is a bright teal . With my black sports bra, I think they’ll look super cute.

Now I just need to look for a place to go swimming. I love swimming but I really don’t do much of it here in Minnesota…

Ah, stormy nights and surprise visitors....

Sitting on the couch, listening to Welcome to Night Vale, and scrolling FB before getting up to work on dinner and I think I hear a knock. I kind of look around but nothing seems wrong so I go back to FB. I definitely hear a knock this time!

There's a woman on my porch. She was walking home from the bus stop and got caught in the thunderstorm we're having right now. She just wanted to let me know she was on my porch since it was the only one she saw from the corner (ugh, she was probably also worried about possibly getting the cops called on her since she's black).

Thinking it might let up soon I got her a trash bag for a poncho (I don't even know where my umbrellas /are/) and a towel to dry herself off with but it was really coming down so I invited her in. My weather app said it would be at least a half hour until it /might/ let up (it's been about 40 since I checked and it sounds like it just let up a little), so I just drove her home. She was only a few blocks away.

Ugh. I remember those days of walking home from the bus stop and hoping the weather wouldn't turn on me...

On the one hand: Yay! Random good deed!
On the other hand: I partially only did it because I would have felt guilty leaving her on the porch and I'm not comfortable having people I don't know in my house.