6.15.09

Everything is thrifted.

Eh, boring. I’ll probably stay home all day, so I mainly got dressed for the sake of the blog.

Yikes. That’s a terrible angle. But yes – the belly’s still big. Especially when I dress it in bright yellow. (Remember this dress? See me looking much better in it here.)

A word on sleeveless skirt-dresses: It’s difficult to find a bra that works with sleveless skirt-dresses, because often even if you’re willing to let some straps show, the bra becomes very obvious under the dress. Wearing a skirt as a dress opens up your wardrobe in wonderful ways, but the elastic just above the bustline really makes everything bunch in odd ways. My solutions:

• Vest it. It really makes the silhouette less worrysome. Your boobs can go basically wherever they please and the vest covers it.
• Buy a bandeau. This gets rid of the weird bra-cup drama, which you can witness in the post I linked to earlier. However, unless your body is extremely obedient, the girls will seep a bit further from center than you want. This is especially heinous if you want to belt it. I’m sure there are some bandeau bras with underwire out there, but … they’re not usually in thrift stores. So I have no idea.
• Get a bodyslip. This is what I’m wearing above – it’s basically a cylinder of spandex, with a bit of shaping between the boobs. You still have the side-seepage problem, hence the vest. And of course this would only work if you’re relatively small-chested.