See, back in January ago I went bra shopping. It had been a while since I’d bought new ones. See, I’ve been working hard to watch what I eat (though it doesn’t always sound like it), walking at lunch. This means I’ve lost some weight and things just weren’t fitting right. Plus I had a gift certificate.
So I went to Victoria’s Secret and got measured for new bras, something I’d never done. This has led to me generally admiring my breasts and thinking random thoughts, then posting them.
So today I went to the mall. After I got dressed, I admired the way my breasts looked and thought “I could go and get some more bras. The girls look really nice in the second skin satin ones.”
I wasn’t going to go. I walked past the entrance. I kept going. Then I turned around and walked in the door. I came out with three more bras. And they sure do look nice. I want to go back.
Yes, there is. But treatment is highly individualized, depending on the extent of the addiction, what choices you are making in the store, etc.
Please email me (manhattan91@hotmail.com) a picture (or several) of you wearing each and every item you have purchased at Victoria’s Secret over the past 12 months. From the pictures I will be able to make a diagnosis and discuss treatment options.
Tsk tsk, that’s no way for a mod to act, all alone like that.
I mean, manny needs help! And I’ll gladly provide the service for no charge! Just send (libraryalexandria@shaw.ca) the same set of photos so I can make my independent conclusions.
If I could AFFORD to be a Vicky’s junky, I would. I love that store, it’s so frilly and feminine. Flowered wallpaper, classical music, perfumed air, frilly tables and pretty bags.
And they have such pretty stuff. sigh I’m SUCH a girl.
I wait until they do their big clearance sales, you know the type: when they bring out the bins o’ stuff to dig through! Very good bargains. Although I really worried my SO when I clutched that green Body by Victoria bra to my chest and cackled. I was soooo tempted to put it on as soon as I bought it, and then not wear my shirt so I could show it off.
And their website is pretty decent, you can search the clearance stuff by size.
Hmm. Time to go to VS again, see if they have any bins o’stuff out… the winter stuff should be pretty cheap now.
There weren’t any bins out today when I was there. I may have to check back soon though…gotta get that fix ya know.
Guinastasia, this is so unlike me. I’m about the least “girly” girl I know. But if I feel this good about my body with just a few bras, I think I may have to try to be girlier in other ways.
Keeper and Manhattan got it right, if any of you ladies need a second opinion feel free to send an email and be more than willing to help out any fellow dopers.
I have been spared this addiction. I do love lingerie, but I had some bad luck with VS underwear that fell apart. Their bras hold up well, though. I think I got oversaturated by their “Catalog a Week” marketing campaign and the fact that there is VS in nearly every major mall.
I buy Marcie things from VS. In order to tempt me into buying more things, they send me catalogs. I examine those catalogs in minute detail, looking for things to buy Marcie. But I am not a VS junkie. In fact, I got a new catalog on Saturday and I haven’t read it more than five or six times since.
Another vote for VS’s greatness. Even better than the fact that reading the catalog is a socially-accepted turn-on, their stores are everywhere, and their stuff is so good that even a knuckle-dragging fashion knob like me can hardly go wrong buying there.
When I was married, I traveled a lot, and all over the US. Almost invariably, I could find a mall, and it seems every mall in the US has a Victoria’s Secret. For not a lot of cash, I was able to find something to bring back to the former Mrs Novels that made the homecoming, well, appreciated.
Ok, from a guys persepective. I went in there about a week before x-mas to pick up something tastful but a little wild and I finally decided on a lace sorta tank top with those matching little panties. Now the puchase it’s self was fine, but man when you ladies all get in a crowdlooking for the samething look out. The next time I go in I’ll be bring some kind of protection cause you girls get kinda ruthless when it comes to shopping. But over all, I enjoyed the experence, what guy wouldn’t surrounded by women that any any moment could turn into the words biggest and best cat fight.
Like Guinastasia, if I could afford it I’d be a VS junkie too. I needed a strapless low back bra for my wedding dress but didn’t want the corset type so I bought the backless strapless bra from VS. I love it… even if it did cost me almost $50 for the bra and extra adhesive strips. It’s really comfortable though and I’ll be able to wear it this summer with my tank tops and stuff.
My friend has a VS credit card and she charges about $1,000 worth of stuff on it every year. She’s got lovely sets of matching bras and panties and all kinds of lingerie but really… that’s a bit extreme, isn’t it?
I was on the path to becoming a huge VS junkie at their after-Christmas sale a couple months ago. However, going into the store last month cured me. There are limits to the amount of money I’m willing to spend on bras and underwear. But for exceptional occasions, I’m all there…
Well, since kind folks are offering advice…here’s my problem:
I have a perfectly good reason for checking out the catalogs - I’m a girl, after all and need to buy stuff. But I’m also one o’ them girls who like to look at other girls and can’t shake the feeling that I’m being bad.
Perhaps more shopping is in order? Anyone have any ideas?
When I dropped weight, I decided to buy all nice panties and bras, and got almost everything at Victoria’s Secret. I really like their signature cotton stuff, because it’s comfortable and comes in really nice colors. I also got my sweater for ChiDope from their catalog, as I knew I could find something there appropriately cleavagey.
