Flesh colored underwear would be your best bet, or I suppose if you aren’t really attatched to the white color you could dye them.
I think you can get really lightweight cotton pant liners for just this situation - it sort of like a slip, but for pants - then you can wear whichever undies you feel like. I would inquire at a good ladies underwear shop.
I love your OP
I discovered this weekend (in the process of shopping for a wedding dress) that I have been wearing the wrong bra size for at least 6 years. By almost two sizes.
I am dumb. :smack:
On the plus side, now that I have the correct size my breasts look amazing. Or so my sweetie tells me.
That’s a wonderful OP. I have the same sort of slight problem- I put on the traditional ten pounds after getting married. I still feel self-concious about it sometimes, but I’m slowly getting my head around the idea that I’m not fat, and that it might not be necessary to be really thin to be pretty.
I applaud both you and your husband.
Well, I don’t have any nude shade of underwear, but I think I’ll pick some up for the future - sounds like they could come in handy.
I also think I will be taking a trip to a nice underwear shop to see if I can find the slip-type dealie, thanks for the suggestion, alice. That sounds like my kind of thing. I know the only thing that really shows through the pants is the underwear, my skin doesn’t seem to show, but I keep getting this image in my head of people being able to see through the pants and see (chubby) Barbie doll parts!
And no going commando… some situations, yes, this situation, no. :o
Thanks, everyone, for the kind words, as well.
::chuckle, snort::
Ok, now I don’t feel so bad, after learning from this thread that many of us have been wearing the wrong bra sizes without a clue! I had been wearing a 36 C for years, and when I gained a bit of weight after my first few years of college, I upgraded to a 38 C. Still, I was always frustrated by having to “tuck in” my friends every time I bent over, and constantly hiking up straps that just didn’t want to stay in place. Last October, my sweetie wanted to take me bra shopping for my birthday. We went to a bra specialty shop, and for the first time ever, I was measured by someone who actually knew what they were doing. And she happily announced that I was in fact a 40 DD. :eek:
You should have seen my eyes bug out when she brought some bras in that size for me to try on! The cups seemed huuuuge! Thankfully, my friends and I are now well adjusted (and supported).
Anastasaeon, thanks for sharing your story, it is absolutely the highlight of my day! Go you!
If you cut a pair of pantyhose off at the knees, would the bottoms show under the white pants? They make all sorts of slimmer/shaper things in flesh tones but they can be expensive. A pair of pantyhose at Big Lots are around a dollar and do almost the same thing. There can be a bit of trouble with the hose rolling up a bit and with summer coming up it may not be so comfy, but for a quick cheap fix it may be the way to go.
Otherwise, a flesh colored thong is what I’d choose. If anybody is looking that closely at my crotch, they deserve to be repulsed by panty lines, the perverts!
Great OP, it brought tears to my eyes. I’m in the same boat as you. Sometimes you just have to take it slowly! Thank you for the great thread.
Thanks for that, Anastaseon. Pretty much what I’ve been going through as well, until I came to the conclusion that if I didn’t start feeling good about myself now, I never would and the weight would never come off. Good on you! New clothes can do so much for your soul.
For the longest time, I put off buying clothes just for the heck of it because “I’m fat, and I need to lose weight, so I’ll wait until then”. I only bought clothes that I had to have.
In the past couple of years, though, I’ve gone and bought clothes just because. Because I saw something that caught my eye. Because I had a special event coming up and I felt like having something new. Because I’d worn the old stuff a whole bunch of times. I’m still pretty far behind. A lot of my wardrobe remains utilitarian, to say the least. But I have more and more pieces in it that look really good - that I look really good in. I’ve started getting compliments on what I wear and how I look.
Now, if I could just get a job, I’d have a lot more fun buying and wearing clothes.
Ana,
A wonderful post. You husband is a special man. It is good to see one of our gender who is not afraid of unabashed love and support. I like him. Tell him I said it should be $500.00.
Yes!
For you and for your husband, too.
What do they say on What Not To Wear? Something along the lines of: “dress the body that you have, not the body you want.”
The body you want will happen with your good habits and efforts. But in the meantime, there’s no reason not to feel pretty, happy with yourself, and comfortable in your skin–and your clothes.
Ooh… retail therapy. Sometimes it’s a good thing.
I put off wearing nice shoes or shoes with heels because of my weight, and then last year (under the influence of an English Imelda in my office) I began to submit to the lure of shoes. Great shoes can make me feel great: womanly, sexy, and grown-up.
I really need to buy good clothes for myself, but I never know how or what will look good on me. I have no sense of this whatsoever. (As I’ve often lamented, I got all the gay stereotypes that make people hate me and none of the useful ones – my apartment is a mess too.) sigh
What a nice story, Ana!
I, too, have learned to listen to my husband. Men sometimes do know what they’re talking about, I guess.
Now, your next mission is to go out and buy a Little Black Dress [sub]TM[/sub] in your comfort size. It will take some canny, extensive shopping and trying on to find THE one, but it is so, soooooooo worth it.
There’s just something about that black cocktail dress, chiffon and satin swirling around your knees, that makes you feel like a movie star. No matter what size the tag says (and mine doesn’t have the smallest number on it that I’d like), the right one will make you look fabulous! I actually got my latest one at Dillard’s for around $100. It was some of the best money I’ve ever spent.