Real boobs

topic posted Fri, April 11, 2008 - 8:30 PM by 
A while ago someone posted a link to a video, or sebsite, or maybe it was a slideshow, showing a bunch of womens real breasts. It included commentary from the women expressing their feelings about their own breasts. It was positive, enlightening, and honest. I'd like to share it with a friend of mine who I think would benefit from seeing it, but I can't find it in my tribe search. Does anyone remember the site I'm talking about?

xoxo
Dusty
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    Fri, April 11, 2008 - 10:42 PM
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      Sat, April 12, 2008 - 12:15 AM
      I love those photos! I remember that link. Thank you so much sweetie. It's not the one I was thinking of but it certainly is one I will share with my friend.

      The one I was thinking of was a series of pics... not so much art pics... but straight on pics of womens breasts. Uneven breasts, large, small, nips of all sizes, perky, long, pointy, round... the gamut. It was a very real portrait of how diverse we all are, how insecure we all are, and how beautiful we all are.

      As are you :-)
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        Sun, April 13, 2008 - 10:54 AM
        I want to see this too... belive it or not accepting my own natural breasts has always been a challeng for me.. I have learned mentaly its fine but part of me always hears my teenage girlfriends teasing me beacause I could never pass the "pencil test" what natuarl DD can?
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      Mon, April 14, 2008 - 8:25 PM
      Though I've seen this site, I've never actually made it to the end of the slideshow. I just now saw this picture!

      www.jordanmatter.com/view.asp

      The artist and subjects convened in my hometown for a group photo! If you don't know, Rochester NY is home of the "topfree seven" which won women the right to go topfree in New York State. Jordan's photo essay is an homage to our right to bare our breasts!

      Kewl.
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    Mon, April 14, 2008 - 9:34 AM
    I put on a few pounds in the last year or 2. I noticed that, besides gaining a cup size, I tend to get a bit of heat rash/chapping under the boobage now, regardless of the weather. 'Bout the only thing that seems to help is powder of various sorts (Gold Bond, baby powder, etc.). Any suggestions for avoiding under-boob-chappage?

    Thanks!

    Cheers,
    SW
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      Mon, April 14, 2008 - 11:36 AM
      GAH! totally not work friendly :( I'll have to look at it tonight when I get home. Thanks for the link though Dusty!!
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        Mon, April 14, 2008 - 12:23 PM
        These are a series of videos that Dove did on Real Beauty. There are four in all. The first one both terrifies and disturbs me. The second one is eye opening. I figured that these were relavent in addition to the one Dusty posted.

        dove.msn.com/#/features/...id=6456036]/

        LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
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          Mon, April 14, 2008 - 2:26 PM
          I love this link! Thanks Dusty for finding it! I wish every girl in America could see it and realize the beauty of their bodies!

          I worked for girl scouts a couple of years ago, when the Dove videos came out... and they partnered with us to help the campaign...but here in conservative Idaho, I was not allowed to use a big part of the resources available because they might've been considered 'pornographic'. I was working with some very insecure girls, (who were all raving beauties!) and was so very disappointed that my hands were tied by grown women (who were acting more like men in their 'CEO' positions anyway) who were perpetuating the idea of 'perfection' as dictated by our society... It wasn't a difficult job to leave, to say the least!
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      Mon, April 14, 2008 - 5:10 PM
      better bras, Sistah, gotta lift the girls up to let everything breathe.
      xox
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        Mon, April 14, 2008 - 5:23 PM
        And if you haven't already, get yourself measured for the right bra size. If you gained a cup size, you may have grown a band size too... and the wrong band size will be irritating. Any decent lingerie shop (even VS) will measure you. I remember complaining that no bra's fit right and they offered to measure me. Oh my... I was totally off! Who knew your boobs weren't supposed to poof out over the edges like that?

        tee hee
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      Fri, April 18, 2008 - 6:41 PM
      As someone else said - make sure you have a bra that fits.

      I tend to sweat quite a bit under mine so I make sure I dry there after getting out of the shower really well and I use Aveeno lotion to keep the skin from getting dry and irritated.
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        Fri, April 18, 2008 - 9:56 PM
        I thought I *had* found a bra that fits. I like the way the girls look, but I guess there's still a bit of fold going on. Pooh.

        Hmm. I live in Italy and still don't know much Italian. I'll have to grab one of my Italian friends to take me shopping. Until then, I'll just keep up with the powder. Lotion seems to have the opposite effect. Need more air under boobs.

        Thanks for the tips!
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    Mon, April 28, 2008 - 8:36 PM
    I thought of you gals tonite.

    I went shopping after work and found myself at Marshalls, perusing the aisles for clearance stuff with a burner twist.

    Nothing.

    So I ended up at the bra rack, sifting through bra after bra, looking at anything with a tag my size (because of course NONE of them are actually sorted by size). I found a few, mostly those new fangled ones that claim are 'seamless'. Sneering at all the 'natural fit' ones (hell, if I wanted to look natural I'd go braless! Hoist those mamas up I say). Pulling every push up I came across. Tossing aside those with wimpy straps, single clasps, scratchy lace and are you kidding me? sheer stretchy cups?

    So, I managed to find 11 bras I liked... thinking if 1 out of the bunch works, then I lucked out. Hell, I didn't even look at prices.

    The demi's were laughable. Nuff said. Those cool new seamless bras? You know the ones, with the scalloped edges and no stitching? Take a good look... the straps are glued on. Well, I tried on 5 of them. Two of them broke in the dressing room! The strap just popped right off! And they weren't too small... they are just cheaply made bras. That's what you get when you get a bra with no stitching. The one I liked the best was a great deep plunge black number, Marylin Monroe brand (how great is that?)... but I couldn't find my band size. I did try on one size smaller, with care, just to see if it might work. Come to find... this bra is worth searching out at other stores in my size.

    The whole time I thought of us. And giggled that each bra I tried on brought with it my own personal boobage issues... do I puff out the sides? Is the band wide enough to harness that underarm roll? Does it support my lopsided left tit? Is there enough padding to keep my nipplitis at bay? Does it lift or flatten? How bout my back fat... does it help or hinder? Does it provide both form and function?

    I ended up not buying any of them because none of them really made my boobs happy. And my boobs deserve to be happy. Don't yours?

    The search continues...
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      Mon, April 28, 2008 - 8:41 PM
      <<the straps are glued on>>
      Unbelievable! What mftr is that stupid? I'd complain to a store manager about that kind of crap. No woman who's ever worn a bra would believe glued straps would last more than 3 minutes.

      Once you get your size and style sussed out, I'm very happy with the quality and prices here:
      www.onehanesplace.com/
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      Mon, April 28, 2008 - 10:01 PM
      Glued on straps? Give me a break! How twisted is that?

      Let's have guys scotch tape their jock straps and ties on, why don't we, while we're at it?

      I so hate bra shopping. Everything you listed was right on....
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        Wed, April 30, 2008 - 6:23 AM
        Why can't someone invent the "hand bra"? Its so darn inconvenient to have my BF walking behind me holding up the girls!!! :)
        Thank you so much for all these lovely links ladies, why is that while I'm in no way a lesbian or even Bi I find women so much more fascinating to look at then men?
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          Wed, April 30, 2008 - 3:31 PM
          So I finally had some time to get on Tribe for a while today. Went to that awesome site (BTW Dusty thanks for a great post!) was feeling jazzed and great then saw the picture and caption that I am 99% sure is actually my ex-girlfriend.
          Wow.
          Small world that is the internet.
          Been a while since I've seen those breasts. *sniff*
          *grin*
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            Wed, April 30, 2008 - 3:47 PM
            Did someone say handbra?

            www.trendhunter.com/photos/handbra


            Probs not safe for work
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              Wed, April 30, 2008 - 4:04 PM
              i'm sorry, that's just not sexy.
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                Wed, April 30, 2008 - 4:18 PM
                Gonna need to agree with you on that one.
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                  Wed, April 30, 2008 - 5:51 PM
                  I think the black ones kinda are. :-)
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                    Wed, April 30, 2008 - 6:22 PM
                    I think they're silver... and yeah, I agree. they're sexy.
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                      Fri, May 2, 2008 - 10:46 AM
                      I've seen pics of the silver one before and I think it's way sexy. I'd thought for a long time, as I gently cupped my breasts with my own hands, that the hand bra would be perfect. I was totally pissed to find out it had already been done - the best ideas have already been thunk up, I guess.

                      Waaaaaaayyyyyy sexy. Way way way way way sexy.
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                        Fri, May 2, 2008 - 12:06 PM
                        But then again, I love my girls. I mean, I REALLY. LOVE. MY. BREASTS. I was cursed with perpetual weight issues, a flat, wide ass that didn't look perky even when it was fantastically in shape, large thighs and overall shortness (5'4") for an aspiring Broadway Jazz dancer (several decades past). But the gods made up for all that with my girls, Jasmine and Sapphire -- my bf gave them their stripper names.

                        Sure, they're saggier now than they used to be, and they tend to inflate and deflate with whatever my current weight is. And, yeah, when they're deflated, you can see stretch marks, and I haven't been able to pass the pencil test since I was 16.

                        But I love them, and I show them off whenever I can. So a hand-bra seems juuuuust about perfect to me. So sue me. :)
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                          Fri, May 2, 2008 - 12:37 PM
                          1) I love the HandBra® things Elaine posted, but

                          2) I find it much more fun to recruit live TittyBoys on the playa. "Oh, TittyBoy? Get behind me and hold these things up!"

                          They come a-runnin'.
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          Wed, April 30, 2008 - 7:40 PM
          It's Cathy's fault for asking for a hand bra. Let's all glare at her now.
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            Thu, May 1, 2008 - 7:30 AM
            Glare away...:) You would think that in our technologically advanced society that can fly people to the moon & allow people to exist outside of our planetary confines that SOMEONE, somewhere could come up with a bra that supports & fits as well as a pair of hands does. Or am I just such a freak that I'm the only woman here that has ever cupped her own breasts in her hands and thought "gosh, I sure wish a bra could make 'em look that good and feel this comfortable..."?
            Hee Hee...this is such a fun thread...:)

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