Birthday Wishin'

My birthday was this past week! Making last week my birthday week. I am worth celebrating throughout seven days. I'm worth a whole month, if we're really being honest. Instead, in times that should have been spent laying in bed, I spent my birthday going to work and training the dog and sleeping way too little. I can't believe it took 23 years for the novelty of my birthday to wear off. Adulthood has been fucking amazing.

In an ideal birthday week, here's what I would have lounged around in if my sugar daddy were rich and I didn't have to work:

Bordelle's Angela Dress 

  

 Much like the rest of Bordelle's Signature line, or anything else from them, the Angela Dress pulls inside my gut and makes me gasp. I take two firm handfuls of blanket and close my eyes and wish three times that I were wearing this with Louboutins and black trench over it, grinding the heel of my shoe into the chests of men who may/may not worship me. In reality, I don't imagine this would look as good as I'd prefer on me. My shape from the front is kinda straight, with most of the curve showing in my profile. And mainly in the tum. Not to say that I would ever turn this piece down if I were afforded the opportunity. It would make for gorgeous motivation.

 

Danielle Wood Starlet Set

 I've gone through two winters not having saved enough to get this set yet, but it usually spends several weeks left open in a tab, tempting me. Velvet easily makes my top ten list of fabrics, but most of the stuff I come across is in the form of weird gowns at the thrift store. I've found a few exceptions, with a pair of velvet Mary Jane's that I recently broke, and a red long-sleeved velvet dress, with the latter leaving my closet rotation by February. It's a really toasty fabric.

Danielle Wood has taken basic cuts and made them look/feel more lustrous and cozy, and her color choices are perfect. The color above, "rust", is just one of a few rich colors this set comes in, along with more than one style option for the bra and panty. After poking around on her Etsy shop, and then ending up on her website in the lookbooks, it's clear she's got a real good eye for displaying her work in such a satisfying, crisp, and beautiful way. I'm not even trying to suck up. I would hang images from her lookbook in my home.

Edge O'Beyond Naomi set

The link only takes you to the bra, but is that not enough? Take my word for it on this one and don't go any further if you're not already in a place where you pay someone else to clean your house. This seemingly simple set tops out at above $200, and with good reason. Each piece of this set has 18 ct gold-plated rings, for attaching chains to, and the suspender clips are 24 ct gold-plated. Also, in case you didn't notice, the whole set is gold. Not metal, but more beautiful still. The combination of the lace and tulle scoops this set up and takes it about then steps past perfect. Edge O' Beyond is a young brand, but I'm praying hella hard that they last well beyond the mythical time when I start making six figures. This is honestly the set I've always dreamed of.

ID Sarrieri Boudoir Chemise

What's better than wearing nothing at all?? Wearing almost nothing at all!
I'm not usually a fan of chemises due to my lumpy-ish, shapeless-ish body. They tend to hang on me like they would on a hanger, piling on the wrong bits and hiding the good bits. I imagine the solution to that would be just to wear something that's 96% transparent, right? When the bunches collect, everything will show through to my figure except a few artful black lines at the folds, maybe looking whispy, easy, lucky, free. I wanna be buried in this thing. The lace is just too painfully delicate, teasing it's way around and framing the goodies.

What Katie Did Cabaret set in Peach

It's classic. It's partially sheer. It's like a more risque verson of children's clothes, or a retro bathing suit. This bra actually reminds me a lot of the Claudette Paramour bra, in shape and construction, besides the lack of bow. Sans bow, it looks a lot more clean, sophisticated, and makes me wanna bounce around in ruffled socks a little bit. Here's hoping!

Kris Soonik Kristel Polo Shirt

When I look at this work of art, I hear my stepmom's voice in the back of my head, clear as it was in that Kohl's dressing room in 8th grade, saying, "And when would you wear that?" And Val, the answer is, I don't care. I'll wear it with a tennis skirt. I'll wear it to a job interview. I'll wear it with a pair of stocks, and I will wear it as a foxxxxxxxx.
The classic polo, naturally neutral as clothing, gets blown out of the water with the feminine touch of the poufed sleeves, the curved bodice, and of course, the suspenders. I don't even like polo shirts nine times out of ten. That one out of ten is my partner, coming home from work with a good pair of khakis. But this polo is a major game changer. And honestly? It might change the way I look at a polo the next time I come across one (it won't).
This one I came across several years ago, as a baby undie junkie, just realizing how big the world was beyond Victoria's Secret. The impression it made on me has lasted. There is so much out there, and so many people working to design and share even more. I can't wait to see what the future holds.


My birthday may have ended, but this wishlist has barely just begun. Before it gets out of hand, I'll leave myself with something my brother used to say to me any chance he got:

"Patience is a virtue."

It's important.

Basics: Natori Feathers

Another bra I picked up in the Journelle sale was one I'd been spying on for a minute, one that seemed pretty failsafe: The Natori Feathers contour bra. This bra had been in my sights for a while now, as I haunted sale colors, read review upon raving review, trying to not allow myself to buy something I don’t need. And now that I have it, I feel like I can safely say that I did, in fact, need it.

Honestly, I didn’t ever see myself buying a plunge bra. It seemed like a good way to have my tits spilling out and mashing together into dreaded cleavage. Bless it, this bra spares me that. And if I weren’t addicted to crew necks and button-downs done to the top, this would be great for a low v-neck or some low neck formalwear, if I ever had reason to wear any…The point is, this bra rules. It has tiny delicate details that make it a beauty, like the power-mesh overlay on the cups, and the embroidering that covers most of the band and edges, and on top of all that aesthetic goodness? It's got amazing comfortable support. This bra keeps my tits at a good level all day, and firmly in place at that. Most times I forget I'm wearing it. Part of me thinks I could have afforded to get one cup size larger, but maybe that's just the symptoms of impeding blood storm. Maybe I should have spared the update on that, but let's be realistic with ourselves here. This blog is supposed to be an honest space.

With my new size (32E/32DDD), I’m still getting used to breaking in bras, and having the band cause indentations around my torso. Clothing digging in is something I’m mad picky about, even in the tiniest amounts,  but I think the paramount issue here is comfort: Is the band uncomfortable, or am I just being a baby about soft skin moving? Nine times out of ten, it’s the latter. I might (read: I'm not going to) start leaving post-its all over my room reminding me to love my squish, or otherwise work towards defeating it. Which one is harder? Whatever. Life’s too short to not be soft in delicious lingerie. 

Natori Feathers gets my worthless seal of approval! Hopefully the coupon code gods will bless me with an opportunity to get the matching undies at a later date, or maybe try out the front-close t-back version. I drool over a good front closure a boxer with a bone.

Basics: Gossard Glossies

What with this being the first few breaths of lingerie babble into the Internet, I figured the best place to start with my buying is at the foundation – the basics. The skin tones n blacks. The comfies.

And then Journelle did that Free the Girls campaign with the 20% off codes for donating your ill-fitties, and, God, do I have ill-fitties. There are piles of bras all over my room that look laughably bad on me, with straps that slip off and backs that slide up and spillage everywhere, but they’re so lovely…It’s hard to part with. I’ve spent disgusting amounts of time finding these pieces, and then convincing myself it’s okay that I bought them. Just to get rid of them? It feels like a betrayal. I wanted to ensure they’d end up in good hands. Journelle gave me that security, and also an excuse to buy more.

I couldn’t help it. A good sale opportunity will suck me dry.  I can justify outrageous spending just based on how much I’m saving. $112.00 doesn’t sound so bad when it used to be $400.00.  Anyways, I figured it’d be a good opportunity to get a few things I’d had my eye on; a few easy, pretty, almost-boring pieces. And also two of the cheapest on the site.

One of those was this little number: the Gossard Glossies Moulded bra in "nude". "Nude" seems like an awful name for the shade of this bra, not only because of it ostracizing about ten billion other skin colors, but because of its namesake sheen. This bra seems almost metallic, like it should crinkle when it moves, or be rough on the skin. Luckily, my intuition fails me again.

I'd familiarized myself with Gossard and what they carry during a wild goose chase for the Phoebe set when it went on clearance last fall. After the beauty and joy that set brought into my life once it laid in my arms, I figured this would be a sturdy beauty basic. Also, I'm a sucker for that little gold label. Such a sucker for gold accents in general. Such a sucker for gold.

So far, I haven't been disappointed. For the most part. Although it's only been a month, and with no washing, this bra has held up as I hoped (and expected), and despite my life without antiperspirant, doesn't smell yet. The sheer fabric keeps my newly large tits very firmly in place, and also gives them this cool ethereal glitter. It kind of looks like my nipples have been drawn digitally and printed on to the bra, and no matter how much I bully lovers of scifi, I love that look. Future nipples. Space nipples. Can I pick up radio signals with these nipples? Probably not.

Most of my qualms with the Glossies are personal ones,  not really at fault of the bra. But since this is my space to spit bilge into cyberspace about lingerie, here they are:

This bra doesn't follow my ideal for shape. It's more of a secure fastening(practical. Like the future). It kinda smushes my boobs, making them wider than they already are and adding more smudge to my already smudged frame. Then again, they might be flattened, but they are flattened in place. I feel like I could accidentally go for a run in this thing and not realize for a good few blocks.

It doesn't give a great deal of lift. Again, not really what the bra was meant to do. However, it does come with a nice mesh wing on the outer side of the interior of both cups, to provide side support.

 And again, still struggling with band bulge. I'm wondering if I should try a 34 band, or if I'm being a baby.

As a basic though, I can go ahead and say that I put this bra on and melted a little bit it was so comfy. It doesn't work so well as a staple nude since it's transparent, but then again, maybe it's just more nude than the rest. The Real Nude.