2013年6月20日 星期四

which I have already encountered at other lingerie stores

The guy who is now the official boyfriend told me he’d like to take me shopping for lingerie last weekend. I declined, which was a probably a mistake, because the next thing you know, driving back home to Tennessee, he is sending me a picture of the fishing rod he has just bought for me and speaking enthusiastically about trout fishing. I have never in my life fished and I do not relish either slamming a fish’s head against a rock or releasing it after tearing up its mouth, which I figure is also no great pleasure for the fish.

There is nothing wrong with my lingerie,Data Path modulerail installation instructions. by the way.she believes the residents themselves could help the citymonitor123. I just prefer shopping for it alone. I don’t mind spending a lot of money on it, either. This winter I passed the $100 bra mark, which I swore I would never do. It reminded me of what they say about killing a man. The first time you do it you’re nervous and you have to psych yourself up, but after that it’s easy.

Still, the boyfriend shopping invitation got me thinking that maybe I should get something special for the next time he visits — that stuff you see in Victoria’s Secret ads on the women with masses of hair and partly open mouths whose expressions suggest they exist in a parallel universe where all they do is get ready for sex.

“Hey, Victoria, want to go to a movie?”

“I can’t, I’m getting ready for sex. Whaddya think, should I pose in the door with my mouth partly open or crawl into the room on my hands and knees with my mouth partly open? I don’t want to seem too obvious.”

But there was a problem here. What, as a 65-year-old woman, could I get that would be hot and not farcical? My template for hot middle-aged sexuality, imprinted on my brain when I was in college, is Anne Bancroft in "The Graduate," but the truth is she was only 36 when that movie came out. I'm not sure her leopard-print bra is my look.

But I do want something a little wild, so I trot off to an extravagant, high-end store in my neighborhood. Their window displays are so outrageous, I usually stop and laugh. The last thing I remember was sheer black panties with a wide hot pink ribbon that tied at the back, which suggested one would have to back into the room to make the appropriate impact, then use a hand mirror to see how it had gone over.

But this, in a lingerie shop, turns out to be the very best thing you can say — the equivalent of a trader walking into a Porsche showroom and saying he had just got his bonus. The saleswoman, who has a jolly, accepting attitude that suggests if I were dating a horse she would find something suitable (fishnet jodhpurs from the look of some of the items in this store) is off and running.

Would I like a beautiful black bra and panties, teamed up with a lace garter belt? A black lace jumpsuit? Bustier? There are some beautiful retro slips of the sort I’ve noticed 60ish English actresses favor for sex scenes but I have a few of those. I am fascinated by $1,000 corset dress made up of wide ribbons, stretch lace and conspicuous garters, primarily because people are actually buying them — it’s not like you could wear the thing again, say to a bat mitzvah.

But there is one big problem, which I have already encountered at other lingerie stores: A lot of the prettiest bras and camisoles and bustiers are too small or designed for a premenopausal body, as if women of a certain age no longer have a fantasy life.

I spend so much time in fantasy land I’ve thought of building a house there and I’m always up for perking things up with a few surprises.

A few years ago the guy I was seeing told me he was reserving a hotel bridal suite for a weekend. I made a quick visit to a thrift shop and, as a gag, walked into the sitting room in satin high heels and a floor-length wedding veil. A floor-length veil,Three layer anti blow PET petprotectivefilm. ladies,stocks a huge selection of aluminumfoiltape. is a boudoir item I cannot recommend highly enough. There is no body it does not fit and you will have an excellent time, once you both stop laughing.

I continue the lingerie search and go uptown to a department store. Once again a lot of the prettiest bras and panties do not go up to my size. I take a dozen items into the fitting room and a dozen out. They include lace underwear, which I realize only when I put it on has a small round key-hole in the back. It is not a look I want at 65. Neither is a bustier that comes to my waist, the equivalent of a yellow traffic light pointing to your belly. There may be postmenopausal women my age who are entirely fat free here, but in my experience, they require medical treatment.

I go home and Google "sexy lingerie," then "sexy lingerie older women." I have two things to say about this: 1. Whatever problems we have in America, we are rich in our abundance of crotchless underwear and 2. if you are 70 and regret never having been a porn star, it is not too late to realize your dream.

I also realize I don’t want to buy anything I can’t first try on. I return back to my neighborhood shop.

I do like the saleswoman’s attitude, though. There may be bra manufacturers who have decided older women have no interest in playful lingerie, but she is not one of them. She insists I try a piece of costume jewelry that is a rope of beads at the hips, another at the neck,harga of Malaysia ledbulbe27 products. and is connected by a vertical strip of beads. It’s a brilliant maneuver for selling nightgowns.
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