{"id":6666,"date":"2010-09-22T20:22:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T03:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2010-09-22T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T03:28:13","slug":"in-defense-of-undergarments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/22\/in-defense-of-undergarments\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense of undergarments"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was definitely distracted the morning of my defense.\u00c2\u00a0 So much so, that I didn’t notice the Iphone camera was on “video” and not “photo” — hence the ridiculousness in my attempts to document my outfit.<\/p>\n

See what I mean?\u00c2\u00a0 (Don’t blink!)<\/p>\n

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I also wore shoes.\u00c2\u00a0 (They are cute, though I did rub some skin off a toe on my right foot.)<\/p>\n

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For accessories, my glamorous jewelry designer friend, Georgia, came by with a box filled with hand-made, one-of-a-kind pieces.\u00c2\u00a0 It was her personally designed collection of most favorite sets.<\/p>\n

I’m calling a design trend: a Georgia-designed jewelry set is the key to dissertation success!\u00c2\u00a0 (Movie stars, take note!)<\/p>\n

In the end, I wore a set of her silvery pearls: a double strand necklace and simple, dangling earrings.\u00c2\u00a0 Though I rarely wear bracelets, I could not resist one which bore a quotation: “Nothing is worth more than this day.” When I asked her about it, she told me that it quoted Goethe (natch to G: stylish, thoughtful, and readily quotes German philosophers!)<\/p>\n

The bracelet is seen in the mirror at Galatoire’s, when I took photos of my bloody arm.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Between you and me?\u00c2\u00a0 There was one more detail of my outfit that made a big difference.\u00c2\u00a0 UNDERGARMENTS.<\/p>\n

Of COURSE I wore Spanx.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not a heathen, forgoodnesssake.\u00c2\u00a0 But brassieres?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it’s been years and years of asking recommendations, measuring and estimating sizes, trying and retrying… with a small fortune invested in wires, straps, and molded cups that don’t seem quite right.\u00c2\u00a0 Enough was enough.<\/p>\n

So, the day before the defense, I went to Basics Underneath.\u00c2\u00a0 A shop roughly 200 steps from my front door that I had never before visited.\u00c2\u00a0 If there is ever a reason to shop local, good gracious: LET THIS BE IT.<\/p>\n

Because all that measuring?!\u00c2\u00a0 Meaningless!\u00c2\u00a0 Bra fitting is the sort of thing that requires at least two other women grabbing, twisting, and juggling you — showing where straps should sit, pointing out what flesh goes in what places, and discussing the finer points of cup shape and hook positioning.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, you CAN measure.\u00c2\u00a0 I measure 36D.\u00c2\u00a0 In the past few years, I’ve worn 36D, 36C, 38D, and 38C off and on in different styles, based on those measures.<\/p>\n

But it turns out I’m actually a 32DDD.\u00c2\u00a0 Also called 32F.<\/p>\n

It’s a big difference.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll illustrate.<\/p>\n

This is me, in a picture of the defense dress on the day I bought it.\u00c2\u00a0 I was wearing a bra I would have, at the time, called “very supportive and well-fitted.”<\/p>\n

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And here I am, in a still photo taken out of the video Will took on the morning of the defense.\u00c2\u00a0 See how I have a waist?<\/p>\n

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So what did I learn from my defense?\u00c2\u00a0 That all women need bra fittings.\u00c2\u00a0 Just like it took me 6 years to finish the PhD, it took me more than 6 years to walk 2 blocks to learn how to wear a proper brassiere.\u00c2\u00a0 (The bra one is the embarrassing number.)<\/p>\n

So, hoorah for bra fittings!\u00c2\u00a0 Whose with me?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was definitely distracted the morning of my defense.\u00c2\u00a0 So much so, that I didn’t notice the Iphone camera was on “video” and not “photo” — hence the ridiculousness in my attempts to document my outfit. See what I mean?\u00c2\u00a0 (Don’t blink!) I also wore shoes.\u00c2\u00a0 (They are cute, though I did rub some skin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6675,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}