I have read with interest peoples first experience gathering the courage to go shopping in person . Its was flooded arm pit and full body blushing as i Finally got the courage, cash transportation and timing together to stop into the taboo women's shop , a classic main street store with a center door and matching side glass windows making the most surface to gaze through of their wares as one casually strolled by. .
What i wanted was all researched out of catalogs. I had imagined how cool it would be to slide into the clothing, then zip them closed, enveloped. wow would that be so cool! the previous 5 years of clandestine catalog and magazine reading I believed I had a clue! I drove by , 15 mins be for closing . quickly parked , it looked dead,perfect quickly navigated into the alcove and past the door . safe. a quick look about and the sales lady greeted me , 10 mins later I was out something sort of $85 .00 lighter but I got what i wanted. or so i thought . 6 hrs later , a memory of trying the items on , and as it has been said "experience is what you get when you did not get what you wanted" I also had the knowledge that there was no proof of the purchase as i burned it. the catalogs words now were more clear . Do not use words like firm control when you want some flexibility ! that batch of girdles had probably sat on the shelf for 10 years waiting for a totally blown out belly to stuff back in where it might have been 20 years prior ! surgical support almost canvas and spandex is not sexy, nice , smooth or relaxing to be securely "enveloped in !
What i wanted was that curvaceous corseted shape with a zippered high waist zippered satin paneled panty girdle & ? A .bra , yea sure something to ballance out the ass and cap the waist line (I had not really paid much attention too) . When i asked about corsets? > "long gone" nothing with laces for 20 years ! ( What sears catalogs have them listed for ever). the "firm control girdle" that she had & I eagerly accepted as a professional suggestion, I guess i deserved Such a purchase for not coming in at-least 1/2 hr before closing ....it might have been much better...it might have been worse!
what I was thinking was some kind of cobbled together Bunny Costume . so much for " the clothes make the man " "foundations make the fashion" the flip Wilson Geraldine skit was more impressive in one way ..and less interesting in others....more T.V. lies , lies ever where.
the problems with no internet no good library, no one i trusted enough to ask and have a fully truthful believable answer delivered to me in 1978.