Dear Reader,
Yesterday I was walking on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side and came upon the Orchard Corset Shop. I wandered in and this Hasidic Jew (yarmulke, ringlets, et al.) barked at me, "34 B!!". I thought at first he was barking at someone else. However, his wife, I guess, approached and quietly asked in her yiddish accent, what I was looking for. I mumbled something or other sheepishly, and, failing to evade her focus, added that I thought I was a 36A. She grabbed me and spun me around, wiped her hand across my back, and informed me a little too loudly, "NO! 34B!!" and asked me what color bra I wanted. I told her, my voice ascending in pitch and lowering in volume with every word, that I merely wanted to look around, to which she replied that there was nothing to see but boxes. This was true. The store is about the size of a king-size bed and crammed with raggedy-looking boxes stacked to the ceiling. Cornered, I surrendered a request for something without underwires and in a nude color, and the Yiddish lady picked out a box from the very middle of the wall display (how did she distinguish it, I wondered, from the hundreds of others, all equally decrepit?). The box was stuffed with wrinkled, beige bras, glamour and romance all forgotten. She ushered me to the dressing "room" which was basically a chair with a scarf wrapped around it, then pulled off my shirt, and ordered me to remove my bra. Not daring to protest, though I did feel a little bit shy by this point, I obeyed. She then expertly fastened this surprisingly comfortable and decent-looking brassiere on me, and, before I could yelp that this was perfect and I didn't need any more assistance, she proceeded with her ungentle worker hands to man-handle my girls around, rearranging them so that they fit into the brassiere more correctly. This mortified what little sense of modesty I had left. Meanwhile I heard the husband hollering at some other poor lady, "NO! You not 38D, what, you crazy? You 40C! 40C!!! I tell YOU what size you are, lady!!!" after which he peeked into the scarf to make sure I was being treated acceptably and complimented me on how nicely this bra fit. With bowed head and blushing wretchedly, I offered my credit card to the husband, who must have been standing on a box behind the counter, as he seemed to be a good foot taller than I, scrutinizing my ID from on high,--or perhaps the whole experience just had a truncating effect upon my psyche. I then scurried over to Little Italy to bury my face in a plate of spaghetti.
I just decided to post this because I know you, mon lecteur, have always found my boobies fascinating and I wanted to let you know what kind of adventures they'd been having.
7 comments:
I read somewhere that 85% of all women wear an ill-fitting bra. I am glad that you are now part of the elite 15%, albeit in a rather embarassing way...Mazeltov!!!!
Someday, Larissa, you and I will be able to have a conversation that does not immediately degenerate into double entendre. Until that time, however, I shall refrain from extensive commentary.
I've never been able to figure out why some women think that it's appropriate to touch another woman's girls without invitation to do so--then my dirty side is grateful that they do. It always makes for a good story.
By the way, I miss singing with the choir. Don't you?
As a girl so small on top as to never require a bra except when I exercise, I have never been properly measured or sized for one, which has led me to purchase quite a few uncomfortable ones. I fantasize about experiences such as yours, where someone takes me in hand (more or less literally) and tells me what I need. The next time I'm in NY, I'll have to check this place out...
xHilarious. Only in New York.
Very funny
Where is this place?
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