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Title: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: marybethsanford on June 08, 2019, 09:22:44 AM

I was browsing somewhere as I often do and came across this cute image of "My First Bra".  What struck me was how close it matched one I mustered the courage to buy back in the day.  Which made me wonder how many out there had done the same.  I'm talking about that most embarrassing purchase.  Perhaps not the first....

With me as I so often did I made it so I could walk through the girl's section of a store to "window shop" and on this occasion it was JC Penny's.  On a mannequin (teen) was a bra with very little "bre_ast", a training bra.  I was a budding young cross dresser then, age ten and absolutely had to have it.  No matter what!

I mustered every once of courage I could and asked the lady how to buy a bra for my sister telling her I'd ruined her's and wanted to replace it.  I said she didn't have any "bumps" yet and her chest was the same as mine because we were twins.  God it was such a obvious lie and the women knew it.  You could see it in her face. 

Every objection she had I'd come up with something till finally she said fine and took one to the counter, rang it up and gave it to me.  I could feel the look walking away.  It was like knives piercing my back.  It was like walking in mud that was drying but I had my very first bra.... and when I got home - IT FIT!

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Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Angela M... on June 08, 2019, 10:27:07 AM

Hi Marybethsanford, your post brought back the same memories with me although I was lucky enough to have a sister a year younger so I could borrow her things. I do remember having a training Bra but it may have been one of my sisters because I don't remember buying one. I did often browse the girls section of clothing at the local shops but it if confronted by a sales lady I had a ready excuse like yours. My most embarrassing purchase was a Teen Panty Girdle I had seen on display. The moment I saw it, my heart rate went through the roof and I had to have it. I walked past it three times slowly stopping each time to get a closer look and then the sales lady was right there asking me if she could help. I am sure I went bright red and my excuse of getting it for my sisters birthday was lame at best but I stammer on about her feeling she was too chubby and wanted to help her look her best. Like you I am sure she didn't buy that for a minute but she got out some boxes and asked if I knew the right size. My answer was we were twins and she almost laughed in my face but took it out of the box and handed it too me. As my fingers took hold of the soft stretchy material and I felt all the wonderful soft lace forming a V down the front. I am sure I was bright red in the face again but I was now sure I wanted that wonderful item in my collection of girls clothes so I asked was she sure it would fit my sister being about the same size as me and she slowly looked at me with eyes that were burning into me as I stammered that my sister would love it. As she wanted to make a sale being it was a small shop she boxed it again and went to ring it in. She put it in a pink paper bag with the store name on it and told me the cost as I fumbled for my money hoping I had enough as I was so nervous I did not even read the price. After counting out almost all my cash and taking the bill I almost ran out of the store thanking her as I went. Her eyes followed me out and I am sure she knew it was My First Panty Girdle. I never had the courage to go back there again even though they had wonderful things and such wonderful dresses in the window that I would die to own or at the very least try on. I often wondered if she had been more sympathetic to my needs, would I have gone back to ask her about buying more girls clothes like those wonderful princess style dresses.

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Spankypants2 on June 10, 2019, 08:22:05 PM

I think each of us has a story to relate about an embarrassing purchase. After my mom stopped dressing me in girls’ clothes at age 14, I rarely wore them afterwards. However, I was also kept in night diapers until I was 14, and by the time I was finally out of them, I was an incipient diaper fetishist.

By the time I was 16 I was buying Curity 21”x 40” gauze diapers which could be found everywhere. Finding large-size plastic pants, however, was a problem. A couple of sources were from Sears and Wards catalogs as well as hospital supply stores. At those places I’d buy pairs of snap-on incontinent pants which were usually flannel-lined plastic. I’d carefully cut away the flannel lining so I’d have something that reasonably resembled snap-on plastic pants which I’d wear with my diapers.

As with many others, I’d go through my buy-and-purge cycles. One summer, when I was 19, I decided to stock up again. I drove over to a large hospital supply company located across the street from a hospital in the city where I lived at the time. The idea was to find a couple pairs of plastic incontinent pants which I could convert for wearing over diapers.

I was in for a rude surprise when I saw that the young man behind the counter (probably a summer job) had been the star quarterback at my high school from back in my junior year. Since I did not hang out with the “cool” crowd, I fervently hoped he didn’t recognize me. I summoned up my courage and told him what I was looking for. I gave him a general size but did not indicate just who the incontinent pants were for (I’d sometimes say they were for a grand-aunt).

The guy went to the back and returned with a box, but I was disappointed that the pants were plasticized rayon (which did nothing for me). Disappointed, I was ready to buy them anyway when the guy said, “Wait a minute—I have something that will fit you much better.” I was somewhat shaken as he had seen through me ruse right away and surmised I was buying the incontinent pants for myself.

He returned and this time the pants were the ones I wanted—flannel-lined plastic. I don’t know if I was able to adequately conceal my excitement, but I quickly paid for the pants and promptly left (although I didn’t want to appear that I wanted to leave ASAP, which I did). Anyway, I always wondered if the guy recognized me from high school but didn’t let on owing to the “sensitivity” of the transaction.

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Angela M... on June 10, 2019, 08:36:34 PM

The first Hospital style snap on plastic pants I found were in a little shop in Boston Mass. and they were by Salk. They had shiny white plastic over flannel a lining with an extra center snap in lining. They only had one box and luckily they were my size. When I returned home to Canada I found a Pharmacy that would order more for me so I soon had seven pairs. I remember a friend at work spotting them peaking out above my waistband and asking point blanc what I was wearing so I told him and discovered he had a fetish for them also but made his own as he did not know where to buy them. After I showed him mine he was jealous so I gave him a pair and we often wore the same undies each day at work.

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Spankypants2 on June 11, 2019, 08:56:51 PM

This boy has received his first training bra, but apparently he's not yet ready for training pants.

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: jeangurl on June 12, 2019, 04:59:31 AM

My pullups now they are embarrassing to buy so usually buy on the Internet....hope this picture is small enough to post.

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Betty on June 12, 2019, 05:38:49 PM

Why would you post a 13x17 pixel picture, & why is it 21.84 kB in file size? A 13x17 pixel image should be less than 1kb unless there's some bad or malicious code is embedded in it.

Look at the Spankypants2 picture just above. It's a 397x560 image at only 20.21 kB in file size. But I had to convert it to NORMAL web standards JPG. It was a 98kb image for no good reason.

Love Spankypants dearly & her posts are lots of fun (Thank You Spankypants) but every image she posts is over 90kb in file size for no logical reason. No matter the absolute pixel size -- small or large they all are over 90kb in file size. Why?

I had reprocess every one of them to get them to normal.

Use Irfanview. The most popular image processor in the world.
https://www.irfanview.com/

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: jeangurl on June 12, 2019, 08:22:23 PM

Betty sorry about the picture sizes its not intentional first they were too big and now the bl**** things are too small.I give up LOL.

Luv Jeangurl :-[

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Spankypants2 on June 12, 2019, 08:42:50 PM

Betty--
So how do I set them to "normal"? I am self-taught on Photoshop and admit I am mystified as to what certain file sizes are so large. About all I'm able to do is reduce them to under 100 KB so they post. If these are going to be a problem, I can cease posting.

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Betty on June 12, 2019, 11:16:36 PM

On most image software, a JPG compression setting of 75 shows no loss in detail & quality. At 70 the loss is negligible & barely noticeable. For every picture to be around the same file size over 90kb, no matter what the picture pixel size, means you're setting the final output limit to a certain file size, not a compression rate.

Use this in your final processing. It's easier than photoshop, free, & does an excellent job.
https://www.irfanview.com/

Video I made -- Crop, sharpen, compress, & save with Irfanview:
http://pearlcorona.org/media/irfan.mp4
and another
http://pearlcorona.org/media/irfan2.mp4

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Spankypants2 on June 12, 2019, 11:43:26 PM

Betty--
Thank you. I installed the program and will play around with it. Is the attached any better than what I had been posting before?

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Betty on June 13, 2019, 01:18:04 AM

A littler bit. Also our system resizes images to be no larger than 600 pixels tall & 700 or 800 pixels wide (can't remember which I have it set for), so it fits in the post area without getting cut off. So don't bother posting larger ones, because the system will just resize them down.

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: gunrunner on June 13, 2019, 07:52:03 AM

Spankypants, I remember these advertisements. I have a collection of the magazine from the 1920's called "American Boy" and these adds, or something like them, are in them.
Thank you again

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Spankypants2 on June 13, 2019, 10:23:05 AM

"Gee, it was dry when Mom pinned it on me . . ."

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Robyn Jodie on June 13, 2019, 12:46:28 PM

For my own home purposes, I "index" my saved images using HTML files. However for easy reading of text, I limit the width of the readable portion to 720 pixels, meaning when I store a wider image, I use the HTML "width=" and "height=" attributes to make sure the displayed image is no wider than 720 pixels and no taller than about 900 pixels (about as tall as I can view on my screen without scrolling), with a link to the full sized image, which I saved so when I upgrade to a 50 inch 4K or larger screen (Yeah, like that's ever gonna happen), I will have as high quality an image as my screen can handle, subject to the limitations of the original image.  (As stated in an earlier post, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear," meaning if your image doesn't have the resolution for a blow-up when you start out, all you get is a pixelated or blurry large image).

Aside: my spell checker recognizes neither "pixilated" (enchanted by pixies) nor "pixelated" (showing pixels as boxy screen artifacts).

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Betty on June 13, 2019, 10:54:44 PM

We limit image sizes here to no more than 800 pixels wide (but recommend no more than 700) & 600 pixels high. That way it fits the forum's post space without running off the screen, & fits most user's screens. The board will temporarily display oversized images smaller to fit the space, but during regular maintenance the board will prune/delete oversized images.

So unless I catch the oversized images & resize them before a maintenance cycle, oversized pictures get deleted.

1080p monitors are common now, but to make the OS & web text large enough to read, people usually have their DPI, graphics, or zoom set to an equivalent resolution of 600-900p tall. By the time you add tool, info, or browser bars at the top or bottom, that leaves just about enough room for a 600 pixel tall image.

Modern TVs 4 feet & larger wide that can be used as monitors are also common & cheaper, but most people using a PC are still using 19-24 inch monitors. Text will be too small on those 1080p monitors unless they have the DPI or zoom typed up larger. Typically people with 1080p monitors have the DPI or zoom set so they're actually only viewing an equivalent of 600-900p resolution so they can read anything on them, or the text is just too small.

My primary PC is connected to a 32 inch 756p TV. The backup PC is connected to a 24 inch, 1080p monitor, with the DPI punched up to 145% to be able to read anything on it. My primary laptop has a 15.5 inch 800p screen. My backup laptop has a 11.5 inch 800p screen. I have the DPI typed up to 125% to be able to read anything on it.

My android tablet & phone are 600p. But my regular phone is only 480p.

About half of our visitors are viewing our pages on 600p or less phones or other portable devices. About 1/4 of them are on a 480p or less phone.

I've designed a separate feed of Betty's for mobile users. It should detect if you have a mobile browser & send you to my custom mobile pages of us. If you don't see a "Home" button near the top, but do see a "Mobile Home" button instead, you're getting the mobile version of our sites, not our full PC version.

However, you must hold your phone horizontally to get a normal view of most websites, not vertically like an idiot. People can't flip their computer monitors, TVs, & laptops vertically, so most websites will always be best viewed with your phone HORIZONTAL. I will not be designing vertical websites because some phone users are too stupid to figure out to just flip their phone the right way for the internet & video.

And please stop making very narrow vertical video -- it's incredibly stupid.
https://youtu.be/f2picMQC-9E

https://youtu.be/17uHCHfgs60

https://youtu.be/xWPJlez-6ng

According to Webster's dictionary, "pixelated" is a real word in use since 1982. It's odd that most browsers & spell check don't recognize many common computer & internet words.

Title: Re: Most Embarrassing Purchase
Post by: Robyn Jodie on June 14, 2019, 10:54:25 AM

I will say AMEN loud and clear to getting rid of those stupid narrow vertical videos!!
I don't know what people are thinking when they make them.