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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 157033, member: 136&quot;]<i><font size="3">Note: I must write a very stern letter to my high school career counselor. Never told me there was such a job as bra fitter.</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, King - you don&#039;t have a clue!</p><p><br /></p><p>Way, WAY back, when I was fresh out of college, I moved to DC for grad school. To pay the rent &amp; all, I took a job in a very well-established, well-regarded department store in Chevy Chase, MD. (The area was FILLED with single, &quot;older ladies&quot;, most of whom had moved to town years before, to work during WWII...)</p><p><br /></p><p>My very first assignment (for 5 months, before I was &quot;promoted&quot; to personnel) was in LINGERIE. &quot;Oh, cool!&quot; thought I... &quot;Pretty little things and...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Whoa...</p><p><br /></p><p>NO! It turned out that I had been assigned to FOUNDATIONS!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>And what are FOUNDATIONS??? Well, in 1976, FOUNDATIONS meant BRAS, GIRDLES &amp; CORSETS!&nbsp; Oh, lord, help me...</p><p><br /></p><p>Mrs. Clifford was the section manager and main &quot;fitter&quot;... An older lady, and rather, uh.. <i>robust</i>..., she wore a tape measure around her neck &amp; took great pride in being able to &quot;fit&quot; any female who approached her counter.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Mrs C&#039;s main assistant, I was expected to learn the trade from her.</p><p><br /></p><p>My fondest memories from those days include two, in particular:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Having to measure old ladies for girdles, listening to them brag that they&#039;d been &quot;a size 28&quot; for 30 years, sliding a quick tape measure in there, then agreeing that they still were, indeed, still &quot;a size 28&quot; and ripping out the size 34 or 36 tags...</p><p><br /></p><p>and,</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Having my brand new, never-before-available, front-hook, &quot;t-shirt bra&quot; (displayed on the counter &amp; described as the coolest, most innovative thing ever) pop open, all of its own accord, just as I was extolling the virtues of the brand new style to a customer... As I recall, she didn&#039;t notice a thing and ended up buying a couple of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>King, being a &quot;bra fitter&quot; is no picnic, believe me! (Oh, the stories I could tell!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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