Funny how little things happen in your life and they bring up little memories of people and places that you otherwise might have forgotten.I was shopping at a little department store to take advantage of the Memorial Day sales and spent some time in the lingerie department. As I was flipping through the racks and looking at the new styles and colors, I could not help but overhear what another pair of shoppers were talking about. The older woman of the pair was explaining how to pick out the Best Bra to her shopping companion, who I suspect was her granddaughter because of the age difference. I could be wrong, it may have been her daughter, but I really think it was her granddaughter.
That moment took me back about 20 years to a shopping trip with own grandmother. She worked in retail stores all her life and was the queen of shopping and fashion in my world. She taught me about selecting the right bras, panties, slips, and camis and called them our “foundation garments.” These are the items you put on to shape and lift a woman’s body parts and make the street clothes both fit better and look better on you. These days we also have Seamless shape wear as part of our foundation wardrobes, and I like the descriptive quality of the word “foundation” rather than the crass “underwear” or naughty connotations associated with “lingerie.”
One of my favorite new foundation items is the Bra and Cami with cleavage cover so that the deep necklines of so many fashion tees are still wearable in a more conservative atmosphere, such as church on Sundays. The tees can top anything from a pair of jeans to shorts or a skirt, but I don’t like to show so much cleavage at work and at church, so a pretty little cami is a simple and inexpensive fix to the modesty issue. Ad I thank my darling grandmother for teaching me these feminine tricks.