Tips and advice for men to shop for lingerie
How to buy sheer bras?

By Liz Frehls

The lady seemed very uncomfortable with his request and looked clearly surprised that a man could walk into a lingerie store with such confidence and loudly ask what he needed.  To make her life even more difficult, Jason added, "And I would like the bra to be sheer."  The lady looked at him horrified and said, "You do know that women do not like it this way, don't you?"  Jason put a straight face and with the innocence of a teenager buying his first lingerie gift for his girlfriend, replied, "No, I did not know that.  But I am not sure that is really true.  There are lots of women that like it and my wife happens to be one of them.  In fact she loves it when men tell her how nice she looks.”  As my husband tells me, he stopped at that point because he was afraid the lady was going to pass out.    

About that time a younger lady that apparently owned the shop came in and noticed that the older sales lady looked a little shaken.  She came over and asked if she could be of any help.  The older lady, looking still shocked but relieved now, said, "Yes you can.  This gentleman seems to think that women like sheer bras.  I told him that women do not like it."  The shop owner told the older lady she would handle this and told her to go ahead and take her break.  (Related:  Simone Perele Argentina lingerie)

After the lady left, the shop owner apologized to Jason and explained that the other lady had only worked there a short time and had waited mostly on older ladies that bought old fashioned lingerie.

She asked Jason what size underwear I wore and he said 36-D with size 6 panties.  Her response was "You lucky guy.  You have a wife who is pretty and has a great taste in lingerie."  She showed him front hook, back hook, racer back, demi cup, every kind she had and had helpful comments about each. One comment she made about a particularly low cut style cup was, "Your wife's skin may be more noticeable with this style."  She even asked Jason about the color of my skin because that would allow her to recommend the right bra color.  When he said they were a beautiful dark pink, her comment was that hers were a dark pink too.  She also assured him that if he ever came back to her shop, she would make sure she waited on him.  And that she would inform the older lady that many women do like sheer bras and she should learn to deal with that fact.

She then mentioned that she herself was wearing a sheer bra but that the top she had on that day did not really let her show it. Jason told her,  “Oh that is too bad.  I would love to see them - to compare your pink to my wife's pink!”  Jason tells me that this made her blush.  Then she said, "I wish you could see them too.  I love it when I see men looking at them.  Most men are too shy or afraid to say anything.  But they sure do like to look."

Jason then told her about our game and that the first thing he would tell me when he got home was about his conversation with her.  

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