[ailurophile]

Karategrrl: Great places to start. Thanx. I already do business with Venus and Newport News and I never thought of them. Although I did get a bathing suit one year from Venus. It did not fit well but that was just one suit. And I never thought of checking out the teen sections of stores. Thanx.

Starship: I, too, wondered if that was you in the pic.

Crinoline: That's the exact style I am looking for. Thanx.

[crinoline]

for swimwear- I like designer brands because they are cut smaller and are better constructed (than say, a suit from vicky's). Some places to find discount designer bikinis: swimoutlet , Bluefly , and Instyle
I like Salinas brand in particular, they are cut tiny and are super cute
I also like Vix, I have this one
eta- I love this one , check out the back! I also love this model , she has a similar body type to me.

another plus of high end swimwear is that it is rarely padded

[karategrrl]

I have been online trying to find triangle top swim suits with no luck. On the other hand, I'm trying to find regular bras with an underwire but no padding (remember...baby steps!)....and no lace (they make me look bumpy) and preferrably racerback (I know I'm high maintenance.)

No, you're not high-maintenance, you're just looking for something they make, but not usually in our size. (Grrr.)

Starship, just checked out your pix. What a cutie/hottie you are!!!!!!!!!!! OMG, seriously!!!! And what EYES! Seeing all of you totally makes me crave a small busties convention. I would feel so totally empowered among all of you. Seriously, what has blown me away with all your pix has been the fact that each of you has attributes that stand out--great eyes, pretty hair, badass posture, sweet smile, etc. that drew me eye in--for each of you, small breasts would be way down on the list of things I'd notice if I hadn't known you first here. (And then, when I did notice, I'd say, "YESSSS! She's one of US!!!! She's like meeee!!"

I've found good bathing suits on www.venus.com, www.carabella.com, and (low-priced but leaner selection): www.newportnews.com (all U.S. companies). the first two allow you to buy top and bottom separately, and they have many different top and bottom styles/cuts. Hope this helps.

Oh, I also had an idea--since the only bras i can find that fit well are PLAIN black, beige, and white (and the occasional pink or navy blue (at Target, in the teen section), I thought I'd try buying some lace or embellishments at the sewing/craft store and sewing them on myself. I'll let you know how it works out, when I get the time to do so!!

V: What happened to the photos of you? I like the chameleon one too.

Starship: Is that you in your avatar?

I just want to say, <sniff, dabbing eyes> "I love you guys!"

[Vendetta]

ailurophile, I'm just gonna say this: The first padded bikini I found and bought was last year and it has been my only one. I guess Portuguese girls are busty, cause they are and I would love to buy one of those padded bikinis that provides you "real curves" but have no chance. So yes, I do look confident in an unpadded triangle top cause I'm used to it and what the hell, wearing a bikini means everything is supposedly okay and there's no room for that stuff! It's different from daily life

[PixiePink]

boobs are either lunchboxes for your offspring, or playgrounds for your mate(s).. or both.

This one is cracked me up.. but it's so true

[Christine Nectar...]

the ONE bra i have ever had that fit properly and looked good, has died. it had a good life, probably 3 years. *sigh*
back to wearing a stretched out 34A that doesn't fit and feels awful. i wish i could just go pick up a bra easily, without scouring the internet, or making a trip out of my way to a specialty bra shop. well, i guess it's shopping time. here's hoping i don't have to shell out too much to get something that works.

[ailurophile]

I agree with Karategrrl. I have been inspired as well. DJ looks great and Vendetta looks sexy in her triangle top too, as does Gwen Stefani. I just bought a swim suit this summer from Victoria Secret. Of course, with padding. And I wear Vickie's bras too, from her Very Sexy Collection. That is what I always wore. You girls look confident. I look like I'm trying to look bigger. I have been online trying to find triangle top swim suits with no luck. On the other hand, I'm trying to find regular bras with an underwire but no padding (remember...baby steps!)....and no lace (they make me look bumpy) and preferrably racerback (I know I'm high maintenance.) Cannot find anything at the mall without padding! Any ideas? Like, where did you girls find your triangle bras and swim suits?

Karategrrl: Starship had a good idea using Photobucket and giving us the password through busties' e-mail.

[karategrrl]

"i just realized, in the last picture i am wearing the undies from which i derived my bust-name! if you look closely, you'll see the original dj-bizmonkey spinning records on my snatch!"

Bwah hahaha! DJ, you fucking crack me up!! Oh, and might I say that the Costa Rica pic is freaking HOT!!!! I think I have to get a bikini with the tiny triangles! I mean, we smallies can do that!!! Yesss!

I'm inspired....I think I may dig up some old fun pics and post them. I've had an internet harasser, though, and I don't want to invite this jerk to find me. I dunno...maybe I'll do an online album with a password...?

All you ladies rock! I so enjoy being among such awesome humans!! (No offense to the monkeys, DJ!)

[ailurophile]

Vendetta: Nice photos! I really like Dispersao. And who are the guys? They all look alike, like they could be brothers.

DJ: You look good braless! Also, younger than I thought. I think all you girls are so wise and empowering, you all seem so mature... older.

I went to pick up pizza Sunday night....braless. I had a tank top with a sweatshirt on. Baby steps! My bf laughed at me. Asked me why. It's a place where I usually know people too. I even talked to a guy I know. He didn't seem to notice that I was all of a sudden "flat". (Oops, Karategrrl, I meant "tiny". I've been working on that too!) I felt weird though.

[Vendetta]

Hei ladies, check out my new stuff

http://www.flickr.com/photos/_vendetta/

[dj-bizmonkey]

I just thought of this--men's penises "disappear" when they go flaccid, and that's okay, so why not magical disappearing booblets?

bwahahahahaha! good point karategrrl! i makes me think of that margaret cho routine, 'he's a grower, not a shower!'

i just posted a punch of pictures in 'say CHEESE,' if anyone wants to get a good look at my magical boobies.

welcome jane! please come back and post some more!!

[karategrrl]

Magical boobies rock!

I just thought of this--men's penises "disappear" when they go flaccid, and that's okay, so why not magical disappearing booblets?

[karategrrl]

Vendetta, looking forward to the pics of the ittie bittie hottie. We need all the encouragement we can get around here. yeah, (American) Playboy...grrrr..... thanks to a man named Hugh Heffner, thousands of women in America feel inadequate, and thousands of men feel all women need to look a certain way. 'Ol Heff has really used his life wisely.

Jane Lane, welcome!

I though of all of you yesterday..I was cleaning the house in a white tank top. I decided to forgo the bra since I was by myself. The hubby came home and said, "Wow, you look so hot" and started to tweak and play with my nips, but only stopped since he was doing dirty work, too, and his hands were dirty, and didn't want to give me funny-looking dirt spots over my nips. Ha. You were all in my thoughts!

[Vendetta]

Sure, it does, and I wouldn't be expecting anything else. Pretty much every one was natural, since they were featuring women from the 50's to the 90's and I only saw 3 or 4 augmented breasts in the 90's chapter. Let's just say I kept thinking that breasts were enough subject for good photographs.

So my brother started dating this beautiful girl he meet at a photo shoot (he did a one-time photo shoot playing model). He LOVES breasts and all his girls were all C-cup and up. So Catia has no breasts, at all he says, like AAA cup or something. He said it doesn't matter that much, that it only felt funny on the first time cause he's not used to it and that she talked to him about it. She's pretty, skinny model-like and I'm always looking for available cost-free models so I thought "why not?". On next weak I hope to have the flatterest photographs of a really small breasted girl, just for you.

[crinoline]

I think that says more for the aesthetic of Playboy than actual women's bodies.

[Vendetta]

I was at my dad's place yesterday and in the middle of a some-hundred-book collection I found out these 2 photography books of Playboy. I think they're his girlfriend's (oops now his wife) since her brother is a photographer. They're photographs of 5 decades' playmates and it's a huge book. The photographs were all almost about breasts, since the majority of them were only flaunting them. I got depressed. I've seen hundreds of breasts yesterday and to be honest, I didn't even know that breasts could look a certain way, have a certain shape and be that beautiful, which only emphasizes my ignorance towards a feminine body part that I sould know about. The only really small breasted woman was wearing a bra, and she was the only one wearing a bra throughtout the entire book, so I can't even tell how small she was. Sorry for my mood today girls.

[crinoline]

Hi Jane! welcome!
Yeah, mine do the same thing. When we started out, my boy was pretty inexperienced. I'll never forget the first time he saw me naked lying down he said "Where did they go?". I did not find it funny at the time, but we've moved past that and he loves them now, even when they disappear.

I think the best thing you can do for it is just to try to be really confident (which = sexy). You're sexy, you know it, so who cares if you have magical disappearing boobies? Magical boobies rock!

[anarch]

drive-by posting to say that Vendetta, your photography blows me away and so does your photo. Also, y'all are gorgeous. I wouldn't post a photo publicly but would be happy to email one to regulars.

I'm 36, so one of the older ones.

Jane Lane, welcome! I've been married for 5 years and still get flashes of self-consciousness at how my boobs flatten out in that position. The guys I've been with liked them anyway, so I mentally shrug(ged) it off. Would be much harder to do this if I'd been with guys who preferred bigger boobs and said so (and acted like it too), but then again, those guys have never been interested in me and I sure as hell was never interested in them.

[Jane Lane]

Hey ladies. Just found this thread, and have been reading through the posts for about the past hour. You all are just so fabulous, you know that? Fierce. It makes me feel powerful and confident and all "Grr I'm absolutely amazing with my bitty breasts!" Love it.

So, but... as much as I may like the way my breasts look, all tiny but round and perky, they only look that way when I'm vertical. When I'm lying down, or when I've got my arms stretched up above my head, they just disappear. You know what I'm talking about? And that does get me really self-conscious when I'm with a guy. Anyone else relate? And if you do, how do you deal?

[purplestain]

[color=#006400][font=Comic Sans MS]Keira is a beautiful woman. I really like that first photo in particular. I did not like the way her body was portrayed in The Darjeeling Limited, but I thought her body was portrayed beautifully in Atonement.

I think you may be thinking of Natalie Portman in Darjeeling - Keira Knightley wasn't in that.