Bra-buying in China.

This is different from any other experience I've had in the States. 

I was determined to find myself a good, cheap (plain) bra while over here since I left/shrank out of many at home. Luckily, their cup system isn't too difficult to navigate. It's virtually the same (with 32s being extremely easy to find), but some stores use centimeters - 70, 75, 80, etc. - and the same cup sizes. Noting that most of the Chinese people my non-Asian American cohorts have seen are Olympic gymnasts, it must be said that finding a bra my in size was not at all difficult. People are, again, all shapes and sizes here (though I have seen some tiny people).

I started off at Trust-Mart since they sell bras for 17.50元. Unfortunately, they only really offer one cup size for a 70-75 band: A. 80s (36s) were mostly Bs, and nothing was available beyond that point. I went into a really cute, cheap boutique and asked: 你有七十五C? Bu. The only other places selling bras were extremely expensive 110元 when I had just seen some for 17.50? Hellz no.

After dipping in and out of a couple more overpriced boutiques, I wound up at a store near South Gate. I think it was called Butterfly Dance, selling bras for 50-150元. I asked for one that was hei1, or black, and one of the employees motioned me towards the back and into the dressing room, where she continuously handed me bras to try on, then asked to see. From here is just another continuation of the lack of personal space I've experienced here. All the girls I've seen at the clubs are push-up bra masters, if I must say - they know what they're doing. She just reached straight into my bra and scooped them into the proper place. I've been re-arranged for shoots before and whatnot, but never had my boobs handled as such while bra-fitting - just grabbed, you know? In the States, everyone kind of... inches around, tries to avoid too much contact, isn't hands-on. I wasn't at all put off by her - it wasn't a big thing in her book - or at least she made it seem so. I left with a bra for 77元, or $11.

Such involved customer service is pretty common here. I am never not followed. And I don't know if it's because I'm a "rich" foreigner, or if it's all just like that. I think it's all just like that.  

From this post, I go into the dynamics of Chinese nightclubs (and how my decision above affected my reception). ._.' Awk.