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"If we&amp;#x27;re talking pure ick factor as it relates to words describing women&amp;#x27;s underthings, &amp;quot;panties&amp;quot; pretty much has the market cornered. You&amp;#x27;d be hard pressed to find a Generation X-or-Y woman who doesn&amp;#x27;t think the word conjures up all kinds of images of dirty old men and things best left unmentioned on these pages. But as far as I&amp;#x27;m concerned, I&amp;#x27;ll take &amp;quot;panties&amp;quot; any day over &amp;quot;brassiere.&amp;quot; Yesterday afternoon, I paid a visit to The Nate Berkus Show to tape a segment about Dos and Don&amp;#x27;ts that will air in February. When they brought me up to the studio to get miked, we went through the usual TV routine where the audio guy describes how the microphone wire will have to be fed through your clothes and clipped onto the closest available thing, usually a belt or the back of your pants. But I happened to have a dress on, which prompted him to say, &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m going to hook this onto the back of your brassiere,&amp;quot; at which point I turned bright red, started laughing like a hyena, and avoided every second of eye contact I could. My brassiere!? Doing a lot of television pretty much guarantees you&amp;#x27;ll have middle-aged sound guys poking around in your clothes on a fairly regular basis, and I&amp;#x27;ve always done my best to stay completely professional about it and try to distance myself from the physical experience and just keep my cool. But something about this guy using the word &amp;quot;brassiere&amp;quot; turned me into a giggling six-year-old and made me feel like what was about to happen was highly inappropriate. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s the so-out-of-touch-you-must-be-ancient thing (seriously, has anyone used that word conversationally in the last, oh, 40 years?!), which lent the whole thing an air of creepiness, or maybe it was just the fact that he used the full word made me think he was thinking about mine (um, ew!). Regardless of the why, I can officially add the word brassiere to the list of things that completely give me the willies! How about you, ladies? Do you ever use it? Does it make you cringe? And what would you have done in my shoes? Any other old-fashioned style words that make you want to crawl under the table and hide? Share! PLUS! - What your bra says about you (on a date) - $365 diamond undies? Yes, these are real! - At last, tons of plus-size bra options at FullBeauty.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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