Eve’s

Is it a chain? I feel like it’s a chain. It doesn’t really matter if it is, but I’m just curious because I’ve never seen one outside of El Paso.
Yesterday was Halloween and if you know me personally, you know every year I spend about a week celebrating my favorite holiday where candy is given out so freely and happily. This is mostly because my birthday falls a few days before Halloween, but also because I love dressing up in ridiculous outfits that I wouldn’t dream of wearing any other time of the year… yes, I use Halloween as an excuse to wear anything. I almost always have two costumes that somehow get interchanged within the week and are guaranteed to not be thought out and be extremely last minute (which is why I tend to end up «making» my costumes)…but hey, I always look good.
Yes, maybe super heroes are played out, buuuuuuuuut I haven’t once seen a sexy Clark Kent (usually they just take the easy route and are Superman… ya, I know I’m clever). A week before my Halloweek, I saw a Superman corset at Hot Topic that I thought could work under my dress shirt that would be ripped off any time I thought someone needed help. Well I didn’t get it, went back and of course it was sold out. BOOOOO! Normally I buy my corsets from Fredricks, but unfortunately one hasn’t opened in EP yet, so I use these ones made with «less expensive» material the weekend before Halloween. But where to go??? I mentioned to a couple of friends that I needed to find a Superman corset and two separate friends exclaimed, «Go to that store in Bassett that the strippers shop at!» I don’t know that, that’s where the exotic dancers of El Paso shop, but I figured it must have some magical component if two different men were actually aware of its existence. So I jumped in the car, sped through traffic (but at the speed limit because I’m a law abiding citizen) and found my way to BP Mall. From the outside it rubbed me as the fraternal twin of Jewelry Box minus the $ 1 plastic necklaces (but they do have the $ 1 eyelashes, WHAT WHAT!) and I think my initial impression pegged Eve’s perfectly. Cheap boy short, thongs, cheekys, bras and a few other things. But lo and behold, they carried a variety of different [cheap] corsets and costumes. Immediately I grabbed a Superman corset in my size… actually I had my friend climb up the ladder and grab the last one in my size while and employee nervously said, «You can’t be up there.» Too late! It’s mine!
I know I annoyingly keep reiterating how the products are cheap, but I just want to stress that an Eve’s bra will never fit like a Victoria’s Secret bra. And with this knowledge I made my first Eve’s purchase. Would I buy another corset for a costume from Eve’s? Perhaps, but again it would be for a costume party or the beginning of my Halloweek. I knew what to expect and the only real two issues I had with the Superman corset was the material started looking worn by the end of the night (I don’t know how else to describe it) and the wires were not properly surrounded so they left marks on my back. Other than that, I can’t complain. My Clark Kent costume was a hit, so thank you Eve’s for helping create another one of my favorite last minute costumes!

You can’t go too wrong with $ 4 bras and $ 2 underwear. I mean, they kind of do because there are no returns, no way to try anything on, and the sizing is wrong as hell about half the time, but eh. It’s a $ 4 bra, and some of them are pretty cute sometimes. I’ll be back to test my luck in the great bra lottery again later.