Had a similar experience at one of the big mall stores specializing in undergarments...featuring pouting silken-haired young women falling out of undersized underwear in the display window and on posters.

I'm not fat, but am well-endowed enough to require some engineering help in the brassiere dept.

The gum-snapping young sales associate told me there was nothing in the store to fit me. Apparently if your bosoms are of a certain generous size, manufacturers seem to think the rest of you is large as well, hence no bra to fit big boobs attached to a small back. A DD-cup was not to be found in a 34 band size. At least not in that store. 

Try online, I was told. And the virtual fitting room was where?? This isn't like buying a pair of socks.

Ageing boomers have money to spend...but where are the pretty undergarments that fit us??  Thanks for this article!