{"id":991,"date":"2026-02-04T14:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/?p=991"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:04:06","slug":"she-said-it-was-just-a-fitting-but-measured-everything-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"She Said It Was Just a Fitting \u2014 But Measured Everything Slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe suit is almost perfect,\u201d she murmured, circling me with the measuring tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlmost?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cClothing should follow tension,\u201d she said. \u201cYours keeps shifting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her fingers pressed lightly at my waist, then my back, adjusting posture that didn\u2019t need adjusting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStand naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She leaned closer. \u201cNo \u2014 you\u2019re standing carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tape slid across my chest. She didn\u2019t look at the numbers \u2014 only my breathing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMost men try not to react during fittings,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo what?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She met my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAttention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tape lowered. She didn\u2019t step away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe may need a second session,\u201d she decided softly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe suit is almost perfect,\u201d she murmured, circling me with the measuring tape. \u201cAlmost?\u201d \u201cClothing should follow tension,\u201d she said. \u201cYours keeps shifting.\u201d Her fingers pressed lightly at my waist, then my back, adjusting posture that didn\u2019t need adjusting. \u201cStand naturally.\u201d \u201cI am.\u201d She leaned closer. \u201cNo \u2014 you\u2019re standing carefully.\u201d The tape slid across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themodemuse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}