OK so here's the thing...I've had my eyes opened and I don't mean that in as much as I can now see my feet when I look down (I still can't) I mean I have been enlightened...
I guess most of us ladies on here have heard somewhere that '80% of women are wearing the wrong bra size' then forgotten about it and gone on wearing what ever we were wearing before. Well the thing is this:
it's true. I am shocked at how wrong I have been about
my bra size.
Shocked to the core.
As I posted a while back my boobs grew to a size 34D over the last few months. Well turns out I'm not a 34 D I'm a 30 G. I thought 34D didn't sound right but couldn't put my finger on why. I mean for one thing I'm tiny...I am 5ft 3 and weight 8 stones and take a size 8 in clothes. A size 34 band is equal to a size 12. That would be way too big for me. Also I have been squeezing myself into size D cups thinking I was supposed to have an enormous cleaveage like the Victoria Secret models. I'm not, no-one is. If your boobs are that squashed together (like a pair of over ripe watermelons) the bra is way too small in the cup.
I have found a couple of websites that have really blown me away with regrads to bra sizing. It seems the old method of measuring bra size is a con...used by inexperienced bra fitters and bra companies to ensure their customers buy a larger band. For example I was told I was a 34 band but it is way to big. 30Gs are hard to came buy, 34Ds are quite common which would mean I'd spend more money in a store that stocks them. I wouldn't of course spend money in a store that doesn't sell my size...which is actually 30G. I found all this out via two websites and have spoken on-line via live chat to a REAL, bra fitter...I took my measurements...she interpreted them. I can post you one link to an amateur site run by a student who really knows what she is taking about and has done some sterling work in her research of promoting correct bra sizes especially for larger busted ladies. Her advice can also be used by smaller ladies too.
I also have a site called brastop which specialises in large bras. It's a UK site and it's a sales site so I can't post the link but there is some invaluable advice on there I can't recommend it highly enough. I had recently gone out and brought a load of 34Ds and realised after I watched the youtube video on that site and read their advice that my bras were all wrong. Once you try on all your old bras after looking at that video you'll think URGH!
Here's the student's website:
http://www.thinandcurvy.com/2010/10/how-to-measure-your-bra-size-correct.htmlthe other website is called
brastop.com If you surf onto their page then at the top menu click on 'fitting room' and you're away.
Would incidentally love to how how you get on!
PS: I am also totally appalled by how women are being treated when shopping for bras.
