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[owl]

I noticed yesterday that my bra was pinching me a little—at the band, the cups are still depressingly well-fitting—so I went into M&S in my lunch time to look for a bigger size. Now, the cup size is proportional to the difference between the ribs and the breasts, not an absolute, so to get the same size cups as a 36A with a 38 band, it would have to be 38AA.

They don't make 38AA bras. In fact, there were only about two 38As in the shop, and they were black push-up ones, and were a little big in the cups anyway. If they make 34Ds, why on earth can't they make 38As??

I refuse to go into trainer bras at the age of 22, even if they do make them in 38AA and not just 26-32. I shall form the hypothesis that the band of my 36A has shrunk in the wash.

Now I must go and shower, and I really must work on my Vorkosiverse ficathon entry...

Comments

[tartanboxers.livejournal.com]

Can't you get one of those extender things from a fabric store? It has hooks and eyes that you can use to attatch it to your bra closure and extend the band at the back.

[owl]

Oh, that's a good idea!

[yubsie]

:( My roommate wears about that size. Apparently a large ribcage automatically means big breasts.

Clothesmakers have strange ideas about how the human body works. *is apparently six feet tall due to her waist size :p*

[owl]

Clothing is daft. Do they ever look at real women, or just those plastic models in the shop windows?

[yubsie]

I think the answer to that is pretty obvious. :p

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

clothing sizes are wierd. I begin to see the advantages of the pre-industrial 'make your own clothes or have them tailored' system, and not just because I sew.

[owl]

Although, how would you make a bra?

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

a very good point. I mean it could be done-- there's nothing inherantly industrial about bras-- but it's not exactly the simplest garment humanity has ever come up with.

[owl]

It would be tricky to get the cups right. And I hate cups with seams—I only really wear the moulded T-shirt bras.

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

yeah, you'd have to use a knit for the cups, and it would definetly require making muslins.

I might try it at some point just to see if I can do it. I'm between two cup sizes myself, and I usually wind up buying the push-up version of the larger cup because it fits me like a normal bra.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Somebody else who has the same problem!!! I once went into a lingerie shop when I was visiting Los Angeles (I mean, surely, if there's a city that has everything, you'd think that would be it) and asked if they had any bras in 38 A and they looked at me disbelievingly and then laughed. Gee, thanks, girls.

Now that I have three kids I have a larger cup size, but I've found I'm no longer comfortable in a 38 anything, and the last time I tried on a bra that came close to fitting properly it was a 42 C. The cups sag depressingly, but nobody makes a 42 B, of course.

This is extra sad considering that I am 5'7" and weigh 140. I just have an enormous rib cage, apparently (though nobody who knows me believes that this could be the case -- I don't look big-boned either).

There is a woman locally who measures and makes custom bras. I'm sure they cost at least $100, but I'm not sure it might not be worth it in the end.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Lots of lung capacity?

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

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*gasp*

Why, you might have something there.

[owl]

Hmm, and I can sing too....you could be on to something here.

[sueprano.livejournal.com]

Well of *course* they laughed - because nobody in LA wears an A cup in *any* band size. It's like that Steve Martin movie LA Story:

"Your breasts feel so weird."
"Oh - that's because they're real."

Wish I could say I have a larger cup size after my three kids, but, no....I'm the incredible shrinking woman in that department; these days I'm lucky if I can fill out an A cup at all. In fact, don't even get me started on bras; I'll never stop. The cups don't seem to be the wrong size, so much as the wrong *shape* - See, here I go. Stopping! Stopping! :)

[owl]

LOL!

[owl]

It's a conspiracy against small-breasted women!!!

I suspect Opus Dei plastic sugeons.

[skywalker-child.livejournal.com]

Womens clothing, on the whole, is hella dumb when compared to men's clothing sizes. It makes me want to scream and kick and call men nasty things. :)

I think you may want to go with the band extender, as previously suggested.

[sreya.livejournal.com]

You know, that's a good point! How come guys get waist size and inseam and all that, while we get sizes that seem purely based on height or something?

And of course this conversation has made me start thinking that my bras tend to be a bit pinchy and maybe I need to move up to a 36... but I absolutely refuse to say I don't wear a B cup, so I guess I'll stay at the 34. :~p

[owl]

Ah, if only my ribcage was a little smaller, I too could be a B cup! (I'm 34 around the chest, and that's mostly bone, not flesh, sadly. no way of slimming bone).

[owl]

Yeah, how come they get all those numbers? They're rectangular! We go in and out and all we get is '12'!!

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

I was bra-shopping today and facing once again the 'between cup sizes' woes when I saw that Playtex apparantly Makes bras in half-sizes (http://www.playtexnet.com/landing-tgif.asp), including "Nearly A." Because I'm a very wierd freak, it reminded me of this post.

As it turns out, they were no help to me because they didn't offer *my* half-size, but you might have better luck.