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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

[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.