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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

[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'!!