Reading through "bra" searches I ran into this picture of a boob model, Jordan Carver (nsfw).

In an unofficial blog they're showing pictures of her displaying her real bra size, in the picture she's wearing a 32HH bra and a measuring tape around her bust at 101cm. In the picture you can clearly see how does the bra does not fit her as the center of it is like an inch away from her chest!

The sad thing is that this is not the first time I've seen this, and many boob models are in serious need for better bras, and it could even be better for their business as they'll end up with smaller bands and bigger cups :?

I really liked this article at KnickersBlog about smaller bra sizes.

It's not something you hear a lot about, but it's interesting how most small cups are always padded bras. Alison writes about different alternatives and struggles when trying to find smaller cupped bras

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I'm giving away one of them for free, $0.0, no money involved.

The condition is that I want to help the site have more bras registered, since more bras means a more helpful Bratabase

The ad will go to the interested user with the highest number of bras added to the site. I'll evaluate monthly to see if I should give the ad to someone else.

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A couple of weeks ago Ally from Guilty Pleasures, reached me via Twitter and asked me if I could write a guest article for their page regarding bra fitting .

I was flattered with the request, so I decided to work on it . The article is named "How to find the proper bra". They did a great job adding the pictures and format to make it look pretty

I hope you like it! , please let me know what do you think of it!

This past November, Bratique Helene opened its "virtual" doors to the public. Here you'll find clothes designed to fit the fuller busts. They have a sizing system based on bust and waist measurements allowing you to choose between "Well Endowed" and "Really Well Endowed" for all the size ranges.

Inpired and named after her mother, Carissa Brown launched the store after rejecting positions in the lingerie industry and choose to stay at home, designing clothes that aid the problem that her mother, herself and many other women go through when shopping for tops. Fitting a large bust.

Finding herself struggling to get clothes that maker her feel confortable, she started researching the market, the woman shape and increased her skills which lead to her friends and friends of friends to ask her for advice when shopping for clothes. With this skill in hand, her clothes add structure, room and seams where the busty body needs them so its figure is flattered.

Her clothes are manufactured in Dallas, with a variety of fabrics and designs and thought out to celebrate curvy women, enhance their waistline, cover the chest and look elegant in order to make their clients feel sexy.

In may 2007 Helene passed away, this sad eent gave Carissa strength to move on and Bratique Helene became her homage to her best friend, Helene.

if GOD can walk me through a nightmare, he can walk me through a dream as well.

If happen to know a busty and thin lady close enough, you've probably heard her complain about how hard is to find bras that fit.

There are two ( actually more ) reasons for this:

The first one is easy to understand. It is hard to find the size, no store sells bras over a D cup in a less than a 36 band. Stores don't focus on that market because they assume it's not profitable, lets just cater to the masses (with less boob mass).

Now, here's the fun part

The second reason is a tad less obvious. The cup sizes on smaller bands increase at a bigger threshold than in bigger band sizes. Now why is this?

One inch represents 1/32th (3,125%) parts of a 32" band size, and that same one inch represents 1/40th (2,5%) of a 40" band size.

As the band size goes up, the inch difference that determines cup sizes becomes relatively smaller ( 1/32 is 25% bigger than 1/40 ).

How is that a sizing problem?

This means that cup sizes in smaller bands are going up faster than in bigger bands. This means there are less "in between" sizes.

With the previous example in the 32 and 40 bras, since the cups go up 25% faster in the smaller band, every 5 cups increase in the 40 band you only get 4 cup changes in the 32 bra.

It's like bigger band sizes have small, medium and large options, and smaller sizes have only small and large options .

Wow, that was a dramatic topic for this post, but I didn't mean that there won't be more women out there with natural big boobi . My intention is to note how the fashion industry is acting on people about how big boobs are out of fashion.

This has always been known by busty ladies that know how hard is to find tops, blouses or anything that can flatter a D+ chest. This leads to an increase in breast reductions, and making this procedure become a known and public word, 10 years ago nobody would just go and tell you "well, then have them reduced", people didn't even know it was possible, now people are more accessible on having it done.

On the other side men are also reporting an increasing number prefering smaller breasts, this comes with interesting results.

It's sad that fashion dictations has so much influence over social preference, being translated over social pressure and making it hard for women to accept and celebrate their shape

Gemmak writes about her experience getting a mammogram with small breasts and the adventure of having effectively too small breasts (as she puts it ).

At this point the radiographer became a little embarrassed, she now had the probably usually unenviable task of telling her patient that her breast was effectively so small it was presenting a real logistical problem, but despite my stressed situation of facing the possibility that I had cancer, I couldn't help but find the whole issue hilarious.... and to her relief I began to fall about with laughter at what was rapidly turning into something akin to a slap-stick scene from a carry on film!

London's Royal Free Hospital has been working with Bravissimo professionals to give free bra fittings to women in NHS who want to undergo breast reduction.

They've found that none of them wore the correct bra size, the usual mistake of a too big band and too small cups

In one study we found 100 per cent were wearing the wrong bra. They tend to underestimate the back size and overestimate the cup. This leads to discomfort in the breast, neck and shoulders. These symptoms are interpreted as physical symptoms which indicate the need for breast reduction.

In almost all cases these fittins were the first ones these women ever had!

This shows how bad bra culture among women can lead to these sort of problems. This is a great move in London, lets hope that free fittings are available in other places, and not having to wait for women to decide that they need surgery to be more confortable with their bodies.

Even the Wikipedia mentions this!