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 :?

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!

Living in South America, some of my local friends have a hard time browsing around the site.

Facing that problem I added the possibility to translate every sentence that shows here in Bratabase to the user's language.

I've recently started working on the Spanish translation, but it can be done for any language. So if you'd like to see it in your language, drop me a line so I you can help me translate the site!

Just let me know which language can you translate to and we can start working from there!

I just ran into these two videos that set a record for most bras unhooked in a certain amount of time.

The first one sets a record of 42 double clasp bras unhooked through a t-shirt un 1 minute.

The second is a non official count, where the contestant unhooks 17 bras un 20 seconds. That could have been close to 51 in a minute. But in this case there is no t-shirt to make things difficult so is not clear which one is faster

Have you ever been on the street during a radioactive accident and wished you had a mask with you? Well how thanks to Dr. Elena Bodnar you won't have to with anymore .

She and her team won this year's Ig Nobel for Human health for inventing the bra that transforms in two gas masks!

1. Take your bra off.
2. Unhook both the front and the back hook of your bra (now you've got two pieces).
3. Place the cup on your face and wrap the band and strap around your head.
4. Breathe normally.
5. Help children or suffocating men with your other cup in the same manner.

Dr. Bodnar mentions how these masks could have been useful during the 9/11 attack, or even in Chernobyl if people have had gas masks handy they may ahve avoided breathing radioactive substances.

She adds,

"The average woman isn't going to carry a gas mask with her each day. But the fact is, when you need one, you are going to be caught by surprise." "I think my invention will inspire men to treat women better, It will also make men appreciate the fact that women have two breasts."

Hong Kong Polytechnic University has a course named "Intimate textiles and accesories" by Joanne Yip. Yes.. this is a course about lingerie.

Part of the course includes visiting a factory and the bra surgery:

... I give them an activity called Bra Surgery in which I ask them to use scissors to cut off a real bra and then answer some questions about components of the bra. (...) giving my students a chance to study a real bra carefully and to identify its components and materials

Key Features of this course (from the website) :

Intimate apparel is one of the recently blooming local industry that demands new blood who can think sharp, analytically and creatively. To facilitate the development of these higher order thinking skills, I have engaged students in a blend of authentic tasks to nourish their knowledge, practice their skills and more importantly, confront their thinking so as to help them achieve the outcomes of higher order thinking skills and generic abilities.

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.

Best strapless bras is a page where a bunch of friends self proclaimed "the examiners" test drive all strapless bras they can get on their hands (or boobs).

Each bra comes with a review and quotes from the examiners commenting on what they liked and disliked.

There's an interesting interview with Pippie Flanagan from BestStraplessbras.com

One of the biggest UK lingerie brands, Ultimo, decided to put their bras to the test to see how they held up ( literally ) under several G forces.

Check how they performed on several rides at the Alton Towers Resort

As you can see, at the end of the day the bras proved to be up to the task keeping all the wobbly bits in their place.

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 .

Via the Superficial Girls blog I found out about the Boobie Kit (as they call it). For all the girls who wanted to enhance thriy cleavage without having to udnergo surgery or having to wear padding, chicken fillets or might just find them unconfortable.

The Boobie kit is a short name for the "My Beautiful Breasts kit". A set of items to enhance, highlight, sculpt and shape your bust to its best!

It includes:

• Library of secrets manual
• Waterproof and Sweatproof Bust Shadows and Highlighters
• My Firm and Beautiful Breasts Primer
• BeforeandAfterSetting Spray
• Bust Stain – Semi-Permanent
• Mini Buffing Brush
• Dual-Sided Body Contouring and Highlighting Brush

I just found out that the domain bigbrasizemystery.co.uk redirects you to Bravissimo!

I suppose it must not feel good at all to have milk frozen inside your breasts! is it even possible?

Well, Russians thought ahead of that and being at -50 °C, people from Yakutia needed their cows to have liquid milk, so they came up with bras for their cows, but not only bras, but made of fur in order to keep their udders warm.

Alice Wyllie(The Scotsman) tells the story on how she became a Braologist, a course taught by Michelle Medhurst from Fayreform.

As the name suggest, Braology is the science of bra fitting, after reading a thick textbook you are taught how to spot an ill fitting bra and how to correct it.

The bra fitting business seems to be growing regarding bra fitting training

Online store Cream Body and Bath has a Lingerie section featuring some very interesting articles regarding bra fitting, the list includes:

• How Can You Tell You Are Wearing the Wrong Size?
• Fitting A Nursing Bra
• Intimate Apparel Glossary
• Tips For Men on Buying Lingerie
• Why Do We Wear Bras Anyway?
• FAQ's