Sep 13, 2012
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From 34C to 34DD to 32 whatever fits me.
The summer of my sophomore year of high school, I decided to get measured for a bra before going back to school. At the time, I was wearing a 34C, which fit rather horribly, to be honest, and I often wore a sports over my bra to make my chest more compact. I went to a local Macy's where I ... was fit into a 34DD. I had the worst experience there. The bra I ended up with made my breasts point in opposite directions and pointy. Not so good. I went to Victoria's Secret later that same week, armed with what I believed was the right size, in hopes of finding a better shape.
That was 5 years ago. I wore 34DD, always on the tightest hook, straight from the dressing room, for 5 years. During those years, I felt weird. I felt like my chest was simply enormous; that it was people saw of me sometimes. I was always the bustiest and the curviest of my friends, so I felt like the odd one out. And nothing can damage the already fragile self esteem of a teenage girl like feeling like a freak of nature.
It was a bit of an accident that I found out I was wearing the wrong size. I came across busty girl comics, which had a lot of information about how a bra should fit. Imagine my surprise when I took a look at how mine fit compared to correctly fitting bras and discovered that I almost all the signs (arching band, digging in wires, could fit my whole hand behind the centre gore, push the centre gore to my sternum and had quadraboob. Yeah. Not pretty.)
So, I went to Nordstrom. There a very helpful woman measured my band only and then came back with an assortment of sizes. We quickly ruled out all cup sizes below an F (US sizing, E UK) and settled on a 32G or F. It's amazing how much better I feel with my new size. I feel confident and comfortable with my chest for the first time.
I no longer feel like a freak, I feel comfortable and confident in my own skin. I've even come to like my curves.
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Give or take a number or letter here and there, this is very similar to my experience. I was a freshman in college before I got it figured out. I know exactly what you mean about feeling like a freak. It doesn't help when the people who should be helping you instead reinforce it. Isn't it amazing how much better you can feel, both physically and emotionally, from such a simple change?
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Oh that is so encouraging! I am still trying to figure out my size, but hopefully, I'll figure it out without a Nordstroms. And Busty Girl rocks!
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Sep 11, 2012
I just wanted to ask you if you've heard that boobs often are constructed in the same way as the pecs, (Pectoralis major), the muscles under the boobs.
XLhourglass informed me of this after my last bra adventure post. I hadn't never heard about it.
So I've done some research about pecs in general. Sadly enough it's all about males ... and their pecs. But still I found out that some pecs are wider and more shallow and some pecs have more projection. Also some have a bigger pectoralis major ("side muscle") and some have a more defined pectoralis minor (upper boob muscle). And that it's all about genetics.
I have huge pecs. Both major and minor. When I flex I see the crease of both of them. The major ends just behind my arms where I want my wires. The upper one sits just where my boobs ends in a bra with tightened straps.
I asked another girl to point out where her pecs ended and she would point on that typical point just slightly under her arm where most girl seems to want there wires.
I just wanted to hear if anyone of you've heard about this as right now I have not been able to find the information.
Because for me this would explain why I can totally scope my so called "back fat" on top of my boobs but why I'm totally incapable of scoping the lower tissue under my arms even a centimeter and why I hate wires that doesn't end behind my arms. Not only do the smaller sizes rest on boob tissue, they end on very sensitive and protruding muscles as well. (FMS makes it hurts like mad)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectoralis_major_muscle
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectoralis_major_muscle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectoralis_major_muscle
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Interesting, I didn't know they could actually be different like that, I thought it was a matter of how you worked them out. When I compared them to boobs, I just meant that some people use the line of the pecs, to determine where their boob starts under their arms
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I've kind of known bodies are shaped differently and I have some understanding on how different bodies get different figures due to skeleton and fat distribution, but I never really stopped to consider the rules muscle plays in it, or the fact that pecs in particular was what gave the boob it's shape.
So what you said about that was an eye opener for me :)
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Sep 11, 2012
Recently I lost fifty pounds, so I figured it was time to go bra shopping...I went to a bra salon and received a professional fitting for the first time. I am so used to going to Victoria Secret that I had no idea that bras even went beyond a DD...When I got there, I realized that this wasn't your average ... bra store. They had bathrobes, and extremely helpful and friendly staff, and a wide selection of bras ranging from 28AAA to 40K. I thought I was a 38DD, turns out I range from a 34HH to a 32J!!! I got nervous because I had never even thought that my bras would be THAT big. I have always had a big chest, but they made me feel extremely comfortable about these new sizes, and I even got my bras on sale! Overall, it was a great first time experience going to a professional salon, and I would recommend that everyone should get sized even if they claim they know their bra sizes...because according to the fitter, 80% of women don't
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Sounds like you had a great experience, just like it should be! :) That makes me really happy and you definitly deserves to have good bras and feeling good about your body.
Please recommend the place you went to to well, everyoen you know in that area when you talk about bras. Sadly not all places are that good, and not all places can even be trusted, so, spreading the words of the good places is vital. :)
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Linda's Bra Salon located in NYC
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Question!
Does anyone know what bra brands Trinny and Susannah use in their make-over shows? Do they do decent fittings?
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I don't remember but you could look up their videos on youtube and see where they go, I remember them making a special about bras and fitting someone with very large breasts. I can't remember the bra used :S
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I've searched and searched, but I can't seem to find a clip where we actually hear the brand :( Which is odd, because I watch the show when ever it is on, and I know they do talk about the brand, they usually have some one on from the brand who talks about fitting, but I can't remember, and I can't find it :o I just read a post written by Susannah, where she says she is a 32G, which seems reasonable, so they must have some bra knowledge, thus know that they need an full bust brand if they are to fit the majority of women, I would think... Hmm......
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Personally, I think I may have preferred the look of it before. The new one does seem very streamlined though.
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I think that the panels with "offer fitting advice" and listings are too low, so it could be overlook. What do you think?
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Awesome! :D
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Fantastic! This is great! =D
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Sep 07, 2012
So - how many of you have been wondering about the new Bravissimo Contour bra? Strapless up to a J-cup? Terrible on-site reviews?
I decided to give it a shot and it arrived today. And, um... no. Definitely not. Ugh. There are so many things that are wrong with this bra. I will write a proper review and post some photos tomorrow (it's 2 AM), but I just wanted to share my first thoughts
Contour Strapless Bra by Bravissimo
http://www.bravissimo.com/products/lingerie/strapless-bras/contour-strapless-...
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Looking forward to your review! I need a good strapless bra and was hoping the Contour Strapless by Bravissimo would be worth a try. Apparently not!
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I'm looking forward to your review as well. I've been thinking of buying a strapless bra, can't wait to hear your thoughts! :)
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Migration problems, or just skin?
I'm hearing a lot about migration lately, and although I have a minimal amount to train back over, I think most of it may just be skin and not boob. Any help on the matter is appreciated, or perhaps I just need to try a different style.
A little about me: I'm 27 and have been wearing the correct (or somewhat ... correct) size for the past 5 years. Not much of a change in the way of shape or firmness. If anything I've lost firmness. I'm relatively thin - read = I don't have any rolls on my torso, it's pretty flat/toned and so is my back, but take around a 28F-28FF depending on style. 26 would most likely fit better and currently I'm wearing the Daphne I altered to a 26, but I can't wait to take this thing off the first chance I get! I would never wear something this tight every day! I prefer foam lined bras because they give a more attractive shape than unlined lace bras which offer nothing more than "you'll shoot your eye out". But something is telling me the only way to correct migration is to wear one of these said matronly lace bras. Yeah, I have the Bridgette Basque, but I get cold (pretty often - low body temp), I need the warmth of layers to keep my boobs from hurting, the shoddy workmanship of Freya's lace bras doesn't help this problem either.
As for whether or not it being skin, the migration I have is behind my underarm and above where the band is. Kind of next to where the straps meet the band. The thing is...the tighter the band, the more this area is pinched. And with a large enough cup and trying to force everything back to the cups, this area behind my arm is exaggerated. It looks awful with a fitted shirt because then I look like I have some kind of strange back roll. Basically, I'm moving all that extra skin into my underarm. If I put more of this into the cup I then get spaces at the bottoms, just above the underwires. This causes the band to sit too low - about 3" lower than my boobs. I can tell from the red marks left behind, which are all over the place. Nothing helps. So how do I get this extra skin to go into the cup and not my underarm? If I force it down and then forward it sits under the wire and the band slides around more easily. I've tried this with various sizes and styles...plunge, demi, balcony, 26, 28, 30, E, F, FF, G. What styles are the best for correcting all these said problems? TIA!
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I am still not a 100% converted of permanent breast migration by wearing correct bras, and even though in most cases it is breast tissue under the arms escaping the bras it might be worth to contemplate the possibility that sometimes it can be just other sort of tissue there?
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I have two possible suggestions...
One is the shape of the band. Do you have a "triangular" torso or a straigher one? Does your back go larger above your underbust or is it quite the same as your underbust? If you're on the more triangular side your might get this cutting in because the band is simply too tight along the top edge compared to the bottom edge.
The next suggestion is the strap position. Your altered Daphne, has the straps been moved on that one? If the straps are too far apart or two close otgether in the back you will get odd rolls as the straps is trying to move into the right place and pushes the tissue and skin with it.
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Bra hopeless-ness in Denmark.... Again
Yet again, I ventured into a store, knowing they would not have my size... I knew they had Freya, so I went straight for that section. The Freya girl was quick to tell me that they had up to H-cups. In UK or EU sizes I ask? This left her very confused. In my attempt to demonstrate what I meant, ... I grabbed a bra, to show her that there are difference between cup sizes in EU and UK, but oh, Freya doesn't translate the sizes, so it said "75FF" for the EU size... She then cheerfully explained that this was a half size, between F and G. I responded that the UK system pretty much always used double letters for sizes, and that it is not half sizes, it is whole sizes, which is why FF is more like a EU H-cup. She was quite happy to tell me that this was what made Freya such a great brand, because it was one of those rare brands with half sizes. Oh my, what a load of BS. <--- this is why I am reluctant to apply for a job in a bra store, I think there is a limit to how much of bra ignorance being passed on to poor bra-searchers I can take....
I was however recommended to check out a bra store not too far from my uni, which on their website states that they have up to K-cups. I'll have to esquire what K-cups that might be. And I don't think I'll be buying bras from there, because all their Freya bras are listed for 1000dkr at their site! That's £107!! The most expensive Freya bra I could find online was £31. What, did they get flown to Denmark with elves or what? I really can't think of anything that would justify that big high of a price...
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Lol...wow! You should have asked her if Freya ever made BB or CC since those would be "half-sizes" as well, because that brand carries all the way down to a B.
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Was the bra store near your uni Change? They're great and they have crazy sales a couple of times a year. Their facebook page should notify of sales, maybe they have an e-mail list as well. I've gotten great breas for as low as 5€ in Change.
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And we can add comments without ending up at a new page! :) Thank you.
However, the add comment button disappears under the pictrues to the right when writing a comment. Bug!
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