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Migrated boob tissue made me look like a bodybuilder!

When I last worked out my body looked really terrible. As my boobs were cropped off and I didn't know the fat under my arms was my boob it instead ended up at my muscles, making me look like a body builder. Only one with fat on.

I build muscles really easily and I have a somewhat athletic build but add ... the migrated boob tissue and the picture was even absurd!

Even my nicest friends would agree with me that it did look odd. I looked like a male with tiny sagged boobs on and huge muscles. I hated that body.

Actually my boobs are not that sagged. They just looked that way in comparison with my huge fat muscles.

At the time I hosted a forum about fat acceptance and accepting bigger bodies. And I got jelluous of all the curvy ladies bigger than me. Because they at least looked feminine in comparison.

Now as I have migrated some sizes I do have boobs more in proportion to those muscles I will get. And I will know where to tuck that "muscle fat". In my bras

Best part; athletic build = I tone very very easily. Maybe that build is not such a bad thing after all
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Mom-frustration

My oldest daughter has started developing up top, just as I find out about bras which actually fit. Now I am utterly paranoid of having her hate her body, hate her bras, or damage her breasts - and it's worse since she measures 25" around and the smallest bras available to try on anywhere in the country are ... 30As(at least it seems like this is so), and even the sport-bra type things they have slide right up onto her nipples as soon as she raises her arms! I'm terrified of ordering online for her because at 10, she's too young for an underwire, but she's already got a 29" breast measurement and the A cups we can find are seriously too small for her breasts and I am panicking. I know it will only get worse over the next year (or 10) as she grows, and I know ladies on both sides of her family are not exactly lacking in the bosom. ARGH!
My own mom was always a bit in denial about large breasts (hide them! THE MEN WILL LIKE THEM! OH NOES!) and my mother in law actually got a reduction many years ago, so I am also a bit terrified of what THEY will say to her when they see her in the next couple of months. M-i-L also does a terrific amount of fat-shaming and skinny-glorifying, and I want her to be in my kids' lives but I don't want them exposed to that. Why did everyone tell me diapers and no sleep would be the hard things about having kids?
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- Despite your frustration, I am so glad to see a mom who also take their daughters bras very serious! My mother did not know much of bras, and still can't shake her mothers idea that D-cups are grotesque (even though she was happy with the result of the fitting I gave her, that put her in a UK G-cup), and would prefer I wore minimizers.
  Your daughter would probably be a 26D, so 28C's would also do. If she is not wearing underwires, I think it could be possible to take some soft cup 28C's or 30B's and alter the band, if you can sow.
  Royce has a "missy" range, with non-wired bras for young girls, and Royce is also sold in the US, so maybe see if it is anywhere close to you? :)
- I wouldn't say someone is too young for underwires. Sure, there are sports bras without underwires which work well, but if she needs/wants the support, underwires should be an option regardless of age?
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Fat, age, gravity, migration and none bra fitting

As everything on my body has gone south by age and weight not only does my boobs sit lower but my stomach and underbust as well.

If I lay down flat on my back or bend over everything goes back in place. Then I can see my boobs being very high on chest rather than the low on chest look I ... get while standing up.

This probably explains why I crave the tighter bands so much.

The tighter bands with more stable wires and wings kind of makes me achieve this look standing up.

This also explains why I have thought I cannot wear a longline, because of the roll pressing my underwires from underneath.

As I've been wearing too small bras for 20 years I also have cropped my boobs off terribly. I wanted my boobs front and center. I pushed them front and center. They are not front and center. They never ever was meant to be front and center. Ever.

This is why I always gets sad when I see young girls complaining of their boobs going "east and west". I'ts a perfect natural look. If your boobs are to the sides, don't push them front and center as you will ruin the shape of your boobs to achieve a look you don't have.

I always wanted the shape of an hourglass. I've totally accepted that as impossible five or ten years ago. I was a square shape.

I just never realized not allowing my boobs to be the way they were was what made me look like a square.

At the age of 39 I've seen a new body taking form and yup she does have curves. Not hourglassy curves but still, curves. I wish someone would've told that insecure young girl this. Then maybe she would've stopped dieting and stopped wearing those goddamn too small pushups.

I do not mind being fat. I do mind however looking shapeless when I'm not.
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Aug 23, 2012

Once long ago I , with two friends started a lingerie company. Poirette was intended for the trousseau market. Foundation start up costs were beyond us, and mail order seemed too trashy at that time. We hit on a powerful idea. Decorative hand sewing of bra cups on fairly inexpensive bra and panty sets. Our first two releases were Kingfishers ... and Ankhs, hand sewn by Filipino ladies in Shantung silk. Sewn into the bra cup one side only they were pretty and original. At the first lingerie show where we had a booth we were inundated with orders, so many that hand sewing was out of the question. We did not order enough in advance and after a couple of years we closed down, forced out by lack of capital, inability to think the whole thing through, and competitors who ripped off the idea. I held to my bras for a long time, but now they are gone. Just an idea !
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Now bra adventures can have titles

Just added the option to add optional titles to the adventures, the will default to today's date so you don't need to do anything if you don't want to

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Aug 23, 2012

Though I luckily fall into a not terribly hard to find cup size (30DDD US), one of my biggest pet peeves after having my eyes opened to the woes of being unable to find large cup sizes is all of the celebration and excitement and exclamation points that follow "available up to a G cup!" like that's a big freakin' ... deal. I mean, I applaud these brands for doing what others still are not by even going that far along the alphabet, but it's that exclamation point that bugs me. The implication of that exclamation point irks me to no end, like G cups are so huge and rare. Which they're not. Maybe it bugs me because for some brands, going up to a G cup is a big deal, and I feel like it really shouldn't be, because you shouldn't have to embark on a quest to find the right bra size, you should be able to go into most stores and find what you need. But I guess I'm just a dreamer.

From my own personal experience, my biggest bra problem that just makes me want to yell at people is that different brands and countries get all weird right at my size. DDD, E, F... what am I?! I'm right at the start of where things start getting funky. Sometimes a DDD is an E, sometimes it's an F. And sometimes, trying to figure all of this out makes me want to cry. I wish there were just one system...
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- I'm with you with wishing there was only one system, All those cup confusions are my everyday nightmare :@!!!
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Aug 22, 2012

The previously mentioned bra is amazing Love my first Cleo by Panache bra-Meg. My Freya Louisa should be here tomorrow

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Aug 22, 2012

If you do have a longer torso this blog post is a must to read! Looking at her checklist everything is true for me. But these are my most troublesome:

"Constant underarm fat even when you always make sure to scoup your breast tissue into the cups, the band is tight, and you're wearing the right size"

- Always!

"Struggling to find ... bras with enough lift. Your breasts never feel high enough."

- I'm ok with that problem as I kind of like a lower more relaxed shape.

"You prefer bras where the bottom of the underwire is even with the band, not below e.g.

- Standing up Panache Andorra is ok. Sitting down it's poking hell.

"You feel like your breasts slope down too much into the cups"

"You've never felt underwires that dig into the bottom of your armpits. However, you might have had problems with straps that dig into the sides of your armpits/shoulders when you've attempted to tighten the straps to get enough lift."

- Yes yes yes yes yes!

"You may feel like there's extra breast tissue above the cups of your breasts but going up in a cup size just means that there's gapping at the top of your cups."

- Yes yes yes yes yes.

"Wrinkling at the bottom of your cups."

- Yes yes yes yes yes.
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Braless in Brasil: Torso length, height, underarm fit and...

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- I read it before and I still don't get what it has to do with length of torso... isn't it rather a matter of breasts shape?
  
  I have a torso which is short in proportion to the rest of my body, but I'm pretty tall so in the end it's not a short torso when it comes to lingerie sizes (for example I need longer straps). I also have breasts sitting rather low on my chest, but not saggy. I have some of the concerns mentioned in that post, but but not all, and the shape of my breast is different (they don't slope into the bra, and I don't think the band is too low).
  
  I know that people who have short torso (in a matter of size, not proportion), becasue they are short have problems like straps being too long or sides of bra being too high, so I assumed that most bras are obviously designed with taller/longer torsoed people in mind.
- I've read this blog post, and the best part for me was knowing that I'm not the only one with some of these problems, and that maybe I'm encountering these problems for a reason other than bra-fitting ineptitude. While I'm willing to attribute some of this stuff to torso length (I definitely have a long torso, and I'm tall), I agree that a lot of this also has got to do with shape and placement on the torso (my breasts are also slightly high, exacerbating the strap-tightening issue). The sloping into the cup one I can't figure out the meaning of, but maybe that's because my breasts seem to do anything but slope. I have no idea. This makes my brain hurt.
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Aug 22, 2012

I live in Denmark, where there appears to be a ceiling on bra sizes, that stops at EU cup size H (so, about FF in UK sizes). For me, who is well beyond FF's, this is of course rather upsetting. But what is more upsetting is the false joy I get when I twice in this month has seen UK ... brands that make up to K-cups, only to discover that the store refuses to stock them beyond H. "H in UK sizes?" I ask, still a bit hopeful, though that would still be too small for me, it may allow me to find styles I could order. But alas, no, only EU H-cups. Well, what is the point of stocking Freya and Fantasie if they are not going to use it to it's full potential?! They are only using much less than half of the offered sizes, why?!
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- I'm with you on this one. I live in Sweden. I always shop bras online and it seems I will get ruined by return postage before I find a bra that fits!
- I am very glad to hear you are also from Scandinavia! I've read some of your bra issues, and I think we face a lot of the same things, and now because of location, maybe our bra journeys will be even more relevant to each other! I assume you have also experienced with Change Ligerie (the only store around here who have broke the H-cup barrier)? I didn't see any in your added bras.
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Aug 22, 2012

After moving to the UK, I finally found bras that actually fitted! I still got a bunch of bras that are brand new but before I got fitted I bought tons of them, often didn't try them on because I was a bit embarrassed. It's a fab site and I plan to list some there, for some odd reason I ... didn't want to throw away brand new bras so I kept them all in a box. My digital cam gave up living but as soon as I got that sorted, I'll take pics and no problem sending them worldwide. I've lived in places where bigger bras or unusual sizes were seriously hard to find, so I do sympathize!!!!
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