Looks like my tissue is migrating after wearing properly fitting bras for a few months! I may have to remeasure soon. And this just after getting a bunch through the listings section! I guess we'll see if they fit.
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1.Take a yardstick or a calliper.
2. Lift boobs up without manipulation.
3. Measure how far they go out from your body where they project the most. Straight out in the direction they want to go.
4. Do the latter measurements in the most convenient position for you.
5. Measure the root vertically.
6. Measure the root horizontally
7. Compare
Me:
My projection cannot ... ever be bigger than 10-11 cm. And since my chest is very tall they are 23-25cm tall.
Callipers for my root width is too expensive above 20 cm so I haven't got one and I'm therefore not completely sure about the root width yet because I curve so much in my root it's almost impossible to measure.
Now: This doesn't say anything about bra fit really. Because the fullness of our roots can be very unequally distributed inside our roots.
For example: the full part of my boobs projects 10-11cm (max 7 cm in a bra) They are tops the same in tallness on the sides, but they are 17cm wide. And measuring my bra size comes out completely wrong, because it's not that I could just fit the little part of my boobs that is full. That leaves me with wires on my breasts and quadboob/boobs spilling above the cups when leaning over. Not fun!
This plus my being naturally east and west must finally have managed to cover my fit issues because traditional bra fitting is on my boobs completely without sense.
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I'm afraid I don't have the equipment to do this measurement - I don't have a yardstick or callipers.
My height is probably about 18 cm, based on the measurement I did a couple of days ago where I measured with a soft tape from my collarbone to the bottom of my breasts going through the gore. If I take the wire width of a bra which rests just against the root, I've got around 14 for the width. Projection should be 13 or less based on my bra size.
If you were to ask me to guess, I'd say that height is greatest, and that I have a fair amount of projection and kind of an average width. Width would still be greater than projection, though.
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Okay... This just happened today haha. I'm not too upset about it but still a bit. I was rushing through the H&M racks (checking out bras to see what's new) and one of the cashiers went to get something for a customer, it just happened to be so that she needed to take the same "route" as me. It felt ... a bit awkward but I knew she didn't mean to beShe followed my exact footsteps because that was where she was headed, and I was heading for the exit. She could sense that I was feeling a bit awkward because my steps kept getting faster, and I'm sure she's a sweet lady but she obviously had to call me "lillen" at the end of the sentence. Lillen is Swedish and means "little one". "Oh I'm sorry, I'm walking right behind you, I didn't mean to make you feel followed little one" ... O_o ? I always get these kinda comments xD What's up with that? Can't I just be taken seriously sometimes, without implying that I'm cute and small? Imo it's kinda rude. Imagine the exact same scenario, except that I'd be 6 feet tall instead of 5. (183 cm instead of 152 cm) I'm preeetty sure that a working woman, in any profession, wouldn't dare or even think of saying something corresponding to me then. "Oh I'm sorry, I'm walking right behind you, I didn't mean to make you feel followed big one" ... O_o Double wtf! It's so much clearer when it's about a really tall chick. I don't know if that's just my experience... ? Any tall women here that've heard some comments about your stature in a store? Right to your face.
Also... I'm wondering... Are there some really short ladies here (below 5"3) that HAVE NOT heard comments about your height by working people? Personnel and etc. If so, do you think it's because your boobs are really large? Mine are kinda big I guess, but not big enough to raise an eyebrow.
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I used to live in Paris during one year, and some asiatic tourists looked at me too much, I feeled like I was a viking girl or something curious and "mythologic" (I am tall). Teenagers boys giggle behind me because I am taller than them, and some want to "fight" with me, provoc me in the street, just to show their friends how they are no afraid of me. I am 22years old now, so I just think they are kids, but when I was their age, I hated that.
Yeah, but that's not really from professional people. That's what I was wondering :) Anyway, since we're at it... I've been ridiculed for my height as well. When I was 15 years old this is what a guy classmate told me; "You're too fucking short, you look like a kid and one would have to be a pedophile to be attracted to you"... I suppose it was intended to be hurtful, but I just kinda brushed it off. Yes, it hurt, but I knew he was being a dickhead. I've been called a dwarf several times and recently I had a fellow turning me down to join a group of friends to play football. I asked him why he was uncomfortable with me joining, I thought it could be that his friends are not friends of mine. After a long discussion he spat it out; "You're just too tiny Jenny, I wouldn't want anyone to hurt you"... Dafuq? xD I'm small, not made out of glass and I'm used to being tackled hard and handling it! For Christ's sake, I'm a football player xD So I told him, but he insisted that it'd be best for me that I wouldn't join in... -_- I guess there's bullying on both sides. But what about working people? Professional people?
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Just a tip for those of you trouble-shooting here on the adventure section; take a nude shot of yourself, put it in your computer, enter http://sumopaint.com/app/ in the url link, add a second transparent layer and outline yourself! Then post it somewhere and put the link here. You don't have to use Sumopaint but I recommend it due ... to the simple and easy-understandable nature of it
Many times when I read about your struggles and I read your descriptions, I kinda get a picture in my head but I'm sure I'm wrong sometimes and the way you describe it is not how I picture it in my head. Just to start off this whole thing (if it ever becomes a "thing", lol, I'm hoping it catches on), here's an outline of myself that clearly depicts my MBT near the armpit area and this outline also shows very clearly how little space I have between my shoulders and my neck, very easy to understand why I'm having troubles with wide-set strapsI hope I'll see some interesting outlines from you guys!
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The problem I have with this is that the shape of my naked boob in no way resembles the shape of my boobs in a bra. I don't think that using your naked boobs to determine shape is helpful unless you have firm breasts that are fairly small.
@valtron, I think this is for the girls who are having problems fitting in certain types of bras. I currently can't find the right style of bra for me and was considering resorting to real pics to help get it sorted out. I would guess that a combination of bra pics and the boob shape outline could help.
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According to this mesuring guide ( http://www.justbreastimplants.com/size/ ), I should wear a small 34B, or very full 34A. And this looks "true" when looking at a naked breasts gallery : https://www.loveyourlook.com/breast/augmentation/gallery.aspx? . I look like a "B" cup.
Sometimes, for fun (or for findind a swimsuit recently), I try some bras in normal stores. It is ... absolutely impossible to be confortable in a 34B. But yes, in theses bras, I look like the ill-fitted top models. Unless I am in 3D, so I can't hide my quadraboobs. And underwires are painfull. And the bra don't stay in place if I move, but why should I move, I look like a top model ! It is obvious theses bras don't fit me, but the fitters say it is perfect !
I am really angry against the actual systeme that wants to put every body between 3 band sizes, and ABCD breasts sizes, it is so ABSURD to put everybody in only 12 sizes !!! Just look at women in the street, they are so differents ! How can you fit them all in 12 sizes !
This absurdity push me to to try 34C, 32D, to find informations about bras online, and I discover bra-blogs, bra matrix, etc.
But when I try to talk about this to my mother (who wear horribly bad fitted bras, but I try to don't blame her), she don't want to see ! When she look at the size tag of my bras with the letter "E" she look at me like I am crazy !
Other exemple : my sister recently buy new bras in 38D (my mother's "size" is 38C), because she quadraboobed her old 38B (I think my sister wear a bit too small cups, and a bit too big bands, but nothing really bad). My mother couldn't belive it, because she is a lot more busty than my sister. So, she went in a store, and buy 3 new bras in 40C..... Then, she show me her new bras, to show me how she was out the bra matrix now, she wasn't a 38C, she is a 40C ! And how my sister was wrong with her "D" cups, but it was ok, because she likes padding, so she need bigger cups (my reaction : "?!?" ). She also tried to put me out my crazy size, "why don't you go with me to the fitter who fitted me, dear daughter ?". I refused the more politely I could, and proposed to help her to find a better bra if, with wears, her new 40C become inconfortable...
The worst in this, is before she bough the 40C, I explain her the sister sizing, and the importance of a tight band size...
And even worst : she used to put me in terribly inconfortables bras when I was younger, and she said a bra is inconfortable, it is normal, it is a sign of a good fit ! If your breasts looks odd, it is normal, not every body have the chance to have pretty breasts !
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Baby you need to burn your momma's bras and get her some new ones :) No questions asked :)
Ah. Mums and their stubborn ideas. Mine put me in clothes 3 sizes to big, and a 36B bra, which was ridiculously uncomfy considering my 28 actual size...
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When you lean over are your nipples pointing straight towards the floor or do they face slightly outwards? Like in the image of Bettie Page.
If the latter then your boobs are probably naturally east-west. I have been like that all my life.
If I lift up my boobs naturally my nipples are 4.5 cm from the sides of my ... body. Gore to nipple 13.5 cm. They have the least volume in the gore and they tapers towards the apex. The apex is also almost parallel with the side of my body. You can see the same phenomenon here where Jayne Mansfield has gotten a nipslip Almost straight line from side paralell to nips. And tapering. http://ingridribelli.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/jayne_mansfield2.jpg
Projection won't happen in the front, but on the sides of the body. Natural east-west projection. Forcing that front and center goes against the shape of the boobs and are at least on me painful. My bobs has the fullest parts where everyone wants to flatten them and make them invisible with side support panels. They has the least volume where all bras expects it to be; at the front of my body.
I can force my boobs front and center. They are convertible so that I can simply turn them like 30 degrees around and make side tissue turning into top tissue. But is it really sensible? It's not.
I've had a lot of wishful thinking about my boobs and how they should be able to "act normal". Because something must be wrong with my thinking. There must be a missing link there that I haven't figured out. Something that would miraculously make me have a fitting bra. I was promised one by the fitting guides and bra fitters and bra bloggers wasn't I? I was told it was so easy. Why don't I fit into the bra fitting bras box? Everyone says it's so fantastic.
It's hard. Because I have to constantly hear how wrong, ugly, terrible, unusual and whatnot east and west is seen as. Be it bra bloggers complaining about Curvy Kate, be it bra fitters saying boobs should be forward, be it Balkonetka or Polish bra companies saying "boobs are always at the front".
I wonder how many more out there that struggle with this. And if people even know how much all east west hatred hurts. Both physically. And emotionally.
Because the way I see it the bra fitting world isn't one bit better on fitting boobs like mine than Victoria Secret is at bra fitting in general. And even plastic sergeants are more aware of naturally east and west boobs than bra fitters. I find that very very sad.
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Boobs come in many shapes and for a lot of women, forward projection fits their natural shape. Since this shape is fashionable right now, I can see how it makes it hard for you to find style that fit properly. I definitely can sympathize there, as over the years certain trends have made it difficult for me to find clothing and even shoes that fit. Lucky, with the fashion aspect you are free to choose what you like and disregard what you don't like or doesn't work for you.
So now you try fantasie fullcups? :D
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This is another way of describing boob shape. Imagine they have four pieces.
1. Side top
2. Side bottom
3. Center top
4. Center bottom
Add shallow/empty/deflated (use the word you see fit) and full/heavy to the equation
Where does your boobs have the most volume?
I have as far as I know:
1: Side top: full
2. Side bottom: full
3. Center top: shallow/deflated
4. Center bottom: shallow
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…I got quite the mental image just reading your headline O.o
I'll have to try this later when I'm not at work.
1) Side top: full
2) Side bottom: fuller
3) Center top: shallow and/or pointing away from each other
4) Center bottom: between full and shallow
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In this post by Butterfly Collection Claire says that boobs lives in three dimensions.
They can be wide, tall or deep.
Wide= wide root
Tall = high root
Deep = projected
Caution! Do not mix deep with cup depth. That would be very misleading. Wide boobs for example need very deep cups even if their boobs are not deep. (This is why cup ... depth rather should be called horizontal cup volume/perimeter or something)
Now:
Add to that full on top and full on bottom and I think we have a very good scheme to determine breast shape. We get these base variations:
1. Deep and full on bottom
2. Deep and full on top
3. Tall and full on bottom
4. Tall and full on top
6. Wide and full on bottom
7. Wide and full on top
I also think the word "shallow" should be added to the equation. Because you can have spread volume without fullness or you can have no volume there at all.
And when we add them all together there will be a myriad of variations. We can even split our boobs into top and bottom and say "wide full bottom, tall, wide, shallow top" (that would be me)
I will make another bra adventure with yet another scheme that says even more about cup shape than this.
Now will you just add your results and remix the theory, please <3
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In my mind things look a bit different. Boobs can be
- tall or sort
- wide or narrow
These too dimensions have to do with the root. One has to be careful here with high on chest boobs that can appear tall but are infact short - they can start high on chest and end high on chest.
And regardless of this, they can also be
- deep or shallow
In terms of projection.
So there are boobs that can be tall, wide AND deep at the same time as are all other options possible.
Mine are quite clearly Tall, Narrow and Deep.
Then we have categories of breast shape
Full on top and full on bottom is about breast shape / tissue concentration. Again, everything is possible.
Tall boobs generally are more likely to be full on top, while short ones will generally more likely be full on bottom.
Wide boobs will generally more likely be shallow then narrow ones, especially in smaller cupsizes.
Tissue concentration I think can all so be center full or side full. Centerfull breasts would be the ones pushing the wires from the sternum because there is not enough room (depth) right near the gore.
My head hurts
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Seriously beginning to wonder if it is possible to be neither full on top nor full on bottom. Things are a bit deflated, but my nipple sits right in the middle and I fit bras recommended for both shapes in an equally mediocre fashion.
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It's possible to not fit into FOT or FOB :) There's also a possibility to be balanced. This would probably explain why you're able to wear most bras.
Gah! I never know what might root is like. When I lean over, it's like I have a narrow root and omega shaped breasts, and when I stand straight up or in really any other position, the tissue falls back into my armpits and they're wide and shallow again.
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If you have a shallow shape, you most likely have a wide root too. I think the reason that you look like you have a narrow root when you bend over is because gravity is pulling all there tissue from the sides and bringing it forward.
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I'm sooooo happy I discovered the reddit subgroup ABraThatFits that led me here. Between you guys I found the Polish brands and have been able to try both Ewa and Comexim (can't wait to try some of the others if I can!). I finally have found bras that fit nearly perfect and feel beyond comfortable. Not only ... that, but, for the first time I feel confident and sexy in them. Before, I would have bras that "kind of fit" and would do the job decently well but they were not super cute and fun. Now, I'm slowly building a bra wardwrobe that fits my age (24 years old) and style and I'm beyond stoked. I can't thank you guys enough!
I just got my first Comexim bra in today and while it's slightly too small in the cups (the gore doesn't lay flat enough, no quadboob unless i push it flat) it's super comfortable and beautiful. I can't wait to try more and more and more!
Thanks again!!! You guys have truly turned my bra world around and I simply love it!
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I just received my first Ewa's. I thought I would love the ch but it gives me torpedo boobs. :/ I love the pl though. Which do you prefer the Ewa or the comexim. I'm looking at buying a few more and do not know what to choose!
I really like them both, so it's hard to tell. I only have 1 comexim so I'm not 100% sure at the moment. If you don't have a special order size I found Ewa fine to deal with and way faster shipping than Comexim (took almost a month where Ewa took like 2 weeks). However, I've heard if you're a special order gal then Ewa can be incredibly frustrating if you have to deal with Dominik. I think that Comexim has some gorgeous bras I'd love to try but I'd need to go up a little on the cup size to truly tell. Both are very comfortable to me though.
when you determine whether your boobs are close or wide set, are you supposed to just let them chill out in their resting position or are you supposed to hold them up like they're being supported in a bra? i'm beginning to think mine may be closer set than i thought.
also do people typically size up in Cleo Juna (6461) and related bras?
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If I let mine chill out (haha) there's around 0.5cm between my boobs. If I bend over a little, they touch. If I lift them up (just up, not pushing in) they also touch. There's not room for even one wire there. I think that's why I never understood why people wanted them "nice and separated" because it just hurts my boobs to have a gore/wires between them. But I've come to understand that some people have more natural space between their boobs.
But I really don't know how to determine it, I just know that mine must be close. And I don't mind that they touch. I'd actually prefer a low plunge gore, so my breasts could rest naturally against each other. (But I can't find such a plunge bra with open enough cups).
If you have wire marks on your breasts after removing your bra, they are probably closer than you think.
About the juna and similar bras - I think it depends on bottom vs. top fullness. If the boobs are full on the bottom you might have to size up to make them fit in the cups. If they are full on top, lots of the boob is going to stick up the cup, and the cup doesn't have to be as big. Haha I'm sorry if I'm explaining this in a really way!
when i'm standing without a bra on there's about 2 fingers width between them. when i have a bra on, there's space for a really scrawny finger like my pinky in between. when i lean over, there's about 2 fingers width between them again. sometimes when i put my bra on it seems lopsided towards my smaller breast, so if i don't catch it and wear it like that for a while, there's a mark just on the inside edge of the breast. so i don't know, haha
and the explanation for the juna was great :]
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I'm starting to feel like a plus-sized Barbie. I might be losing inches, but then I am gaining them back in my boobs. Re-migration? Raging hormones? Ugh!
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I feel your pain. I'm now a 36J. Nowhere near Barbie skinny, but I have lost 30 pounds. I was wearing a 38GG, which granted was the wrong size, but the cups at least contained my breasts until I started losing weight. Then I had quadboob. And the 36Js I have seem to be getting a little small in the cup. Aaaaaaaaah!
Me too!
I've lost 15 lbs, but my boobs are the same size or even bigger, and my underbust is 3 inches smaller.
My butt is still huge. It's like I've only lost weight in my waist and underbust! And then lots of remigration.
I was a 34G/GG probably - now I'm a 30HH or 32GG.
I still want to lose 30-40 lbs more, but I don't want to lose more inches off my underbust (simply because its easier to find band sizes 30 and up)
I used to be a 28-30E maybe when I was slim and fit and 40 lbs lighter. I can't imagine losing 40 lbs and not go down several bands sizes. But I want to stay at this band size cause its easier.
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Ok so we know there can be breast fat migration. But when we have glandular tissue migration I think it really does harm the natural shape of the breasts. I still think I have been even more hurt by wearing 34F Freya than the 36C-D-DD bras I used to wear. Because those Freya bras really goes against my shape. I ... think they dragged my boobs down.
When looking at me here (2007) you maybe wouldn't say she had her wires sitting on breasts but http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/546984_10151219460025540_1840740083_n.jpg
Last autumn same bra, same size: http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/576965_10151219700230540_245902890_n.jpg
One might think I had gained weight like a mad person, but I hadn't. And this is the way I think migration has worked for me.
My boobs are naturally in my armpits, but I cut them off and so they are pushed away for a while but then comes back with a new attack saying "hey, don't forget about us you stupid moron!". In the meantime I have pushed part of my boobs downwards and inwards in a very hurtful way.
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I wonder how you all look without a bra. In clothes that is. Add a description to your pic as well.
http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/184356_10151452563040540_629807540_n.jpg Here's me in profile. Only a part of my boobs projects and the rest are disguised around my chest or migrated the h-ll away. My boobs are quite soft with low nipples. http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/155199_10151452563030540_997482805_n.jpg From the front.
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I don't think your boobs are that low... mine are much lower. Also, you've described yourself as fat before, but I don't think you are. Be positive! You are beautiful :)
I just wanted to make a quick comment to EllenMcisaac. Fat is a word that can be neutral or negative depending on how you take it. A large woman can call herself fat and find no trouble with it as it's a body 'type' or what have you. Fat doesnt' define us.
Wasn't there an adventure about this not long ago?
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Please, not that too
Seriously I had to get ill to find my root, be able to swoop and scoop and realize my boobs are huge, my back thin and my waist small.
I knew I had shallow boobs and that they were splayed. I always could see my wires would rest on breasts But I really thought again "it's just fat".
I wish!
Also I think there's more connective tissue floating around in here than I had imagined.
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drownedsalad Does this apply to you as well since you look the same as I used to do?
Branarchist I don't think so, but I'm not sure.
I get red marks from some higher-in-the-center underwires, but with how short my torso is, those underwires show under most tops, so they're super duper high on me. I think the marks are more from sternum issues than symmastia because they don't hurt more when I'm menstrual-boobed than when I'm not.
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This was an interesting article, I thought I´d share it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2314037/Claire-Smedley-Woman-Britains-biggest-boobs-says-church-group-demanded-breast-reduction.html
Here´s a part of the story:
'I was very involved in the church all my free time was spent there.
'I was pulled aside a few times and told that what I was wearing wasn't appropriate, even though I was wearing the same clothes as the other girls.
'Finally I was pulled ... aside and told that I should consider having a breast reduction because it wasn't fair on the men in the group and I was distracting them."
Wasn´t FAIR on the MEN???
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Those poor men. It's always hard for them to think with the right head. :P
Too bad it had to be the Daily Mail, so they have to sensationalize it. It could have been an interesting article about the bullying women face, and learning to love your body, but instead they have to throw in titillation about her high sex drive and demands for sex, and suffocating her partner.
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For so long I thought only the projected part of my boobs was boobs. But I had no clue about that I don't even have a "projected part of my boobs". I am just used of seeing the part that projects when standing upright.
I had no idea that when I lay on my back even glandular tissue seemingly disappears ... into my underbust line and armpits. I had no idea my boobs was so shallow they are almost completely flat when I'm on my back with arms stretched up.
I did know they could disguise themselves but I had no idea it was this severe.
All this time saying I had shallow boobs a part of me didn't believe it because they don't look anywhere even near shallow when standing up or even laying on my back.
All this time all those trouble never knowing my boobs really have no shape, no definition anywhere. How can boobs even be so shallow in the sizes I am in?!
When I lean over I have a complete mess of unseparated tissue 3-4 cm beneath what I used to think was my boobs.
The only thing that has ever given my boobs any definition has been much too small cups. Because really when so shallow in every direction why should they not be as shallow on the bottom. Because how would not the part that sits lowest on a boob be the first to disappear when part of them disappear even today when on my back?
Here I've been ranting about how my glandular is concentrated inside only of the projected part of my boobs, about having shallow boobs that looks deep. And still I didn't know my boobs are as good as completely flat.
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I used to think my breasts were not very "problematic". I used to wear 36Cs, then my boobs grew and I realized 36Ds weren't fitting that well. I looked into bra fitting and started wearing 34Es (my underbust is actually 32'', but I found Panache to run really tight). So I didn't have such a "shocking" size change. ... class="mentioned-item">Panache Sienna (4471) , Cleo Marcie (6831) , Gossard Enchante Plunge Bra (5741) and Cleo Lucy (5851) (this one a little too small on my bigger boob) all fit me perfectly, the Marcie in a 34F (which I have bought more recently, thus the different size).
So I decided to try some more "structured" bras, for wearing under tighter clothing and whatnot, and I bought a Masquerade Delphi (6411) in 34F and a Cleo Juna (6461) in a 32G (I'd read it ran loose in the band and small in the cup). And... they look weird on me. Like my breasts are too short or the cups too tall? (The Delphi is wearable and still manages to look good, but the Juna gapes on my smaller boob and will go back or be exchanged. I'll measure them and post a fit request for it)
I'd never thought I might have shallow boobs, because I hadn't experienced any problem with any of my other bras (the other bra I own and wear is a Freya longline, which is a little too loose in the band but will be altered). I also never really understood the VenusianGlow posts very well, not gonna lie. Not that they're bad to any extent - just I guess I didn't identify with them and didn't think they could apply. Thing is, my boobs are a bit low, and I have like zero breast tissue on the upper part. They look kinda like this brasihate drawing (see link) as in, the breast "mass" is concentrated on a lower point. Which is also contributes to why I never thought I might have shallow breasts.
Have I accidentally been wearing bras that are great for shallow breasts?
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Her post on shallow breasts just means that the base is quite wide. Therefore, the breast is spread out further on the chest instead of projecting outwards. If it appears that the breast projects outwards more (think apple, watermelon, fruit, ect) then it is not as shallow. If the breast appears to be "flatter" (think stack of pancakes) then it is more shallow. Generally she is saying that if it is a shallow breast that the breast takes up more overall surface area on the base of the chest because it is flattened out than if it is deep where the breast tissue is projecting further away from the chest.
Well, seeing as the Juna is THE recommended bra for shallow breasts and you do not get on with it, I'd say you're safe ;-). In our forum there are lots of women who find that the bras recommended for shallow breasts fit them best but who do not have shallow breasts.
Weird, but true: I have small shallow breasts, but for some reason I often like the same models as brasihate, who obviously has very different boobs.
and take it off the boobs are always much fuller. Typically they fill out on the upper sides. Also they look shallower but rounder.
Since I cannot stand wearing bras too long in a row my boobs afterwards goes back to smaller and less full.
Anyone else experiencing this? The longer I wear a really big bra the cuter my boobs looks.
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I experience this too !
-When I go braless for a long time, or in a non supportive non wired bra, my boobs looks smaller, less full, somewhat "flat" (very vertical nip to neck), but confortable and self supportive.
-When I wear a bra with big cups (all the breast in the cup, what I think is a bra in my size), and take it off, my boobs looks fuller, bigger and rounder/pointier (compared to the "flat" of braless), confortable and self supportive. But they came back to the "braless look" quickly (an hour or two ?).
-When I take off a too small in the cups bra, my boobs looks bigger and fuller, but they begin to sag, feel heavy and not self supportive. They also look "older".
Galactica "When I take off a too small in the cups bra, my boobs looks bigger and fuller, but they begin to sag, feel heavy and not self supportive. They also look "older"."
Oh yes, same for me!
I have asked myself why all this is, if I am simply more "mouldable" in my fat or something. And if we lived in these bras would the boobs stick to the new shape? Or is it a gravity issue or something?
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Might not be accurate because I don't have access to a yardstick, but I'm doing the best I can with a soft tape measure.
Projection: 9.5 cm from where my ribcage begins to curve around to the front.
Root horizontal: 22 cm
Now my root goes at a diagonal so I used the pythagorean theorem to get my height at the highest point of my room compared to the lowest part of my root on my sides and I got it at about 8.3 cm. My boobs themselves (if that's what you were actually wondering) are 20 cm tall.
I even drew a paint picture just because I think it's helpful. I always feel like I have a tall root even though it's not in reality that tall, but for some reason, the underwires never reach up high enough to actually get all my breast tissue.
http://i4.minus.com/jGqmPRQI1rUx9.png