Aug 15, 2013

Yet another "shape" inquiry:

I am wondering...
Can different breasts "fold" or "smoosh" differently, top or bottom, regardless of nipple direction? Then it would almost seem as though "long" or "short" have more to do with how bras fit, rather than "shallow" vs. "rounded"? I don't know...this is extremely complicated for me.

Although I'm certain my breasts have always been wide and ... have always fallen to the sides, my nipples, prior to having 3 babies, were centered. Even now, when bending over, my nipples are located at the apex of two pyramids. When I stand up straight, I look shallow on top, and the fullness falls mostly to the sides, rather than the bottoms.

Say the following is a photo of me with some Impressionistic pink "paintbrush" strokes over it:

The shading is an attempt to show the progression of the "fullness" (darker to lighter). Even though the tissue has succumbed to gravity, the overall fullness is still mostly on my sides, rather than top or bottom. (Does this make sense?) I know my breasts are "shallow" but which fullness should I identify with when searching for bras?
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• I think there is Fot and FoB. But also full on sides and full in middle. I like bras that give more room or depth on the bottom and in the middle like where the center gore is. You can be FOB and FOS. That's what the picture looks like to me.

• I didn't think that shallow vs. rounded was a thing? Do you mean shallow versus projected or rounded versus pointy?

  I would first and foremost look for bras that are shallow, because if it's too projected, I find that that looks way more "strange" if you will than if it's a bra designed for more top fullness or bottom fullness than I have. Honestly, it looks like you're even based off of that picture.

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• What would you do with it if you weren't going to keep it? If you can't return it to store or at least sell it on here or eBay for a decent enough price then you might as well experiment ;)

• Oh, I can still return it. But if I have a good bra on my hands, then that would be pretty great.

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• Many of us are knowledgeable enough in bras that even if a bra isn't labeled or labeled correctly, we can still figure out what bra it is. If you have trouble again, you can probably ask us.

• I ordered the same bra! I haven't reviewed it yet. Uh oh. We can commiserate. Did you order any other bras? I ordered the Cleo Meg and Cleo Natasha.

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• Yeah I was, thanks for pinging me! Such a shame though that you have to like the page in order to participate. I don't like when people can see bra-related stuff on my facebook page. It'd be awesome if the contest was held on their website instead. Oh well, I hope many of you participate so you can get the swimwear of your dreams :D

• prettyNpetite - you have a blog right? Why not set up a Facebook page for your blog and use the apps & things through that?

  ... looking into it though, it does seem to be open to UK residents only by the terms & conditions.

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• Hmm.. perhaps you can e-mail them, requesting a 28E for exchange? They don't have many 28E's on their site (despite several models starting from 28D/DD), but I know you can special order them. At least, I'm attempting to, it takes a while 'cus they have to inquire with Tutti Rouge.

• If you return them, you can look on their asos marketplace store.

  EDIT: Their shipping is expensive, but if you order more than one thing it goes for 18.10 to 3.00.

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Aug 14, 2013 Goddess bra

I know this isn't a big deal, but, I'm finally getting a Goddess "Rose Banded underwire" (6080). I've had my eye on these for quite a while. Since there's nowhere I know of that carries Goddess bras in my area, I had to make my 1st mail-order bra purchase. I've always been hesitant ... on buying things by mail-order. I like to hold in my hand things I am going to buy before I buy. I ordered it from @aBra4Me.com at 20% off. I have read only good things in bra reviews about Goddess'es "Rose collection" and it looks ,from the product pictures I've seen, like my ideal bra!Plus It's 20% off. I'm hopeful I won't be disappointed with the fit and have to return it for an exchange or refund. Anyway, I'm kind of excited!
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• Glad to here that you have found your true size. I'm kind of in the same camp as you. I mostly wear 34A's and never considered that anything else would fit. After submitting several fit requests I've received a lot of feedback stating that I'm probably a 32C. Now I just need to go find some, and as you said that's not easy.

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• I'm just laughing so hard... I had to tell you. The visual I got....I'm absolutely cracking up. :-)

  Doesn't it figure that the CUTE bra needs to go underneath the boring one?

  One time I wanted to see what a posture vest might feel like so I put my 30C Alegro Jewel over my wire-free Atlantis. My boobs looked like a caricature of themselves. Yikes. Was it worth feeling like I was strapped in a straight-jacket?

  Maybe a little.

  Who knows? Perhaps my Ahh Bra worn over my Shirley of Hollywood push-up will be the ultimate in underwear.

• Now if we could incorporate two bra technology into one bra, that would be magnificent! It's too hot to do that all the time (until winter at least).

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• I always avoid this problem by not thinking in US sizing :) But in theory it's either F or G. I don't know why there's no EE either. Maybe it looks too excited.

• @khasiv

  Aha! That's hilarious. Okay, so I find that the sizes that fit me best are:

  30DDD
  30DDDD
  28DDDD
  28DDDDD

  Haha lots of Ds...so that would be 30E, 30F, 28F and 28G, correct??

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• Hmm..I would think hormones or a random act of breast growth.
  My boobs did something similar a while back when I started wearing bras that fit better than my old ones,even before I gained weight.
  Did you by any chance start eating something different,perhaps soy?
  Other than that,I have no idea. O_O

• Ever since I've been wearing taller sided bras, including Braologie, the same thing has been happening to me. Also, my breast tissue feels "harder" on the sides than it used to. I haven't written about it because I was afraid I was delusional.

  Hormones, of course, play a huge role, as does body temperature, stress, etc. Still - my breasts behave differently than they used to in that they really seem to be migrating. My husband (who generally wouldn't notice if I painted myself green and set my hair on fire) has remarked several times that my boobs look fuller, and he says this without being prompted.

  When I first started wearing taller sided bras I was getting the "warm heavy" thing too, and a "pulling" sensation. Honestly, I was afraid I'd start lactating because of possibly too much stimulation! (I didn't thank goodness).

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• I have been thinking for some time that rather than using FoT vs. FoB, it might make more sense to refer to breasts fullness distribution in terms the four quadrants -- 'upper inner', 'upper outer', 'lower inner', 'lower outer' -- although we'd have to come up with some elegant acronyms still ;)

  Based on how my breasts behave I call myself slightly FoT, but I'm not typically FoT either: I am fullest in the 'upper inner', but completely non-existent in the 'upper outer' quadrant, for example.
  

• I think hard/soft has a lot to do with it, too. I think I'd be classified different based on which bra (or no bra) I was wearing. Overall, I'd call myself full in front. LOL They're just big. And not big around, but small around with big projection. And soft. My roots are probably as big around as a coffee cup, but the projection is at least twice that. And being soft, they pretty much go where a bra tells them. Unfortunately, a lot of bras tell them to go east and west and under my arms because the wires and apexes are just too wide. I have yet to find a bra that actually ends where my breast ends. Even Ewa Michalak S bras and SM (the narrowest wires I've found in my size) are an inch or 2 further back. Thankfully, once I swoop and scoop, they stay in the front of the bra and that last bit of cup remains empty. Bras that require the breast to have some shape of it's own and not just mold to the bra (mostly FOT or deep plunge bras, I think) don't work at all. I was suprised the EM PL bras worked because they are a plunge. But, thankfully, they are just high enough to hold me in.

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• You don't HAVE to add pictures, although they're generally considered much more informative as to how a bra fits different shapes and sizes than overly smooth and generic stock photos. That's the main reason we'd like to see photos, NOT to in any way judge the person wearing the bra.

  Give it some time, browse around a bit here -- you'll see there really is nothing to be afraid of :)

• That and, truly, NO ONE knows who you are in real life. Make sure you edit out anything you might think is identifying if you worry about that. And make sure your screen name is something you only use here. :-)

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• In regards to Affinitas Parfait, I think that it depends on the specific bra. I have one 32FF bra by them that seems to run small in both the band and cups. Then, I have one 32F bra that seems to run about average in both the cups and band.

• The new Parfaits run small in the cup but not the band
  Freya is weird. I'd say some of the models run large in the cup.
  Curvy kate runs small in the cup
  Cleo and Panache are true to size.

  Just my two cents, take or toss!

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• Yay! This is a great bra.

• The idea of weaker wires worries me. I wasn't sure about the champagne print and stocked up on the old versions during the sales. I might pass on that one... Then again, I don't think I'll want the leopard print that comes next. So we'll see.

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• I'm having trouble picturing the problem. Would it be possible to hand-stitch along the channel so the wire cannot slip?

  Also, Elomi uses UK sizing, so the sister size of a 38H would be 36HH. That could be part of the reason you're having trouble finding the right size!
  

• There's the fabric channel at the base of the bra in which the underwire sits. The channel is a little less than an inch longer than the underwire, so the underwire on the left side is slipping around in the channel. Instead of the end of the underwire filling the end of the channel where the gore is, it slips around until the other end of the wire fills the end of the channel under my arm, distorting the gore. I don't know if it would be possible to hand-stitch along the channel so the wire couldn't slip. Do you think that's the problem?

  As for the sizing, I think that companies that simply add letters to band sizes instead of going up the alphabet are really lame. If they're trying to make me feel better about my size, they're failing. I would much rather be in an "I" cup bra than in an "HH" cup bra, especially since an "HH" cup bra IS an "I" cup bra. It would be lovely if people standardized this stuff instead of hemming and hawing and adding unnecessary letters and inches to their bands.

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• Hahaha - you too! I bought a sewing machine a few months ago with the express purpose of learning how to alter my damn bras! I used to sew a lot years ago, but I hadn't touched a machine in ages. Now I'm surrounded by Frankenbras. I'm the Bra Mad-Woman in the attic (except I don't have an attic).

  I've been learning a lot about my own shape (Jillsas is my Shape Guru) by discussing things here, and, weird as it sounds looking at my own photos of myself in bras. I notice things I never would have thought of if I hadn't tried to help others here with a "trained" eyes.

  Your shape is obviously very similar to mine based on the bras that fit you and how they behave or misbehave according to their evil whims. Esp. the straps issues. I had to learn to wear wide set straps, but they either work well or they fail completely and it's hard to predict which bras might work. Since I've been ordering my bras from UK, Poland, and Singapore, I aim to get the closest possible fit!

  It's so hard to tell. For example, my Curvy Kate Daily Boost fits well, and the straps don't bother me. When I ordered an Ewa Michalak, I ordered the one that has nearly the same measurements as my Curvy Kate...cup depth, band width, everything. The EM cups are too wide. I can fit the Curvy Kate inside the EM, and vice versa, but I cannot tell why the straps fit so differently.

• I took a picture to show how if the straps on my 28F Mimi Holliday were in the center of the cup instead of my armpit how great the fit would be. That's how it is for a lot of my bras. I want to learn how to relocate the straps. :D

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• Oh dear :O
  Don't despair yet. You could copy each question own it's on in a seperate E-mail then send them. So he has to answer on each on its own. Also write a seperate E-mail on every PL there is, asking if they still custom made it. That many english sentences were probably too much for the guy *rolls eyes*
  Fingers crossed you will get a positive answer that way. I can't believe they have like no fabric for PLs at all!
  

• ^
  That´s a good suggetion, good luck with it.
  The initial answer doesn´t even surprise me...

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