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Nov 16, 2015
Well, today I passed by Aerie and figured I might as well try on some of their bras, since I know they have tester bras in 30D even if they don't stock them in-store. I'd previously bought a Sunnie Pushup online and returned it because it quadded, but I was going in more or less blind.
The good side: sales attendants on point. Very helpful, excellent knowledge of how size and shape both matter equally, and didn't react with the VS-standby of the eyes raking over my chest like 'D-cups are too big for you'. (Seriously, VS sold 30Ds online at some point, and they still think that?) Anyway, she found me some lightly-lined testers - Sunnie & Katie - plus 3 bras that had been returned in 30D (two Bridgets and a Katie.)
The bad side: holy mother of quadboob. Now, I suppose theoretically I could have grown out of 30D, or this might be a full part of my cycle, but my breasts don't change size that much and, for that matter, my Natoris fit fine (as does the Cleo Neve I just bought.) So I'm concluding that, for me at least, Aerie's cups run bizarrely small.
Except for the Sunnie, every single one of those bras is either average or narrow-wired, which led to some impressive armpit-boob and, conversely, my very first experience with wires on breast tissue. I'd always heard about it, but it'd never really clicked what that actually *meant*. Well, ladies, today I ended up with a wire halfway up my breast tissue and a gore pulled over my larger side. Ow.
Even the Sunnie, which had wires that were wide enough, had some impressive quadboob effects on me. I think the worst was the Bridget (which may have been a pushup version, thereby explaining why half of me was out of it) but all of them were far, far, far too small in the cups...
There went my hope of cheaper and super soft bras, I guess.
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I'm wide root and shallow and find the Aerie Sunnie to be one of the best fitting and most comfortable bras I own. If you have any projection I can see how you'd quad with the Sunnie. I also have a Bridget that is good for shallow breasts, the cups fit great but the band is very stretchy. You should try the Sophie, it is a great bra, good for projected and narrow root.
You know, it's bizarre. I have a very shallow, broad shape, but somehow despite that Sunnie was still quadding. I mean, I may have just grown into some awkward kind of in-between 30D and 30DD size, but it was weird either way.
I've no idea what was going on there. I tried a Sunnie Pushup a while back, and that was quadding *less*. Either I grew a lot, or maybe they had a 30C mislabelled as a 30D or something.
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