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Bra sizing makes no sense
I have some idea how bra sizing varies from country to country, and brand to brand (particularly in the US and Poland). Nonetheless, in browsing bratabase listings around my cup depth, I've found some truly ridiculous looking things. For reference, comparisons are primarily to a 34HH plunge (UK), aka a bratabase 34:12.
http://www.bratabase.com/listings/dldnw/ claims that a 32C Wacoal has deeper cups than my bras that fit; this seems massively implausible.
In the meanwhile, http://www.bratabase.com/listings/dlk3n/ (a 32FF/32:8, said to fit like a 32G) apparently only has a cup depth 4cm smaller.... though this would be massively smaller than the aforementioned '32C'.
And then there's just the usual issues, like http://www.bratabase.com/listings/dldnw/ (a Kris Line 75M, which Bratabase considers a 34:19, being both narrower and smaller in the cup than the 34:12 plunge I'm comparing to.
Even taking into account that measurement errors happen, and that the above are cherry-picked examples, it's frustrating.
Searching for sizes like 34HH or 34:12, or by cup depth, or by any other factor ends up being surprisingly unhelpful surprisingly often. I'm starting to wish there was a "maybe this bra would fit me..." filter on the listings. In my dream, this feature would prioritize bras known to be very similar/the same to ones that fit me, and recommend bras of similar measurements as maybes, while filtering out anything clearly impossible (ie, bands under 30 or over 38, in my case, cup depth differences > some empirical number off after controlling for whether one's a plunge and one's not, and my range of wire width preferences, with manual overrides for these parameters).
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That first one you linked is clearly an example of bad measurements. No 32C measures like that. Maybe they meant to measure in centimeters and put it in inches instead. Unfortunately user error does happen here and throw things off. The Flirtelle bra to me looks like it runs large for a 32FF. You didn't actually link to the Krisline one, but they use an incredibly weird measurement system. I believe they only go up by 2cm increments.
The Kris Line one is at http://www.bratabase.com/listings/dldnw/ . I know some Polish bras use a 2cm system, but it seems to really skew Bratabase x:y-style 'y' measurements, sadly.
I don't think the Wacoal 32C is just a matter of units; it claims a cup width of 12.7 and a cup depth of 39.9 cm. Neither multiplying nor dividing by 2.54 yields plausible measurements - I don't believe it has a cup width of 5cm or 32cm. Dividing 39.9 by 2.54 is 15.7, which is more plausible - searching bratabase for a depth between 15 and 15 yields bras from 32A to 30FF.
(By the way, I like your blog! It's one factor in my Comexim quest... alas, the critiques of their size guide on bratabase are justified.)
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