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Intimidated by Ewa Michalak...
From the feedback I've been getting, EM would probably be the brand for me. I am close-set, projected, pendulous, narrow roots, inner fullness, FOB. Everyone keeps insisting that EM is the one I need to look into.
But I've browsed their website once or twice and holy cow, I'm terrified. Call me ethnocentric, but browsing through a whole page of bras and not being familiar with the name of a single bra is really terrifying. On top of that, I don't even know how polish currency works our how to convert it to USD. I'm really hesitant to order a bra that will be hand-made in poland, take almost a month to get here, and discover that I need to go up a cup size. What a headache that would be.
Suggestions? How do I get past these fears? Where should I order and what's the best way to figure out my polish size?
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Ewa Michalak uses EU bands, but she uses UK cup sizes so all you really have to convert is your band. And you don't really even have to do that because in parenthesis next to the Ewa Michalak size is the UK size! However, in general a lot of people like to go up one cup size from their UK size in the S cut (and maybe PL as well).
In terms of currency, I usually just google "Zloty to USD" and plug in the prices to convert it. For the bra names, I usually use Google Chrome to browse the Polish version of the site, so it will translate the names from Polish to English for me (I like to be able to see what the names mean). But there is also an English version of the site if you'd like to use that, though the bra names are still in Polish there.
Each different cup is designated a letter (for example: M, S, PL, CHP, CH, HM, SF, etc.) You can look here to see what each of those letters means: http://www.ewa-michalak.pl/Style-Guide-cinfo-eng-6.html
Also, since you're in the US Zathiya might be a good retailer to look into! They carry Ewa Michalak bras, the prices are comparable to what ordering directly would cost you, and if they have the bra in stock that you're looking for it will get to you in a few days. I would say that either that or buying one secondhand from someone would be the easiest and cheapest way to initially pin down your size.
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