Sep 24, 2016
This feels like such a beginner question with an obvious answer, but here we go:
I have a 34J Cleo Lucy and a 34J Curvy Kate Portia that I experience a small amount of quad-boobing in. I am positive that I do not need to go up a cup size. Both bras fit great, feel great and are comfortable, but the "double bubble" is visible underneath most shirts. I was thinking that they are maybe a smidge too narrow, too open on the top, or the gore is too low. I am spilling over the top-center of the cup, near the gore and the top of my breasts - I look down and see the bubble/quadboob/spillage.
Right now my best fitting bra is a 34J Panache Fern. I get some wrinkling on the top and outside of the cup, but it's comfortable and doesn't affect the shape much. I haven't measured these bras yet, but I compared them with the existing numbers on Bratabase (http://bra.pe/CJl6/) and the only measurment of note is the taller gore on Fern. So I guess that means the gore on the others is too low? Does that mean my boobs are center-full? Suggestions on bras to try with this in mind are appreciated!
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When overall cup volume is fine and the gore tacks but you still get quadding right at the center, it means the cup is just too shallow for the amount of tissue you have there. A lower gore usually requires the designer to make the inner upper quadrant a little shallower to keep the breasts from just falling right out into the center of the bra, so if the inner upper quadrant of your boobs is not shallow enough to fit in there without quadding, or if your fullness there is too centrally located, you are just plain out of luck. The easiest bras to fit into when you are center full are indeed high-gore, high-coverage designs (full cups) or very open 3/4 cups or balconnets.
You might think half cups would be great... but since these tend to be shallow all over except in select Polish brands, it is therefore hard to get the gore to tack and you'll often get quadding all along the cup edge. For full, heavy, soft or projected boobs, half cups also tend to feel less secure even if they have remarkably generous projection; less material means less of you is contained.
wendybien thanks for that very informative comment, I always quad in the center near the gore even if the rest of the cup is a little big, and now I know why!
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