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Migration! Turns out it is an actual thing.
I must admit that when I first discovered proper bra fitting in November 2012, I was more than a little skeptical about the idea of tissue migration.
I had spent years in 36-38 B-C molded bras (Maidenform plus-foured me into 36 bands, while VS's nonsensical above-boob measuring system put me into 38 bands), only to find out that my proper starting-point size is 32E. No wonder the underwires on my old bras were constantly riding up to nipple level, when the bands were two or three sizes too large! Basically, these bras obscured my nipples but otherwise left my boobs to their own devices, which I was able to endure for so long only because they're shallow and self-supporting.
So, six months in bands that are 32 or tight 34, with cups that are more than mere coverings and actually contain my entire boob, and now my bottom-heavy boobs are filling out the tops of my CK balconettes noticeably better than before (the wrinkling at the top of the cups is 90% gone) and I had to get rid of my Panache Melody balconette because I started quadboobing in it — even though I've lost a bit of weight since I bought these bras. Also, in profile there's a bit of a convex curve to the tops of my breasts now, where before was almost a straight line.
Okay. I'm a believer now.
I don't think I'll be gaining multiple cup sizes, but something is definitely going on here.
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I still don't think it's necessarily migration that's happening. Breasts definitely seem to grow in size when gotten into a properly fitted bra. My guess is that it's not sitting on something that causes breasts to grow (like a gland or something). Reason I say this is because migration would suggest that my root would get narrower or that my breasts would otherwise change shape. And they haven't.
It doesn't have to change shape if the remigration is even.
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