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If my breasts are wider than they are tall, would that make me shallow, seeing as how I have tall roots?
My horizontal perimeter measurement is 8.8, and my vertical perimeter is 8 inches.
And since you're reading this, if my horizontal perimeter is 8.8 inches, should I be looking for cups that have a depth of ~9 inches or so?
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Oh, but, root width is not the same thing as horizontal perimeter! root width is the flat measurement between the two wire ends in a bra that fits perfectly. Most people measure more horizontally than they do vertically. It is also challenging to get accurate horizontal measurements as you do not have a handy crease to start from the way you do vertically.
I have always thought root size and shape was independent of projection. Someone can be wide rooted and shallow (possibly more common) and someone else could be wide rooted and very projected. Besides which, root size and projection are relative terms to the platonic form of "average" for your size range. The unidentifiable "average" each brand arbitrarily decides is the "norm" for each band and cup size says that (for example) a 30GG has an avgerage of 16.5 cm root width and 29 cm cup depth. Any bra made with wider cups and the same depth is necessarily shallower than the same size with narrower wires and the same depth. However, I have come across 30GGs with 18 cm cup width and 32 cm cup depth which is wide, but not shallow, as well as one with 15 cm width and 26 cm depth which was narrow and fairly shallow. I also have tried on 30GGs with 15 cm widths and 32 cm depth as well as those with 18 cm width and 27 cm depth. They did not all fit me, obviously, but they were all approximately 30" underbust and 40" overbust measurements.
Being wider than tall, and fairly tall rooted to begin with would, as far as I can tell, seem to make you just wide rooted. Projection level, shallow or deep, would be independent of that root shape. Root height would have more to do with open and closed top-of-the-cup styles rather than with shallower or deeper cups,
wouldn't it?
I tend to find that laying perimeter (gravity compression) gives the best estimate for cup depth.
maddy2596 I agree. I also want to say that for people who have an omega shape (narrower roots than breasts) and who are fairly projected, if their tissue is soft, when they do their lying perimeter their tissue pools a lot over their root, lying perimeter is no longer as useful because a cup that compresses that much will fit with tissue overlapping the root (recipe for wires sliding out of your IMF).
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