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Reassessing my shape/fit issues
After figuring out my size I tried on lots of bras and found that the centre gore almost never tacked properly, making me think I needed relatively deep cups. (I knew that Freyas - the classic narrow/deep option - didn't work for me at all, but when shallow/wide cups didn't seem to fit either, I wasn't sure what was going on.) In reality, I think the shape of my sternum just makes it difficult for gores to sit flat, even when the cups fit.
This didn't really click for me until I read the fit help request linked below and took a closer look at myself. Sure enough, my sternum is slightly curved, and there's a definite indentation between my ribs at underwire level. It makes sense that the gore hardly ever tacks there - it's not a flat surface. (For what it's worth, I'm thin with fairly prominent ribs, and whilst my breasts may be shallow they're very clearly separated at my sternum. There's about three fingers' width of space there.)
This might sound like I'm trying to justify wearing cups too small, but I've tried sizing up in the past, and it just gave me cups that were obviously too big (gaping, wrinkling). Back in 2011, when 28DDs seemed "too small" due to the floating gore issue, I tried a few 28Es and they were all too deep, which in turn made the wires press painfully against my ribs. Just to complicate things, I've lost a little weight since then and need a smaller cup size anyway. I just got a 28C - Mimi Holliday » Panna Cotta Super Plunge (AW11-210) and it's so low-cut that I'm not sure whether the cups are too small or just right, but the wire width feels fine, and it's surprisingly comfortable. This bra actually tacks better than most, for some reason.
[Resolved]Gore Never Lays Flat | 30F - Panache » Porcelai...
The gore on every bra I own does not lay flat. Can anyone tell from the fit pictures why this ...
http://www.bratabase.com/troubleshoot/dhowa/
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Yup, the complete opposite to someone like me that has a convex ribcage so slight pidgeon chest then.
Chest shape, whether concave or convex, tall or short affects bra fitting in oh so many ways as to making it impossible to have a bra that "fits". The standards in bra fitting are not as logic as they might seem.
That pic still looks like a bad bra fit though.
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