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Shallow Compared to WHAT?
I wear a 28H. We frequently talk about how shallow shapes become "less frequent" in larger cup sizes. We talk about how shallow breasts are "most common" below a FF cup or so, yet supposedly it is "still possible" to be shallow in larger sizes.
I've never really considered myself to be shallow. My most frequent problems with bras are too wide wires and insufficient projection. I rarely run into too narrow wires, and have NEVER experienced empty space at the ends of my cups, even when I try cup sizes that are clearly too big - these are classic hallmarks of a projected, non-shallow shape.
Yet, I have breast tissue all the way up to my collarbones and extending partway into my armpit. I look slightly less busty than some other women with similar measurements, especially when braless. When standing braless, it appears there is a whole hands width without tissue between my breasts, but when gathered into a bra, my breasts suddenly behave as though they are very close set. Maybe I am shallow after all?
In smaller sizes, there's a meaningful distinction to be made between shallow breasts and more concentrated, projected ones. A shallow 30E can look completely flat chested, while a projected, non-shallow 30DD can look quite busty. These shapes also require significantly different bras - shallow-breasted ladies often find bras have too much space on the end, but wires are too small, and vice versa. In larger sizes, even if some breast tissue is spread over the ribcage, most of the breast projects outwards. Bras for larger sizes on small bands are almost invariably comically oversized width-wise, so even ladies with tissue in their armpits find most bras too wide.
I have concluded that perhaps I do in fact have a shallow shape - though not compared to the unrealistically shallow bras available in my size - even "narrow wired" Polish bras wrap past the end of my tissue and don't offer enough projection. However, compared to other women in a similar size range, I am shallow. It's a sad statement about bra manufacturing in the small band-large cup demographic when even a proportionally shallow shape has trouble finding bras with enough projection and narrow enough wires.
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I think (and I could be wrong) that in our size range it becomes more accurate to talk about pendulous vs self-supporting than projected vs shallow. But to answer the question you actually asked - shallow compared to me, probably ;-) I have next to no root, tennis ball in a sock boobs.
To me it sounds like what I would call a "tall root" :) Boobs can be shallow in more than one direction :)
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