Fitting extremely pendulous breasts
Like those boobs you can fit 2 boxes of crayons under and they cant really be lifted - if you lift them they kind of fold up? -.-
I really have no idea what to do here, this person won't measure but will try on a bra if I get her one. Underbust I assess at 38 and I have no idea about the cup :/ They are so low they look like a part of her belly.
I don't even know where to start.
Does anyone have experience with this?
What works best? Molded, padded, cut and sew? What cuts?
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I had a (somewhat) successful bra intervention with one of my friends based on dressmakers measurements. She's a bigger girl, and was wearing a 16E (that's effectively Australia's 36DD by the way). She's one of my sister's bridesmaids and we're getting dresses made as part of the bridal party (because nothing else would fit me haha). Anyway, my sister and I decided enough was enough, and armed with her dressmakers measurements, we went and picked up some bras in 14G(36G) based on her 37" underbust and 45" bust, which are not terrible when she tried them on. As she's a bit heavy for her frame, her boobs aren't the most firm, so the standing measurement actually wasn't too inaccurate. I'd probably put her in a 34H based on how she fits those bras, but I know a lot of people freak out about tight bands and she doesn't have disastrous quadboob any more. My mum was happy, but then had to redraft her bodice. :P
So, I'd suggest working from a measurement in a bra, as it's going to be the most like how your friend's boobs will behave in a bra, even though it's not super duper accurate with a bad bra. Moulded/padded will probably be the most comfortable for her if she's used to moulded, and does kind of give you some shaping under a shirt, even though 'cut and sew' is probably better for actual boob shaping. It's like my EM bras vs Cleo Meg. I can have basketball shaped round things under my shirt, or I can have my boobs in an uplifted, more natural shape which is a little pointy. EM doesn't really do anything much in the support department, but it looks pretty great (and the straps on my Toffik kill me but I'm not allowed to alter that bra until after my sister's wedding in August), but Meg is supportive, if slightly pointy.
If humanly possible, grab a few cheapish bras around her size and try them out? It really depends on how keen she is to keep trying things out. Unless you can take her to a good shop which has a lot of things in her size range and keep trying them on, there's a lot of guessing involved in getting it right with anyone's boobs. Once you've got a better baseline, it's going to be much easier to figure out how to tweak it from there. While I'd get future bras for my friend around a 34H (like I said), going from 'I have no idea except she's smaller than me and bigger than my sister' to a vaguely correct size was the trickiest bit.
Ereshiy , Do you mean 16E is a 38E? or am I missing something? 38 is a 16 and as we do UK sizing up to F cups(in some brands), E is E? sorry to jump in, wasn't sure if you meant different or had a reason for saying it was equivalent to a 36DD.
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