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Sep 20, 2013
I need to rant a little bit.
Do you ever suspect that you are deluding yourself? Occasionally I do, and I have to re-ground myself in order to keep myself from drowning in media bias.
I wore 32B bras for many more years than I will mention. Today I am wearing a 30E bra, which I intend to alter following a tutorial sent to me by Jillsas . No, I have not had surgery, gained weight, or noticed an increase in my boob volume. I do not hallucinate that I am "full-busted" (I think more along the lines of "barely-busted"), and no matter how much I wished for them, I gave up on dreams of having voluptuous curves long, long ago.
But...when you read the size of "30E"...your brain gets an image, doesn't it? (And that image sure as hell doesn't look anything like me!) I know it doesn't. Don't lie.I'm not saying this is "bad" or "good"; it is social programming. It's Jay Leno "DD" jokes, National Enquirer's scandals about "Double Ds", Victoria's Secret's endless array of padded bras, etc.
Certainly Americans have been programmed to think of Mae West as a "DD". When Sofia Vergara appeared on the cover of a magazine whose headline gushed about her "32F" boobs, three quarters of the American population went, "WTF is a 32F?" "Isn't '32' for B cups?"
Having the kind of brain that doesn't allow me simply to complete a task by starting and finishing it, while perusing the above-mentioned bra alteration tutorial, I found myself clicking on innumerable links about bra fitting. (No one here understands, right? lol)
One blog I came across was a rant written by a woman claiming her small-boobed friend has fallen victim to a preposterous marketing scheme, because the "B cup" friend says that after getting a professional fitting she now wears "D" cups. The blogger complained that her friend was clearly suffering from delusions of grandeur, and that giving in to this deceptive mid-set was was unhealthy.
Tell that to Sofia Vergara. If, she'd been subjected to the same bra fitters as I was (in my memories they always appears as combos of Grandma Moses and Golda Meir), Sofia would be sporting a Playtex 18 Hour in size 36D and looking like her boobs sprang from her armpits.
I feel that I am being absolutely honest when I say I do not care, at all, what "letter" is used to symbolize the cups on my bra. If this was the kind of thing that influenced my view of myself, it's highly likely I wouldn't have waited until I was 47 years old, and my Barely There Flex Fit bras were literally disintegrating, before I took a measuring tape to my own bosom.
So if you're feeling and looking good while wearing a bra band that's six sizes "larger" or "smaller" than some random person on the street would guess it to be, Yay!!!!
Thank you for allowing me to rant.
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5 comments
ShaniSunAZ rant accepted! I agree wholeheartedly with every word you said. In the UK the biggest problem we have is definitely the perception that a 32 band is for tiny tiny people and that a 36/38 is the 'average' size for a woman of average weight. There's also a large amount of young British women who have never ever had a fitting because they're too embarrassed, which is really sad, because it either means that fitters are badly trained and don't know how to put women at ease, or we have a generation of women who are terrified of being fitted by someone whose profession it is to fit bras. Which is so sad (even though a lot of fittings are bad, we all know that a good fitting can be revolutionary).
Loved the rant! As an American, I can relate to this 100%. I've been told more times than I can count that I can't possibly be a G cup, because "your boobs just aren't big enough!!" And I agree--my boobs aren't big, but clearly somewhere there's a disconnect if a woman who is MUCH more "blessed" than I am somehow squeezes herself into a something DD. In fact, there's a lot of the +0 crowd who would tell me that I'm still in a too big band and too small cup, but I guess my 31" rib cage has enjoyed too many years of a 38 band for me to go smaller than a 34 on all but the stretchiest of bands. ;-)
I really do wish that more celebs would come out and admit to their proper bra size though. I think it would really help those people who are blindly following the DD cult because they know that they aren't anywhere near as well endowed as Sofia Vergara or Christina Hendricks.
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