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and the magic number is...
I've done it! I've found my ideal cup width. Hallelujah and frabjous joy!
(Corollary, I've figured out that when looking at cup width, one should *also* look at gore height and wing height, because the reported width is kinda meaningless without those two... Don't ask me why it took me this long to crack that nut. I guess I knew it instinctively, but I just didn't realise how hair-fine it could be, the difference between wires that are wide enough and wires that aren't.)
The magic number, in my case, is 14.4cm width (for a gore height of around 8.5cm and a wing height of around 10cm). This realisation brought to me by the fabulous Cleo Lily and Masquerade Orla Non Padded Balconnet Bra (7031) , both of which have wires that perfectly follow my inframammary fold and, coincidentally, feature a 14.4cm cup width. A-ha!
Now to figure out how much wider/narrower I can go and still be okay. I know the Panache Andorra Plunge (5676) is too wide and Ewa Michalak 's SM cuts are *just* too narrow, so I guess that's my window, huh?
Also, I've decided to embark on a clean-up of the fit data on my bras, now that I know a little bit more of what to look for and how to recognise whether a bra is actually fitting or not. I'm pretty sure most of my initial reviews are utterly useless, and I'm pretty sure I've marked a few bras as fitting when they weren't (eg bands tighter than they should have been, the Andorra Plunge marked as fitting even though the bottom of the cup is demonstrably empty -- how did I miss that before?). Having acquired a stupid number of pretty things, though, this could take me some time...
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Just through trial and error you found these measurements?
Good observations! I should do a similar analysis and rework my fit data, too.
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