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Oct 17, 2014
First question of the day - I've seen people say they are dealing with tissue migration from years of wearing ill-fitting bras. What on earth does that mean/ I mean, I sagged a lot from going braless, and grew and stretched from having and feeding babies, but do boob change shape from wearing bad bras? and in what ways?
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Most people for years wear bras with too-small cups and too-large bands. Breasts can effectively be smushed out of the way, and the too-large band doesn't force the tissue to stay in the cup (and rather lets some tissue sit under the band, even!). That wasn't the best explanation, but hopefully you get the point.
Years of wearing bras with too-small cups simply pushes the tissue OUT of the cups, where it should be, and into other places. When you start to wear correctly-fitting bras and scoop and swoop each time, the tissue gradually is trained back to where it should be, which often can result in an increase in cup size (as what seemed to be armpit fat, etc. is actually breast tissue that then merges back into the breasts).
Breasts are very malleable and such, so all of these examples are just shifting of tissue through repeated placement in certain positions.
Migrated tissue is the cause of wearing a loose band and too small of cups. Because the band is so big around and wrapping more towards the front of the body than it needs to, this causes the underwires to sit on the edge of breast tissue which then forces this side tissue back and up, sometimes down, sometimes both up and down. They can change both shape and size. But it does take a while to train it back where it belongs. From my personal experience and wearing 34's on a 25/26" frame, I had a minimal amount and most of it is trained back but it very easily can slide away just from a couple of wears of the wrong shape. I noticed a difference to the both depth and width. Without a bra on I can see a mild indent still from the ill fitting bras and the better fitting ones. I gained maybe 1/4 a cup size so my migrated tissue wasn't terribly tremendous. Some women can gain a few cups sizes back. Subject to overall size though.
Migrated tissue is also the cause of weight gain and loss...and I will now throw something odd into the mix! A man very dear to me used to be chubby as a child. He is now a healthy 170 bls at 5'10.5"...and he has migrated tissue in the same areas as a woman would have from wearing an ill fitting bra. It looks just the same. But the key is to determine if it's breast tissue or just fat.
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