Bra fitting help » Cups too big or small? Or it just this style?
Nubian Skin » The Essential T-shirt Bra » 30B 30:2
Issue resolved
Much bigger cup needed
Original problem
Gaping when i droop my shoulders. Sides don't feel supported and sort of spill out slightly. Band fits fine. Gore too. Some wrinkling which is not obvious. Not sure if the cups are too big or small.
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This bra does look pretty darn good on you for being a molded cup bra.
With molded cup bras gaping usually occurs because the bottom of the cup is too shallow and the breasts push the cup away from the body. That and our bodies and breasts move, the cups of a molded bra do not! This causes gaping no matter how well it fits!
Just from looking at the measurements I can tell you that the cups of this bra are too small for you, probably by a cup size or two depending on where most your tissue is. The band is definitely too big. Since the cups are too small, it makes the band feel tighter than it is. Pull the band out from your back, how far does it stretch away from your body? I bet if you scoop and swoop your tissue in the cup and pull the band back away from you really far, you will start boobling out of the cups.
BTW, Cup separation is measured from the inner seam of the wire casing across the gore to the opposite inner seam of the wire casing, it is not measured by the width of the gore. Literally the space between the cups/where the breasts would sit. There are examples of this on the measurement page if you would like clarification.
Breast base height is also measured straight down from clavicle to where the band of your bra sits, hard to think that's a full 2" shorter than your nip to neck. Think of breast base as neck to band.Oh, and I love @NubianSkin where did you find them available in 30 bands????
Updated on December 5, 2017 Flag this
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Thank you N14iN5 s'pose I'll be hopping over to Asos. Almost every review I've read on Nubian Skin indicates their bands run a band small. I just went over your profile, and I am so surprised you were wearing 32A's! My horizontal perimeter is about 7" and I was wearing 32B. You must've been SO uncomfortable! Please don't forget to measure all you pre-BtB bras for the database (pictures are always useful too!). Welcome to BtB and don't be surprised that after wearing bras in your more accurate size (and scooping and swooping daily) that your size increases and your roots "become" more narrow. It seems to be THE trend. Since we've been wearing bras with bands way too big and cups way too small for such a long time our breast tissue has been smashed into the sides of our torsos instead of sitting at the front of the chest. Look around, have fun and follow people with measurements similar to yours. Good luck finding that perfect fit!
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Hmm, well it doesn't look too bad on you, considering that it is a moulded bra so it's hard to access the fit exactly. Going off your measurements, I would suggest trying a smaller band size (generally) and a larger cup size? The band might feel fine, but a lot of the time this can also be because the cups are too small.
A larger cup would also have wider wires, which will hold your breast tissue in better. I have very similar measurements to you and my best fitting size is 26F/FF!
Perhaps try some bras in 28D and see how it works? Make sure you are scooping everything in the cups!Updated on December 3, 2017 Flag this
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If you could pull the wires all the way up into your IMF I suspect you'd have both ends of the underwires on breast tissue. I could be totally wrong, but in the photos it looks like the only reason you're not quadding like crazy is that the super narrow wires prevent the cups from sitting high enough, so this is basically a pair of foam saucers politely leaning away from your boobs as the too-narrow wires perch some distance beneath your IMF
One easy clue is coverage: if something billed as a "t-shirt bra" uncovers the same vast expanse of boob as a super low cut 1990s super-plunge pushup Wonderbra, it is too small for you. I notice even some stock photos show a suspicious amount of quadding and lack of coverage, so the design is probably super shallow and narrow as well (i.e. tall and basically almost flat cups), but this photo shows a model with a relatively similar body type and breast volume wearing a size that fits probably more or less as the designer intended:
Updated on December 5, 2017 Flag this
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If your shape is fob, this might not be the best style for you. It appears to be a bra for tall roots and/or FOT.
You may like the Aerie Katie/Hannah/Blakely. VS pink also makes 30B bras that might be worth trying. b.tempt'd. has a few styles in 30B.
Updated on December 3, 2017 Flag this
I got it from asos :) . Actually i noticed that when i actually scooped and swooped i almost had a quadboob.