23-03-2011, 22:03
(This post was last modified: 23-03-2011, 22:08 by Anastasia916.)
Okay so I thought I knew everything there is to know about bra sizes. I know how to measure myself and get my bra size. But now I think there is a problem that I think bra fitting professionals are WRONG on. The past few days I am at a 37" bust, I was at a 36 1/2" at the start of this round of NBE. Now normally I wear 32D's they are very full but still. And I was ALWAYS told that if you are a 32D you can also wear 34C's which I do in some brands. The 34C's I ALWAYS have to wear on the tightest hook and they ride up in the back on the band because the band is too big for me but the cups always fit fine. Well since I been measuring at 37" my 32D's are now too small, so small that wearing one for a day proved to leave imprints on my breasts! But I wore a 34C today thinking, okay it's going to be tight too... but to my surprise it's not! The cups are fuller, but not leaving imprints on me and the band is STILL loose and STILL riding up in the back!
I was ALWAYS told that when you go up a band size you go down a cup size and when you go down a band size you go up a cup size. Well thinking about this logically with how I know how to measure, this really doesn't make sense after all! When I'm a 32D I'm at least 36" on the bust, me being 27-28" underbust puts me at a 32 band this a 32D since if I minus the band size from the bust measurement you get 4. BUT if I'm 37" I'd be a 32DD right? Well think of a 34 band... if I subtract that from 36 you get a B cup, not a C, if you subtract it from 37 you get a C cup. So the conclusion I come to is that a 32D is NOT the same size as a 34C, but the same size as a 34B, duh, why didn't I think of this before??? And a 32DD is the same size as a 34C. So when you go down a band size you should really be doing up 2 cup sizes and when you go up a band size you should be going down 2 cup sizes. That makes TOTAL sense. But yet for years I have read on bra fitting sites, from professional bra fitters in shops, etc. that it's 1, but really if you do the math that doesn't make sense!
So dang it to be a 34D I'd have to be a 32E haha. And to be the average size of a 36C, I'd have to be 32F or 34DD! That's ridiculous! HAHA oh well, I'm going until I'm happy haha.
But just thought I'd throw out there my discovery of the day for other ladies in case others are confused about bras. I thought I knew what I was talking about haha, looks like I should have looked at it more logically! Oh well, live and learn.
I was ALWAYS told that when you go up a band size you go down a cup size and when you go down a band size you go up a cup size. Well thinking about this logically with how I know how to measure, this really doesn't make sense after all! When I'm a 32D I'm at least 36" on the bust, me being 27-28" underbust puts me at a 32 band this a 32D since if I minus the band size from the bust measurement you get 4. BUT if I'm 37" I'd be a 32DD right? Well think of a 34 band... if I subtract that from 36 you get a B cup, not a C, if you subtract it from 37 you get a C cup. So the conclusion I come to is that a 32D is NOT the same size as a 34C, but the same size as a 34B, duh, why didn't I think of this before??? And a 32DD is the same size as a 34C. So when you go down a band size you should really be doing up 2 cup sizes and when you go up a band size you should be going down 2 cup sizes. That makes TOTAL sense. But yet for years I have read on bra fitting sites, from professional bra fitters in shops, etc. that it's 1, but really if you do the math that doesn't make sense!
So dang it to be a 34D I'd have to be a 32E haha. And to be the average size of a 36C, I'd have to be 32F or 34DD! That's ridiculous! HAHA oh well, I'm going until I'm happy haha.
But just thought I'd throw out there my discovery of the day for other ladies in case others are confused about bras. I thought I knew what I was talking about haha, looks like I should have looked at it more logically! Oh well, live and learn.