bra sizes (have you ever bought online?)

[saply]

Another vote for Brastop from me. The US would have me wearing a 38F from Lane Bryant, but I've found a 34 or 32H fits much better. The cups sit more front and center on my ribcage and I'm not swimming in band fabric!


I estimate probably 75% of Americans are wearing the wrong bra size because manufacturers are too cheap to make enough variations in size. You know how they always tell you to ~*~go up a band size and down a cup size~*~? Yeah, no, that doesn't work, unless you don't mind squeezing your breasts under your armpits.

[tootie_tails]

Another vote for Brastop from me. The US would have me wearing a 38F from Lane Bryant, but I've found a 34 or 32H fits much better. The cups sit more front and center on my ribcage and I'm not swimming in band fabric!


I estimate probably 75% of Americans are wearing the wrong bra size because manufacturers are too cheap to make enough variations in size. You know how they always tell you to ~*~go up a band size and down a cup size~*~? Yeah, no, that doesn't work, unless you don't mind squeezing your breasts under your armpits.

This.
While the cup *volume* may be the same, the cups will be further apart.
For me it sort of works on some bra models but on most it will push my breasts towards my armpits.

[Lady.Arachnia]

Owh and that is soooo wrong!!!! Most woman wear a to loose band and the cup to small, then you get that the band crawl up your back and your "girls" are going to hang lower. And that way the bra doesn't support at all...and that is just the reason we wear those things! And that way they cut in your skin and sit uncomfortable as h*ll!

[cobalte]

I estimate probably 75% of Americans are wearing the wrong bra size because manufacturers are too cheap to make enough variations in size. You know how they always tell you to ~*~go up a band size and down a cup size~*~? Yeah, no, that doesn't work, unless you don't mind squeezing your breasts under your armpits.

This.
While the cup *volume* may be the same, the cups will be further apart.
For me it sort of works on some bra models but on most it will push my breasts towards my armpits.

I think this is my problem really... almost all the cups for my current size of choice (10A AUS/32A US/32B UK) are too close together for my chest. A lot of it is because they're styled that way to give cleavage (push-up bras), but it ends up in the cups not fitting, the sides being rather uncomfortable and the middle swimming in air with no proper support. I can't go up a cup size  because then the cups become too big, but if I go down a cup size to AA (UK A)... I won't be able to buy bras in shops. No Australian retailer I know of stocks AA bras, so I don't know where I could go to actually try some.  Any advice for one of the small chested persuasion?