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bra size wtf (again)
A post about boobies!
So two years ago (hard to believe it's been that long) I went and got fitted and it turned out that the whole time -- or at least a lot of the recent time, then -- I'd been wearing 38D I'd been wrong, wrong, wrong. They put me in 36E, which for the US listeners is DDD, which is actually only one cup size up on account of the cups get smaller as the band size gets smaller, so if the cups had fit but the band had been too big in 38D I'd have gone to 36DD and been all set. Instead, one was too big and the other was too small, so. Right? Right.
Lately, then, I've been feeling like according to the way they taught me at the lovely Bravissimo shop, my existing bras are no longer the right size. In the first place, the band doesn't stay put in the back (warning sign!), even on the tightest hook, so there you go. Plus, from time to time it seems -- you all know what I mean by this -- like I'm spilling out of the top of the cups. Solution: the band is clearly too big, but what to do about the cups? Argh.
So I went to Dor-Ne in Silver Spring, where I was treated very nicely but by people who were simply mistaken. In the first place, the thing I bought off the rack based on brand name and size five minutes before closing one day was not, despite the girl's assurance, the same thing I was wearing, so it wasn't an exact replacement. But then when I thought You know, buying the same size may have been the wrong decision -- I went there before I'd had the whole series of thoughts above -- I went back and said maybe I should get fitted before committing to something. Here's the thing with the tag still on it, so maybe I'll just swap.
Yeah, the fitting is where the wheels came off the wagon. The Russian lady who runs the place said what are you talking about, thirty-six, look, you're forty. Which, I grant that there is no part of my body relevant to my breasts that actually clocks in at 36 of anything (around where the band goes, I get 37 with a fabric tape measure, and I say it's better to be snug than loose) -- but in that brand, okay, that's the size I've been wearing and it's been right. Numbers are very nice, but what counts is how the thing fits, isn't it? (I do indeed subscribe to the Bravissimo philosophy. Heh.) She brings back other brands in which 36 does not, in fact, fit, to prove her point. But I try on the Fantasie thing I've already bought, with the tag still on it, and sure enough. (FTW.) Back in my own bra, though, which is the style I want, she and her accomplice decide I should go up a cup size and stay in the same band size. (36, by the way, which they now agree is the right size for me in that brand.) Which is a thing they don't have in the store. They're happy to order it for me, but since I know I can get the stuff elsewhere, I just take store credit. (Which,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellen_fremedon, I'll be more than happy to sell to you if you want to go down there some time this week and get fitted? They do know their business; I think they just weren't expecting me to have come in with ideas already in my head, so they and I were not a good fit at this time. [g])
So I sent a "help, help!" e-mail to the Bravissimo customer service line and headed to Nieman Marcus, where -- huzzah! They do have the thing in various sizes, which I try on. 36E remains too big, even in brand-new and not stretched-out from a year's worth of wear. Good information to have. 34F fits better in the band and the same in the cup, naturally. 34G fits in the band but is comically too big in the cup. What's a girl to do?
I bought the 34F and came home to, this morning, a response from Bravissimo reminding me that the next cup size up from F is actually FF, not G. (Why do they double D, F, G, H, and K, but not E? Also, isn't AA smaller than A? And other mysteries.) Which I suspect will turn out to be the right size. I'm going to go back up to NM this afternoon and see if they have it in that size, try it on, and assuming it's right, swap. I'll pop in at Nordstrom some time, where I'm informed they also stock that brand. And then in future I will likely ORDER ONLINE, because DAMN.
Ultimately, though, this means that in two or three years I've gone from 38D (which did, once, fit properly) to 34DDDDD. I do think this is because Fantasie is on some sort of crack, because like I said, 34 what? But still. 5D? [looks at them] Guess so. Who knew.
So two years ago (hard to believe it's been that long) I went and got fitted and it turned out that the whole time -- or at least a lot of the recent time, then -- I'd been wearing 38D I'd been wrong, wrong, wrong. They put me in 36E, which for the US listeners is DDD, which is actually only one cup size up on account of the cups get smaller as the band size gets smaller, so if the cups had fit but the band had been too big in 38D I'd have gone to 36DD and been all set. Instead, one was too big and the other was too small, so. Right? Right.
Lately, then, I've been feeling like according to the way they taught me at the lovely Bravissimo shop, my existing bras are no longer the right size. In the first place, the band doesn't stay put in the back (warning sign!), even on the tightest hook, so there you go. Plus, from time to time it seems -- you all know what I mean by this -- like I'm spilling out of the top of the cups. Solution: the band is clearly too big, but what to do about the cups? Argh.
So I went to Dor-Ne in Silver Spring, where I was treated very nicely but by people who were simply mistaken. In the first place, the thing I bought off the rack based on brand name and size five minutes before closing one day was not, despite the girl's assurance, the same thing I was wearing, so it wasn't an exact replacement. But then when I thought You know, buying the same size may have been the wrong decision -- I went there before I'd had the whole series of thoughts above -- I went back and said maybe I should get fitted before committing to something. Here's the thing with the tag still on it, so maybe I'll just swap.
Yeah, the fitting is where the wheels came off the wagon. The Russian lady who runs the place said what are you talking about, thirty-six, look, you're forty. Which, I grant that there is no part of my body relevant to my breasts that actually clocks in at 36 of anything (around where the band goes, I get 37 with a fabric tape measure, and I say it's better to be snug than loose) -- but in that brand, okay, that's the size I've been wearing and it's been right. Numbers are very nice, but what counts is how the thing fits, isn't it? (I do indeed subscribe to the Bravissimo philosophy. Heh.) She brings back other brands in which 36 does not, in fact, fit, to prove her point. But I try on the Fantasie thing I've already bought, with the tag still on it, and sure enough. (FTW.) Back in my own bra, though, which is the style I want, she and her accomplice decide I should go up a cup size and stay in the same band size. (36, by the way, which they now agree is the right size for me in that brand.) Which is a thing they don't have in the store. They're happy to order it for me, but since I know I can get the stuff elsewhere, I just take store credit. (Which,
ellen_fremedon, I'll be more than happy to sell to you if you want to go down there some time this week and get fitted? They do know their business; I think they just weren't expecting me to have come in with ideas already in my head, so they and I were not a good fit at this time. [g])So I sent a "help, help!" e-mail to the Bravissimo customer service line and headed to Nieman Marcus, where -- huzzah! They do have the thing in various sizes, which I try on. 36E remains too big, even in brand-new and not stretched-out from a year's worth of wear. Good information to have. 34F fits better in the band and the same in the cup, naturally. 34G fits in the band but is comically too big in the cup. What's a girl to do?
I bought the 34F and came home to, this morning, a response from Bravissimo reminding me that the next cup size up from F is actually FF, not G. (Why do they double D, F, G, H, and K, but not E? Also, isn't AA smaller than A? And other mysteries.) Which I suspect will turn out to be the right size. I'm going to go back up to NM this afternoon and see if they have it in that size, try it on, and assuming it's right, swap. I'll pop in at Nordstrom some time, where I'm informed they also stock that brand. And then in future I will likely ORDER ONLINE, because DAMN.
Ultimately, though, this means that in two or three years I've gone from 38D (which did, once, fit properly) to 34DDDDD. I do think this is because Fantasie is on some sort of crack, because like I said, 34 what? But still. 5D? [looks at them] Guess so. Who knew.