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Originally Posted by runningfromfat
I see you live in NY, is it anywhere neary NYC? If so try out Town Shop. To be blunt, I HIGHLY doubt you're a 40D (well, even a 36 I'm pretty suspicious of!). You're not that overweight anymore and a 36 band size means that your have pretty large ribs naturally. It can certainly happen but it's unlikely. |
Actually yes
I'm not too far from NYC. It's a short train ride away if you're talking about Manhattan. If you mean the general 5 boros of NYC I could walk down the street and be in Queens.
I suspect that I do have a large rib size. I've measured myself and I measure in at a 35" underbust. It seems to run in the family though, as my mother told me of her and my aunt always having problems with clothes when they were teenagers.
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Go home and measure your underbust and your bust size. When you measure your bust size bend over so your body is parallel to the ground when you don't have a bra on and measure over your nipples. Ill-fitting bras can make your bust size much smaller than it actually is (at the moment due to weight loss I don't have a well-fitting bra and in my bras I measure 41", however, doing it this way I measure 44-45"!!!).
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Ok, I've tried it and I get 35" for my underbust (like I did before) and 40" for my bust, so I suppose that would put me at a 36D. Thank you for the tip!!!
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Your underbust is your band size and the difference between that and your bust is your cup size. Now depending on the shape of your boobs you can go up or down a size but that's the best place to start. MANY fitters add 4-5" and this VERY WRONG and an old, archaic rule back when bands were not stretchy. Now a days it just hurts lots of backs!
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That's why I usually go with 36" because my underbust is 35"... I suspect that the bra fitters I've been to have been adding the 4-5" and giving me 40 as my bra size (although if my bust measures at 40", shouldn't I be a 40A or 40AA or something crazy like that?)
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ETA: report back here with your size because I know some places that you can get larger cup sizes for cheaper.  I'm in the process of finding new bras for myself because I keep shrinking out of the band sizes so everything is fresh in my mind.
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Measured and 36D is the right size
It fits wonderfully, doesn't go up in the back, nor do I spill out of the cups or have room to spare in them.
I would love to try on a 34DD or 36DD just to see how that fits, but I've had no such luck finding those damn sizes in the stores!
Thank you for your help
if you have tips on finding cheap bras in larger sizes, I would certainly LOVE to read them!
