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Sort of. If your back size down, say, 4 inches, and your actual boobies go down 1 inch, that would work. I think (trying to work that shit out hurt my brain). But mostly you find that the smaller back sizes (28, 30, 32) are more common with the smaller cup sizes, 34 and 36 go across the whole lot, and 38+ goes with the DD+ sizes. People who have a small back size and large cup size, like a 30DD, and people who have a larger back size, like my mum who is a 38B, will find it disgustingly difficult to find bras in their size. Even more so than those of us who fit into normal-back-size-for-our-massive-cup-size territory.
Not that you care about any of this.
what's this new way? i think i need to come out of hiding and buy new bras...my current bras are all humungous on me now
http://bravissimo.com/products/lingerie/all/#/1?show=16&sort=4&back=28&cup=f
This one. Apparently you don't add four or five any more.
Those are pretty
No tapemeasure. I'm guessing I'll come out as a 28c. I can't see me a)finding any bras in that size and b) fitting in to it- like, just typing 28 makes me feel all squeezed.
last time I measured I was 27 under, 31.5 over, and I'm currently in 32a bras...
I care about boobies!
Suzy's link says that cup sizes are specific to back sizes: so a DD in one back size isn't the same as a DD in another back size. It seems possible to lose weight, going down a back size, but still have the same cup size and have boobies that are smaller. I suspect with the example of dropping a whole bunch of back sizes you could have smaller boobs, but actually go up a cup size.
A cup size one it's own, in theory, tells you nothing.
See, no.
Because if you go down a back size from losing weight, and stay the same cup size, the weight is lost from your back/pits/ribs/whatever, not your boobs. The cup size is the difference between the two measurements, so say, for example, You have a 34in back size, and you're a D cup, the difference between the two, and therefore the (relative) size of your boobies, is 5 inches. If you then go down a back size, but stay the same cup size, the difference is still 5 inches, so they're still the same size.
Reread Suzy's first link.
I agree. I find that 34B fits as does 36C - but it does depend on where I buy them.
That's weird
I'm 27" underneath, too, and when I was fitted in Bravissimo the woman actually removed skin because she was so desperate to get me in a 28. It was WAY too tight - like, shooting chest pains and all sorts. Not comfortable in the slightest. I wouldn't get fitted there again, tbh.
If I were you, I'd try a 30, though. That's what I wear, now. I used to wear 32s, but the 30 fits more firmly and comfortably, without cutting off the circulation. M&S (while shit for fitting) do some nice styles with smaller back sizes that you won't need to take out a loan to buy!
Oops. Didn't see that there was more thread that just miss riot's post. Apologies for feeding the dead
I'm going to investigate the bra angel and see if that helps
the zip up one might be good for her