The bra I liked best at La Senza was discontinued and I saw one that looked identical in the Victoria's Secret catalogue, so I ordered one in the same size I wear at La Senza.
The band of the Victoria's Secret bra is a good inch longer, and the cups are smaller. The arc of the wire is identical on both bras, but if you lay the Victoria's Secret cup on top of the La Senza cup, the La Senza cup has about a centimetre more material the cleavage side and on the armpit side. The result is if the La Senza bra contains your entire breast, the Victora's Secret one will create cleavage or uniboob or quadboob (assuming you distribute your assets so that all the fleshy lymph-nodey part of your breast on the armpit side is always contained inside the bra cup).
I don't know which bra is closer to true size (i.e. the size you're supposed to be if you measure yourself and plug the numbers into the chart) because I'm infuriatingly nowhere near a true size.
This is something that annoys me about the bra industry. People always say that all you need to do is get a really good professional bra fitting and then you'll know what size you really are and live happily ever after. Now I have no doubt that a really good professional bra fitter can help you find a good bra. (Assuming you get a proper professional bra fitter, not one of those people who just takes a tape measure around your ribs and then around your bust and runs the numbers through the chart and says "Okay, done!" But since the sizes don't seem to be reliably the same from store to store, this isn't going to help you find other bras. Even if I go to Secrets From Your Sister and let them spend like 45 minutes doing their voodoo and they come up with the perfect bra, that isn't going to help me buy bras from other places if the sizes aren't going to follow the rules. I don't want professional assistance every time I buy a bra, I want to be able to pick something off the rack and have it fit. What's the point of measurement-based sizes if they aren't going to do this?
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SO true! All women's sizes seem afflicted with these strange sizing ideas.
I've heard that sizes are based on measurements taken 60 years ago of very young women in the American Army of WWII. From there, designers' fantasy lives take flight.
When I complain about this, my husband literally does not know what I am talking about. He can pull armloads of pants off a rack in "his" size, and they'll all fit. Do you know any women who can do that? I sure don't.
When I find anything that fits, I buy two. And take extra good care of them both.
Great, so our clothing sizes are based on people who had their major growth spurts while starving to death in the Great Depression and who wore girdles on a daily basis.
With pants, even if I know I'm a size 14 at a certain store, that doesn't mean the pants will fit. They could still gap in the back or be too short in the leg or have the waistband land in that one place that makes me look 20 lbs heavier or any number of other problems. It flummoxes me that men don't have these problems - they come in a variety of shapes too!
>Great, so our clothing sizes are >based on people who had their major
>growth spurts while starving to >death in the Great Depression and >who wore girdles on a daily basis.
Exactly!
It not only makes me crazy because it makes shopping a nightmare.
It makes me crazy because with all the returns and missed opportunities retail must be marked up like 1,000 percent.
I'm expecting a high retail death rate in today's economy.
its like going to a clothing store and trying on a million different shirts in a size medium,,, there never all going to be the same. There are Balconettes and Full coverage bras, Demi cups, and padded bras, bras with removable padding (good if you have one girl bigger than the other) bras with thick straps for old ladies, bras with double your pushup ... really u cant go in blind, and i wouldnt depend soley on a highschool student working part time for nothing to help you entirely you gotta try em all on.,,, all the styles... you'll find one you like just keep trying,
advice:
forget the measuring tape,, take it from a person who has worked in a bra store for many years it doesnt mean much (half of the staff cant fig it out, and different stores have different size formulas...
try on a bra if you lift your arms up and the bra comes up with you the band is too big.. number one problem ,, pl think they are bigger than they are,, get one SNUG and maybe a LITTLE on the tight side (on the last hook) you always want to be able to make the bra tighter,,, because its going to stretch( and that doesnt mean you should create rolls for yourself pl... and for the love of god pl make sure your shoulder staps are adjusted store peeps always have them on the tightest setting so that they all hang the same length from a hanger and look prettier, but that will completly change the style. Forget the sizes if you try on a bra and it gaps at the top..(you can look down and see inside the bra) for ex a 34c try 34b and if you can go tighter a 32 c same cup size its just the band thats different...
If you get the double boob thing when your for ex trying on a 34d 34dd is what you wanna try or a 32e (on the last hook)
extra tip
the cup size changes with the number if you take out a 38 a and a 32 d the cup size is the same it goes up with the band size.
so if you are gunna buy a bra in 36b also try in a 34 c the cup is the same but the band is a little tighter... worth your money because it will stetch. its even worth it to get an extender hook for a couple of weeks till you stretch it out (get at walmart waaaayyy cheaper
wow sorry had a little too much spare time haha :) hope this was helpful
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