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Jeesh, t_maia wasn't kidding when she said Italy was a bra waistland. What they sell here hurts my boobs, brains and eyes.
Realy, there are colors here that have never seen daylight, I think Stevie Wonder would do a better job choosing a color palette and designing prints.
This is the land of kitch. Bras glow in the dark here. ... I have seen sequence, crystals AND 3 inch long feathers on the same bra. And that one, might I add, cost 129 euro.
So, yeah, my eyes really hurt, but what their sizing system did to my delicate soul is pure violence.
People here seem to believe that if you need a bigger cup your ribcage must be bigger too. So you get sizes like 1,2,3,4 and very rarely 5. Where the higher the number, the bigger the band and cups will be.
Now I am not talking just cheap bras here, I'm takling 100 euro bras!!
What hurt my brain the most is this fancy department store where they carry la perla, la passionata, chantelle and the likes. They even adjusted the brands that offer variety of sizes to their stupid system, so the largest I could find in chantelle was 85D, which the "fitter" kindly explained was their size 5.
So fit yourself into that girls!
No unpadded cups here also. They didn't even carry rive gauche. If you want unpadded, you must want a minimizer, so they will kindly direct you to triumph.
And I thought Croatian women were clueless. At least they know band and cup are supposed to be a number and a letter.
The only positive experience was the la passionata brand, I was very impressed with their innovative aproach, great design and dreamy fabrics. They had one bra labeled as supersoft and the fabric was even more light and airy than spacerfoam! Highly reccommend to all who fit their range (winking at @Milk&Honey )
Bacci di Roma
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Oh. Ps. Bratabase is banned in Vatican. It says vatican internet service doesn't permit access to this site. Content: Sex.
Guess no fitting bras for nuns
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I'm not sure what brands/sizes and what your measurements are, but this sounds to me like two things are happening:
1.) The band is too big
2.) You aren't scooping/swooping
It's hard to tell if you're in the correct cupsize if your band is too big. (But scooping and swooping would make a poor fit more obvious, so give that a try.)
Think of it this way: for example, say you needed a 30D, but were wearing a 32B. (32C has the same cup volume as a 30D.) Your measurements would be 30" underbust and 34" overbust. A 32B is made for someone with a 32" underbust and a 34" overbust, so it would technically fit your overbust, but the gore would float because the band is made for someone 2" wider than you. If you tried a 32C, made for 32" underbust and 35" overbust, suddenly the cup would seem too big because your overbust is only 34", even though technically the 32C is the correct cup size.
Hope that helped a bit!
How close are your boobs to each other? I have splayed boobs and the gore is seldom narrow enough. I either have a pushed out gore or wires partly on breast fat.
I can also be the bra is too shallow for you in the center if you're center heavy.
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