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• The calculator here takes a bit of time to adjust to your "true/actual" size. It works better once you've entered a few fitting bras. Until then it's just an estimate. Keep trying bras in different shapes and sizes and eventually you'll find one that works! Once you start finding bras that fit, then the data here starts really making sense and you can use it to find more bras that fit to your own perimeters and style, etc. If 30G was close to fitting, there's no reason to jump up to 32HH, but you can always try it just to see how it fits for science sake.

• I agree with Wilderness1 . If a 30G was feeling pretty good I wouldn’t jump up that much farther. If you remember one or two models and the issues the ladies here are extremely helpful!

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• I strongly prefer my Shock Absorber Ultimate Run bras over my Panache Sport for running. The band runs a full two sizes smaller than the label though, so I would watch out for that (my measurements indicate 26FF/G, but I wear a 30F in this sports bra).

• thanks, i'll check it out. so since i usually wear a 32D, ur saying i should maybe try a 36B? i'll try to see if i can find one. :)

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• i remember seeing a chart a couple years ago that showed if you stand up straight and your breast apex are halfway between your shoulder to elbow then they are, well, in the middle. but if they are lower than the middle than they are low set, and if they are higher than the middle then they are high set. i hope that makes sense? :) but who knows if that was right anyways. maybe? :)

• that feeling when your apex is almost level with ur bloody elbow..

  it's probably somewhat on the right track at least because I've always thought I have low set boobs and that method agrees with me so who knows. but some ppl have shorter arms, or longer torso, short torso.. etc.

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• I can only speak for myself. I had them pierced for a few years, then I took them out due to having my last baby.
  Mine always felt like they were overly sensitive, more than before, and one started to migrate out and I would have had to have it redone at some point.
  Yes they can show through soft cup bras. My solution to that was to use Wacoal No-Peeks cup inserts. During the summer if I wanted to go braless, but conceal them I’d use stick on nipple petals. I always felt like they got snagged on my towel or wash cloth while showering. In all it’s something I don’t plan to do again. I tried it, but it was alway more annoying than anything.
  Just make sure if you get them done you go to a reputable professional piercer. Good luck on your decision.

• I don't think it'd help much to decrease their sensitivity.

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• I’ve tried posture correctors in the past, due to slouching. It always ended up hurting my armpits because basically all it does is pull your shoulders back.
  As for over bust corsets, I was into them years and years ago. Over busy corsets can smoosh you’re breast into the body while at the same time pushing them up. If you’re interested in a corset I suggest one that comes down over the hips to help use your hips to hold everything up. Also make sure your corset has a steal busk in it. They can also make you feel hot since they hold in a lot of heat. A corset liner is also a good idea. It will help wick sweat away from your body but also keeping the corset clean.
  Maybe also try basque bras or long line bras. The additional band length on the bra body might help with the over all support. Hope you can find something that helps.

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• I think the full on top crowd have the hardest time- bras are mostly not designed for us especially in larger sizes.

• It's a tricky shape to fit - do you think it's less common shape over all or just in larger sizes ? Bras are designed for the customer who buys them. Also some stretch lace bras are too weak to support above a certain size - so they don't make them.

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Jul 21, 2020

As I’m awaiting my excel to load the data, I’ve crocheted a boobie 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣 good as a stress ball
Anyone’s else is crocheting too?

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• Do you ship those internationally? I may need a stressball boobie :P

• Jj I certainly can!!! 😂

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• Hi, fellow vegan! As far as I can tell, the whole 'soy causing breast growth' thing is a myth. I haven't seen any studies about it regarding AFAB people, but these two reports analyzing numerous studies of the effects of soy on AMAB people assert that the consumption of soy does not cause breast growth in (cis) men [https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(09)00966-2/pdf https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(10)00368-7/pdf].

  Otherwise, I'm afraid I'm not too much help here. My boobs don't change size throughout the month and never have :P. I'm also on the younger side and have only been wearing properly fitting bras since like 2015ish, I think (at which time I was 16), so I can't really say much about breast migration either. Hope some other people can chime in!

• I'm vegetarian, and I also have not seen any evidence of breast growth linked to soy. I wouldn't worry about that too much. I have had times when they grow and shrink somewhat surprisingly, but I feel like my weight can be a little like that too, haha. I don't fluctuate size during the course of the month, but I know a lot of people here do, hopefully they will jump in and give some advice. I think that I have seen a lot of them talk about having certain bras they like for certain times of the month, and really liking bras with some stretch lace that can accommodate a little bit of change.

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• Not exactly the same, but my boobs grew 1-2 cup sizes when I got put on medicine for my hormonal disorder (technically the pill). This happened within, like, a few months of starting to take my medicine and my boobs haven't grown any more since then, though. I know my gynecologist said that's a normal side effect, but as I'm not a gynecologist, I don't know about the timelines of this sort of thing happening + how that relates to hormone levels, etc. You could always ask your gynecologist (or, you know, whichever medical professional put in your hormone spiral) about it if it's bothering you and you really want to know for sure. I hope this all resolves well for you!

• Something I do not think many science/health/sex-ed classes or doctors cover is breast development, at least not with regard to how hormonal birth control (or hormone imbalances) affect it. Your breasts are actually not considered fully developed until you have gotten pregnant and given birth, and your milk comes in. THAT is the end state. Your breasts *partially* develop during puberty/adolescence, but until you undergo the specific changes to composition during pregnancy, your breasts are "immature". (Even if you are eighty!)

  Many of the changes to breast tissue - much of which includes expansion/growth - occur during the first trimester or two. As most people know, the pill and other hormonal birth control mimic the hormone patterns of early pregnancy, "tricking" your body into thinking it is already pregnant. What a lot of people don't realize or fully understand is that the "birth control bump" (as we called it in high school) of a cup size or two (sometimes more) is actually your breasts further developing - preparing for breast milk production.

  The exact changes vary from person to person, just as changes from real pregnancies vary. Think about all the women you have seen go through pregnancy. Some women have very little breast growth, others seem to explode. Some women's breasts go back to "normal" afterwards, other women's breasts retain all or some growth. Some women gain boob with every pregnancy, others do not.

  Increased amounts of fat in your blood/body can increase your estrogen levels, this can affect breast growth, and not just by increasing the fat in your boobs.

  So what does all this mean? Well, every woman reacts to hormones a bit differently, so even "low-dose" hormones may affect you in a way many women are not. It means that if the hormones are enough to fool your body into thinking it is pregnant, they are probably enough to potentially cause at least some breast growth.

  There is also the matter of how the hormones are absorbed by your body. You may be absorbing more into your bloodstream via the spiral than you did via the pill, even though the pill had higher levels.

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• I used to wear 32DD and thought I had big boobs cause "32 = small back and DD = big". I'm 5'5 and my adulthood weight fluctuates between 110-120 lbs so I thought my boobs were big on my body, although I'm aware there are a lot more boobs bigger than mine.
  Then I found out my real size is 28F and realized it's only an average size on here. I get confused. It almost sounds like an identify crisis lol. I used to wish my boobs were smaller because I looked so bulky in certain clothing and I did ballet, and now I would be so happy if they were several cups bigger so I qualify having big boobs. I know several girls my size and we're considered big here (in Asia) although not uncommonly. I also realise that if I take pictures they don't look that big, but when I look down at my boobs or feel them with my hands they feel big.
  There's this recent thread on ABTF that discusses what's "big". https://www.reddit.com/r/ABraThatFits/comments/gu1ajb/i_have_big_boobs_too_even_though_some_people_do/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

• With the big versus small debate we can easily forget that breasts are attached to bodies with various sizes and shapes. The same amount of breast tissue can be perceived quite differently on different body types - and with different bra and clothing choices. We as women are whole packages that need to be viewed as a whole - not just the stripe of boob that we focus on here at bratabase (and perhaps society?!). How much of our identity is wrapped up in the size of our bra - for good or evil? Do not forget about the brainwashing of standard bra shops that size does not go past a D or DDDD!

  "Size" is so relative without layering on the highly charged letters past D. How do conversations go about a 32J bra when the majority of women would cram those puppies into a 38DDD and call 'er done?
  Talking about bra size is a bit of a taboo where I am so how do women get perspective on size? Does it really matter if we are able to slot ourselves into the big-small debate? Though it is unsettling as we find out our true measurement for a well-fitting bra which is so vastly different from the masses. It would be nice for women to realize that whole swathes of the population should not be buying bras at Victoria Secret. Perhaps that would normalize the sub-32 bands and the cups past D. Nobody likes to think that they have snowflakes for breasts.

  Photographing ourselves can be unsettling to our brain. Being told on google that the average bra size is 34B - take a look at a well-fitting 34B and see if you can pick out very many women that look like that! Not a lot of accurate data about breast size. Did you know that Dolly Parton is a 36E? Ha ha

  I say accept our breasts, put them in comfortable, well-fitting bras, and call that done - forget about judgments from all the corners of society. Barring surgery, we have what we have. It does not matter others' thoughts.

  Now the size of my butt is another matter...

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• It'd be a dream, but no if your cup size goes down when you're losing weight there is no way to keep your cup size and make your waist thinner. No exercise could burn fat locally, so if you want your belly to be smaller you need to decrease the percentage of body fat in your body by being in a slight calorie deficit and exercising.

• Unfortunately, I always loose boob volume when I lose body weight. I have sometimes heard of this mysterious phenomenon where people gain boob volume when they loose weight, but I'm not sure how?

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• It’s worth talking to your doctor about it. I can only speak of my own experience, but I have major lower back issues from an injury 20 years ago, and a shoulder that acts up from a fall I took off a dirt bike 15 years ago. I also fell and broke my tailbone last December, also re-injuring my lower back. There are some days I feel like a hot mess express and feel so uncomfortable, I don’t want any bra touching me. Which is partly why I just purchased bras with a slightly looser band than what I actually need. It’s not my bra causing issues, it’s my actual body nerve sensitivity going haywire sometimes. Next time you visit your doctor bring it up. There are never any stupid questions when it comes to your health and well-being. :)
  Hope you can find something to help make you comfy soon.

• Maybe see a chiropractor? Don't know if they'd be able to help but they might at least send you in the right direction.

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• Here are 2 other measurements several months ago, with the tissue on the ribcage under my arm I have a 27 cm b. perimeter, only with the soft tissue in front of the ribcage I have just a 24.5 cm b. perimeter.

  http://bra.pe/QKJd/

  http://bra.pe/QKG5/

• It looks like you have nice cleavage with the super boost bra and the change balconette. The pour moi, not so much, perhaps because it’s a wide gore. I’m splayed when unsupported and closer set in a bra. Maybe average, but my soft tissue makes it easier to get cleavage. Might you be similar? Is the 1.5cm supported or unsupported?

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• Well done on your weight loss!
  I've gained around 15kg, managed to loose 5, but the remaining isnt easy! I need bit more of motivation.
  Before weight gain I was wearing La Senza bras in 32D, they fitted ok, then I discovered Panache and Gossard, slowly moved to 32DD. After these I learnt about Ewa Michalak and was wearing 70DD. Shortly after I started to gain weight (changed job to be more office based..), I had to replace bras to 70E/32E. Since then i've been gaining the weight slowly... last year I lost 8kg but my boobs grew by 0.5 size lol .I put back again 5-6kg and since then I'm 70F despite going down again 5kg.
  My shape was FOB at the begining, now I am more even.

  **btw i ve got for sale few 32H bras for £10-£15 per bra - I can pm you the models and pics**

• My size has been in constant fluctuation for 5 years now. When I started wearing properly fitted bras I was 30DD at 120ish lbs. Then I got pregnant with my son and gained 50, ended up around 32G. Lost all the weight plus a few more pounds and went back down to 28E. Got on a new medication and gained 15-20 pounds, then got pregnant again and gained another 50... and again I was wearing mostly 32G. Once I lost that pregnancy weight I was comfortable in 30G/GG for quite a while until I night-weaned my daughter, which is where I am now - 138 lbs and 30F/FF. I’m still trying to lose that weight I gained after the meds.

  When I first started noticing my size changing during that first pregnancy, I stupidly sold all my old bras. Had to buy new ones for every slight size change after that. :/ I learned my lesson with the second time around and kept every bra that has fit me at any point, because I know I’m going to change again. So right now I have all my “mid” sized bras in my drawer and my “small” and “large” ones in storage, haha.

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• Bratabase has a search feature where you can browse bras by different metrics (cup width, cup height, cup depth, etc). Once you find a bra that fits you, take note of the measurements and then you can browse for other bras like it in the database. Here is how:
  -Click Browse
  -by size
  -click your size (28DD)
  -then click the small button "measurements"
  -the use the drop down button to choose the metric you want to explore (ex: cup height)

  The other thing you can do, which helps to narrow down fits, is use the compare feature to see how one bra is going ot fit compared to another bra.
  -Choose a bra you want to look at (or one that already fits)
  -Click "Compare this bra"
  -navigate to the second bra you want to look at
  -Click "compare this bra"
  -then either "compare these" or "keep browsing". If you keep browsing you can continue to add a few bras to compare side to side.

  Good luck. Hope someone has some recommendations for you!

• Thanks for the tip @Wilderness1! I tried it out, it looks like most of the bras that match my fit are discontinued/different versions of the same few bras. I guess I was hoping to find a brand I haven’t tried out yet. Or an unlined bra that isn’t a three part cup. The search continues!

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• Ditto, from the other side of the size spectrum... It was bewildering, frustrating. I was wearing all kinds of weird sizes before learning about "the world of small bands, bigger cups." Now happy at 40:9.

• Yep, I relate to this. Always tried to force myself to fit into as big a cup and as small a band as possible. I still have the tendency, but it’s easier to fight the irrationality now that I’m aware of it.

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Get them together

I have a question. Ok, itmight be a pretty stupid one. However....
Best fitting bra today is a 34 F. And I'm east-west.
I'm on my way to try a new take on underwired. Specifically if they can get me even close to this "girls together" shape.
Balcony style with immense side push effect.
What to go for ?
Thanks, have a glorious day !

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The "gathering" effect I'll like.

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• If you want cleavage, there’s two kinds: butt crack/bum crack and cakes on a plate (Marie Antoinette style). It sounds like, from the picture that you shared, that you are after the first kind I mentioned. Plunge bras will be better with side pushing in. The sides are taller; the wires are sort of tilted (lower in the middle and higher in the wings. Panache Ana/Ava is a nice plunge with stretch lace on top, and still a little bit of a natural shape. Although it did not work for me, Curvy Kate Lifestyle is generally considered a good simple plunge. In padded, Freya Deco is quite the famous bra for knock cleavage, with Cleo Koko similar but not as hard and stiff moulding like the Deco. In Polish brands, Comexim and Ewa Michalak have good padded plunge bras, with the latter having optional cookies for enhancing the shape/fit. I’m not sure how any of these would work on wise set breasts, which I imagine you have (but I might be wrong).

• Something like this may work as well, if you're not pleased with the gathering powers of the bra alone (;

  https://www.fruugo.co.uk/push-up-magic-bra-shaper-shapewear-vest-bust-up-borst-ondersteuning-sexy-beha/p-14941285-32172833?language=nl&showOriginalDescription=true

  Can't seem to find many online, but in Asian clothing stores (Malaysia, Thailand) I've seen sooo many of these! Most of them are 'vest-type' garments, bigger / longer than this one, almost corset-like - to be worn over a bra. They are meant to really push the breasts together.

  Good luck!

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• Oooh! I was interested in it but I am not in the uk and don’t have the ability to travel there that short notice. Go for it! Congrats!

• IS this like Star in a bra?

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• In the database, you can search by size and then sort by wing height which may help.
  Here's an example, using the 40FF:
  https://www.bratabase.com/browse/by-size/40:8/measurements/?direction=&order_by=wing_height

  This only reflects the data entered, so it is far from complete for all brands/bras available but is a starting point to know which brands and styles tend to have higher wings.

  Also, looking for bras listed as side support (Fantasie brand has several models like this) will possibly help.

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