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Aug 22, 2012
If you do have a longer torso this blog post is a must to read! Looking at her checklist everything is true for me. But these are my most troublesome:
"Constant underarm fat even when you always make sure to scoup your breast tissue into the cups, the band is tight, and you're wearing the right size"
- Always!
"Struggling to find bras with enough lift. Your breasts never feel high enough."
- I'm ok with that problem as I kind of like a lower more relaxed shape.
"You prefer bras where the bottom of the underwire is even with the band, not below e.g.
- Standing up Panache Andorra is ok. Sitting down it's poking hell.
"You feel like your breasts slope down too much into the cups"
"You've never felt underwires that dig into the bottom of your armpits. However, you might have had problems with straps that dig into the sides of your armpits/shoulders when you've attempted to tighten the straps to get enough lift."
- Yes yes yes yes yes!
"You may feel like there's extra breast tissue above the cups of your breasts but going up in a cup size just means that there's gapping at the top of your cups."
- Yes yes yes yes yes.
"Wrinkling at the bottom of your cups."
- Yes yes yes yes yes.
Braless in Brasil: Torso length, height, underarm fit and...
http://www.bralessinbrasil.com/2012/07/torso-length-height-underarm-fit-and.html
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I read it before and I still don't get what it has to do with length of torso... isn't it rather a matter of breasts shape?
I have a torso which is short in proportion to the rest of my body, but I'm pretty tall so in the end it's not a short torso when it comes to lingerie sizes (for example I need longer straps). I also have breasts sitting rather low on my chest, but not saggy. I have some of the concerns mentioned in that post, but but not all, and the shape of my breast is different (they don't slope into the bra, and I don't think the band is too low).
I know that people who have short torso (in a matter of size, not proportion), becasue they are short have problems like straps being too long or sides of bra being too high, so I assumed that most bras are obviously designed with taller/longer torsoed people in mind.
I've read this blog post, and the best part for me was knowing that I'm not the only one with some of these problems, and that maybe I'm encountering these problems for a reason other than bra-fitting ineptitude. While I'm willing to attribute some of this stuff to torso length (I definitely have a long torso, and I'm tall), I agree that a lot of this also has got to do with shape and placement on the torso (my breasts are also slightly high, exacerbating the strap-tightening issue). The sloping into the cup one I can't figure out the meaning of, but maybe that's because my breasts seem to do anything but slope. I have no idea. This makes my brain hurt.
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