Jun 19, 2013
How is this different? I've been perusing the Jockey website in order to gather information about their "revolutionary" new sizing method I keep hearing and reading about. After watching the "proper fitting" video I felt like I was about to scream. The "expert" places a moulded cup over a plastic manikin's boob, and then she declares "absolute" cup size based on how her mould fits on an immobile object. There's no scooping or swooping and not even a mention of armpit "boobs" or back fat! The reason I wore the wrong bra size for years is that I tried to fit into available cup sizes that happened to be attached to a band that didn't fall off my body.
I don't "get" how an accurate cup size could be measured WITHOUT taking the band into account. And I REALLY don't get how an accurate cup size could be determined by placing a pre-formed cup on top of breast projection only, without taking into account all the tissue that falls to the sides, and the band's role in shaping and supporting that tissue. Without "scooping" the difference for me is 3 cup sizes in "front"! It seems like this new sizing is suspiciously similar to the sizing that's been driving me nuts for half my life.
Also - Jockey's smallest band is 30...Based on what I see here at Bratabase, a major problem we have with how bras fit is their limited number of band size offerings in relation to their cup size offerings. Maybe I don't really understand the concepts behind Jockey's sizing. I read the patents, and I looked at their diagrams, but in the end all I see are band sizes in 30-42, and 10 different cup options (i.e. "A-J" with numbers instead of letters). If I were to fit into a cup size 5 with a 30 band, it's likely the bra still would not fit me properly if I need a 28 band...right?
In the pictures these bras appear to be very "short sided". No matter how well the cups fit on the front of me, without additional support I don't think there's any way my boobs would stay in those cups (which look like a bad shape for me anyways).
Am I being a pessimistic sourpuss? Am I missing something?
http://www.jockey.com/jockeybra/bras
http://www.jockey.com/jockeybra/bras
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Do I understand correctly? They have band sizes 30-42 and 10 different cup size options which are totally separate from the band size?
Oh how that kind of a system would be more simple than what we have, but surely it doesn´t work. Different people need different cups what comes to cup width, tallness and depth + shape. This doesn´t take into account one´s overall size at all (wide ribcage = wider cups etc)!
So their solution to finding the correct bras is that they limit the size range!! Oh my :O
If I've got this right, what they're doing is a bit like how sister sizing works - a 28FF cup is the same size as a 30F, a 32E, a 34DD, a 36D and so on. (This probably isn't the best way to grade bra sizes, because it doesn't reflect how shape and proportions change from 28FF to 36D and beyond, but it happens anyway.) So if you assign all those sister sizes a single number, then it probably is possible to work out the cup and band independently, and your cup number would be the same regardless of which band you wore. Re. the size range, if they do offer 10 cup options in every band from 30 to 42, that's a total of 70 different sizes, which is not too bad.
I'm not defending the system, though, because measuring cup size using a moulded cup that isn't attached to a bra sounds dubiously effective. I'm also suspicious of anything that claims to be a revolutionary new way of fitting, and I hope they can acknowledge that no system will ever fit everyone.
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