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Aug 13, 2013
I have a question regarding breast shape, and please forgive me if it's been covered here a million times. I missed it...
I have been categorizing myself as "full on bottom"...because I'm definitely not "full on top". However, I'm actually "full on sides". I have separated breasts, but my apexes point forward and I don't think my breasts are "splayed". It's just that, really, the majority of my breast tissue is on my sides, and it falls under my arms.
Last night I slept in a Barely There Pullover that I hadn't worn in a long time. I felt like I woke myself up every hour because each time I shifted I had to dig a boob out of a pit so I could rearrange my arms. I have small breasts, but they get in the way enough that I choose to sleep in bras for comfort. I prefer to sleep in underwire bras, even though I've read that's not necessarily a good idea, because many unlined bras smash my breasts and push me even more in my armpits. I have a couple of Ahhs and "side-support" unlined bras that work nicely for sleep as well. The thing is - it's because of my "full on sides" shape that I look for side support, tall sides, inner cup sling, etc. When I have a bra on and this tissue is pushed toward my chest, I'm not as shallow on the upper tissue.
Is this merely a characteristic of being "full on bottom" or am I stuck in yet another Calvino-esque endless suspension about my breast shape? (Pun intended).
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I have been thinking for some time that rather than using FoT vs. FoB, it might make more sense to refer to breasts fullness distribution in terms the four quadrants -- 'upper inner', 'upper outer', 'lower inner', 'lower outer' -- although we'd have to come up with some elegant acronyms still ;)
Based on how my breasts behave I call myself slightly FoT, but I'm not typically FoT either: I am fullest in the 'upper inner', but completely non-existent in the 'upper outer' quadrant, for example.
I think hard/soft has a lot to do with it, too. I think I'd be classified different based on which bra (or no bra) I was wearing. Overall, I'd call myself full in front. LOL They're just big. And not big around, but small around with big projection. And soft. My roots are probably as big around as a coffee cup, but the projection is at least twice that. And being soft, they pretty much go where a bra tells them. Unfortunately, a lot of bras tell them to go east and west and under my arms because the wires and apexes are just too wide. I have yet to find a bra that actually ends where my breast ends. Even Ewa Michalak S bras and SM (the narrowest wires I've found in my size) are an inch or 2 further back. Thankfully, once I swoop and scoop, they stay in the front of the bra and that last bit of cup remains empty. Bras that require the breast to have some shape of it's own and not just mold to the bra (mostly FOT or deep plunge bras, I think) don't work at all. I was suprised the EM PL bras worked because they are a plunge. But, thankfully, they are just high enough to hold me in.
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