Your "official" bra size?

Oh man I find this whole size thing to be so confusing. Therefore I am permanently stuck in ill-fitting bras because I don't actually understand how they're meant to fit. One time I bought three all in different sizes... the lady looked at me like I was totally insane. Which I might very well be. Perhaps it's time to give in and get a professional fitting!

Originally Posted by Sibohan2005

Victoria's secret dosn't actually register my size but I was measured to fit a few months ago and have found a style of bra that fits has support and is comfortable. I'm a triple D so it's hard to find somthing that fits AND is comfortable.

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I'm with ya there! I swear by my Frederick's bras though! I figured my sizing by their chart and I'm a 38F. I just got 2 new bras and I'm good with them. One is going back though because I feel 'pointy' in it...that's for another bra rant thread though!

Originally Posted by KitEKats4Eva!

.....Us girls whose mothers and grandmothers have big norks should have been warned in childhood so we could prepare ourselves!

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Actually, once before I lost all my weight, I decided to weigh my boobs on the kitchen scales. Just for a laugh. No wonder I had neck and back pain for so long!!

That was probably a bit of an overshare....

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I wish someone had warned me when I was younger! I was a D cup at age 14 and no one warned me! Oh and just the other day I weighed that part of myself on the bathroom scale (don't have a kitchen one!) and I was actually a little suprised that it wasn't heavier!!! Course it took some contorting to try to weigh just that so it could have been off!

HUMMM according to that chart I would were a 31 h??? I am sure somewhere that is made but not anywhere near me

I know I am a 32 dd/ddd again but lol.. I wear 34d bras.. I was measured many times over the years and it was either 34d or 32dd( yes some same this is the same but it really isnt as the rib cage size isnt )

I am a 34 C I wish I was still an A

I wear a 32 C, according to the site thats what I should wear.

Well, the rib part is what I wear, but I have been buying the DD's (36 DD, that is ), but I had a difference of 7 inches- I don't think I will fill out a 36 DDD! There is a shop here (can't remember the name) that offers free bra fittings (and they are strickly a swimming apparel/bra store) that I have been saying I will go to and get fitted at for months...I've really got to go and get that done...

I have been measured and wear that 'official' size which is completely different to the one from that site.

I'm a 36C which is what I should wear! Used to be smaller, but the steroids I have to take at times kind of "pump" me up!

I can't even fill an A anymore. If you guys with all the extra you want to get rid of, would send some my way, that would be great! To think, I used to complain about being too small at 36B. And I recently learned that when you go through menopause (which isn't too far away), you get smaller.

I've not been actually measured/fitted, but measuring myself always comes out the same. 37C
Seems like I'll always be stuck with using 36 and 38s.

I am a 38c, I have been measured.
I do not wear traditional bras as most use laces and/or elastics that I get allergic reactions to.
I wear XL Bally Fitness Sport's bras and I love them.
Great support, they feel great, and unlike some sports bras, they don't try to smash my breasts flat.

How funny! I've been bra shopping for the past couple weeks!! I bet I've tried on 30 bras at 4 different stores. All of them were my 'size' but none fit the same way!!? I even went up and down cups and sizes. Jeez! I finally found 2 (on sale as luck would have it) that are my usual size.

Wow.....my boyfriend would probably enjoy it if that site was right....34 D??! I don't think so. I was so happy when I gained some weight and advanced to a C cup for the first time in my life. I didn't even get into a B cup until my senior year of high school No way could I ever fit into a D....wishful thinking

Victoria Secret doesn't register my size...It says Im between a 32 and 34! Yes my actual size is what I wear...I was measured just to make sure!

Originally Posted by EnzoLeya

Wow.....my boyfriend would probably enjoy it if that site was right....34 D??! I don't think so. I was so happy when I gained some weight and advanced to a C cup for the first time in my life. I didn't even get into a B cup until my senior year of high school

No way could I ever fit into a D....wishful thinking

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I thought the same thing....man....I wish this sizing thing was right! There is not way I have enough "fill" for a C cup!

thought I would resurect the thread..lol... I found a calculator that says I am a 34ddd/e ... I have been fitted recently between a 38c( hummm) and a 32 ddd... lol.. most settle on 34 d/dd but I aint "full" enough for all these "full figure"... any ideas

Yes and no?
I'm break out badly from pretty much every comfortable 'traditional' bra I can find, and the ones that don't break me out, aren't comfy.
So, I wear shelf style sports bras.

My official size is 38c.

Speaking of bras, ladies... Someone actually got funding to do a study to see how much women's breasts move during exercise.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20725154/

I usually wear a 38C or a 40B, but I have the problem of being less full on the top, so they don't always fit very well.

That article was actually interesting! And it's about time!!! Honestly, I know the pain they are talking about. I've never liked exercise as it is, I don't need that on top of it. I plan on having a reduction in a few years (after the kids come) because my shoulders and back already suffer far too much. It sucks.

Yeah, it was definitely a study that needed to be done. We need better bras for sure!!!

But I still found it very humorous.