Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Bra sizes
I've just completely confused and flumoxed myself. I took it into my head to try and find out what my bra size might be after reading the "how to tell if your bra fits" guide that came with my housemates lingerie catalogue. It missed the whole measuring yourself bit so I've been looking at websites. Now before you start asking aren't I a bit old for this you have to know that I spent my entire school days hand washing and hiding the 2 bras I owned because all my friends at school told me that it is very important to mothers to take their daughter bra shopping for the first time. It's something that they have to decide when and you couldn't possibly go upsetting them by doing it without them. So I waited, and waited, and I figured that (as my mum didn't appear to wear bras) she in some way didn't approve of them. So I hid them. Many years later I discovered that "oh I didn't bother because Fiona didn't like hers" so because my sister didn't like the bra she bought I was expected to suffer the pain of PE - during the attempts of a small bust retaining water (there's no space - it hurts, probably not as much a a big bosom bouncing free would but enjoy to make you stand still). Transpires Fiona was taken to M&S and neither of us are M&S shape so of course it would be uncomfortable!
So anyway I had heard something about adding numbers but thought it was to do with cup size. As there's little difference in the measurements I figured I'd skip the adding numbers bit and just assume I was an A. How wrong can a girl be - and how wrong for how many years??? More than half a lifetime it would seem.
Apparently there's all this stuff about adding on inches and that gives you your back size - which means that for the last 20 years I've been wearing a back size 5 inches too small... So how come I get the back riding up thing that is a sign of the back size being too big. I always thought you just measured under your bust and that was your back size end of story. Then I do the measure to get the cup size bit - which makes me a AAA in 2 sizes up from what I thought I was. But then why have I got the "flesh oozing out above the cups" that means you are wearing a cup size too small? Oh it's all very complicated I tell you. I'm off to Debenhams on Saturday to ask for a 38AAA and see how they laugh...
Do men have this problem when buying briefs? Do they have complicated measurements to take to determine their knob size? I bet not I bet it's just get the ones that fit around the waist and that's fine. I bet they don't even need any support to keep it all comfortable in that department. You'd have thought they would with all that swinging about in the breeze stuff - or is that just for when you get old and your knob starts to shrink and your balls stretch? Do you get special "support pants for the mature figure?" in gentlemen's departments?
So anyway I had heard something about adding numbers but thought it was to do with cup size. As there's little difference in the measurements I figured I'd skip the adding numbers bit and just assume I was an A. How wrong can a girl be - and how wrong for how many years??? More than half a lifetime it would seem.
Apparently there's all this stuff about adding on inches and that gives you your back size - which means that for the last 20 years I've been wearing a back size 5 inches too small... So how come I get the back riding up thing that is a sign of the back size being too big. I always thought you just measured under your bust and that was your back size end of story. Then I do the measure to get the cup size bit - which makes me a AAA in 2 sizes up from what I thought I was. But then why have I got the "flesh oozing out above the cups" that means you are wearing a cup size too small? Oh it's all very complicated I tell you. I'm off to Debenhams on Saturday to ask for a 38AAA and see how they laugh...
Do men have this problem when buying briefs? Do they have complicated measurements to take to determine their knob size? I bet not I bet it's just get the ones that fit around the waist and that's fine. I bet they don't even need any support to keep it all comfortable in that department. You'd have thought they would with all that swinging about in the breeze stuff - or is that just for when you get old and your knob starts to shrink and your balls stretch? Do you get special "support pants for the mature figure?" in gentlemen's departments?
// posted by Bitvacuous @ 10:15 pm 
