I want to give props to Turtlepink. She made me think of this post. Do these sizes ring true to you? I had this conversation with someone recently and i was telling him if i google my size to see women wearing an outfit that i like, the woman are always slightly larger than i am. This just goes to show how different we are in our shapes/sizes.
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I have never understood why women's sizes are done that way, unlike using waist, length, as in men's. Similarly the bra sizes are bizarre, what does a cup really mean? They can be measure as a volume.
@samueltyler2 Bra cup sizes started life as the number of inches extra around the bust compared to around the band (below the bust). So A was one inch, B was two inches, etc. But this means that a 42D cup is a lot larger than a 34D cup even though the inch difference is the same. I can't remember exactly where I saw it but there are tables that relate combinations of cup sizes and band sizes to volumes. It might have been on an EBay page about silicone breast forms.
My 42B bra from Bon Marche has a volume of about 500 ml.
@samueltyler2 its very weird i agree with you and i think our sizes should be like men sizes like if i wear a 36 in men's clothing i should not wear a 16 in women's. I always thought that was weird.
@AngelUnforgiven Men's sizes aren't always any more logical. Shirts for instance are often sold based on the collar size which takes no account of the proportions of the man in question.
@ninalanyon I have no clue. So many women complain about the discomfort of their bras, i always wondered why some manufacturer wouldn't use volume measurements, or even casts made of the actual breasts, to construct a more comfortable model?
@samueltyler2 I read somewhere that at least half of women in the UK are wearing the wrong size bra, either the wrong band size, wrong cup size, or both.
Of course in my case I just decide what cup size I want and fill it with an oversized latex balloon of water, volume adjusted to fit. So I measured my band size with a dress maker's tape measure and consulted an online sizing guide because apparently the band size isn't really exactly the same as the measurement in inches after all.
@ninalanyon that could be true i believe it. I think there's a lot of women everywhere doing that. And you know when you try them them on in the store you are doing it over your clothing so that can make you off by a few inches as it is.
@AngelUnforgiven Actually, i did not know that women try on their bras in stores over their clothing. I assume they disrobed and then tried them on, although, I suppose that would raise the issue of hygiene. You are given this little thing for your feet to try on shoes.
