July 11, 2010
Dear Ladies of Clusterflock
Why are there three D-cup sizes, but only one of each of the rest? Am I somehow confused? Is there a mysterious double-B cup that I’ve never seen?
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Back in my skinny youth, my bra of choice was from a special line made by Playtex for smaller women. My size–I kid you not–36 Nearly B.
Nearly B!
I think I went to church with her.
It’s true.
Three-D is when they just bust out of the screen and come at you.
Aw, Nearly B. Maybe we can do away with letter sizing and start using euphemisms instead, ranging from “Itty Bitty” to “Awooooogah!”
Bra sizes are confusing. There is actually a AA size, which indicates a cup size slightly smaller than the singular A size, whereas DD indicates a size larger than the singular D size. I do not believe these trends exist for any other sizes.
What baffles me–
1. Sizes larger than DD or even DDD (E, H, what else is there?). I can only imagine the strain this puts on a woman’s back.
2. People who have large cup sizes but tiny frames– i.e. the rare 32D (not a common size). To be so small around but still with such large breasts will never make sense to me.
DD is a lie. It’s a marketing ploy to simultaneously make women think they have big boobs without getting offensive. It’s E, H, F, and so on. I read about it once but am afeared to google.
Amanda is close. In the U.S. we go by double and triple D sizes, not to mention the double A cups that Lauren mentioned. In Europe a DD is equivalent to an E, a DDD is an F, and so on. And if you’re smaller than an A, just don’t wear the goddamned underwear. There are F and G and H sizes you can buy out here, but they run exactly the same as the sizes in the UK and such. I would guess that the sizing difference stems from a deep-seated American shame about obesity, but I’m probably just projecting.
These are things I know about, speaking as both Lauren’s first and second baffling examples.
I thought AA refered to batteries!
I worked with a woman who I think was a 30D she was tiny, well, not all of her obviously. She reckoned she’d always drawn quite a lot of attention.
So, it’s basically the same reason shoes come in width EE or EEE but not BB?
A few years ago I went to a shop here in NYC called Intimacy where they will actually give you a personal fitting for a bra. I cannot tell you how dramatically life-changing this was for me. I am a big girl but I had been wearing a bra that was way, way too big for me all my life. The new bras I bought changed the way I looked, felt about myself, even changed my posture.
When I asked the woman who was assisting me what the size was that she was fitting me with, she said “38 E”. No DD or DDD for these ladies – they tell it like it is.
And they were pretty. I thought I was too big to wear such pretty under things but boy, was I wrong. One of the best things I ever did for myself.
that’s pretty great. Amy and I will watch a few of those make-over shows and the bra-fitting segments never fail to be revelatory.
Yeah, I think something like 80% of women are wearing the wrong bra size. It’s tough because bra sizes are confusing. For example, bra cup sizes change depending on the band size. Every time you go up a band size, you have to go down a cup size to keep the same cup volume. So the actual cup volume on that 30D bra you mentioned Phil, would be the same as 32C, 34B and a 36A. That lady friend of yours doesn’t have extraordinarily large boobs by general standards (they’re smaller than a 34C, which is a pretty common size), she just has big tatas compared to the size of her rib cage. There are probably many more 30D women out there incorrectly wearing a 34B because it’s an easier size to find and they’ve never been properly fitted.
[...] Pam: Yeah, I think something like 80% of women are wearing the wrong bra size. It’s tough because bra sizes are confusing. For example, bra cup sizes change depending on the band size. Every time you go up a band size, you have to go down a cup size to keep the same cup volume. So the actual cup volume on that 30D bra you mentioned Phil, would be the same as 32C, 34B and a 36A. That lady friend of yours doesn’t have extraordinarily large boobs by general standards (they’re smaller than a 34C, which is a pretty common size), she just has big tatas compared to the size of her rib cage. There are probably many more 30D women out there incorrectly wearing a 34B because it’s an easier size to find and they’ve never been properly fitted. [...]
Prolly for the same reason that shoe widths have E, EE, EEE, and EEEE.
Okay, I’m posting this even though Pam has already posted her missive from the Front of Tit Size Awareness.
Over here, after C it runs: D, DD, E, F, G, H, etc. A smaller back measurement alters the size of the cup also, so an E cup with a 38 back measurement does not equal an E cup with a 32 back measurement, 32E is significantly smaller. An E cup does not necessarily mean huge breasts, but ample ones. And most places that sell bras and also have a changing room will also have a free measuring service. Apparently most women are wearing bras too small for them, at least that’s what Marks and Spencers say, and if they are it is probably because they have some kind of disbelief response to wearing a D cup or beyond. Goddammit, they’re still the same tits whatever the letters and numbers are on the garment that houses them.
Also, Lauren: I can assure you that it is possible to have a large bra size without having any back strain at all. And some people are just small framed and buxom.
Goddammit, they’re still the same tits whatever the letters and numbers are on the garment that houses them.
This reminds me of how it seems that every so often they change the size of women’s clothing. Like suddenly all these women that were 8s now wear 6s and this idea that there can be a size 0. I’ve never figureed out why men’s pants are sold by waist and inseam measurements and women’s pants have this weird made up system of sizing.
I think you just answered your own question.
I am very glad to know that now, Lucy.