[MonikaT]

This is the first calculator I ever tried. I couldn't believe it when it said I was an A cup. WOW! So I was a little curious and tried the calculators from Maidenform.com and HerRoom.com. One said I was a B cup! Is there a conversion factor from female to male because there's no way I'm a B and it's pretty hard to believe I'm even an A?

There are several problems trying to fit female garments to a male body. For one thing, there is really no such thing as a standard size for female clothing, and each brand uses their own measurements. To make matters worse, when it comes to bras, the sizing can differ between model numbers from the same brand. Another problem is the difference in the shape of the torso between men and women. About the best one can do is take measurements based on how a particular brand says to measure, and hope for the best. I see where some sites say to measure under the armpits for the band size and use the difference between that and the measurement at nipple level for the cup size. That doesn't seem to work for me since I'm not all that filled out in the upper part of the breast area so I need to drop down at least one or two cup sizes despite the difference being about 3-4". Others say to measure under the bust and do the same thing for cup size. Again, it doesn't work for me because I'm not very filled out despite having very large moobs that do seem to be filling in a little, but it is still mostly fat. I think part of the problem is that men are naturally a bit larger around the chest in the area that is the bust measurement, and we get smaller above and below that point even when we are flat-chested.