30-04-2013, 10:46 PM
If someone could explain to me why women tolerate how their clothes are sized, I'd love to hear it. Everything varies not only between manufacturers but even within a manufacturer.
Having been permitted to vent that, this is the theory that seems to work for me. I measure just below my breast and use this as the band. No plus 4 or 5 inches; no adjustments of any type. Then I cry as I measure over the nipples and get a smaller number. I guess that makes me an AAA which is kind of hard to find in a 46.
Hope this helps some.
A side note, why do they say most women can use a variety of bra sizes such as 34-C being equivalent to a 36-B ? The band is around the ribs. The cup is how much the breasts protrude. So how can there be more than one "proper" size?
Could you imagine men accepting shirt sizes of 16 x 32 as being the same as 15 x 34 ? (First number neck circumference, second is length of arm.) Surely if your neck were 16 you'd be unable to button a 15, regardless of the arm length.
Why doesn't the same apply to bras? A 36 band should slide down the ribs of a women who should wear a 34. And a women who fills a C should overflow a B.
I guess I just have a simple male mind, unable to comprehend the complexity (seemingly needless complexity, to me) of female garment sizing.
Having been permitted to vent that, this is the theory that seems to work for me. I measure just below my breast and use this as the band. No plus 4 or 5 inches; no adjustments of any type. Then I cry as I measure over the nipples and get a smaller number. I guess that makes me an AAA which is kind of hard to find in a 46.
Hope this helps some.
A side note, why do they say most women can use a variety of bra sizes such as 34-C being equivalent to a 36-B ? The band is around the ribs. The cup is how much the breasts protrude. So how can there be more than one "proper" size?
Could you imagine men accepting shirt sizes of 16 x 32 as being the same as 15 x 34 ? (First number neck circumference, second is length of arm.) Surely if your neck were 16 you'd be unable to button a 15, regardless of the arm length.
Why doesn't the same apply to bras? A 36 band should slide down the ribs of a women who should wear a 34. And a women who fills a C should overflow a B.
I guess I just have a simple male mind, unable to comprehend the complexity (seemingly needless complexity, to me) of female garment sizing.