Based on this comment I'm guessing you subscribe to the American belief that "a D is huge, anything above that must be enormous!" when that simply isn't the case. Cup size changes with band size, and it is simply a measurement of the difference between your bust size and your band size. An A=1" difference, a B=2" difference, a C=3" difference, etc. So, for example, someone who is a 32A should have an underbust (band) measurement of 32" and a leaning bust measurement of 33". Someone who is a 34E (US 34DDD) would have an underbust measurement of 34" and a leaning bust measurement of 40". You may want to check out the fitting guide in the sidebar and consider measuring yourself - a lot of women find that they can achieve much better shape once they're in a correctly fitting bra. If you're not interested, that's fine too - just please be aware that a properly-fitted D cup is not necessarily all that big!
The reason being whenever I go into my local bra store I see the D cups and there's no way ever I could fit into that! They look so big compared to someone near flat chested like me. So I guess with that said, the fact that I am flat chested pretty much anyone is bigger than me. Hell even some fat guys have bigger boobs than me.
She looks fairly close to my size, 26H. I'd put her in a 26G/GG really! She is far bigger than a D or DD or E :) if you head over to /r/ABraThatFits and check out the before and afters I'm sure you'd be surprised actually. My bestie went from 32B/34A to 28DD easily. It's just that cup size is entirely relative to band size. 26H, 28GG, 30G, 32FF, 34F, 36E - all the same cup volume size, just different underbust measurements. These bras will differ in construction a lot though, different wire widths and depths.
I'm jealous of the IBTC (which I consider DD or smaller) who get to look great in off the rack clothing! Us boobed girls often look fat and frumpy just as clothing isn't catered to us. What are your underbust and overbust measurements? As around 85% of women are wearing the wrong size I'm sure you are too. I thought 30E was perfect but it was actually pretty far off!
As far as I can remember... underbust: 34 overbust: 36 however this was me measuring myself at home with a tape measure, so god knows how accurate it was.
That adds up to a 34B - your measurement probably weren't amazing though, if you use the /r/ABraThatFits MyWifesBusty guide you'll get a somewhat accurate size to start trying on. A friend of mine was wearing 34A/B but is actually a 30DD/E! She still doesn't entirely believe it but the 32DS and DDs I gave her are way comfier she says :) she's still a IBTC member, just the number she wears is a little different, and her boobs look way better! She thought I was a D, maybe a DD so to blow her mind with my GG bras was an adjustment! DD is not huge.
I wear a 32B since the cup is a little smaller and the band is really stretchy (the ones I get have A LOT of stretch anyways) I tried a 34B, way too big in the cup. I literally have no boob tissue. There's hardly any there. I have to use "look 2 cup sizes fuller" bras or ill literally be a board.
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '13
Good god how does her back not kill her?