Bra shopping
Feb. 27th, 2010 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheI kind of want to know where Japanese or Chinese women, or maybe teenage mothers, buy their nursing bras. Because my band size appears to be BELOW a 28 again, and yet my cup size, not so much with the eensy weensy. Also, I'm pregnant, so I want to wear SOMETHING.
I'm finding the Bravado Designs ones aren't fitting right at the moment, which is annoying. And of course because the smallest bands I can get are too big, the cup sizes are all too small, which means that either I go larger cupwise and get that to fit, in which case there is too much strap anyway and the top of the cups raches practically over my shoulder (well, up to my collarbone), or just plain too small, so the band rides up madly because the straps and cups are too small for me.
I give in. I am placing my order for a standard-issue fashion-industry body now, and I hope it's fulfilled shortly. I hear dispatch times are a real problem though.
I'm finding the Bravado Designs ones aren't fitting right at the moment, which is annoying. And of course because the smallest bands I can get are too big, the cup sizes are all too small, which means that either I go larger cupwise and get that to fit, in which case there is too much strap anyway and the top of the cups raches practically over my shoulder (well, up to my collarbone), or just plain too small, so the band rides up madly because the straps and cups are too small for me.
I give in. I am placing my order for a standard-issue fashion-industry body now, and I hope it's fulfilled shortly. I hear dispatch times are a real problem though.
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Date: 2010-02-27 09:11 pm (UTC)http://www.nctshop.co.uk/Royce-Charlotte-Nursing-Bra-White/productinfo/1172W/ seems a good bet for proper large cups if you can cope with a 28 and have got above a D. There seems to be nothing below a 28 anywhere, though.
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Date: 2010-02-27 09:15 pm (UTC)I swear, I look normal - people looking at me can tell I'm small but I don't LOOK like I am too small to buy bras, or so small that M&S trousers and tops are ALL too big for me around the waist and ribs (though often small enough or too small on the shoulders, bust and arse), or... Bah. Also, I have beautifully formed, unusually short, super-hairy legs.
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Date: 2010-02-27 09:27 pm (UTC)Don't know if that's any help.
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Date: 2010-02-27 09:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-27 09:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-27 10:22 pm (UTC)If only bras were easy to engineer/sew. Must be easier than shoes, though. There should be some sort of cottage industry in relatively inexpensively hand-making underwear for awkward shapes, given that making alterations isn't really possible beyond a bit of pinning. Perhaps some of the gothy corsetmakers could be pressed into such a service. Hmm.
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Date: 2010-02-27 09:58 pm (UTC)It's not a great answer, and I'll let you know if I ever see anything in a 26, but there isn't the call for it yet because most women who need a 26 are either in a 30 and have small breasts so don't care, or don't habitually wear bras :(
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Date: 2010-02-27 11:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-02-28 12:47 am (UTC)