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34” ribcage, 36” bust, for true-to-fit (adding 4 inches to the band size is VS bullshit).
I do miss the abrathatfits community from Reddit because there’s still so much misconception about sizing and it’s frustrating to see 😭
Bra sizing is whack. I got a bra, and asked my husband “what size does this look like?”. He answered 34B. I agree that’s what it looks like, but it’s a 34DD. I have small boobs, the sizing doesn’t work the way it used to and honestly I’m glad because before I was a negative size, nothing fit. Small boobs stay close but small bra sizes are small in the wrong dimension - if small boobs are champagne glasses, small bras are made for half-lemons.
So now they say - under bust is band size, cup is bust minus band so if I have 37" bust and 33" under, they look small, are small, but do usually fit 34D. It’s like the opposite of vanity sizing, but much more inclusive at the small end of sizes.
I’m a 38A, ideally a 40 A. I’m not fat, I do have small boobs but not enough that I don’t need a bra sometimes. I don’t feel like a misshapen (fun word to pronounce) people, but bra vendors say I do. Whoop Dee Doo.
Alas, Pandramodo never did a B-26 Marauder, but they DID do a B-52 Stratofortress!
do you know about the cup sizes?I just watched that scene for the first time because of this comment.
Now I know that D is the biggest.
Either people have bought out the non-34B’s, so that only the 34B remains; or non-34B people have gone elsewhere, which caused the store to think that every customer is 34B.
Which is it???
It’s the first one, hence the survivorship bias.
Both are survivorship bias, the difference is in who’s experiencing it
That’s fair, but I’d also posit that it simply isn’t logical that a store would pivot that hard towards a single size.
A US 34B is a euro 75C. That’s one strapsize below the median here.
I would have guessed that 36B was also the median size in the US. Apparently it used to be 34B and is now 34DD because people are shockingly unhealthy.
I answered above but besides the increase in obesity (if it was fat causing the increase the band size would increase too) the sizing scheme has changed so a 34D is like an old 34B.
The real average is probably more like a 38 something, as the average waist is up to 38 and ribcage unlikely to be smaller.
34B to 34DD has more to do with breast augmentation than fat, as the distance around the torso remains the same. Or possibly there’s more estrogen floating around, or maybe it’s just that women aren’t squashing their breasts into too-small cups anymore.
The articles I found specifically called out the obesity epidemic as being the issue. I strongly doubt that enough of the ~150 million bra wearers in this country are augmenting their breasts enough to adjust the median that far in just 20 years.
How the fuck are they fitting into a size 34 band?
This doesn’t make sense.
Obesity should change the 34 to a 38
Or maybe it’s because only about 1 in 4 Americans has a healthy weight.
A fat person isn’t fitting into a 34 of any cup size.
If you were a 34B and gain 50 pounds you’re now a 40B or possibly a 40C depending for comfort.
34B is thin and flat, 34DD is thin with honkin heckers.
Maybe but the difference between small boobs and big is fat so probably both would increase, depends on the distribution of where they put on fat.
And see above - I literally had to buy a 34DD in the last bra I got and nobody would call me stacked, nobody. On the smaller band sizes the cup sizes are smaller. When I was underweight and flat, 30C, because 30a is for ping pong ball width boobs. It was frustrating. Bras need 3 measurements not 2. Volume should be separate from diameter.
This person bras.
Bra size is width and depth, in that order, right?
The number is the distance around your ribcage, and the letter represents the ratio between your underbust and overbust measurements.
Weirdly similar to how car tires are sized lol.
Strap length and proportionate volume.
