No Surgery....just the Right Bra

**AngelLeigh** · 10-20-2009, 11:22 PM

I just can't believe it!
I did the 'bra size calculator' that Charlotte gave us....it said I was a 32 DD (or DDD)and of course I rolled on the floor laughing ROFLOL!!!!
I thought it was the biggest JOKE that I had ever had!!
I had been wearing a 34B or (if pregnant) 36C....for 30+ years!!!!
BUT, I just spent 3 hours bra 'hunting' and trying on every 34Ds (the biggest they have where I'm from!)
AND...discovered that I AM a 32DD!!! (SHOCKED!!!

)
I have been be-moaning my small breast size since I was 14....
1) AND hating how I look in T-Shirts....
2)AND hating Bras (burn baby burn!!)
3) AND wishing for a silicon implant...(even though the surgery movie gives me the willies!)
BLAMING my girls....for being SMALL (unsatisfied

).....
WHEN in fact...they have been PUTTING UP with me SQUISHING them into a B-cup UNDERWIRES for 30+ years....no wonder I was always SQUIRMING!!??
(Poor girls....will you ever forgive me??

)
So, Long Story Short....TONIGHT I went shopping for 3 hours...
1)I purchased a 34D...even though I had to put it on the TIGHTEST setting (ya know the elastic stretches.....so GET the SMALLER BAND size so it's wear life is longer -- and DON't PUT it in the DRYER!!!)
2)And gave my daughter all my 34B bras
3)And have to special order a 32DD online
I found this website....and some bras on *sale* for about $24.95
http://www.herroom.com/
4) Needless to say....I am thinking that I am QUITE LARGE now, and I am celebrating tonight *with my girls*....
5) finally I *look good* in my t-shirts!...
DUH!!!
Just goes to show you what *silly things* or *lies* we get in our heads about ourselves, others, etc.....and it just goes on and on.....
UNTIL the LIGHT goes ON!!!

Thanks Charlotte....this was really a *God thing* (believe it or not....so sad to be so hard on myself....unsatisfied with my looks for most of my life, KWIM??)

ALSO: since I have breastfed 6 babies...I have lost some of the padding on my breastbone area....so the 'triangle' shaped bras 'cut-into' my skin...and don't look right...so only the Push-up kind work for me. (maybe if I work on my 'Pecs' ?)

AND....when I layed back to read in bed last night....I didn't have all the 'Cup Gaping' like in my 34B cup! (it was still 'all filled in'....just amazing what the right bra will do for you!)

**fruitvine** · 10-21-2009, 07:06 AM

Oh, that is SO COOL, Angel!! Did you read on the site about migrating tissue? She said that when women start wearing the right size bra, after a couple of months many of them have to get a smaller band size and bigger cup size because the tissue that formerly got squished migrates back to the b*reast where it belongs. So watch out, girl--you might be buying more new bras!

Thanks for sharing--I hope you find lots of pretty and well-fitting bras for your happy girls!

**bevibrant** · 10-21-2009, 10:15 AM

WhooHOOO! Can't wait to try my new size...

**Tina71** · 10-21-2009, 10:17 AM

that is great!

**dailybalance** · 10-21-2009, 10:54 AM

Wow, the stuff I learn on this forum!

OK, I'm going to try this too. I've never been comfortable in a bra so let's see how this works!

My new size according to the calculator is 30D! Hah! So beyond crazy, I've been wearing a 32B forever. Even when nursing my babies I don't think I even tried on a bra with a band size larger than a C.

I found a Chantelle brand bra in the new size (for very little $$) on ebay. Let the inner armpit fat migration begin!

**Grayce** · 10-21-2009, 11:19 AM

and it FIT??!!??
I'm afraid to order on line.

Charlotte, can you please re-post the link? thanks!

Originally Posted by dailybalance

Wow, the stuff I learn on this forum!

OK, I'm going to try this too. I've never been comfortable in a bra so let's see how this works!

My new size according to the calculator is 30D! Hah! So beyond crazy, I've been wearing a 32B forever. Even when nursing my babies I don't think I even tried on a bra with a band size larger than a C.

I found a Chantelle brand bra in the new size (for very little $$) on ebay. Let the inner armpit fat migration begin!

**AngelLeigh** · 10-21-2009, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by fruitvine

Oh, that is SO COOL, Angel!! Did you read on the site about migrating tissue? She said that when women start wearing the right size bra, after a couple of months many of them have to get a smaller band size and bigger cup size because the tissue that formerly got squished migrates back to the b*reast where it belongs. So watch out, girl--you might be buying more new bras!

Thanks for sharing--I hope you find lots of pretty and well-fitting bras for your happy girls!

Oh Charlotte!!!
That would be even better yet!....I keep taking that 'migrating stuff'...a few times today and moving it into the 'cups' LOL... (someday they will stay in??!!)

**AngelLeigh** · 10-21-2009, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by bevibrant

WhooHOOO! Can't wait to try my new size...

It was sooo weird....like I thought I was small-breasted....because i was gapping in a 34B!!
And then last night....it like I was TWICE as big as I ever imagined! Even when I was lounging on the bed...laying back....there was NO GAPPING...<GASP!>
SOOO Weird....and Wonderful!!
I seriously feel like I did get a surgery or something

(I should have believed my husband, after all....he said I 'wasn't small'!! LOL)
I ordered online a Felina Bare Essentials Demi Contour Bra
Style 6301 Black - 32DD

**AngelLeigh** · 10-21-2009, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by dailybalance

Wow, the stuff I learn on this forum!

OK, I'm going to try this too. I've never been comfortable in a bra so let's see how this works!

My new size according to the calculator is 30D! Hah! So beyond crazy, I've been wearing a 32B forever. Even when nursing my babies I don't think I even tried on a bra with a band size larger than a C.

I found a Chantelle brand bra in the new size (for very little $$) on ebay. Let the inner armpit fat migration begin!

It is true!!! It is TRUE!!
So, last night for 3 hrs I tried on every 34D (not 34B) in 2 stores...JC Penny, and Younkers (we have small towns...and I even drove 1 1/2hrs R/T)
1) I found the BEST ONE 34D....(remember...some won't look good)
2)Then, I grabbed the back...and stretched it even further back -- grasping 2 more inches)
3) Then...realized that it REALLY could be a 32DD!! (especially since the 34D was on the tightest snaps..the elastic will stretch out)

SO YOU get a 32C (good luck, these stores only have a 32A...seriously..UGH!)
Hold it tightly in the back (like 2 more inches in...) and then see where the underwire fits....very snugly up under the breast.....look at centering, and if it's squishing at all.....then you can see that a 32C....will convert to a 30D (the same size as a 32C...except that the BAND is smaller)

**dailybalance** · 10-21-2009, 06:18 PM

[QUOTE=Grayce;697934]and it FIT??!!??
I'm afraid to order on line.

I don't know if it will fit. I'll let you know! Before buying on ebay I checked out the 'D' cup bra prices locally - whoa, were they pricey. I just couldn't talk myself into spending quite that much $$ on an experiment. I decided to just take a chance with the ebay ' test' bra.