Cup selecting
Fitting your cups
How should the cup fit? What to pay attention to while buying a bra?
First of all, you have to honestly answer one question: in what shape are your breasts? If your breasts are very flabby - you should avoid plunge bras, which are deep cut with lowered bridge or without bridge at all, and balconette bras of low cups. Of course, nobody can forbid you buying such bras, but, you can see in the pictures how flabby breasts look like in the deep cut bra. The problem is that the breasts tend to flow out at the bottom in plunge bras. In balconette bras the breasts flow out over the top of a cup if the cup size is right or have almost horizontal surface when the cup size is too big.
It does not mean, of course, that with worn-out breasts you will never be able to wear deep cut bras! The shape of breasts can be improved with a proper care. Tips on breast care can be found in the next article. The proper shape of a bra for worn-out breasts are full cup bras, which will keep your breasts at a proper level and cover them properly.
If the breasts are firmer you can afford larger freedom of choice when buying a bra. However, still a lot depends on the shape of your breasts.
Apple-shaped breasts, full at the top, look brilliantly in almost all types of bras.
Pear-shaped or drop-shaped breasts, full at the bottom, but not standing out higher - require bra shape not much covered in its upper part with, horizontal line of the cup.
Women with breasts of a larger asymmetry (about 2-3 sizes of the cup) should chose bras with the horizontal top line or bras where upper part of the cup is made of elastic lace, which fits well both smaller and larger breast.
Maria "Maheda" Dastych, bra-fitting specialist well-known in Poland is the author of this article.
