Size matters
How do we know that the bra we wear is of a wrong size for us?
Obviously, it can be only a bit poorly fitted but it happens that it is completely wrong. Completely unfit bra can be recognized by the fact that it does not really help us, and is rather a nuisance. You wear a badly fitted bra for work, at university or at school and you dream to take it off at once you get home. A properly fitted bra is the one which we simply forget about during the day, which keeps your breasts in the place and shape desired by us. If you raise your arms and a bra rises on the breasts (or the breasts poke out under it), it means that the bra has too loose underband. If the breasts poke out over the bra, it means again that the bra has too loose underband. However, if we cannot take a deeper breath, after some time even after we have taken the bra off - the bra is definitely too tight.
Another issue - the cups. If the underwires protrude forwards and do not touch the sternum - the bra has too small cups. If underwires stick into breast tissue it is also a sign of a too small cup. Underwires in a properly fitted cup lie on your sternum, then they circle your breasts lying on your ribs just under your breasts (not half centimetre under them!), to circle the breast at the back and point in the middle of your armpit.
If a cup creases at the top, in the nipple area - the bra has too small cups. Yes, it is not a mistake - cups are too small in this bra!
Let us imagine an orange and a cup. If we try to put an orange to a cup and there still be an empty space at the bottom of the cup it means that the cup is too small, right? The same happens to our breasts. It is characteristic that if a cup is too big the fabric protrudes in it upper part - but, importantly - in upright position.
In properly fitted cups their upper edge will crease when we stoop, reach forward or bend but under your clothes are completely invisible.
Maria "Maheda" Dastych, bra-fitting specialist well-known in Poland is the author of this article.
