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It's so bad that my fiancée has some bras that say she's a B cup and others that says she's a D cup. In order to go bra shopping, you have to actually try them on to find out if they fit.

If I had to try on underwear to see if they fit, I might not bother with underwear at all!

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[-] Moah 18 points 6 hours ago

Today years old

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It’s not that they’re not standardized, there’s a thing called sister sizes

Here https://www.sizechart.com/brasize/sistersize/index.html

Your actual size is the lowest sister size

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 11 points 8 hours ago
[-] squid_slime@lemm.ee 10 points 8 hours ago
[-] AliSaket@mander.xyz 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Oof, yeah I was about 23 and wanted to help my now wife to get some of the correct size, which was an almost impossible ordeal. Wanna hear the story? Fine:

Taking the two measures was the easy part (and doing it again during her period, because of course the size changes during the cycle, anything else would be too easy). Then I read that the cup size is the absolute difference between bust and band measurement no matter the band measurement. Furthermore since the material is elastic, for a good support, the band should be a tad below the measurement*.

So far so good, went to the store and there are only A-D cups everywhere, E if you're lucky. So basically no matter what exact measure they take between the cups, you're ok if you're thin and have small or somewhat big breasts, or you're a bit fuller and have tiny breasts. Everyone else is automatically screwed. If you're lucky enough to fall into those categories you then have to try on so many to sift through different positioning and forms of breasts until you find one that is comfortable. We had to order some all the way from the UK because it wasn't possible to get anything coming near the correct size here.

*women who wore normal cloth bras before and continued wearing the same size have felt that the elastic hasn't made things better necessarily. Can't find the source for that one right now though.

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

4, listening to my mom bitch about bra shopping on a bench in JC Penny's to my nieces.

Big women with big busts had a pretty hard time finding shit in the 90s.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

I never knew per se, I just assumed that like with all women's clothing sizes are a convenient fiction

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

When I was 25, my girlfriend complained about buying the same bra, same size, same material, same URL, from the same company, on their website, 2 years apart. The first ones fit really well, the second ones didn't fit at all.

Meanwhile, there's a shoe that I buy a pair of every few years. They release a new "version" about once per year, but the fit has been consistent, so I'm over a decade, and 6 pairs, into my purchase of them, with no problems.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago

It's wild to me that people just buy the same shoe over and over. I'm not a fashionista by any stretch of the imagination; I just have one, maximum two, pair(s) of footwear per temperature slice, and I don't even have any formal ones.

But even I would want something new, even if my old pair had served me well.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 8 points 9 hours ago

Shoes are the most obnoxious things to shop for. Buying what you know makes total sense.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, I hate shopping for shoes. Getting shoes that fit well is hard and trying different shoes sucks.

[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It used to be that any DC skating shoe size 12 for me. Could just pick a model and leave the store. Then they became a fashion brand rather than a skateboard brand and suddenly it was made for tiny model feet.

A got older with an older body I just get the Bondi8 for summer and Kaha for winter as HOKA does wide and quarter sizes.

[-] RalphWolf@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago

Also, sometimes different colours of fabric fit differently in the same bra size.

Most women don't wear bras that fit.

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

That inconsistency is not exclusive to women's undergarments... I bought a half-dozen of the same American Apparel hoodie in different colors... very different fits.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 4 points 12 hours ago

Yes! Also in panties. Usually black, for some reason beyond me, is tighter than any other color both for bras and panties.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 9 hours ago

I don't see how most men would even find that out. Underwear is too intimate of a topic to open up about to the opposite sex.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

Maybe for friends but not for spouses.
Maybe for you but not for others.

[-] skygirl@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I talk to my husband about this stuff because it's just funny to watch him react to it.

[-] Biobaron@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 13 hours ago

Its even different in different parts of the world. Related Wiki: wikipedia-bra size

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 15 hours ago
[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Good thing guy underwear doesn't give one fuck about the shape of the penis. They either mush it into the crutch to defeature the shlong, or they let the whole thing just flap around under loose shorts.

[-] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Just get a small penis. Everything fits fine.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

You can get underwear with a better shaped crouch. I highly recommend it.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 15 hours ago

Right now reading the title of this post.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 9 points 15 hours ago

You all need to adopt metric for bras

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago

Honestly even Imperial would help at this point. Clothing sizes, in general, are based on basically clouds and dreams and vary wildly by brand or even by model.

I just wish the world standardized. I don't care how. As long as it's standard.

[-] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

Now but I had my suspicions considering the trend with women's clothing.

[-] rustyfemboy 19 points 19 hours ago
[-] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 32 points 23 hours ago
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[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 122 points 1 day ago

Clothing sizing in general is just arcane at this point.

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[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Around 19, I’d say. 42 now.

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 87 points 1 day ago

Today years old.

[-] sbf@feddit.org 38 points 1 day ago

Well, today years old. Thanks.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 day ago

It's also the fact that cup size is not necessarily independent from band size, that's where the trick is. I used to think I'm an A with a high band size as I'm huge with no booba, like a 39A or something but those never fit that well.

According to ABraThatFits methodology I'm actually 36C, which somehow does fit and super well, though by common and dudebro methodology I'm most certainly more of an "A cup" if that makes sense.

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