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politicat

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8. Their system is wrong. They're adding to the band size.

Thu Jul 25, 2013, 10:47 PM

Jul 2013

No, no, no, no, no. Band size is the underbust measurement, rounded to the nearest even number. (33 is either 32 or 34, 30 is 30, et cetera.) There's a reason the bands are made of elastic -- they're meant to be snug and stretch.

Adding inches to the band size means that it will ride up in back, sag in the front, and the straps will either slip off the shoulder or dig. The underwires will poke first armpits then out of the fabric.

That site has a gazillion problems (ageist and stigmatizing language, only using models on the pale side) but the bad advice is the worst.

Try this instead.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ABraThatFits/wiki/measuring

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