bra shopping - a vent

My problem is that i a a B cup but i have a very broad back and need a 38 to 40 for the wide back. Anything above a 36, automatically jumps ot a C cup and i am way to small for those. I understand the frustrations. I have to buy extenders for the bras and each bra is so varied in width at the hooks that I would need to by a specific extender for each type of bra, and that is not easy either.

I have found that the Wacoal brand fits very well. I'm a 34F. Was a 36G. There is one store around here that carries them. I go to the store try them on, find the one that fits the best, write down all the info, then go home and search for it on Ebay. I just got a $58 bra for $20 and its the most comfortable bra, yet. And doesn't look like I could go to battle.

In my social circle lately, everyone from a very large 5x to a very petite size A is wearing these bras:

http://www.geniebra.com/?gclid=CJD1y...FULAKgod3DzklA

I've tried them, and really like them. No chafing, no seams. Support isn't as good as a dedicated sports bra or an underwire bra, but it's not bad either.

Anne

I actually went bra shopping this past week, since I was having a breast biopsy and needed some "support ones." I had my boobs measured, and was not surprised to find that I was going to buy the wrong size. I was going to get a 38-B and actually needed a 36-C!

Boy, bras sure can be expensive!

Yes, expensive, and confusing. Every bra shop should have a personal fitter to help the customers.

I hate bra shopping too, it's SO much harder than it should be! And somehow every time you find one that looks like it would be comfortable, support the stuff it needs to support, and actually fit you right... Everybody wearing the same size bra as you already bought them all!!!! And then you feel like killing people.
And does it really matter if your wearing the "wrong" bra size??? As long as it fits, and it's comfortable, and it does the things it's supposed to do, who cares?!?! Bra shopping is hard enough as it is!!!

Yeah, I wasn't very bothered about having the wrong size. I like my bras big. But when I went for a medical procedure, the nurses laughed at me for wearing such a big one. And I do need the right, supportive size now that I've had the breast problem!

so i know it annoys some ppl when i complain about bras
but it needs t be said...
why the f*%#& do they not make a size between D and DD!?!?!?
i am a 36DD to a 38D,
((it realy just depends on how stressed i've been when it comes to weight and boob size)))
but it drives me nuts when i try on two of the same exact bras in a D and a DD and one is way too small and the other is just enough too big to be uncomfy!

okay now ending this empty rant

I'm even more "compact" (the word I choose to use) than that. Thin, but not, like someone else pointed out, the auto assumption of 32 band. Seriously, am I the only adult built like this? Probably not. (Heh, and I had to put in the word for this end of the scale, as this issue is one I never hear discussed.) People apparently assume that someone like me doesn't want a "real" bra. Throw on a sports one and be done with it, right? Um, yeah, and take what little I have and squish it into nothing. Great. Nonetheless, I did that for years, because I could not bear the exercise in futility the other was. Others will say, "why bother with any?". Well, I have the exact same torso I did as a teen, which, among other things, means there's no gravity effect. I'd really like to keep it that way! At my age, (49) apparently this is kind of a rare commodity(??) (Only really garnered from what little conversation I've had on the subject, and since I'm not at all, a "girl talk" kind of person, that is limited. I'm making an extremely rare exception here.) It's the one thing I feel really good about in this zone. That and the assurance that I will never be described as matronly. (Which is not meant badly for anyone else, it's just that I've got to put a positive spin on whatever I can possibly can about this, you know?)
I don't really have issues with my compactness, but it feels like the rest of the world does. I don't exist, you know? Or at best (?!), that I'm not an adult or a "real" woman. That's what makes me feel so down on the experience. I have to be in a really solid place to even attempt it.

Haha, I can't even believe I'm posting this. I'm so not one for lady talk(!) Here goes...

Or at least use 'em for a slingshot!

I'm a 33D. Try finding *that* size. 32 is too small and 34 is too big. I could use bra extenders, but it's so hard to find a 32D in the first place. I have nice looking breasts, but, for the life of me, I cannot find a bra that fits. Most of them barely cover my nipples. I'm very bottom heavy. My nipples are 2/3 of the way up my breasts. Anything I find that remotely fits is expensive. Victoria's Secret no longer makes the Ipex bras which fit me so well...

Bra shopping is worse than swimsuit shopping.

I tossed my bras out back in 1996 ... Talk about a freeing (no pun intended) experience ... I'm a big girl too ... I don't have boobs, I have udders ... At any rate, I've gotten so used to not wearing one that I'll never go there again ... Ever ... !!!

I had a guy ask me during a poker tournament where in the hell my bra was, I came right back at him and asked him if he was wearing a jock strap ... Embarrassed the hell out of him (of course he wasn't wearing one) ... I told him that when men started wearing jock straps 24/7 I'd start wearing a bra ... The whole table roared with laughter and he didn't utter another word about my udders ever again ... !!!

@ BC I love it!!!

Hi I just bought a pillow bra for night time sleep. I love it has anyone heard of the pillow bra?

The only comfortable bras for me are sport bras, but I have a wide back which I need extenders for, and small cup size. I am 38 around and only a B cup. While this might be available commonly in larger centres, it is not easy to find in this small place. The only problem with sport bras are that they flatten me a bit more than I already am lol.

I hate bra shopping the only comfy bra's i can find are plain old T shirt bra's, anything pretty is so uncomfortable you can only wear them for the shortest time

I have the original posters problem. 34b and bra makers assume i want oodles of padding and my favorite---underwires!!! I laughed at the assault bra decription. Some look like those cone bras Madonna wore. Cool for a Madonna video but monday am at work not so much.

i went bra shopping recently to have something to wear something to my sisters birthday party. it was quite a depressing experience. i lost alot of weight not too long ago. i used to be a 36-38 d and now im down to a 36-38 b. its been an adjustment, to say the least. im still adjusting. i miss my old boobs.

Ew, yes, this. I wear a 28FF (no implants!!) and every bra I can find is either hot pink leopard print sateen (for the manufacturer's stereotypical implanted lady, I imagine) or it looks like I'm strapping up my tit-cannons to go to war.

I shop in the juniors section...am probably a 36/38A, but god knows that size doesn't actually exist Luckily, a positive side effect for me of the whole, little girls dressing like 20-somethings, fad: I can get juniors bras that are as "adult" as Victoria Secret