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I cut a check when the boob owner says it's boob maintenance time. Why do I need to know anything about sizing?

Today years old

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.

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

Right now, although I'm not at all surprised.

Right now..

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.

Just now.

Today

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.

News to me

Right now reading the title of this post.

You all need to adopt metric for bras

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

Right now

Right now. I just tuned out all the complaining and assumed that it was a skill issue.

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

Most women don't wear bras that fit.

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.

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

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

When going for brands, like Lounge Underwear or even more expensive ones like Marlies Dekkers, Aubade or Lise Charmel (instead of cheap imports from China) there's almost never a problem with the size. There have been maybe 2 or 3 bras (cheap ones) that did not fit in the last twelve years and everything else has the same size and fits her.

Around 19, I’d say. 42 now.

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.