Girls on the selection of linen and clothing on the big breasts
Our heroine Olga Lukinskaya recently told in detail, why a big breast is a big problem, and how it was decided to reduce it surgically. The material has caused a great response from readers - many have recognized themselves in it. It turned out that the problem of finding the right underwear and clothes somehow affects everyone whose breast size is slightly larger than a third. "With a big breast, the question" like or not "is not asked at all, you buy what you like," - noted in the comments. It would seem: more and more beautiful bodipositive campaigns appear, plus-size-models and ordinary girls with forms become heroes of the generation, and the search for a bra for a big breast is still a quest, consuming a huge amount of time and effort. We asked seven girls from different cities, familiar with this problem firsthand, to tell how they cope with it.
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At 19, I lived with a chest of the first size, and it was beautiful. I could walk in a T-shirt or T-shirt without a bra - it did not look defiant and did not create problems like harassment on the street. Shopping underwear or, for example, swimsuits, also did not make any problems. It is not the first year that I remember these times with nostalgia: at first my chest grew to size B, then to C, and for the last couple of years I have been living in the size range between D and E.
I remember very well how the spring before last I realized that I have big breasts. I came to the shop of a famous brand, scored a dozen of the usual bras of size 85 C - and in the dressing room I didn’t fit in one: the chest fell out of the fabric, the straps slammed into the body, well, except that everything was buttoned back normally. I could not sin on the fact that I was very fat, I just lost a lot of weight that spring, but I left the store in tears and curses. I came to another store, a much more modest one, complained to the saleswoman, can you imagine what cattle your competitors are undersized? “Choose bras, now we’ll pick up everything, don’t worry,” said the saleswoman. “This one, this one and that? Size 85 C? Go to the fitting room, I'll bring it to you.” Two of the three covers I chose sat down fine, the tears dried out, I bought them, grabbing a dozen panties and the happy one left. And at home, she found that purchased bras of size D.
I was always (still in the “mediocre” third size) surprised that with the “big breast cult” existing in society, it was rather difficult to find suitable underwear and clothes. I, with still not the most outstanding size, rarely buy a bra because it just seems beautiful to me - I am looking for something that will fit and will not rub. Because people like me are sewn to “support”, and not so beautiful. With sports underwear, by the way, I was more lucky - maybe because in his case I don’t think about aesthetics at all and I can buy “to keep” in “Sportmaster” or in the clothing section of some supermarket. And sometimes I wear it not for sports - sports sconces are less often rubbed and generally comfortable.
My case is somewhat simplified by the fact that I am generally skater and plus size - the Russian size 50-52. Here, by the way, there is also a huge contradiction: I do not find my size in most mass-market stores in Moscow. This is surprising: I am a normal big figure skater, I go out into the street, go down into the subway and see a lot of women like me, and a lot of those who are bigger than me. But for hangers and shelves in the shops we do not exist. When traveling to Europe, I always note (gutting a credit card) that in the same stores the size range is much wider and the choice is greater. Even if it is the Baltic, where quite a cult of harmony and women seem more subtle Muscovites.
So in most stores I just do not go, at all, what's the point of teasing? A huge rescue - Marks & Spencer, they sew on very large (and busty) ladies very nice things, not covers for a motorcycle. They also have spacious fittings in which air conditioning works normally. It seems to me, about 60 percent of my wardrobe is things from there, I buy simple clothes in the same place. I can find things in H & M, Zara, but in the men's departments.
Online shopping is very helpful: Bonprix, Lamoda (cool that Lamoda has the opportunity to measure and immediately return to the courier if something does not fit). Recently - I am a brake - I discovered ASOS Curve for myself and I am delighted with both things and how they sit. Be sure to try and buy clothes there.
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I have the 8th breast size. For a very long time, the search for clothes and linen is a problem for me. I started to face it from the senior class. Forms began to grow rapidly, and I realized that I was different from most girls in my size. I was embarrassed by this, I began to hunch, wore only sports underwear and put on clothes in several layers to hide these forms. I grew - and forms grew too. At the institute, I was faced with the fact that the choice of linen for me became very limited: it was very difficult to find something nice and comfortable.
The mass market does not sell such sizes, any shops like “Wild Orchid” and “Bustier”, too - and here Belarusian clothes Milavitsa came to the rescue. My mother told me about her, who also has a rather large breast size. This brand was just a salvation. Pretty nice, high-quality and very affordable underwear. I can not say that the choice is big for me there, but at least it is. I buy there every 2-3 months, as the underwear wears out quickly. It is very important that the straps are thick and not cut into the shoulders, the cups are only soft and rather closed, the bones are strong. Over time, I realized that I was less and less interested in the aesthetic appearance of linen, it is much more important that it is convenient, since large breasts and uncomfortable underwear cause terrible discomfort. Big problem with swimsuits. I have probably had four of them in my whole life, and each one I kept as the apple of my eye. Finding almost nothing in Moscow, the last time I found something of my own size in Spain at the Triumph store, I bought two at once. Kits can not be bought at all, because the top is always more than the bottom.
Another problem is sports underwear. I do a lot of sports, and it is important for me to feel comfortable, otherwise exercise causes pain. Large size sports underwear is expensive, from 7 to 12 thousand rubles. I like the Panache brand the most. Mom also told me about her. The hardest thing was during pregnancy and lactation - the breast became even three sizes larger. I didn’t fit into my usual lingerie, and a friend told me about the Anita brand, only there I was able to find lingerie of my size, and it was for feeding. The brand is quite expensive - the kit costs from 5 to 10 thousand rubles. I bought two and wore them all the pregnancy and feeding.
As for clothes, I am also very limited here, but there is still a choice. I already know the styles that suit me, and I know exactly what I need when I go to the store. If I wear a wide top, the bottom should be narrow, and vice versa. If I find a suitable top - and with it the main problem - I often buy it in several ways. I buy clothes, as a rule, in a mass market. I love Uniqlo very much. Mostly I buy clothes in Russia, sometimes on trips and almost never in online stores, since I need to measure everything. I never sewed to order, I don’t want to bother like that.
On the one hand, I am even pleased that I am limited in the choice of clothes - it helps me not to make hysterical purchases and not litter the closet, but it is still frustrating that modern fashion is focused on small breasts and women with large shapes somehow feel hurt and limited. I even had an idea to create a basic wardrobe for girls with big breasts, maybe I will implement it some day.
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I have always had big breasts. At the age of 13 I already proudly possessed the second size, with 20 I had a D - and I thought that it was not easy for me to buy clothes. Three years ago I recovered, my chest grew to E - and I realized how much I was wrong. The world really turned upside down. I am not a plus-size yet, and the size L of almost all average brands became too small for me only because of the chest. It was almost impossible to find E. in chain stores of lingerie, where I found D with some difficulty.
Among democratic brands of linen, I have always loved Etam - as it turned out, they have the size E in the basic collections, in the spring I bought even fun colored bras there, surprisingly well-fitting. With a little more effort, I found a nice bodice in Intimissimi. Also with recent updates, Victoria's Secret consultants helped me a lot, as they were clearly well prepared for the correct selection of clothes. With an incredible variety of range small percentage of what fits on a big chest, but you can find.
I also ordered more than once lingerie on the Internet at my beloved ASOS - it’s as lucky as it depends on the brand, so far I haven’t found mine. But, at least, on the Internet they admit that beautiful underwear can be bigger than size D. ASOS itself recently launched the Fuller Bust collection - just for a big breast, but my experience of one order from this collection is still unsuccessful: despite the declared E cup, bust It was right next to a friend with a size D. Speaking of the brand - I also order most of the clothes there, focusing on more or less safe styles. Things directly by the ASOS brand came without any surprises in the dimensional grid.
Almost all the clothes are still a bit small in my chest. Once I had a seamstress with excellent taste and golden hands, whom I could completely trust, but she moved to live in another country, and I can’t start looking for a new one. This, of course, magic wand. It is clear that in order to sew everything individually, you will not save enough money and time, especially the fabrics are now very expensive, but some significant things - a good coat, a jacket over a figure, a really comfortable beautiful daily dress or a dress for a solemn occasion - stand funds spent.
I often get upset that I can not buy things that I like so much on a hanger or in a picture. Some of the girls' styles look pornographic (even if they have no cutouts), the big breasts make things incredibly simple and vintage, they make them rustic, the neckline is almost never delicate, and the impossibility of wearing clothes without underwear will not be repeated.
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The fact that the campaign for new clothes and linen - this is the most difficult quest, it became clear course on the first or second. At school, I went with a second or third size, and then my chest grew to fourth or fifth, despite the fact that the thighs remained narrow, the difference between the top and bottom of the size was four.
It is very difficult to find a long down jacket or a dress - either it doesn't fit on the chest, or in the area of the hips you can shove a couple more asses. On many dresses, shirts, blouses and tops there are simply no darts. Surprisingly, in the world like the cult of the breast, and sew everything on some androgynous. I used to rescue knitwear and polyester, but now I’ve gotten pretty well, you have to wear spacious T-shirts and shirts and dresses a la hoodie.
Linen buy in DIM and Golfstream. I used to love deep cleavage very much, so I bought ordinary bras with large underwire. Now the breasts have become even bigger, deep cuts look quite vulgar, and bras on me do not live long - the straps quickly become unusable, even wide. It is time to abandon the neckline and wear special bras for a large bust - with really wide straps, maximum support and a wide band under the bust. Moreover, I want to buy a minimizing bra (such a bra due to a special design visually reduces the size of the breast. - Editor's note.)I hope it will facilitate the selection of clothes.
I dress most often in second-hand, but sometimes I buy something from Promod, H & M and Stokmann. In general, I cannot single out certain brands - in my situation I have to buy something that has fit and does not disfigure the figure. I do not order clothes on the Internet, again due to non-standard parameters. It was forbidden to go in for sports many years ago for medical reasons, so the issue of sportswear and underwear passed by me.
For me, the search for clothes is not a particular problem. Of course, you have to spend a little more time - young people's (well, or at least "non-age") clothes rarely count on customers with large breasts. Sometimes problems arise with dresses: in the chest it is not enough, and in the hips is great. Most often, you have to buy clothes not in the mass market (in more high-end stores things are more likely to fit my figure), and therefore it is more expensive. But in general, I repeat, with clothes you can quickly adjust.
As for the choice of linen - the situation is more complicated. Depending on the correct or incorrectly chosen clothes and clothes, respectively, better or worse. Now there are many stores that specialize in large sizes, and various social networks regularly advertise them, so finding such is not a problem. One of these specialty stores uses the slogan "Carry not what suits you, but what you like." He very clearly reflects the problem of choosing bras of large size. Again, I note that the clothes in such stores are more expensive, but it is not a pity to pay for comfort in every sense. In addition, I made sure that the lingerie from specialty stores lasts longer than the lingerie of suitable sizes from ordinary lingerie stores.
Not so long ago I found the Bra-Shop and Crazy Beach specialized shops. Separately, it is worthwhile to dwell on bathing suits, since I believe that recently the market of large-sized youth swimsuits has grown significantly, which is good news. Previously, we had to deal with the fact that the size of a swimsuit is suitable, but it looks as if it is designed for women much older. The same can be said about the laundry. Things I buy in Russia. I like the Panache and Curvy Kate brands. I buy clothes on trips, but I never bought lingerie. On the Internet, too, did not risk.
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From five to nine years old I practiced artistic gymnastics at the Palace of Pioneers. At the age of ten it became finally clear that girls-sticks, which seem to be gymnasts, will not leave me. At eleven I had a breast of the second size. Well, okay.
The mass market in Russia and to a lesser extent in the world at the sight of people with a non-standard figure metaphorically closes their eyes with their palms and shouts “I am in the house!”. It doesn’t matter exactly what you differ in - the miniature girls in the comments will surely tell you how fun it is to try on the XXS and realize that it is big in two sizes. I am on the other side of this spectrum. I probably will find a tight T-shirt in a nearby store, but the search for a bra for a long time looked like this: "Do you have a cup more than D? No? All the best." Repeat ten times. Cry.
I have not only a big chest, but also a narrow chest. Dimensional grids of brands that are responsible for large-sized underwear in Russia usually begin with a coverage of 85 centimeters. And I need 75, better even 70. In addition, almost no one explains to girls how to choose the right bra - the saleswoman can occasionally ask: "Well, how can you, does not press?" - but that's about it. How a bra should actually sit is unknown. Some advice passed from mouth to mouth, they say, if you jump in the dressing room ... Or if the bra does not creep up behind you ... No, wait, on the contrary, if you crawl!
In fact, the bra should not be held at all at the expense of the straps, it should not crawl up either, and if you jump in it, you do not need to correct anything. How did I know that? Thanks Reddit! About a year ago I came across a reddit ABraThatFits and was surprised to learn that I’ve been wearing a non-size bra all my life - just like most girls. In Russia, not everyone knows how breast size is measured. For example, "four" - is that what? Four what? Four apples? Four hours of searching for a sconce in which nothing falls out of the cups? Girls most often think that cup A is “small breasts” and cup DD is “huge.” On ABraThatFits there is a whole gallery with photos of girls who wear D and DD cups, and not everyone there resembles Pamela Anderson.
I read the forum for two days in a row and with the help of a special calculator I found out that I need to wear a size 75J bra. J, understand! Just because of the narrow chest. Of course, there are no such sizes in Russia, and I have been ordering underwear on the Internet for a year now - fortunately, I have almost never bought clothes in Russia for a long time. Just one item in the parcel more. I order sconces - both regular and sports - on Amazon, I first examine ABraThatFits and the Bratabase bracelet review database each time, because different models from different brands differ in the distance between straps, cup width and much more.
Once, before meeting ABraThatFits, I went to Primark in London and almost burst into tears: bras with a cup F were sold in a cheap clothing store in central London, but not in shops with underpants of five thousand each in Moscow. It upsets me very much: specifically, I have the resources to select and order suitable bras, but how many people have them? How many people suffer, constantly straightening uncomfortable bras, are embarrassed that the cup presses on the chest, do not wear because of this clothes that you want?
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It should immediately indicate that I live in the colorful southern province - in Krasnodar, and before that - in very small towns. Уже к концу школы у меня был мой нынешний размер 75 E. Осознав ещё в подростковом возрасте, что фигура у меня, прямо скажем, нестандартная, лет в четырнадцать отправилась учиться шить. Занятия дали представления в первую очередь о технологических процессах - без долгих разговоров и теоретизирований мы шили одежду. Причём любой сложности - так, именно в те далекие времена я научилась шить летние платья с верхом-бюстье или бретелью-петлёй, которые можно надевать на голое тело.
These skills, on the one hand, turned out to be extremely useful, on the other - they hopelessly spoiled me: looking at the prices of clothes in stores, even in the mass market, not to mention the "high" brands, my reaction is most often in the range from surprisingly throwing up brow up to grin. Well, the usual two-sewed trapezium skirt cannot cost three thousand rubles, or a simple dress made of nasty cloth - seven. I sew clothes still, albeit not in such quantities as in my youth. Although some rituals are unshakable: sewing, for example, an outfit for the New Year is already a tradition. Therefore, I buy things mainly from the categories of “sewing more expensive” or “it’s not exactly what I will sew.”
There are no problems with the purchase of knitwear, sweaters and jeans, especially since I am “normal” at the bottom. Krasnodar is a city of shopping and entertainment centers, a leader in terms of their per capita population in Russia. Thanks to this, the search strategy for shirts, jackets, dresses and linen of non-standard sizes is extremely clear: stay away from shopping centers. Small shops, inconspicuous signs, sleeping areas instead of the center - here are the treasures. Unfortunately, due to the rapid growth of shopping and entertainment centers and shopping malls "kids" is becoming less, but nonetheless. The word “brands” is hardly appropriate here - I pay attention to the fabrics, style and tailoring, and cut off any tags right away. I have zero brand dependence, I am not at all worried about the lack of things in my wardrobe with loud or popular labels.
With the linen, the story is special: it cannot but rejoice that now there are more opportunities. Once there was only one Milavitsa - it was and is, I hope, and it will be - and three eternal colors (black, white, flesh). Now, in addition to it, there are other manufacturers, and, again, owners of small shops that bring absolutely matchless underwear of all colors and levels of support and elegance from the Baltic States, Italy, Poland, France - and at the price of linen, and not a car or a Boeing. One day, having come from idle curiosity into a small room with a sign "Underwear" in the building of the tax inspectorate, I, not believing in what was happening, tried on for an hour, as it seemed to me, a third of the range and eventually took four sets of incredible beauty and unusual colors. The store owner so sincerely responded to my enthusiasm and surprise that she gave a discount and handed the cellphone number, and after a while she informed me that the store had moved and a new address.
Swimwear and sportswear for a long time was really a problem. I remember that at university I was amused by the fact that I went to the coolest shops and boutiques and confidently stated: “Find a swimsuit on me - and I will buy it. It doesn’t matter how much it will cost.” Well, yes, despicable, of course, so to deal with the naive sellers, who sincerely tried to find something for me, but needed a swimsuit. Her friends, who did not believe that swimsuits for 75 E did not exist, regularly won champagne. Later on the local forum I was prompted by the coordinates of a little shop where they would definitely help me - and really helped. Now the situation has improved so much that I bought my last swimsuit in one of the villages, almost a resort one, completely without any difficulties and with a choice of several models.
Sportswear most often take in the "Decathlon". Although the very first bras and bras of high-class support were bought abroad, in the Nike brand store in Lille, France. In general, abroad, the eyes opened wide - in any, even a network store of linen, you can find something. However, there are plenty of opportunities with clothes too - even in the shops, even on the street "collapses" there is something to profit from, from a tartan skirt for 1 euro to a summer cotton sundress, which the luxurious African queen from among customers will intently look at and will delightfully pop out: Très belle couleur! " In Asian countries, it was not, but in Europe, wherever it turned out, there is always plenty to choose from. Sometimes I think that non-standard size and living in a Russian province save me from bankruptcy - if I had a standard A or B or I even lived with a non-standard E-F in Europe, I’d just go broke buying clothes and linen!
In general, I was so convinced of the advantages of the era of consumption that, more recently, I began to make purchases on the Internet - neatly and slightly. By itself, this fact is a small step for all progressive humanity, but a huge step for me personally. Previously, I did not even consider the possibility of buying something without fitting. However, I bought a pair of denim dresses on ASOS, and from the usual ruler (one had to lay a couple of extra stitches on it - a matter of a couple of minutes, and a village as an infusion), and plain seedless cotton bodices (for an “Internet size test”) Bonprix, after idle scrolling of the catalog abandoned in the mailbox.
Perhaps, clothes and underwear remained the only problem for me personally - but now they have already ceased to be. My chest does not give me either physical or moral discomfort, the age of youth complexes is over, and correctly chosen physical activities (in strict accordance with the doctor’s instructions) bring only relief and joy. The path to harmony with my own body was long and difficult, but now, it seems, I am finally at the equilibrium point. I hope for a long time.
Photo: Nike Pro Bra, ASOS, Lane Bryant, Lonely Label, Curvy Kate