The first thing to do when checking your cup size is to be sure the breast tissue is as far into the cup as possible. Sweep the breast forward with one hand while pulling the wire back under your arm with the other hand. You can also lean forward and hold both wires away from your body while letting the breast drop into the cup. Then pull the wire back and set into place before straightening up. Once your breast is pulled forward, if the tissue is not completely in front of the wire, you need to go up in your cup size. For every 3/4 inch of breast tissue under and behind the wire, go up one cup size. If you have never been fitted, it is likely that you will need to go up several cup sizes. Don’t let the letters scare you! The average cup size of our customers is typically F-GG, if you consider yourself full busted, there is a large chance that you are probably in one of these cup sizes. Proper cup fit is influenced by band size. As the band size changes, so does the cup size. For every band size you go down, you should go up one cup. If you are in a 34D with a good cup fit, but want to go down to a 32 band, you would go to a 32DD for a tighter band with the same cup fit. Likewise, if you were in a 34D and wanted to keep the cup fit, but get a looser band, you would want a size 36C. With sister sizes like this, you could end up leaving our store with 4 bras, in 4 different cup sizes that all fit exactly the same! We know how confusing this can be which is why we are here to help every step of the way.
We call this trick the scoop and swoop...
Set the wire in place and then let the breast tissue fall into place.
The social norm tells us that a DD is a large cup size, when in fact, in the scale of things, it's actually on the small side. Cup sizes start a AA and go all the way to P... yes, K!
