Have you ever gotten professionally fitted for a bra?

[Anonymous]

Where did you do.it?
We're you wrong about the size you were wearing before the measurement?

[Anonymous]

Only when my mother humiliated me by forcing it when I was 12-ish. Totally unnecessary - it's like saying someone else needs to fit you for shoes. You can figure these things out yourself.

[Anonymous]

yes at Nordstrom. It was fantastic. Came home with the most comfortable bras ever.

[Anonymous]

“85% of wOMen ArE WeARinG the WrOnG BrA SiZe!!!!”

So sick of this. No, we f’ing aren’t. It’s not that hard to know if a band is too tight or a cup is too small. We aren’t all so stupid.

[Anonymous]

I went to a place where they did this (without me really asking for it and the sales lady coming into my dressing room was awkward, but whatever). I’m overweight but have small boobs so the sizes are always off for me. Anyway, the sales lady kept pushing larger and larger cups on me to accommodate my girth but the cups were just too big and made me look fatter with a shirt on. I ended up not buying anything and now prefer my bralettes from Soma.

[Anonymous]

Yes--i always get help when I shop for bras.

I love Le Bustiere in Adams Morgan. Treaseau is also very good.

Nordstrom fitters vary wildly; the above are consistently good.

Small band, “large” cup size, hard to fit. I used to buy myself random sizes and have saggy boobs and back & neck pain. Now I don’t have any of that. My band was previously off by at least 4 inches and the chops never fit well.

[Anonymous]

Yes. @Trousseau. I’ve come away with much better fitting bras.

[Anonymous]

I got professionally fitted recently. The salesperson said my band size was off by 8"--that's right, eight!--inches. She was right that my band size was way too big. But going 8" down was suffocating. I bought one bra and by the end of the day my back was killing me.

I think just measuring you when you're standing up in their little room is flawed, especially for somebody who sits a lot of the day like me. Use a calculator like A Bra That Fits, which also uses measurements of you leaning over and lying down. https://www.abrathatfits.org/calculator.php

I split the difference and bought several in a 34" band, also adjusting by 1 cup size for each inch of band. All of this online, because I'm bad at standing up to salespeople. 34" is super comfortable and I look a lot better/thinner/supported than I looked before with those huge bras.

Get measured by a professional and then form your own opinions.

[Anonymous]

Where exactly do they measure you aside from above/middle/under?

[Anonymous]

Yes. Sylene’s , where I got fitted — and took several friends to shop, is no longer around, but I know my size in my favorite brands.
The first time I got a perfectly fitting bra was many years ago, at a place called the Town Shop in Manhattan.
When I went in, an older woman who worked there looked at me when I was fully clothed, made a sound that I interpreted as disgust, then handed me several bras. They weren’t what I would have picked in terms of cuteness, but each one fit perfectly.

[Anonymous]

I went to Trousseau in Vienna a few months ago. She moved me from a 36B to a 32D -- as she explained, this is the same cup volume, but the straps are much closer together so they don't slide down and the fit is better for my small frame. I am not large on top so would never have tried a D cup on my own.

[Anonymous]

Between pregnancy, nursing and gaining and losing 50lbs outside of those, I’ve gotten pretty good at measuring myself. I use the a bra that fits calculator as a starting point, but I basically always want a smaller cup size than they think I should have. I have huge boobs, I want them mushed and as tight to my body as possible, and the calculator wants projection.

[Anonymous]

Yes I went to Nordstrom once. The lady told me I’m an A. She must’ve been the dumbest person on earth because I’m a dd or ddd accounting to sylene.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Trousseau in Vienna a few months ago. She moved me from a 36B to a 32D -- as she explained, this is the same cup volume, but the straps are much closer together so they don't slide down and the fit is better for my small frame. I am not large on top so would never have tried a D cup on my own.

Yeah the main things women need to know imo are:

1) cup size isn’t consistent across band sizes. I think people often assume that cups are the same and stuck on different length straps, which isn’t true, and so then the sizing seems nonsensical.

2) middle school jokes about “double ds” being “huuuge” were not just stupid and cruel, they were inaccurate. You can wear a cup size letter that you never imagined was possible and feel horrified by thanks to the middle school conditioning and still look normal.

It’s worth getting a measuring tape and trying a few of the calculators imo even if you then go for a professional fitting.

[Anonymous]

I went to the much touted Trousseau and it wasn't a great experience. Despite having an appointment, they basically forgot about me in the fitting room.

I've gone to Nordstrom a few times (pre pregnancy, post pregnancy etc) and they bring you a selection of styles.

I've also had a good experience with ThirdLove, FWIW.