When your bust size hinders attempts to get fit
I am sorry if I offend anyone with the following post, but it is something close to my heart and I need to get it off my chest – literally.
I am going to talk about bust size. My bust size.
I have put that sentence in bold italics so anyone who may find themselves upset about talk of large bras and boob pain can leave right now . . .
I am top heavy. Always have been.
Even in my slimmer pre-children days I was in a C cup, which for any guys out there who don’t know, it’s comfortably a large handful.
Now I am carrying extra weight, I am very top heavy.
I have gone up to an E cup. I flirted with D, then on to DD, then stopping off at the over-shoulder-boulder-holder E.
Of course, my husband thinks this is “bloody great. That is what cleveage is supposed to be like”.
But I HATE it.
“Think of all those women who pay to have a big bust,” he reasons.
“But they haven’t the first idea of how it feels and I bet you they’re bloody miserable after it’s done,” I reply.
First of all, having a larger bust means I look heavier than I actually am.
It also makes clothes buying a nightmare. How many shirts have I tried on that fit great but the buttons are straining to meet over my bra? Dresses are a no no unless I want to look like I’m on the game.
Then there is the fact that I feel like they are my face. Seriously, at work I had to remind a couple of guys that my eyes were in fact slightly north of where they were looking.
And finally, and most importantly here, they bloody hurt when I get physical. No, not THAT physical, I’m talking about when I’m running or jumping or taking up a slight jog (which is sort of why I took up walking instead).
Can you imagine what a nightmare jogging has become? I have to wear two sports bras to keep these babies under control.
I went through a stage thinking it must just be me. ‘Bloody hell’, everyone is thinking, ‘if that’s all you’ve got to moan about then I’d much rather be in your shoes’. But then a good friend of mine confessed she feels exactly the same (hello Michelle!) and I felt almost vindicated.
I know, I know, it’s all funny and you’re all going to think of jokes that use the words ‘uplifting’ but for me it has become a motivating factor.
Last week David Wright asked what our motivators were and I banged on about my health and my kids and my vanity. But then I stopped and thought about it and do you know what, I want to reduce the size of my bust to pre-baby size. Manageable size. A size that will fit back into the rather gorgeous underwear husband used to buy for me (which he doesn’t now because it’s usually met with a snort and a ’you don’t honestly think I’ll fit in there do you?’)
Weight gain and loss, coupled with babies and breastfeeding can play havoc with a girl’s boobage, so I know I am very lucky to have maintained a pair that don’t need to be tucked into my waistband or can sweep the carpet (as four-time mum Ulrika Jonsson apparently announced on Celebrity Big Brother this week!)
I suppose it’s the same for all of us – men or women – we don’t just want to look good, we want to feel good too.
Well, I don’t feel good with a pair of Es right under my nose. I want my little Cs back.
And yes, those are my very own bras in the photo. And no I cannot fit into most of them. I keep them ‘just in case’ and to remind me what I am aiming for.
NOTE: An update on the keep fit equipment I bought to aid my New Year, New Me approach.
The pedometer was a huge hit – with my 6-year-old son. When I get it back off him (he thinks it’s the best thing EVER and jogs around the house trying to beat the ‘high score’ of 10,000) I’ll let you know how many steps I’m achieving!
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Funny, but this is a line from my post today: (The Lion is hoping my chest measurement will not decrease, and it would be a total bonus if it increased). Personally, I think guys should strap on a couple of huge water balloons to their chest and try and function. Or better yet, glue them on, so they get some sort of sense of the pull on the body.
Not that I’m big. More of a small comfortable handful, but my mother, bless her, had a breast reduction at the age of 60. For all the reasons you mentioned.
Anyway, I am speaking up to say I understand and support your motivation!
P.S. over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder OMG, haven’t heard that expression in years!
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 9:12 am
My mum too had a breast reduction Panther. For years she suffered with a bad back and discomfort, and she’s only 5′ 2
Am coming over to check you out later today and find out what else that cheeky Lion has been saying!
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You are so brave – doing a boob post with Dave F around! Am surprised he wasn’t commenter no. 1! I think you have two very good motivators there – mine are a C ( I think – been a long time since I braved the boob measure lady in John Lewis!), and when I was pregnant, I hated having Dolly’s Double D’s. Nice bra’s BTW – I have several like it but tend to go for the comfort option most days which never looks half as pretty! One of my NY resolutions is to wear more nice undies, more often, one of the others is get back on the Blogtofit band wagon! I gained 1lb over the holidays so have to be good now! Perhaps you could rename it BlogtofitYourBra’s!
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Climb back on board my dear, we’re ready and waiting for you.
And I promise we won’t judge you on the quality of your bras. Well I won’t, I can’t vouch for Dave and Dave.
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Oh Tara, I’m totally with you on the big boobs being (literally) a pain. I take a size F cup and the awfulness of how big mine are struck me when my 9 year old picked one of my bras up and put her head in one of the cups. Yes, she could wear it as a hat. Help is most definitely needed.
p.s. I don’t have a man telling me how fantastic they are though. Not sure if that is a drawback or not
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AMEN! Tara, we are not worthy of your courage! How about what underwires do to the skin underneath? The engineers have yet to counter the laws of physics with respect to weight, mass, leverage and subsequent abrasion.
Like you, I have a drawerful that I’ve kept for motivation, and have undergone everything you described. In aerobics classes, my boobs were ALWAYS a beat behind. Three back hooks, or even four, major shoulder dents, and on and on. The only thing keeping me from a reduction (besides the financial part) is that my stomach would look even bigger by comparison.
I’ve had to face the fact I will never be a member of the itty-bitty-titty club, but having been the happy recipient at one time of a bra salesman’s end-of-season samples (all 34C), I can attest bigger is definitely not better. Especially when gravity pulls them farther south then you’d ever thought they could travel, approaching territory better covered with a waistband.
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I know I shouldn’t laugh notSupermum, but that is SO funny! Like something out of a Carry On film.
I’m afraid that over a D cup bras tend to lose their cute appeal and just look functional, don;t they?
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@Betsy – re: my boobs were ALWAYS a beat behind – ROFL – I really shouldn’t read this stuff at work. I’m getting strange looks.
And itty-bitty-titty-club … wow, ladies, we are really pulling out the expressions from the past. I’ll have to ask my daughters (in their early 20s) if these expressions are still around, or whether we are seriously dating ourselves here!
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Oh honey, I feel ya! DD here, since I was 15. NOT cool…I’ve never understood why women want to be cursed with big boobs.
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Sorry Christina, you were moderated for a while there. Must be all that took of big boobs. Sends the men a bit perculiar.
Totally with you though on the “I’ve never understood why women want to be cursed with big boobs”
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I suffer from the big boobage also. Jogging? Impossible. I do the elyptical or yoga which seem to anger the sisters less.
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
“which seem to anger the sisters less” – could be quote of the day . . .
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Okay, I AM OFFENDED! For a post about boobs, it is surprisingly void of appropriate photos!
Sorry, since Dave Fowler wasn’t going to man up and make an inappropriate comment, I figured I would.
And for the record, we would NEVER moderate anyone for talking about breasts. Well, unless it’s male breasts. Nobody wants to read about that!
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I think DF is in a corner somewhere with his fingers in his ears going ‘la la la la’.
Wouldn’t be able to control himself you see . . .
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I hear you sister, I hear ya !
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Michelle Michelle Michelle! You’re here, at last.
Everyone, Michelle is a lurker who has no blog of her own (but totally should) so feels she can’t comment and yet I know she reads regularly.
So pleased you finally decided to join in – and on a post about boobage too!
Now maybe Suzanne J and Jane L will take the hint – yes ladies, I’m talking to YOU!
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David Wright Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Welcome, Michelle! You don’t need a blog to post comments. One of the things I’ve often lamented is that more non-bloggers don’t comment at sites. Look forward to seeing more of you around here.
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Even just the weight gain after having kiddos can cause problems for those of use not “blessed” with abundance in that area. I’ve had to double up on the sports bras too. :p
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@DW Well, I was wondering where the male voices were. There was an obvious lack of male input. Way to step up to the plate, Dave.
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David Wright Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Well, it was tough. My first instinct is to joke around with most comments, but in a forum full of women and the subject being boobies (see, I knew I’d put my foot in my mouth), I was a bit apprehensive that I’d say the wrong thing (os boobies in bad taste?) and would be chased away.
I’m surprised Fowler has kept his distance. It must be tearing him apart not to be able to come in here and drop some pun about “tittering” or something.
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Oh I hear ya sister! While I’d like to assume my size will drastically go down with weight loss, my sister who is thin isn’t that far behind me in cup size so my goal is to loose the weight so I can go ahead and get that reduction and tummy tuck at once. My husband did better than me at all the balance games and on the Wii Fit and I claimed ti was because he didn’t have those things on his chest throwing him off. I plan to attach a bra and some cantaloupes on him for his next try to even the odds. ; )
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
“I plan to attach a bra and some cantaloupes on him for his next try to even the odds” – I like the cut of your jib WHM.
Glue them on like Panther suggests in the comments above!
Listen to us all! Like a bunch of baying banshees!
Welcome over here by the way! We’re not normally this vicious.
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Turf Dad Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
“We’re not normally this vicious” Don’t believe her Nora, they are. That’s why I link here.
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White Hot Magik Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Good think I like vicious…. ; )
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When you get to a 40G then talk to me..lol The back troubles are endless when your boobs pass a DD Cup. My hubby uses the same line “women pay for them” and I tell him they also pay to have their nipples pointing directly ahead, not etching lines in the pavement.
I would soooo get a reduction if I wasn’t terrified of the recovery. I’m a baby when it comes to surgery and painful recoveries. So for now I’m going to try weight loss and see where that gets me.
PS Completely jealous you found a sports bra to hold your puppies in while you jog. Anyone who gets within a foot of me is in danger of head and body trauma. Great Post btw!
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Bowing down to your 40Gs Kirst. I feel foolish for moaning now!
I’ll bet you’re like me and have to hold those babies every time you run up and down the stairs – bras just don’t seem able to cut that kind of action!
And welcome over. It’s really great to have you here.
And best of luck with your new fitness regime – we’d love to hear how you get on
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I just commented! Did it get lost in space???
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David Fowler Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Kirst,
It got trapped. I’ve just released it for you.
Now I’m getting the hell out of here before I drown in my own drool.
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Dave, we’ve just supplied you with your ideal post. What is the matter with you man?
I thought you needed some motivation to get moving? Don’t back down on us now.
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David Fowler Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Oh I had so much I wanted to say but it’s hard to type when there’s no blood flow to the brain.
I’m going to bed now.
If my wife is angry in the morning, I’m blaming you lot!!
I have seen most of you around the blogger world and I have to admit that I am a silent reader at times that does not comment a great deal but this one is a good place to start.
I am in the process of doing a “mini boot camp”(not real military or else I would die in the process) and just this morning I was watching a girl put her military style bra on. She just had just received implants. I thought to myself “why” did you do that to yourself. I am OK with those that want change but this girl added a DD cup to a skinny body. She looks totally deformed. She put the bra on hanging out on purpose. Go figure. The ones with the real ones “take cover” while the fake ones “let it all hang out”….well, most.
I am blessed up top and I would love to rid myself of these things. C/D is where I stand at the moment with a drawer full of pretty bras that I would love to be able to wear. Running is a nightmare!
Yes, I am in full agreement…I just want to feel good without the ugly bra.
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 6th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Hey there Cricket, welcome
All booby girls here today it looks like. The men have gone unusually quiet!
“The ones with the real ones “take cover” while the fake ones “let it all hang out”….well, most.” Nail on head.
Of course there are exceptions, but usually if you have to have your bras forged at a specialist bramonger, you’re wishing you’d been hit with the baby jubblies stick.
Oh, and yes I absolutely know what you mean about those damn eyes!
Good luck with your mini boot camp. Come back and share some more if you can.
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Excuse the typo (s) above. My fingers are getting ahead of themselves from the tiredness from undoing all of the eyes on the back of my bra. Those above a C cup know what I am talking about.
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Wow Tara, that is your best post ever! Better than my undies post.
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That’s it, I’m doing a post about my painfully enormous “equipment”!
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Turf Dad Reply:
January 7th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Hey Dave,
Have you seen “Johnny Dangerously?’
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David Wright Reply:
January 9th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Yeah, but a looooooong time ago. I’m sure you are referencing a joke but I can’t recall which one.
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it’s no fun finding any bras for bigger women (am a E but i think i would suit a F better~and i haven’t had an Children!!!!!) some places find it easy to charge a morgaged to buy just one bra lol. amd glad to say some companies are coming in to line about getting bigger sizes, anyway back to the matter in hand (no pun intended)
Having bigger boobs do you think they should introduces a complusure ‘you have to wear these fakes FF for a month before you get you plactic surguery done?’
btw not very good on the weight management yet another pound added
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 7th, 2009 at 4:43 am
You see Linz, it’s my theory that those E or F size babies probably weight a stone between them, so we’re off to a bad start already!
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lol, all i can say at least on person is happy but normall i keep them well hidden under 6million jumpers
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I wanted to comment on this post because I lost my internet and phone service for the last 24 hours and I missed it and also to tell you about my mum…She was 5’4″ tall and troubled with arthritis – bone on bone in every joint of her body. HER 42G breasts literally killed her – no lie…she could not maintain her balance after age 90 She died at 94 after getting pressure fractures in her spine from her large breasts. The Dr.s decided at 90 she was too old for reductions and other than 3 C sections she had never had surgery in her life….She had 20/20 vision – all her own teeth and was smart as a whip…….With the Kyphoplasty she got pain relief that was all and that cost nearly $100,000.00 Her breasts just crushed her down and she could not run and could not find bras…Her sisters both lost their breasts to cancer and they felt much better and did not want fake boobs or reconstructions after that.
The Dr’s put her on organic chicken rather than hormone plumb chicken and her breasts went down and were not as painful.
The damage her breasts did to her balance and posture was what finally killed her, she probably could have lived a healthy, active, life to 103 like her Grandmother had she had a breast reduction at her 60 s.
Her only response to the Dr. was “I don’t want to get in anyone else’s bed and I am not that vain.” She only understood the problem after she fell. The fractures were caused by her breasts and then she fell because of the fractures and loss of spinal support.
If you guy wants to healthy and to have a healthy life…. from what I have seen the recovery is a blessed relief not something to worry about.
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 7th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Wow Patricia that is some story.
I know we can have a laugh and a joke about it, but for some people it is so dibilitating.
I will put down the biscuit I was about to dunk in my tea and walk away. I’m by no means under that much threat but it is a very sobering thought.
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Wow, Tara, what a story! I had a good friend get reduction surgery a couple of years ago; down to a C cup (I don’t remember what she was before) and she felt sooo much better! No more back pain; no indentations on her shoulders from the bra straps.
I wish you the best of luck! (oh, and I, too, am surprised Dave Fowler wasn’t around more often in the comments).
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 9th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Oh he hasnt been as virtuous as you might think. He’s been Twittering about it all the live long day.
Bra bra bra bra bra, that’s all the sense you can get out of him these days!
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Yeah. I have the opposite problem you do. When I’m overweight, my boobage is normal size. When I’m more fit, my boobage is microscopic. As in AA size. As in my teen daughters have more boobage than I do…
In some respects, small boobage is nice. It doesn’t get in the way when you lie down on your stomach. It doesn’t hurt when you run.
The downsides are: do you have ANY idea how hard it is to find a 38AA bra??? And most women’s shirts/dresses are cut to fit a B-C cup size. This makes for very saggy looking clothes, especially dresses.
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 9th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
So unless you’re a B cup you’re a failure as a woman!
And I counted GreenJello, 4 uses of the word ‘boobage’. Gold star for you.
Boobage boobage boobage boobage
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I couldn’t stay away.
And I only really stayed away because I had too much to do and couldn’t afford to get trapped in my favourite topic of conversation.
Perhaps another reason I stayed away, other than the time constraints, was that I know it can be a serious issue and some women do suffer dreadfully. I didn’t want to discourage anyone from posting through fear that some jackass would make fun of them or get all pervy.
I’ll get all giddy in a minute but I first wanted say how brave I think you all are for openly discussing this. Clearly it’s a major concern for those trying to get fit and for others it’s also a medical concern.
My opinion for what it’s worth – and skewed as it is by my maleness – is that women should do what’s right for them given their own unique circumstances – but I prefer natural breasts of all shapes and sizes and generally I’m not in favour of breast reductions for cosmetic reasons and reasons of minor discomfort (but then I don’t have to carry them around).
I think society is warped by the idea that women should have the body of a 19 year old until the day they die. It’s just crazy. I find as I grow older that there’s plenty to appreciate about the bodies of mature women – women with mature breasts. There, I said it!! It’s only women who judge themselves and each other harshly.
I could go on and on and on, but I’ll stop here. Hey, I might write my own post about breasts?? Whaddaya think??
Anyhoo, I just thought I’d say I love the boobies, all shapes and sizes. And I mean all. How could it be any other way when you consider my background and that I’m the father of four children?
This is a great post Tara and the comments have been excellent.
And yes, I am still dying to make jokes!
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 9th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Dave, I think any woman reading that will want to clutch you to their boobage and hug you!
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David Fowler Reply:
January 9th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Thank you Tara. I really hope so.
And thank you for leaving room for me to make a joke. It’s been killing me.
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David Wright Reply:
January 9th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I think even some men may want to clutch you to their boobage.
Speaking of Twitter, guess how I found this post? And that started – for me – by a Tweet I posted about how I was sewing a bra today, and one thing led to another which led to this.
I’m another of the gargantuan boobage crowd. Last time I saw a B or C was in my early teens. Hit a 32DD when I was in my late teens. By the way, 32DD doesn’t exist in any store anywhere. Not even the specialty shops I went to. Now, I’m much larger all the way around at a 38G, and still can’t for the life of me find bras that fit. Couldn’t in Canada, absolutely can’t in Sri Lanka, the land of the skinny and petite when I am neither, breast placement differences aside. So, I sew my own. It’s my own form of self-defense.
And protest against all the sausage boobies here because B cups are the only cup sizes sold in all stores in this country with the exception of perhaps two, plus everyone’s been fed this BS about how no one over a 36 or a B cup needs underwire. O_o So I’m pretty much the only large breasted woman in the entire country wearing a correctly fitting bra. With the possible exception of other foreigners.
But to the blog entry and further comments about how awful it is to live with big boobs. Yup, been there, done it all. I’d love to get breast reduction surgery, but I have this pesky genetic collagen defect – which, incidentally, increases the saggage exponentially – that makes surgery something that I really need to avoid for anything other than life threatening stuff. Not much of an option for me, although I do wonder how much of my back pain is caused by these two tonne, er, yeah, not gonna say that.
And I haven’t been able to jog since I was a teen for fear of getting black eyes. Or a bruised chest. Okay, the black eyes is a joke, but the bruised chest isn’t.
Yeah, I’m all over the place here.
Seriously, don’t get me started on humungous hooters and bras. Just don’t. 
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Tara Reply:
January 10th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Wow Laurie, just wow!
First off, welcome. It’s really great to have you here and thanks so much for adding to the comments. I know it seems like a bit of a jokey thing to some, but this really is a life-limiting issue for many many women.
I cannot believe you make your own bras! My god, I would not know where to begin.
Luckily in the UK there are a few specialist shops which cater for the “gargantuan boobage crowd” (I’m writing that down – brilliant phrase!) and more of the mainstream shops are cottoning on to it too.
“Seriously, don’t get me started on humungous hooters and bras. Just don’t” – I’m so glad we did! Thanks for adding to the debate!
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White Hot Magik Reply:
January 10th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Lauri, wow, I too am impressed you can sew your own bras. I got an email today for my over the shoulder planet holder supplier today they are having a two for one sale http://www.lanebryant.com yes they go up to F cup sizes I don’t know if they ship internationally.
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Back in Canada, I tried the specialty shops out, and even they, the so-called professionals in the biz, couldn’t figure out how to fit me properly with a bra. That was a frustrating experience.
About sewing a bra – yeah, see, I mentioned yesterday on Twitter (or Titter, as the case may be
) that I was sewing a bra, and a whole bunch of people responded with comments akin to “What? Seriously? But it’s so hard!” In reality, it isn’t. Yes, it looks intimidating, I’ll grant you that, but note the “looks”. I started with taking apart an existing bra that fit reasonably well (although there were materials issues with it that I didn’t figure out until I started sewing my own and figuring out what works and what doesn’t and, more importantly, why), seeing how it was put together, and using those pieces to create my own pattern. Then went from there. That first bra I sewed ended up being the best fitting bra I’ve had in my life, and I’m no expert sewer. Yeah, I’ve been sewing a long time, but I have short patience and high frustration levels along with massive brain fog from my aforementioned collagen defect. Any sewing project that takes longer than, oh, 3 or 4 hours, is doomed for failure.
That first bra took around 3-5 hours (it was a long time ago – I don’t really remember, but it sounds about right). Other people who sew their own bras say the same thing, and further comment that after they’ve done a couple, it takes about an hour, start to finish, to make a bra. Seriously, not hard and not that complicated.
(Can you tell I’m encouraging people to take bra fitting into their own hands here? 
There’s one very excellent thread about making bras on Craftster.org called, of all things, Bramaggeddon.
Yeah, they have humour there, too. 
Lots of links to tutorials, suppliers, information, and so on. If any of you are interested in sewing your own, I’d start with that thread. 
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Hi, i’ve just found this site for the first time. I’m afraid it’s a bit late for the weight loss bit – I’ve just lost 1.5 stone since June (not counting xmas ooops) I can identify with you all on the boobage front – before I lost the weight I was a DD cup but i’ve now gone down 2 bra sizes so it’s a lot more comfy. Thanks for making me laugh out loud, just what I needed! Keep up the good work,
Barbie
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Tara Cain Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Hey Barbie Girl
I DREAM of doing what you have done. My husband dreams that if I lose weight the boobs are the last to go but I want them gone NOW!
The thought of being able to go down two sizes keeps me going – thanks for those words.
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