How To Measure Your Bra Size
Up to 80% of women wear the wrong bra size. This can not only lead to discomfort but can look unsightly if your breasts bulge out of the sides or you choose a cup size too large.
How To Measure The Band
- Measure around your body just under your breasts.
- Using an inch tape, if the size is an odd number, add 4. If its even, add 5.
This will give you the band size. ie If you measure 28 inches adding 4 will give you a 32″ size bra.
Are you a Wonder Bra or a T-shirt Bra Kinda Girl?
One of the earliest bras was made by Mary Phelps Jacob in New York in 1913 although history tells us that women, throughout the centuries, have designed and worn garments designed normally to enhance their bodies often it’s been to to try and hide their breasts.
Mary, however, devised a simple
bra made out of handkerchiefs so that she could wear an evening dress without the stiff wire boned corsets that were popular in those times. Due to the attention her ‘bra’ attracted Mary set up in the underwear business, took out a patent, and so the ‘brassiere’ was invented.
Where Did Bras Originate?
Despite the fact, doubted by some, that the bra is not a necessity in keeping a woman’s breasts firm and uplifted, bras in one form or another have been around since recorded history.
Minoan women athletes of 700 BC have been depicted wearing a bra like garment to restrain and cover their breasts and the women of other civilizations are known to have worn bras like undergarments for a variety of reasons.
