Filly's Frolic #24

Six and half months after my operation, I decided that my breasts should probably have settled down by now and it was time to get fitted for a bra properly. I say properly because the last fitting I had was done purely by sight, feedback from me and trial and error. Requiring my feedback on whether or not it felt right seemed like a rather flawed method because I don't really think that I'm a good judge of well fitting bras. The first time I ever had a bra fitted, I'm pretty sure I ended up with a bra that was waaaay too big for me. I walked out of the store with a 14C and that was only 3 months after starting hormones. I have no idea what that lady was thinking. 

Once I had walked into Myers to ask for a bra fitting but they were too busy and told me to come back another day. There was one girl working the register with half a dozen people waiting, another lady doing some kind of stock take and sorting and and another lady wondering around between departments. So, they lost my sale... 

Today, I wandered into Bras n Things and I was immediately greeted and asked if I needed assistance. I asked if I could be measured up and was courteously directed to the fitting rooms where a nice lady measured me with a tape. A tape! Yay! Although she said that this would only be a starting point, at least she was starting from some sort of objective basis. 

"Your band size is a fourteen", she started off saying. "Now we'll measure your cup size." Yup, based on my own measurements and trial and error, I had come to the conclusion that I was a fourteen or sixteen. I was glad to hear I was right. She wrapped the tape around my breasts and she asked me to slowly spin around as she did so.

"You're cup size is a double D or an E". 

WHAT?!?!?!!

I almost fell over in shock. 

I hope it didn't show and I tried to gather myself and said, "Oh!" I was currently wearing a 16C which is also the equivalent to a 14D. That's a 38C or 36D for all you US sized people... Crap! When I had had my breast implants, I really only wanted to be about a 14C and had always felt I had come back with breasts a little too large. Now I was finding out that they were two to three cup sizes too large! Damn!

I followed her out and we picked out a couple of different styled bras to try on. This was the bugbear of women's clothing. Why, oh why, can't manufacturers make clothes of a certain size all the same size?? I remember going to buy clothes as a guy. I was a 34 pants and a 42 shirt. It didn't matter where I went or which brand I bought, it was a 34 pants and a 42 shirt. Yet, with girls clothing, my pants could be anywhere from 10 to 14 and my tops and dresses could be anywhere from 12 to 16!! And bras, something as basic as band size, could be either a 14 or 16. 

After some fluffing about trying on different sizes, it was determined that depending on the bra, I was either a 14E or a 16DD. The lady was very knowledgeable in fitting as she was able to explain exactly why a bra was the right size or not and was able to show me what to look for and how to adjust everything properly. Everything made sense and there wasn't any sort of subjective "Does that feel right to you?" type question. I ended up buying half a dozen new bras and spending way more money that I had anticipated but at least I now had something that I was confident was fitted correctly. 

 Unfortunately, it has brought back the thoughts of going back for breast revision surgery. However, it's not really urgent and it will have to fit in with my study schedule now which probably means that I won't make any decisions for at least size months and if I do go, it won't be for probably a year. But, we'll see....