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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Well, I finally did it...
... I broke down and went to Victoria's Secret today and got fitted for a bra. I am not a huge fan of getting underwear or anything that could be considered "Sexy". So I usually avoid that store like the plague.
But something needed to be done. Turns out I have been measuring myself wrong this whole time. (Go figure) What a difference one size makes! I may not hate my figure so much now that I don't have to struggle with stupid bras throughout the day. I guess I will find out how great it is tomorrow. It is a cold night in hell tonight, that I actually bought a VS bra. LOL.
Re: Well, I finally did it...
I've always found the chicks who are supposed to be the "bra sizing specialists" at VS to be incompetent.
Last time I was there I got badgered into getting sized again, and they tried to tell me my DD boobs were C's....Yeaaaaah not even close.
67/200
I'm also a 34D and was told this was the solution to my problem when the rare 34D isn't in stock. It.IS.NOT.the solution. I was getting quadraboob and the band kept slipping. I followed this advice for years. I finally got the 411 when I watched What Not to Wear and they explained the side of my boobs should not go past my rib cage.
67/200
Love that show. That show is why I decided to get measured again at a place other than VS.
I learned from Oprah that just because you are measured to be a certain size, doesn't mean it'll actually fit you. For example, my sister's boobs are bottom heavy, mine are not, so even though we measure the same, she ends up with a big gap at the top of her cup, so for her, it's actually beneficial to go down a cup size and sometimes up a band size. It's more about how it fits when it's on, band is level, etc, than whether the stupid tag matches to what those nitwits think.
I think it's weird that the VS girls measure with the tape in a huge diagonal criss-cross up and around my boobs. That's not how I wear my bra and I'm fairly confident that's not how the sweat shop workers measure when they sew the bras.
I think your sister and I are similar. I went down a band size (Same cup size though) and it's made all of the difference in the world so far.
But I will say that the person helping me yesterday wasn't terrible. She gave me a few sizes to try on after fitting me, saying that each body type is different. Their measure system was a little strange though.
I am not a lifetime shopper at VS by any means, but it wasn't as bad as I always pictured it.