Guest post by my bra-blogging pal from Bra Fitting Cidade and Soutienocracia
Reblog, because I think it needs to be seen.
It’s totally idiotic, and if you start reading the
comments there you’ll come to the conclusions that 95% of them are even
more moronic (let’s not be afraid to use this word) than the film
itself. What videos like these do is only to reinforce harmful stereotypes
that having bra sizes with cups over DD is something strange, abnormal
etc.(here you can put any other negative adjective). Generally these
stereotypes force women to wear bras with D or DD cups (which are
considered “normal”) and much too wide bands. Even if any of these women
who wear bad sizes happens to enter a store with a real bra-fitting,
she’s often shocked to hear that she should wear a 34FF or 34G instead
of 38D that she always used to wear, what’s more she may get hysterical
saying – I can’t/don’t have such big breasts. And refuse to wear a
correct size because of that. This is what we call a “letterphobia” – this fear of wearing DD+ cups.
We fight with these painful stereotypes. The Lobby organises numerous bra-fitting events and members try to promote the idea wherever and whenever possible. I’d like to present you the latest initiative by user butters77 -- G and GG busts. Dear ladies, look at this photograph.
This post appeared originally on Bra Fitting Cidade
Reblog, because I think it needs to be seen.
Internet and Youtube are full of stupid videos made by people who are complete ignorants about bra-fitting. Just like this one for example:
We fight with these painful stereotypes. The Lobby organises numerous bra-fitting events and members try to promote the idea wherever and whenever possible. I’d like to present you the latest initiative by user butters77 -- G and GG busts. Dear ladies, look at this photograph.
Don’t believe the stereotypes – G cup is a size like any other
The caption under the photo says: Don’t believe the stereotypes – G cup is a size like any other – (click on photo to see it big – you can zoom it more than twice there). The point is – all the women shown on it wear G or GG cups with different bands. What’s more, almost all of them wear British G/GG cups, which means if they wanted a continental bra size they would have to go for J, K or L cups…
Are these huge, enormous breasts? No, as you can see they vary in size. There are some smaller breasts that sport 60G or 60GG and some bigger ones with 85G but none of them reaches the proportions that were show in this idiotic video from Youtube.
And the bras themselves. Aren’t they beautiful? There’s a huge difference between lingerie that you can buy in so called “normal” shops that don’t carry all the sizes and the ones that do have them available (no matter if they are online or real ones). The bras that I an M were given when we were doing the research here in Lisbon didn’t even resemble the ones from the photo by butters77. Frankly speaking they were ugly (though it’s also a matter of taste, and as they say, you don’t discuss taste) . And much more expensive than these colourful, lacy bras that we normally buy.
Ladies, take a look at your breasts. Look around yourselves too. Look at the breasts of your mothers, sisters, daughters, cousins, girlfriends etc. How many of you have similar busts but yet choose to squeeze them into cups that are too small for them and bands that are much too wide and don’t provide support?
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