Ask Ms Bra Fitting 101
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00:00 Bra fitting 101. Hello! Today I'm going to be talking about bra fitting. Did you
00:07 know that 80% of women do not wear the correct size bra? And why it is so
00:12 amazing to me is because I am extremely petite. I happen to only be about 4'10"
00:20 maybe 4'10" 4'11". My bra size I've always been wearing 32 A's because that is
00:25 generally the smallest size sold in stores. So recently I was contacted by
00:30 the Little Bra Company and they offered to send me a few of their bras to try on
00:37 to see what fit me. And I was very surprised with the answer so I was
00:41 excited to share with you a few facts about bra fitting and about finding the
00:46 correct size bra and what that can change for you. Okay so please forgive me
00:52 being that silly earlier. I just wanted to break some ice because this is going
00:57 to be a different kind of video. I am talking about bras which do tend to be
01:02 really personal so you know I just want to be kind of like loose and silly about
01:07 it. So I just want to start off talking about my backstory regarding bras and
01:13 bra fitting. As I mentioned before I'm really petite so it's very difficult for
01:17 me to find things that fit including undergarments. As every woman knows her
01:23 bra can really change how she sees herself as a woman and her self-image,
01:31 her body image. So much of the media concentrates on the size of your boobs
01:37 and having not a very large chest. I always just assumed that things like
01:44 cleavage or you know a correctly fitting bra were these like anonymous ideas
01:52 floating around in the air that I would never actually be able to attain. So in
01:57 terms of bra fitting for the majority of the population of women it's totally
02:03 cool and appropriate for you to go to a lingerie department and say like a
02:08 department store and get fitted for your correct bra size. What they'll do is
02:12 they'll like measure your band and measure your bust size and like do some
02:17 calculations and they'll tell you what they recommend. Well I find that for me
02:21 because I am so small I have a very small frame that those numbers don't
02:29 mathematically really work for me. So what I do find to work just for me
02:34 personally and probably for other women who are also very petite is I take a
02:39 measuring tape. If you measure around above your chest that should give you
02:44 your correct man size. My measurement is 28. So assuming that I have been wearing
02:52 32s which are the smallest that are available in the market none of my bras
02:58 have fit and I didn't realize that and I didn't really realize what that could
03:02 mean. But actually the most common thing that women have an issue with with their
03:08 bras fitting incorrectly is the band size being larger than what they should
03:14 wear. They usually go down a cup size and up in their band size which doesn't give
03:21 you the kind of support that you need. And for me it also doesn't give me the
03:25 cleavage that I realized I could have. No comments about me still not having
03:29 cleavage I realize it's not a lot. But I work with what I got right? Everybody should.
03:34 To start off I'm actually going to put on a few bras over my tank top to show
03:40 you how they fit because I just don't really feel comfortable in the nakedness
03:46 in front of y'all. So hopefully this will be a little bit funny. Okay so this is a
03:54 Victoria's Secret biofit bra in a 32a which was a previously one of my most
04:01 favorite bras and I was really excited because I thought it fit. Well okay I
04:07 know it's weird a little bit like hey look at my boobies but as you can see
04:12 it's not doing a whole lot for me in the chest area. Still pretty flat and if you
04:20 can see from the side do you see how far out I can pull this band? You're only
04:27 supposed to be able to pull this two fingers worth which is like that. Not
04:34 like this. Plus I'm wearing it on the smallest hook. Really outrageous. This
04:40 ends up wrapping around almost to like the sides of my entire body and that's
04:47 not going to do anything for the girls. Aren't your ladies supposed to be like
04:52 front and perky and cleavage and lifted but if they're like too far wide they're
04:57 just gonna like sit there. But like I said that's all I thought was available
05:02 to me. So not good. You're not gonna get the kind of support, you're not gonna get
05:08 the kind of lift you need, and also if this is really loose you're not gonna
05:13 get any help. You know what I mean? Looking nice under clothing that sort of
05:19 thing. So yeah far too big not gonna work out. So this bra is the the Little Bra
05:26 Company Sasha bra. It's a strapless in a size 32A which is the size that I had
05:33 been wearing from you know just going to Victoria's Secret or any other lingerie
05:38 store. That's what I've been wearing and as you can see this one actually does do
05:44 a little bit more up here but see how like this is pulling up. That happens
05:51 because this band is too loose as well. It is smaller than my Victoria's Secret
05:56 one. The Little Bra Company they say that their sizes run petite so if you get a
06:02 bra from them you should size up one I believe. So if you usually get a
06:09 32 you should maybe try a 34 but that's not always the case. For me obviously you
06:15 know this is more than two fingers again and I put this on the smallest hook
06:19 which is not the best idea to do if you're wearing a brand new bra. But if
06:24 you see this part pulling up from these straps you might be having the shoulder
06:30 straps too tight. Most of like I would say 90% of your support should come
06:34 around here and only 10% from the straps. These should just be loose enough to be
06:38 comfortable otherwise you could even get like permanent ditches in your shoulders
06:44 which is just kind of gross. So again not my size. Okay so this one is again the
06:50 Sasha. The same style as the last bra I tried on. This is in a size 30A which I
06:56 was almost certain would be my correct size because it's a size down from the
07:00 32s I've been wearing. They run a size smaller so I thought that of course 30A
07:05 should work. But I mean again it looks better up here than the others but this
07:12 is on the smallest size hook again and this is more than two fingers worth. See
07:19 that? So I was like oh my goodness so then I asked the Little Bra Company to
07:25 send me size down even further. Okay so please don't laugh. I decided to go a
07:32 size smaller and thinking naturally since I had the no with 32A and 30A I
07:40 decided to try the 28A and oh my goodness this is like cutting my boobs
07:46 in half. This is too small for me which like yay that's awesome I've never had
07:51 that happen before but at the same time look the band fits perfectly and this is
07:58 even on the third hook so when it stretches out I could wear it on the
08:02 middle one which is also amazing and it also has never happened before but I'm
08:07 feeling a little inappropriate. It's it's sort of cutting into my chest right here
08:16 so I'm gonna try the 28B. Okay so dun dun dun dun my triumphant song. This is the 28B
08:26 and it fits perfectly. It doesn't squeeze my boobies so much that it cuts off you
08:33 know the the shape of the breast tissue and it doesn't pull out too far and I
08:39 have some cleavage even though I'm not even using straps so obviously like I
08:43 said before the importance of most of the support coming from the band is
08:46 finally there and the crazy thing is after I tried on these bras and then
08:53 when I tried to wear my older bras I just couldn't. They all felt so awkward
09:02 and large and I noticed all of these things about proportions. So I want to
09:07 mention something about cup sizes. Cup sizes are proportionate to band sizes so
09:14 say you have a 32A. That A cup is not going to be the same on a 30A. It
09:21 actually goes one down so a 32 double A the cup part is going to be the same as
09:27 a 30A. So let me demonstrate that for you. It was really shocking to me to end up
09:32 as a 28B because my whole life I thought I was like an A to a double A but it was
09:37 just because I was wearing the incorrect band size in the first place. So from the
09:41 Little Bra Company the first one they had sent me was a size 32A which is this
09:46 one right here and I don't know if you can see this on camera very well but if
09:52 you compare it to the 30A the cup is actually smaller. This cup is bigger this
09:59 is smaller although they're both A cups and if you go down one more this is the
10:05 28A. If you compare that to the 32 can you see the difference there? It's a lot
10:14 bigger. Like it's two cup sizes bigger which is pretty incredible. So that whole
10:20 idea goes also if you have bigger cup sizes. A lot of people who are say 34B or
10:28 think they're a 34B might actually be a 32C and they actually probably should
10:34 wear the 32C because they're gonna get the kind of support that they need and
10:38 it's not a matter of like making yourself feel better by like oh oh I have
10:43 a bigger cup size it's just that most people honestly wear the wrong bra size.
10:48 So here's the thing if you wear a band that is too big things start to get a
10:56 little more affected by gravity. If you have a band that's too tight that can be
11:00 a problem too. That's not usually the problem but that could be a problem too
11:05 because the fat on the sides it can like accumulate and stay there permanently
11:13 or like I said if you put the straps too tight it can dig marks into your
11:18 shoulders. So what you can do to avoid that is first of all absolutely make
11:23 sure you're wearing the correct bra and when you put it on. This is another
11:27 Little Bra Company bra in Lucia it's very pretty. What you're gonna do is you
11:32 put it on and you lean forward and actually scoop your boob into the bra on
11:39 both sides and then you lift up when you're up the girls should be nice and
11:45 in place where they should be. If this cup is in too far then that breast
11:50 tissue is going to be cut in half and some of that can migrate to the back. So
11:54 people have actually found that a lot of women who end up changing to the correct
11:57 bra size will actually find that their boobs get a little bit bigger because
12:02 that breast tissue goes in the correct spot. That's always good right? One of my
12:10 really good resources that I went to was my friend Shannon who actually worked as
12:15 the manager of a lingerie department. She measured me to be a 28 as well and then
12:20 that just made me angry because I was like where in the world am I gonna find
12:23 a 28? So I just keep wearing my bras because where else am I gonna find
12:26 anything that fits? Which makes me super glad that there are companies like the
12:31 Little Bra Company where they go all the way down to a 28A which is too small
12:37 for me and there aren't a whole lot of people I've met in my life who are more
12:41 petite than I am. So for you girls out there who feel like you know being a 32
12:46 is really difficult, yeah I relate to that and you should definitely look into
12:53 finding the correct size bra because they make them. You can find it you just
12:57 have to look a little harder but it is so worth it to find the correct bra
13:00 size. I do want to mention that Victoria's Secret has recently started
13:04 carrying 30As as well. This is one bra that I got recently after I experienced
13:10 my whole bra epiphany. It's the Victoria's Secret Pink Push Up and I
13:15 think you can only order the 30s online. This is a 30A and the way it runs in
13:21 comparison to the Little Bra Company bras is the 30 actually fits in between
13:26 the 28 and 30 so it's pretty small. It's considerably smaller than the 30 in
13:32 terms of the band. I will say that the cup I don't think they size these as
13:37 proportionately as the Little Bra Company does because obviously Victoria's
13:41 Secret doesn't specialize in petite sizes but this gives me just about the
13:47 biggest push up I've ever found in a bra ever of all time. In conclusion I found
13:52 that wearing a smaller band size has done amazing things for me in terms of
13:58 like getting more cleavage, getting more lift, more support. Having a strapless
14:04 bra that actually fits me for once in my life is kind of nice and now I just feel
14:09 like I have to throw out all of my old bras. It's like I don't know I just feel
14:14 like it's such a life-changing thing and I wanted to tell all you guys about it
14:18 because I feel like everybody needs to know this. Everybody should be you know
14:24 wearing the correct size bra because it makes such a difference not only how you
14:28 look with your clothes on but just how you feel as a woman. You know feeling
14:33 like you are a woman. I always feel like a much younger than I am. I'm 25 right
14:39 now as for when this video is made and a lot of people think that I'm like 16
14:45 sometimes and it's like part of the reason is because I didn't have the
14:51 correct tools to help my appearance to be more like a woman. So I just hope that
14:58 you guys can take this information and that it'll help somehow in your journey
15:04 to finding the correctly fitting clothes that you need. So yep I guess that's it.
15:09 If you have any more like maybe I'll call these ask Miz my little teacher
15:17 glasses. If you have any more questions for Miz about fashion or how things fit
15:23 maybe I can answer those in a future video so please in the comments you know
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