What’s your correct bra size?If you have been to our shopping page and clicked into any of the lingerie shops you will have noticed that they are located all over the world. This gives you great variety (especially considering exchange rates) however, it can be difficult if you are living in Australia and trying to buy a bra in America because the sizes are all different. Why?It turns out that prior to about 1935 bras did not have cup sizes. Around this time the cup size was created in America and was then followed by Europe and the rest of the world. Unlike today, in 1935 lingerie companies weren’t multinational affairs and therefore there was no need for consistency. To make matters worse once organizations decided to standardize their cup sizes, they felt it was unnecessary to do this for anything larger than a D cup. So if you are any size up to a D cup….great…..if you aren’t….good luck!! So, now we have this: America: D, DD, DDD, DDDD Europe: D, E, F, G Australia: D, DD, E, F, G Although I have found that this international bra size converter is a great help to determine correct bra size! The most reliable method is prior to purchasing a bra for the first time from a company in another country, just send them a quick email with your home country size and they will be able to make sure that you have the correct size! If you are wondering about how they come up with the band measure…read on…. In the 1930s, men had decided that the perfect womanly figure was 36-24-36 (inches). But band measurements are taken from underneath the breasts, on the rib cage. The men (of course) who designed the sizing decided that women would hate to say that they were only a 29 or a 30…this would mean that they didn’t have the perfect figure. So those wise men decided to add 5 inches to the underbreast measurement and this would be the band size. Personally, I think the smaller the better for any measurement….but it was a different time….and I’m a woman…. In Europe they didn’t adopt this. They decided to stick with centimeters and not add the extra measurement and this is why you will see bras that are, for example, 70G. In Australia, they decided that this would be all too confusing and decided to use the same numbers as dress sizes, for example, 14G or 12E. If this is all just tooooo confusing and you have decided that you will never have the correct bra size from an international company, have a look at
the international bra size converter!
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