Here's some interesting information on bra sizes on (of all places) a teen website.
It says, no surprise, 80% of women wear the wrong size. Also no surprise (I've heard this before) the average bra size is 36C. But of those women wearing a 36C, it says they should be wearing a 34D, 34DD, 32DD, or 32E. The TRUE average bra size would be 34DD.
So they are saying, basically, the average strap size is too big. IME women really don't like a bra strap that's too tight, and it's easy to imagine why, so it's not clear to me that the wearers of 36C might indeed be happier with that than the "correct" 34D or 34DD.
Later on, when detailing how to do the measurements they say to round up the under-breast measurement if it's odd, but then possibly to skip to the next whole size if even. So it seems their measurement method is already moving the band size up, just as it seems most women prefer to do.
It really gets fun where they tell you to remember the cup sizes available in the UK, from AA to KK.
It says, no surprise, 80% of women wear the wrong size. Also no surprise (I've heard this before) the average bra size is 36C. But of those women wearing a 36C, it says they should be wearing a 34D, 34DD, 32DD, or 32E. The TRUE average bra size would be 34DD.
So they are saying, basically, the average strap size is too big. IME women really don't like a bra strap that's too tight, and it's easy to imagine why, so it's not clear to me that the wearers of 36C might indeed be happier with that than the "correct" 34D or 34DD.
Later on, when detailing how to do the measurements they say to round up the under-breast measurement if it's odd, but then possibly to skip to the next whole size if even. So it seems their measurement method is already moving the band size up, just as it seems most women prefer to do.
It really gets fun where they tell you to remember the cup sizes available in the UK, from AA to KK.
