14B or not 14B...? That is the question!

[Ms Grace]

Rather helpfully  the hangers they use for the clothes in Target have colour coded sizes on the neck of the hanger to make it easier to tell what size you're browsing. Rather unhelpfully they are often the wrong size for the garment. Especially the bras. Went to try one on that I thought was a 14C* (we live in hope, OK?) only to find it was actually a 10F!!! Mind you, I didn't realise that until I had tried it on, or attempted to...no way that band was going around my chest. And the cups!! Whoah momma!!! I was pretty disappointed at first until I realised!

Anyway, I went and found an actual 14C and a 16B (what I've been wearing the last few months)...I'd heard that if you go down a band size you can go up a cup size, and I've noticed in addition to an increase in boobage that my torso is getting slimmer as I lose muscle. Annoyingly neither fit. Way too much room in the cups for a 14C ( ) although the band was OK and the 16B was not great either. So I grabbed a 14B and Lo! it fit very nicely.

Bra fitting is apparently a very arcane science!

*Aussie sizes, I think 14C equals 36C US, 10F = 32F,  16B is 38B &14B is 36B.

[stephaniec]

That definitely is the most annoying problem shopping at Target. I guess it crosses international boundaries .

[Devlyn]

Of course, you'll never know if something fits until you try it, but there is a lot of sizing information in the Reference Library:

https://www.susans.org/reference/index.html

[ImagineKate]

I can't wait to get professionally fitted.

[Dee Marshall]

Thanks for the info on Aussie sizes. I read something where someone said they wore a 12C and I was imagining a stick figure. Do the numbers refer to actual measures of some sort?

[Newgirl Dani]

I dream of the high C's......................Maybe not tooo far off though, in 5 mo. I've went from zero cup to a full A, and now starting on a B           I think imagining this in Aussie terms, somehow would make me feel like a Jr. Miss or some type of young person catagory.  I did buy a realllllly nice Victoria's Secret bra in a C cup and each time I slide open those closet doors, I dream a little.    Dani

[Ms Grace]

Do the numbers refer to actual measures of some sort?

To be hones I have no clue. All our clothing is based on the same. So I've been fitting into size 16 clothing. That is starting to get large for women's sizes but they fit me well because of my height. Some women who are shorter than me have to wear much larger sizes.

[Nicole]

I got one of their $6 bras the other day when a wire broke through the bra I was wearing, boy its a $6 well spent

[kelly_aus]

In Australia, the band size is nominally matched to our 'standard' clothing sizes - which is why we have issues with size calculators.. There's also a difference between cup sizes..

[CrissyMarie]

The worse problem I'm having..besides the jealousy of you other girls, is seeming only have a full A cup "which" wouldn't be that bad except my rib cage is a little wide and 38 fits quite nice.  36 feel to tight.  So if any of you girls find a place that sells 38A bras let me know because I have been wearing no cup sports bras for 6 months and still can't wear a normal bra.  It's down right depressing.  9 months HRT and these are all I have to show for it.  >.< please for the love of God grow!! To at least a B cup so I can wear a normal fricken bra.

[katrinaw]

Haa, happens in clothes sections too in Target!

http://www.brasnthings.com/sizing-guide/international-bra-size-conversion

The link gives cross boundary sizing equivalents...

I'm 14B... on the whole, depending can also fit nicely into a 34B (if its on loosest clip  ) Hope to make it a C cup too???

L Katy