― jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― di, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
My BUM, however - I have to wear Size 38 to get my ass in a comfy pair of slacks that won't cut off the circulation to my legs. I think I've mentioned this before. My butt just won't quit. And this is not a good thing.
― David Raposa, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― rainy, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Geoff, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― anthony, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― turner, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Helen Fordsdale, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ed, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
YUM YUM, a samosa for breakfast? Go on then...
― Sarah, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― suzy, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I have no idea my LEG measurements, but they're probably quite little.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
tops = xl some L but they're a bit tight
― chris, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― jel, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Emma, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
being i are a Uber-tall Mutant (with big feet, no less,
― Kodanshi, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Paul Strange, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
"What would a thread about bra size and clothing size reveal? I'm all for it, let's start, I want to see what it reveals about me. It's like fortune telling, with articles of clothing.
-- Ally (garance80@yahoo.com), October 09, 2001."
and kodanshi, for the last time, i am not a woman, damnit! so that better have been one of those general remarks. (i'm not getting *that* operation again...)
Actually sod that, it's vvvv ANNOYING. Especially in the embarassing situations where you find a 12 doesn't fit. Or a 14. Then you storm out. I REFUSE to be a size 16, to be honest. I'm only little!
― Laetitia, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Bill, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I don't believe Ally is size 6. Are sizes different in the US? I mean size 6 is like Victorian midget size.
― Nick, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Then again she's 4ft10 and anorexic so one must make their allowances eh whot?
I'm a 32C or 32D depending on the brand.
Actually, I don't have a body, I have an inverse-tardis. I fit everything from a size 8 to a size 14 (these are Australian sizes, so that's about a 6 to a 12 in American sizes).
― toraneko, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I have to wear pants with 34" inseam. It's ridiculous. This is why I wear skirts all the time.
And yes, jess, I did ask that question - but no one has answered it! My point wasn't to sit about and discuss our size, my point is I still wanna know what it says about you!
― DG, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I mean, you sit there, in front of your computer, fantasising that all those with whom you communicate online are complete babes and then a thread comes along where they reveal that they weigh 100kg and that their 40DD breasts rest on their size 20 tummy which in return rests on their massive thighs as they are sitting there typing. It's just gross.
― Samantha, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― fred solinger, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
where can one find such shoes fred? (even tho i'm sure they still wouldnt fit...)
What the hell kind of shoes are those -- bunny slippers?
― Nicole, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
and, despite what that cad ronan might have you believe, the rest of me is...proportional.
In real life I'm not too fussed about how people are physically, so long as they don't smell or ooze pus. I would rather cuddle up to or otherwise maul someone who was on the larger side of average. In my fantasies I want things to stay strictly soft-core porn style though.
If I was more good at putting things into words I would ask some sort of question about how destructive the media's portrayal of beauty really is and whether short, fat, curly-haired, befreckled, ugly, hairy people are being rendered partnerless for life because they, and all the other short, fat, curly-haired, befreckled, ugly, hairy people, are wanting the tall, skinny, straight-haired, smooth-olive- skinned, beautiful people that populate magazines & billboards. Something like that. You know, the idea that we are bombarded many times a day with images of such profound beauty that, if we were living in nit infested villages, we would probably never see, that we are becoming ultra-fussy and setting standards that cannot be reached. I mean, I don't think any magazine ever tempted me to become anorexic or bulimic, at least not whilst I was a teenager but now that I'm getting closer to 30 I am obsessed with how revolting I am compared with the chicks in the magazines and I think I *NEED* plastic surgery, laser hair removal, fake-tan, coloured contacts, make-up, new everything. In fact, how could someone as imperfect as me DARE to go outside where people might see me??? Can anyone else ask what I'm trying to ask because I can't work out how to say it.
none taken. not a bit.
And the obverse holds true which is that men - and here I think it may be men more often - who express a preference for, eg, big women then feel that big women somehow owe it to them to fall for them. Which is crap, obviously.
About the only thing you can say is that you shouldn't get your regret at the general state of things - that the spectrum of human desire is poorly represented in the media - confused with unfairly expecting individuals to fancy anyone other than the people they do already.
― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sean, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
As for media representations of women who wear double-digit sizes, it can be distressing at times to think that, according to Hollywood and NYC you simply don't exist. But what I really find offensive is when clothing manufacturers and retailers buy into that myth, and thus there is no clothing in my size that I find particularly attractive. This becomes incomprehensible when I see a clearance rack overflowing with small size garments that no one is buying even at deep discounts.
― j.lu, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
It pisses me off because, for example, the GAP is so, so, so damn proud of the fact that it has like 8 trillion different sizes and colors and styles of jeans, but god help you if you're looking for a size 6 long in that store. Not only do they never have it, but if you ask they look at you like you grew three more heads and then tell you how they have size 10 long, as if 10 = 6 somehow. H&M pulls this horrible similar trick of stocking each item in one size only (seemingly). If I find an item I like, if the first one is a size 12, I need look no further cos ALL of them are size 12, always. Sometimes you find that with a size 6, but it's usually size 10, 12 or 14.
I would gladly trade with anyone who shops at these other stores I keep being told about that only stock size extra small and small.
The problem is, clothing manufacturers don't seem to make clothing for ANYONE if you look at what both sides say. No one here can find clothes that fit properly in nice styles without hunting, but it's not like we're all clones. What the hell is that about?
Isn't there some store that just stocks all the sizes?
In the case of the plus-size section, most of what any given store has is c***; when these section stock larger versions of clothes available in the "misses" department the plus size version tends to cost more. (I find that not just insulting but inexplicable, in light of the clearance racks I see dripping with petite and small garments that aren't selling even at deep markdowns.)
I have a fairly small chest. I do not know about the size of my ass, but I think it's a pretty good size. I wear a range of five sizes, 2 at Old Navy to sometimes a 7 at the Weathervane, and I wear my pants with big heels and never buy petite sizes even though I am short.
― Maria, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Hank, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― maryann, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
My bum is exactly the right size.
― Ally C, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Speaking of cabooses: Here come the Wonder bum.
― bnw, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Kim, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Theoretically it costs more cos it takes more material (I am not advocating this! I am just stating the excuse), but in reality the difference in material is so small between a size 2 and a size 16 that it makes no sense at all. Even more inexplicable is the fact that petites cost more than regular, but tall doesn't 90% of the time. I have no idea what that means. -- Ally (garance80@yahoo.com), October 10, 2001.
-- Ally (garance80@yahoo.com), October 10, 2001.
1) The most remotely rational explanation I've ever heard is that the plus sizes require special rescaling, adaptation, etc. I find this difficult to believe given modern computer-assisted design. And assuming that this is true, why aren't petites or talls subject to similar cost recovery?
2) Petites costing more than average? It's probably a matter of where I shop, but in my experience petites cost the same as average, and they simply don't stock special stuff for talls.
3) I know what you mean about the smaller garment requiring less material (and probably labor), but when the size 16 flew out of the store and the size 6 doesn't sell before the really deep markdowns start, any savings must be lost. Are manufacturers sitting so pretty that they can ignore store buyers requesting more size 16 and fewer size 6?
― j.lu, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Samantha, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Well, they're apparently sitting pretty enough that they can afford to ignore store buyers requesting more size 4 or 6 that isn't in petites, so I imagine size 16 isn't much to them either.
Let's face a hard cold fact: unless you are a size 8/10/12, you aren't getting clothes in this country without searching for them. And god help you if you are thin and NOT petite (or heavy but not average to tall - why is plus size clothes all so long?)
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Maria, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
It's a very interesting question when you start to wonder why this sort of thing isn't considered discrimination in the same way something like an entertainment complex built far more chaeply without wheelchair access usually would be.
― Kim, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― anthony, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― lily, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― ethan, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Big feet on women... *drool* -- Kodanshi, Tuesday, October 9, 2001 5:00 PM (5 years ago)
― gershy, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 04:32 (seventeen years ago)
When the world looks back on America in shock post-9/11...
― Eazy, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 04:38 (seventeen years ago)
whatever happened to that dude?
― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 04:40 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/NMAWWBF.jpg
― gershy, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 04:42 (seventeen years ago)
Silence! Its your ass we need, not your yapping!
-- Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, October 9, 2001 8:00 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago)
Good to know my boob size has grown 2 inches in 6 years. Although I suspect this has more to do with my general growing. :/
Hanle y is missed. . .
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago)
I don't think I'd ever heard/read/thought "32D" before reading this thread.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago)
It sounds like an elf on a fantasy-novel cover.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago)
I know intellectually how it would work but it is hard to visualize.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago)
i lost a ton of weight between initial posting to thread and now, i was down to about 100lb, 105lbs. i'm back a lot closer to my previous posting size now, tho maybe about 10lbs less.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago)
I've gained alot. Oh help me synthetic thyroid hormone, you're my only hope!
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago)
small boobs big ole butt
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago)
nice!
I dated a girl that had to squeeze into a 32D. she told me she should be a 32DD but the size pretty much did not exist.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, I was going to comment on the foot thing too although now I want to know what Gershy's getting at. While worshiping big feet is a little strange, bashing them is mean! I'm 5'10", if I didn't have big feet I'd probably topple over or something. End rant.
small to average boobs big hips medium sized butt
― ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago)
I honestly wouldn't even know what to do with tits that big. How did she find clothes!?
x post
I worked at a maternity clothing store and one day was stocking a 32E bra. "Who wears these?" I thought. But the next day in came a short woman who, yes, ended up being a 32E when I sized her. She had a really beautiful back piece of a phoenix rising from flames. It felt unintentionally voyeuristic, sizing her bra.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago)
I am a fatty.
― jessie monster, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago)
xpost
explain how this looked Abbott. Were her boobs broad? Did they protrude much from the front?
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago)
i posted earlier on this thread at the skinniest and cutest time of my life, never to be replicated unless i start running marathons while eating only vegetables. i'm bigger all around now, but i too find it comforting that my boobs grew as well. (xpost)
― Maria, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago)
How did she find clothes!?
she got a breast reduction!
i remember she used to wear alot of rugby shirts.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago)
big tits these days. i refer to them as udders tbh. i'm wearing the ONLY FUCKING bra i could find in the whole FUCKING city when i was pregnant with ophelia. i feel like frigging jordan. *sigh*
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago)
so i'm guessing the breasts are double ds. i so do not want to check the size of the bra.
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago)
in the age of Google Images, we need to ask what 32D boobs look like?
― milo z, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago)
If we're at work then yes, yes we do.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago)
32B-23-36. I have a bizarrely tiny waist and a huge butt.
my ex-housemate is a 32D. She's hot.
― Roz, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago)
Thank you ENBB.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago)
they look like udders. to me anyway. yes, you got it, i don't feel particularly sexy.
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah I've never thought of measuring the actual length (?) of the boob from chest to tip. The number measurement is all around the chest at nipple height so some of the less smaller among us could have higher numbers without actually being as large as those pixie 32Ds. (tech details for benefit of guys or whatever.)
FTR, I'm 40 C/D these days, depending on the bra. Hopefully I'll get back to my normal 38 soon.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago)
I should really stop reading this thread before I start making encouraging comments and whatnot. Or any comments at all.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago)
I thought the number measurement was taken just below the boobs and cup size was measured according to the deifference between that and the measurement around the nipples at the largest point. I could be wrong though it's been a while since I've been properly fitted.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago)
Yep ENBB got it.
― Roz, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago)
Okay, I knew the difference was btw the rib cage measurement and the nip measurement.
omg, how far around am I at nip level then???
I really need to be properly measured.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago)
I just checked for the bra size label. No label. I will never know. Good.
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago)
Wait, one comment: a problem with this discussion is that terms like "big butt" and "huge ass" have lost all meaning these days, or anyways have a meaning such that there are maybe three women in the world who would not claim to have a big butt / huge ass. (There's also some vagueness with regard to the direction of bigness/hugeness, like big-booty roundness vs. wideness vs. "normal in terms of dimensions, but I deem it fat in, like, shape and quality.") It gets confusing, this shape-versus-size issue.
I'm just noting this, not asking anyone to get more specific or post pictures or anything.
HEY NABISCO DON'T POST THIS
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago)
36c/d-25-38
― luna, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago)
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
― ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago)
whoops - that was to Nabisco, not Luna obv.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago)
on wobbly ground
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago)
My ass is okay. Average. Fine with me.
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago)
I don't trust stores (ESPECIALLY FUCKING VICTORIA'S SECRET) to measure me because the last time they did they were extremely, obviously wrong.
My mom had to have a breast reduction (her boobs are HUGE still) and ever since my metabolism collapsed I am becoming increasingly paranoid I will eventually need one.
That said, I weigh a good bit more than I did three years ago, but my clothing sizes haven't changed that much--I carry all my weight around my belly.
― jessie monster, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago)
Victoria's secret is horrible and their bras suck. They've never worked for me.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago)
I think the term apple bottom should be employed more.
I have an adequate/average butt. Fills out tight jeans nicely. I do wish it was more apple-y/beyonce-ish though.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago)
Me too but I wish I had Jessica Biel's ass. It's something else.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago)
yeah, I think it's better to measure yourself for bras. I went to a fancy specialty shop and it sort of seemed like a BS tell women their boobs are bigger than they are because women are cripplingly insecure and they don't want the truth operation. they straight up lied to me about my cup size.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago)
So true about Victoria's secret being terrible. Best bras I've had are always the cheapo-but-cute ones from Target.
Ha Ms M, my dance teacher used to call me apple-butt. I like my butt now but this was not necessarily something one wanted to hear during the very awkward, self-conscious age of 14.
― Roz, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago)
xxpost You just want Justin's hand on your bum. ;-)
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago)
Yes well that would be nice too.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago)
Bubble butt is different from Apple butt, right?
― milo z, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago)
Jessica Biel = Bubble Beyonce/J. Lo = apple
― Roz, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago)
Ha, sorry, I just have years of memories of people going "oh, my ass is SO big, I've got junk in the trunk, Sir Mixalot would LOVE me," and then you look and it's like, pfft, you barely have an ass, it's just a little chunkier than you'd like! This got really bad around 2001 or whenever, when everyone started writing articles about how big asses were hot, and then people said "great, I've got a big ass," when of course it's, like ... so does your middle-aged mother, but that's not really the definition of "big ass" people are using when they talk about Jennifer Lopez.
(To be clear again, I am talking about social patterns and nomenclature here, and respect and support whatever kind of ass anyone has going. They all have the potential for greatness, which makes it all the more important that we use our ass-terms with elegance and specificity and a minimum of confusion.)
DON'T POST THAT EITHER
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago)
no photos here huh
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago)
I would think similar.
Damn I just posted a J.Biel and Bey butt comparison but I think the post was eaten. I'd rather have Jay Z's hand on mine.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago)
Honestly I may be a freak of nature but VS bras DO fit me better than any other bra.
― jessie monster, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago)
fuck that was Biel!
Bey
it's big so linked.
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago)
goddammit!!!
I do not like jessica biel.
I think I have more of an apple butt than bubble, but who-t-f knows? I have posted far too many other revealing pictures and this time will rein myself in.
― luna, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago)
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper410/stills/1176i6yt.jpg
How I feel.
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago)
You have good reason to feel that way Nath.
Bey gets spanked. for realz this time
― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago)
MM - I have no opinions towards her other than that her ass is amazing. That's not even a great pic and it still looks excellent.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago)
nb, I'm not saying you have udders but you are pregnant so obv you're going to feel larger and more uncomfortable.
(I just do not like her b/c that stupid link of her kept posting when I meant to put a different one.)
Oh yeah, I realize that they grew massive for a reason, hence why I call'em udders. I just don't want'em to remain that size once I quit breastfeeding. Which I know won't happen, been there before. I also had bigger boobs when I was a teenager. Boy, I did not enjoy running then.
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago)
well my ass may not be quite j.lo's but it is the only part of me that ever got curvy so it uh, sticks out.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago)
The lady w/the 32E breasts had large, round front boobs. I wouldn't have guessed her cup size would be that big had I not measured her.
I was hella good at bra sizing, way better than the three other women who asked there, to the point where they'd tell women to come in tomorrow when I worked there. I would never have guessed I had some amazing talent for it.
Actually, come to think of it, it was not some amazing talent. They had a measuring tape that you had to do some simple math to figure out the actual sizing after using the measuring tape. The instructions were right on it. I felt like Bart when he starts working for the mafia and they tell him he makes really good mixed drinks, when all he did was dust off the recipe chart and use it accurately.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago)
bra size = measurement under breasts + 5 inches cup size = measurement of fullest part of breast - bra size
I think?
I read in Glamour that if you are a size 8/10 top you should be wearing a 34 and for 12/14 a 36, hmmm.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 16 August 2007 02:06 (seventeen years ago)
I have a skirt that's a size 5 and fits, and pants that are 15 and fit, so I have no idea what size to wear anymore.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 16 August 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago)
-- luna, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:09 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
-- ENBB, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:09 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
-- ENBB, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:10 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
I dunno, the "haha"s weren't so obviously directed to nabisco to me. Is luna a paper doll?
― kenan, Thursday, 16 August 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago)
And if those are her real dimensions, can I speculate that they were not before surgery?
― kenan, Thursday, 16 August 2007 02:53 (seventeen years ago)
And can I forward that as 1000x more reason she should not be parading around in front of her son?
― kenan, Thursday, 16 August 2007 02:54 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.tartingitup.com/photos/uncategorized/crepe.jpghttp://www.tartingitup.com/photos/uncategorized/crepe.jpghttp://www.tartingitup.com/photos/uncategorized/crepe.jpg
― haitch, Thursday, 16 August 2007 03:36 (seventeen years ago)
You do have a way with words, Kenan.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 August 2007 04:36 (seventeen years ago)
wtf, dude?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 August 2007 05:59 (seventeen years ago)
Can I point out that you are a flaming asshole?
― luna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago)
Staying up too late again, Kenan?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 16 August 2007 07:59 (seventeen years ago)
Seriously, sometimes you just need to log off and go to sleep before posting whatever comes to your mind.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 16 August 2007 08:00 (seventeen years ago)
34AA-25-30, size 4 shoes. :(
― Gaia1981, Thursday, 16 August 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago)
Gaia, if I remember rightly you're absolutely gorgeous, though
― Mark C, Thursday, 16 August 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago)
this thread has inspired me to take my measurements for the first time in a long while; i'm not sure how your bra sizing works cuz here i'm a 12B, but if it's inches than i'm: 34B-29-40
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 16 August 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago)
Some NASA-level doucherocketry there, Kenan.
― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago)
i feel like frigging jordan. *sigh*
-- stevienixed, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:52 PM
don't let anyone here stop you :-)
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
oh god i am so sorry.
that's how i first read it too... and i was confused ;)
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago)
I don't know what my top measurement is as I'm thouroughly confused by the bra sizing business now. Although I do know the most recent bra I bought was 40D. I think the rest of my measurements are probably 34 (insert frownie) 38 or something.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago)
have a skirt that's a size 5 and fits, and pants that are 15 and fit, so I have no idea what size to wear anymore.
same here. today i'm wearing a skirt borrowed from a friend that's a size 6, but the dress that i wore yesterday is a 12. who knows.
― lauren, Thursday, 16 August 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago)
Was the dress vintage? They always run large.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago)
no, it's not. i'm sure it's just the skirt running big, because i'm usually more like a 10. this kind of size variance happens often enough to confuse me, though.
― lauren, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago)
I vary between a (UK size) 8-12, but I'm pretty much basically a ten.
Shoe size 4.
34B, 28, 36 (I think the last is correct, I haven't measured my hips for ages.)
― Anna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago)
Also, the dress sizing in H&M is mental and apparently done at random - I run between a 6 and a 14 there.
― Anna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago)
that's very true. i never know what size i'm going to be at h&m.
― lauren, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago)
You know you've been reading ILX too long when you read:
I'm 40 C/D and 36c/d
and you want to yell "CLASSIC!"
― onimo, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago)
BIG BOOBS IN ONLINE APPRECIATION SHOCKER!
― Mark C, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago)
oh god one time i had the misfortune of being in a vs and was basically ATTACKED by a sales girl who kept insisting i was buying the wrong bra size. she was being VERY LOUD and just kept yelling at me that i wear a 34D, which i DO NOT (i wear a 34C). then she just started groping my boobs in the middle of the sales floor. i was basically way too weirded out by this and left immediately.
THE THING WAS THAT I WAS NOT EVEN BUYING A BRA BECAUSE I DO NOT ENJOY VICTORIA'S SECRET'S BRAS ONE BIT.
also hey males can you be any more creepy, the lot of you?
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago)
sorry.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago)
Lol Ally you love the attention
― Mark C, Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago)
you weren't being creepy, i didn't want to be specific though. xpost to thermo
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 16 August 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago)
i dunno, mark, between nabisco's multi-paragraph missives on asses and kenan's repulsive "lol u has surgery" comments, i think the attention is kinda creepy. sorry!
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago)
not as creepy as that sales girl though.
i'm not bothering to take mine but actually ruby i think i'm quite close to your size!
wow xpost with SALESGIRL ATTACK! twice
― Maria, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago)
This is only because it so far impossible to reach physcially through computer screens.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago)
I find it interesting that several women have posted as having virtually the same measurements, but I'M clearly the one who has had "surgery."
― luna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago)
You are picked on too much Luna, this is true.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago)
luna, i'm not sure what kenan is on about since your measurements seem pretty believable to me - beautiful proportions which i would love to have, but certainly not odd or freakish or unbelievable.
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago)
Kenan is crepey. This is well-established.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago)
awww... kenan's cool, he's just a bit.. odd. but his comments here seemed uncalled for.
― Rubyredd, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago)
You haven't been here long enough, Rubs.
― luna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago)
haha! I've met Kenan before and like him fine as a person but he is what he is.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago)
Well said.
― jaymc, Thursday, 16 August 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago)
I AM BEING CRITICIZED FOR TALKING ABOUT ASSES BY A WOMAN WHO STARTED A THREAD CALLED "I HAVE A BIG ASS"
― nabisco, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago)
And I'm being criticized by a man who has posted things about me - unsolicited things, I might point out - such as "I really want to have sex with Luna. I mean, really. I think even her horniest admirers here cannot approach the zeal with which I admire our Miss Aimee. She's funny, she's lovely, she's above all unknown. I may have a girlfriend, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't punch someone out cold to get at Aimee."
Life is unfair, n.
― luna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago)
He was criticizing you? Don't re-qoute him. It only resurrects the horror.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago)
i think N. is talking about A.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago)
He was. And L. was talking about K. Speaking in initials is fun.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago)
I'm nothing special
― RJG, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago)
He was criticizing you?
I don't see another way to read things like And if those are her real dimensions, can I speculate that they were not before surgery? and Is luna a paper doll?, do you?
― luna, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago)
I'm surprised it took this long for this thread to get creepy and nasty
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago)
I have poor memory and little discipline to re-read. :)
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago)
<un-derailment attempt>I have almost no ass and no boobs at all.</un-derailment attempt>
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 16 August 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago)
I am just a brain in a jar
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago)
jesus is this thing still going
― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago)
I'm so sorry that my misplaced HAHAHAHAHAs seemed to have caused K to post that in the first place. :-( Also, he said WHAT?!
― ENBB, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago)
who is kenan's gf? he says she posts on ilx.
― chaki, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago)
i think he means jaymc
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago)
this thread is actually giving me a bit of a tummyache
― Will M., Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago)
I think I'm going to take a nap.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 16 August 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago)
he is what he is he is what he is he is what he is he is what he is he is what he is he is what he is he is what he is
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 August 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago)
http://img38.picoodle.com/img/img38/9/8/16/f_carm_a28b679.jpg
― RJG, Thursday, 16 August 2007 23:32 (seventeen years ago)
I went to Bravissimo and got measured and now I know that I was kidding myself with the DD. The matronly lady did not use a tape measure - she just looked - and got me right first time. Nath, here's their fitting guide: http://www.bravissimo.com/info/brafitting.aspx
So (deep breath) 34G - 30 - 40 and 5'10" tall. I mentioned I was curvy back in 2001, didn't I?
― Madchen, Friday, 17 August 2007 05:23 (seventeen years ago)
Oh, hi, guys.
I think I owe all of the boobs and bum thread an apology, not least for derailing it so totally. I have some irrational emotions tied up in this. We could all tell tales out of school, and I would almost always come up short on that scale. But I do apologize. I really do.
I'm sorry, Luna.
― kenan, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:17 (seventeen years ago)
I have a few female friends with incredible hourglass shapes that involve what have got to be DD or more chests. They wear it well though, employing corsets and such to awesome effect.
I'm so not contributing to this thread :(
― Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:23 (seventeen years ago)
So (deep breath) 34G - 30 - 40 and 5'10" tall.
G? Did you get water balloons implanted? I hope that's not insulting, but G seems back-injuriously ginormous.
― libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:42 (seventeen years ago)
There are certainly less insulting ways of framing your question. I've never had surgery, or back ache for that matter. My size is less uncommon that you'd think. It's just that so many people wear the wrong size bra.
― Madchen, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:51 (seventeen years ago)
I feel a bit sorry for most of the guys on this thread, this is a minefield of foot in mouth for them to be honest :)
― Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago)
Especially because guys are always on about big boobs, but then make women who have them feel so damn self conscious!
I'm non existantly erm, attired, and to be honest I think I'm kind of relieved I dont have to deal with the attention :/ Though I've had negative attention and mockery when in swimsuits at school and such :(
― Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:54 (seventeen years ago)
For referral:
Boob etiquette (a question for the ladies).
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:54 (seventeen years ago)
(x-post)
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 August 2007 06:55 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.evilkillers.com/Ted%20Bundy_files/Image-Ted_Bundy_4.jpg
I have some irrational emotions tied up in this. We could all tell tales out of school, and I would almost always come up short on that scale. But I do apologize. I really do.
― am0n, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:07 (seventeen years ago)
this thread is overwhelming the senses im sorry
― the sir weeze, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:12 (seventeen years ago)
xpost Maybe the logic is lacking, but I don't kill people.
― kenan, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago)
(yet) XD
― am0n, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:15 (seventeen years ago)
OK come on I dont think comparing Kenan to Ted Bundy is at all fair or polite regardless of this stupid thread gees.
― Trayce, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:22 (seventeen years ago)
I think insulting people is this Amon dude's only schtick, don't mind him.
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:26 (seventeen years ago)
"schtick"
― gershy, Friday, 17 August 2007 07:28 (seventeen years ago)
have some irrational emotions tied up in this. We could all tell tales out of school
Although I'm really not sure what this means, nor what it has to do with me, I appreciate that, Kenan. If there's something you want to talk to me about, email me.
― luna, Friday, 17 August 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago)
water balloons Whoah. Also: US/UK bra sizes don't seem to be the same, by a long shot.
― stet, Friday, 17 August 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago)
There are certainly ways in which men could post here without having to put their feet in their mouths. They just aren't doing it.
― Will M., Friday, 17 August 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago)
A pictoral reference. NSFW, possibly, but not necessarily pornographic.
― libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago)
There are plenty of guys on this thread with feet nowhere near their mouths -- let's not get Kenan and Mr. Waterballoons reflecting so badly on everyone else!
― nabisco, Friday, 17 August 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago)
I apologize.
― libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago)
NSFW, possibly, but not necessarily pornographic.
LOL, clearly you didn't scroll down a bit more.
― Will M., Friday, 17 August 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago)
That is a completely silly excuse for a bra sizing chart. Tho it's be funny to go to a lingerie store and have the saleslady match the boob photos to yours & buy bra.
― Abbott, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago)
I used to know of this flash thing that showed how much some company's jog bras would reduce the amount of jiggle. There were three animated women, one with no top, one with a normal bra, and one with the super-duper jogbra. That would have been the right link to post. Alas, but I can't recall where it is.
― libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago)
Oh, and the point of it was that you put in yr size and watch how much you jiggle.
― libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago)
Try a google search for "where da titties at?"
― Abbott, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago)
Here is is. Probably NSFW, but as you can see, I'm unreliable as a judge of that.
― libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago)
NB: I actually didn't find that by googling "where da titties at".
― libcrypt, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago)
Whoever made that page has no idea what a 40 inch back size looks like.
― Madchen, Saturday, 18 August 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago)
I just loaded that page while listening to Depeche Mode and seeing boobs jiggle in time to "Behind the Wheel" was um... disturbing.
― Trayce, Saturday, 18 August 2007 07:24 (seventeen years ago)
I think we had a thread about that site. It's quite hypnotic.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 18 August 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago)