Sizing for a particularly delicate area

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Abbie wrote:

> I cannot find bras.  I am, thanks to the delightful genetic code I 
> got from my parents (and I'd gladly give this part back)  a DD 
> cup.  I have been told so many times how "lucky" I am, and how many 
> women spend millions to artifically achieve what I have naturally.
> Well, if so many women want a DD, why can't anyone sell decent bras 
> for it?!??  

Because very few women really want a DD cup.  It's a myth.  Women 
generally want to look like whatever the current crop of fashion 
models look like, and let's face it, the large-chested look has not 
been in fashion for many decades now.  We're supposed to be small in 
the chest these days.  A "large-chested" woman these days means a C 
cup.  If that.

And actually, in the US at any rate, the most common form of elective 
surgery is currently breast *reduction* surgery.  Last time I saw 
a statistic on this, which was for some year late in the '80s, I 
believe, there had been twice as many purely cosmetic breast 
reduction surgeries performed in the US as there had been breast 
enhancement surgeries -- and that was discounting all of those 
operations performed for health reasons (back problems, partial 
mastectomies, and so forth).  I don't know what the precise 
percentage is now, but I know that reductions are still *far* more 
popular than enhancements here.

As for why it's so hard to find DD bras in stores, I suspect it's the
same reason that so few shops carry sizes over a woman's 14, even 
though 14 is the shirt size of the "average" American woman.  It's
because the paranoiac's unspecified "Them" simply *hates* large women 
and wants nothing more than for us all to develop eating disorders 
and then die of ketosis-related heart failure.  No other explanation 
will suffice.  ;-)

On a somewhat more helpful note, though, there are quite a few good 
on-line shops that specialize in women's underthings, and many of them
don't charge any more than you would pay for the same brands in the 
shops.  If you're looking for something serviceable and wearable, 
rather than something sexy that will make you squirm and itch and 
wish to die (lace on bras, brrrrrr...), and you already have a brand 
that you know fits you well, then you might want to try a keyword 
search for that brand name, along with "bras," or something like 
that, and see what pops up.  That's how I found the on-line store 
that I've been using for such purchases ever since the local shops 
stopped carrying any of the bras that fit me.  (There's just nothing 
quite like hearing a diminutive salesperson say in that tone of 
voice: "Oh, no, we don't carry *those* sizes anymore," is there.  
Just makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over, that does.)

Feeling your pain in a 42DD,

Elkins