Quote:
Originally Posted by cmp
Also, I hope that first chart that was posted wasn't serious. AAA is not 50 inches bigger (Well, much to our dismay, it is fairly obvious that some of these sizes don't exist...). AA is smaller than an A cup, and AAA is even smaller than that. It's basically unnecessary, but it makes little girls who are told their breasts are budding feel really grown up. ^^ Basically a training bra. I think I still have my AAA... haha.
|
Pixelust made up their own chart, since they tended to deal in drawings and stories that ran out of cup sizes. The first chart you see is the result.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by allthatmighthavebeen
It might just be here in the UK, but the band size you add 4 to if it is even, 5 if it is odd. So my partner, who measures 28" round the rib cage, wears a 32" band. Then, you compare the 'fuller' measurement to that, so at 34" that makes my partner a 32B.
I know that's how it works here, if you don't add 4/5 in the US then American women are a lot burlier than I thought!
|
As it's using inches, that's what I think of with the American system. I'm sure there's a much more... politically correct term for it, but I'm too lazy to go find it.
Regardless of system, you're essentially going to have the underbust and the widest point. The underbust generally does have a number added to it. Cup size is determined by the difference between the two. Don't count it as total fact, but I'm fairly sure that it's 1 cup size to 1 inch/centimeter across both, just depending on what you measure in.
If anyone really wants to learn about it, though, I'd recommend going to wikipedia.org and searching for "bra sizes." While I wouldn't use that as a reference in a research paper, the article does a pretty good job on breaking everything down, including country comparisons.