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Step 1Put on your best fitting unpadded bra. Measure tightly around the body, directly under the bust, making sure the tape is straight across back.
This is your frame size.
Step 2 : Measure directly across fullest part of the bust--with arms at sides and standing erect. Make sure the tape is straight. Subtract your frame size from this second measurement.
Your bra size is made up of 2 parts, your frame size and your cup size.
Step 1Put on your best fitting unpadded bra. Measure tightly around the body, directly under the bust, making sure the tape is straight across back.
This is your frame size.
Step 2Measure directly across fullest part of the bust--with arms at sides and standing erect. Make sure the tape is straight. Subtract your frame size from this second measurement.
If Measurement Difference is Cup Size Is up to 1" larger than frame size
A
up to 2" larger than frame size
B
up to 3" larger than frame size
C
up to 4" larger than frame size
D
up to 5" larger than frame size
DD
up to 6" larger than frame size
F
up to 7" larger than frame size
FF
During the Renaissance Period, women stuffed the chest portions of their undergarments with silk pouches and hankies, binding them in place as well as could be expected to create an alluring bustline. Since there was nothing much to hold the pouches exactly where they should have been, there was a tendency for them to shift into laughable positions.
Marie Tucek patented the actual first 'breast supporter' in 1893. Her foundation garment was similar to the bras sold today, having pouches for the breasts to sit in.Then in 1913, Mary Phelps Jacob of New York and her maid, Marie, devised a backless bra to be worn under a sheer evening gown. She made this from two handkerchiefs, some ribbon and cord and amazingly started getting orders for it that very night. Not willing to let loose of a good thing, Jabobs showed up at the patent office in 1914 with sketches to finalize her patent. Her invention was awarded the title 'Backless Brassiere'.
It should be noted that Jacob's brassiere design was intended to flatten the breasts and not enhance them. Her invention didn't even have cups.Without publicity, her brassiere business was doomed to sag and Mary sold her company to Warner Brothers Corset Company for just $1,500!
Ida and William Rosenthal went into business as the Maidenform Company in the 1920's as a protest against the notorious flat-chested flapper girls of the Roaring 20's. Ida was the actual inventor of brassiere cups and designed bras for every female figure from budding teens to the mature matron.You wouldn't expect to see a mention of billionaire Howard Hughes here, would you?
Hughes used his aeronautical engineering knowledge to take an unknown starlet, Jane Russell, and turn her into an overnight star. Hughes designed a bra that took Russell's chesty assets and put them fully in the face of all gawking America.
Hughes had all his managers start a chain reaction of calling ministers, women's clubs and housewives telling them about the 'lewd picture' Hughes was about to release starring Jane Russell. They responded by protesting and wildly trying to have the film banned -- just the publicity Hughes needed to turn around the entire profit system and have the most incredible publicity machine in full gear. It was the bra that saved Hollywood.
Over the years, other innovations have been added to the basic bra such as the use of uplifting elastic, uses of lace and other elastics within the fabric.Recent developments have surfaced in the health field. Some researchers say that full-time bra wearers are 21 times more likely to develop breast cancer than their non-bra wearing counterparts. The reasoning behind this is limiting of the functioning of the lymphatic system and the decreased removal of toxins from the breasts. This study was sharply criticized for not taking into consideration lifestyle differences such as smoking, alcohol, weight, etc.
other fact : A BRA first woman in the world, found in storage at the Science Museum, in London, is believed to be closing the first breast, which is designed to provide a statue of a woman more beautiful breast forms in the same way as the modern bra.