Though they appeared to protrude the same amount, the properly fitting bra was wider in the cups and more narrow in the (Opens in a new tab) Upon resizing herself, she found that a 32DD fit better, and compared the 32DD bra to the 34B bra in a follow up video (Opens in a new tab). "Let's try this on, there's no way," Charisse said, after a trip to Victoria's Secret.Ĭharisse was shocked when the bra actually did fit her, and that it fit more comfortably than her previous size did. In the video she posted, which now has 12.3 million views, Charisse measured herself using A Bra That Fit's calculator (Opens in a new tab) and found that she was actually a 32D, which she initially didn't believe. This was a revelation for most TikTok users, many of whom had been sized according to outdated methods.ĬharisseV, another TikTok creator, posted a response video (Opens in a new tab) explaining that although she usually wore an A or B cup, the underwire always seemed to dig into her actual breast tissue. 🍒 Size + Shape | #braschool (Opens in a new tab) #brasize (Opens in a new tab) #cupsize (Opens in a new tab) #brafitting (Opens in a new tab) ♬ original sound - madisonxalexandra (Opens in a new tab) She demonstrated this using a sock filled with rice even though the amount of rice in the sock didn't change, reshaping it to be wider and flatter made it appear vastly different from when it was more (Opens in a new tab) Though they may be the same size, the wider-set breasts will appear to be more shallow. In other words, breasts that take up less lateral space can appear larger than breasts that are spread across a wider space. A breast that is rooted to the chest wall over a smaller surface area, the creator explained, is going to seem more projected from the torso than breast tissue rooted over a larger one.
That's because cup size is measured by volume, not visual projection. People began discovering they'd been wearing the wrong bra size in early April, when lingerie model turned lingerie educator Madison Alexandra posted a video showing viewers how two very differently shaped breasts could actually be the same size (Opens in a new tab). This viral breast size calculator (Opens in a new tab) that blew up on TikTok may change the way you think about bra sizes entirely.
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