Are you wearing the wrong bra size?

I was.  For years.  Until today.

Let me give you the back story.  I have never been fitted for a bra.  Back when I started buying bras in  highschool, I locked myself in the Myer change rooms one afternoon and tried on a whole heap of sizes.  I chose the one that fit best and it happened to be a 12D.  Now I was about 1.5 dress sizes bigger in highschool (I think it's called stress eating and the HSC) so I probably was a 12D.  However as the years passed, I dropped weight without dropping my bra size.  I continued to buy 12D out of habit and nothing else.  I realised a few years ago that it was probably the wrong size but didn't think it was enough of an issue to try and fix it.....

....until I googled "wrong bra size symptoms" earlier this week.  My biggest problem is that the band at the back rides up something savage.  I keep trying to pull it down but it keeps riding up.  And I've always worn bras on the loosest clip; whenever I did up the tightest or even the middle clip I felt like I was being constricted.  So apparently the riding up band means the band itself is too big.  Which makes sense when you think about it - how can a size 6 woman wear a size 12 band?  Crazy.  You'd think I wasn't University educated.

Another problem I have (and only in some of my bras, not all) is I don't fill out the cup.  Which you'd think was another telltale sign but some of my 12D bras I can fill out no problem, but most I can't.  Go figure.  I read that if you go down a band size you need to correspondingly go up a cup size, but given I don't fill out my cup size in most 12Ds, I decided to stick with D but go down to a 10.

bendonlingerie.com.au was having a huge sale and I managed to pick up 2 Pleasure State bras and an Elle Macpherson bra for $44.85 all up (that's about $14.95 each!).  It's still on but a lot of the good stuff is gone.  Still worth a look though - RUN!

Anyway I ordered these 3 bras in a 10D and was so nervous waiting for them to arrive.  I got home last night, dropped everything and tried them on.  And can I just say......  my boobs have never been happier!!  They are finally being supported properly, the band is staying down and I feel so comfortable.  Funny thing is, as I still haven't been properly bra fitted, 10D might still be the wrong size but let me tell you it feels MUCH better than 12D.

I will be going into bras n things next week hopefully to get fitted properly and I urge you to do the same!  If you have been fitted previously, did you find out you're actually a different size to what you had been wearing?

PS - I measured my underbust and bust and entered the measurements into various online calculators and they all told me I should be a 10A.  Which I know is very wrong.  I would advise against trusting these calculators without question.

PPS - sorry for this pictureless post.  I don't think you want to see pics of me in my ill-fitting bra anyway!