Tag: bra science
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How wireless bras create support: the 3 types and how to choose between them
I remember my first attempt at sewing a bralette, I copied the cups and cradle of my favourite half cup wired bra, eagerly sewed it together, put it on and… oof. It was bad, the whole thing just collapsed on me, boobs spilling out the front, the works. You see, every underwired bra supports the…
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Are You Overfitting Your Wires? A look at breast root anatomy
Bra making has taken a very modular turn in the past few years: to make a well fitting bra, you must: Take a root trace (while leaning forwards) Match this to a wire chart and order some similar wires Make a fitting band to fit your wire and band Add the cups and fit those…
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Bra Physics Part 3: What can we learn about the wires and cradle?
This is Part 3 of my Bra Physics series. In Part 1, I described the forces involved in supporting your breasts and what parts of a bra are responsible for providing those forces. In Part 2 I introduced the concepts of stress and strain, and applied these and part 1’s principles to the design and…
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Necklines always cutting in? Why full cups may be your foes and power bars your unlikely friends
I have a series of posts about the physics behind supportive bras. In the first post, I described that the band should make up most of the support system of a bra – but this doesn’t mean the straps are not important. The best way to boil that post down is that the band provides…
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Bra Physics Part 2: What Can We Learn about the Band?
In my last bra physics post, I described the forces involved in supporting your breasts and what parts of a bra are responsible for providing those forces. How can this knowledge inform our decisions when making or choosing bras? This post is part of a series and covers the bands of bras – just the…
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The Physics of a Supportive Bra Explained
To all boob owners reading this: I would like you to take off the clothes on your upper half and stand in front of a mirror. I would buy you dinner first, but unfortunately on my student budget I can’t afford to wine and dine all of my readers, so you’ll just have to take…
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You’re probably not Omega, just Projected – here’s the difference, and how it affects bra patterns
In the online bra making community omega is a popular term, and many people (esp. in larger cup sizes) consider themselves to have an omega breast shape. Omega is a term that popular instructor Beverly Johnson claims to have coined, and she explains what she means by it in this post. Her definition (and conceptualisation)…
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The Surprisingly Common Phenomenon of Sizing Up for Depth
Back when I was 14 and just learning about how bras should really fit, I measured myself at home by /r/ABraThatFits‘ guide at a 26FF, then was fitted by a friendly in-store fitter into a 28G/26GG . I remember thinking during the fitting that the Cleo Maddie fit very well, and left the store happy…
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The Gender Pay Gap in British lingerie – why, and what are companies going to do about it?
This is a follow-up post to my previous post “The Gender Pay Gap – how do large British lingerie companies compare? “. Now that we know that these companies do have gender wage gaps, let’s see what they had to say about them. All of the companies gave some explanation, and most of them stated…
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The Gender Pay Gap – how do large British lingerie companies compare?
What is the gender pay gap? “The gender pay gap is the difference in the average hourly wage of all men and women across a workforce. If women do more of the less well paid jobs within an organisation than men, the gender pay gap is usually bigger. The gender pay gap is not the…
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