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bra cup sizes

[pne.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm mistaken, UK bra sizes are one higher

No idea. I suppose it's possible.

(But the average size in both countries is C.)

That's what I thought as well, so I was a bit surprised when at one point early on there were more 'D' answers than anything else. But the distribution has evened out a bit more now.

I suppose that means that the average US woman has larger breasts than the average UK woman?

Re: bra cup sizes

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Right. And the average US woman is also fatter than the average UK woman, which I suspect is at least tangentially related. I also wonder if part of it is genetic—i.e. a bigger, more diverse gene pool in America than in the UK, some of which is from areas where women have larger breasts—but that's just a guess. (And I suspect expanding on that hypothesis would get me accused of racism/ethnocentrism/something, so I'll stop.)

Possibly too much information, but G. was shocked to discover that my breasts here are considered smaller because he was sure they were average size (which in the UK, they would be)—and he was also rather confused to go shopping with me and find out I needed a B cup, because he was sure I was a C. That was when we looked this up.

Re: bra cup sizes

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Oops. I have the LJ Firefox extension on (which designates a random icon instead of the default), and usually I check to make sure my icon isn't weird/inappropriate. But, yeah, that's Gareth in the pic on that one. Heh.