Backstory

For many years I was desperate to figure out why my clothes weren't fitting me the right way. I read books on how to find the best fit to flatter your shape, did countless shape and body type calculators online, and eventually came to the realization that I was actually an hourglass. To most people my curvy shape was obvious, and my realization was just beating a dead horse. However, I'd been having others tell me for years that I couldn't be an hourglass because my chest wasn't big enough. 

That's right, a 28F (equivalent to a 32DD, though I improperly wore a 32D for years) was considered too small to be hourglass. People would insist that I was wrong and that because they were a D and much bigger than me, I was just lying. My chest might be considered slightly above average in size, but when people think about "hourglass" they tend to imagine women who are significantly more well endowed than I am. People seemed to believe that hourglass just meant your breasts were big enough to be wider than your rib cage.

What doesn't help was the fact that wearing anything except very tight-fitting clothing would make me look small/flat chested with a much larger waist than I actually had. Many brands of jeans and pants would often be loose in the legs and tight in the bum. To be honest my realization about clothes came before my realization about bras, and I was either forced to wear clothes that did not fit right, or get things as simple as t-shirts or polos altered to fit my waist. After I realized bras existed for my small rib cage (which should really be in a 24-26 band), I began to wonder if clothes did too. That's when I began discovering that there are brands that cater to thin and curvy women!

While I am excited to show you what brands I have discovered and begin reviewing them, first I want to talk about the difference clothes and bras that fit can actually make. I'll be covering that over my next few posts. The major focus of this blog is to fill a gap I see where everyone is covering smaller chests and above average chests on small frames, but never "average" chests like my own. I look forward to it.