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Expert Fitting > T-Shirt vs Padded Cup Cups
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So you can’t seem to find a bra these days without a
padded cup you say? Not true!
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This is a common misconception among many women and it’s
time that we help you all make that distinction. Knowledge is
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Okay, a padded cup is indeed molded with a pre-shaped
contour lining built into the cup, but it has a little more too.
Some padded bras offer padding throughout the cup while others
offer a graduated cup, meaning they are padded in the bottom and
start the cup for you, thereby helping you to push up and
maximize your breast tissue. This is particularly helpful for
those ladies who have smaller busts and for those women who are
seeing the effects of gravity and time on their silhouette.
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Now, it is also a common misconception that when we speak
about gravity and the bust falling that most women imagine the
meaning to be the bust falling down. This is just not so. As the
bust becomes affected by gravity and time, it becomes shallow
losing the top round definition that we all seek to replace. It
is very similar to what happens when you open an over door too
early on a cake. It falls in and becomes more of a concave
shape. While this is not the most pleasant information for you
to receive, it is important for you to know that this happens,
it is actually very common and that we can easily provide you
with the perfect solutions.
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On the other hand, T-shirt bras while seeming to be the same
are in fact very different. They too offer molded, pre-shaped
contour lining built into their cups, but most women mistakenly
refer to them as padded. They are NOT padded bras! T-shirt bras
offer smooth seamless cups that are pre-formed to allow for a
more uniform shape and appearance when wearing t-shirts and
jerseys. When being fitted to a t-shirt bra, it is essential to
fit to your larger side if you have any asymmetry, meaning any
difference in the size of your breasts. Some clients we have
seen have as much as a cup difference, for example one side fits
a B-cup, while the other fits a C-cup. Can you imagine that?
Regardless though, we must always be sure to fit to that larger
side, other wise you will see the inevitable bubble over that
looks like an extra breast under a shirt. Hideous to the eye of
the beholder!
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Now, with t-shirt bras, the support is coming primarily from
the cups. For this reason, the center of the bra needs to sit
flat to your chest bone and the band around your back needs to
anchor in place to properly lift the front. Many women will also
find that the width on the sides of a t-shirt bra tend to be
smaller and this can lead to side tissue spill over. The trick
is to try the pre-selected styles in our inventory that we have
found to have the best results until we locate the one that best
suits your shape. In the past few years a new item has also
become available which is a simple cup liner. The accessory
liners offer the same uniform shape, appearance and modesty
factor that a t-shirt bra offers, but conveniently fit into
non-contour lined cups. More traditional non-contour cup bras
tend to have wider sides and therefore more support to help
decrease the possibility of side spill over. For some women,
this really still is the best fit and then add the cup liners
and they now have the very best of both worlds.
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Who knew all of this was possible you ask? The fitters at
Bedroom I’s Boutique of course!!
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