It seems that even celebrity bra-fitter often have no idea about
proper bra fitting.
Here you can see that Rihanna's bra band is riding up on her back. That means her
band size is too large.
Here you can see that her cups should be wider. They are cutting into her breast instead of encircling it.
The
blue line marks the place where the underwire should be.
For comparision, this is how underwires should look -- they should end more under the armpit:
Rihanna's only saving grace is young and perky boobs, which hold their shape no matter what they are stuffed into. But by wearing this kind of bra, after some years she will have squashed her breast tissue with the too-small cups, and the fat tissue will migrate and make unsightly buns in the underarm area, armpits and even the back. The straps that ride up will not offer enough support.
So, when we are bombarded with images of ill-fitting bras, no wonder the average girl has no idea how a well-fitted bra should look like !
If Rihanna took a tighter band, and then went up a couple of sizes with the cups, she would get a bra with cups that were not deeper, but certainly wider.
You might also want to read:
* the Bra Matrix
* how to measure your bra size correctly
* Buying bras online: a short guide* Does this bra fit ? How can I tell ?
* The tricks we use to pretend that a bra fits
* Bra Myths busted
Comments (4)
The purpose of this post was not bitching about Rihanna, but showing why 90% of women have badly fitted bras:
Celebs and models (even some on bra ads) set the fashion standard. If even they, who have access to the best stylist and fashion experts in the world, torture their boobs with the wrong size, it's no wonder that the average woman cannot tell a well-fitted bra from a badly fitted one !
It's a pity she bought the wrong size because Mimi Holliday (the bra she is wearing in the pics) start from 28 and go up to GG, so this bra actually comes in her real size!
Yes, but in the right size she would not get these "sexy" spilling out of the cups effect ! Unfortunately a lot of girls think that bulging flesh is sexy...