The Best Bra for Your Breast Type
Just as the right clothes help you look and feel your best,
the right bra could be the missing puzzle piece to perfecting your outfit.
Especially because, according to Tomima Edmark, HerRoom’s
founder and a bra-fitting expert, women aren’t as great at finding bras that
fit their breasts as they are at choosing clothes that fit their bodies.
“The most common
mistake women make is buying a bra where the band is too large and the cups are
too small,” Tomima says. “My goal was to look at the subtle differences in bras
and find out what works for which breasts. You’ll be a better consumer if you know
what to look for.”
1. Shallow: About 10 percent of women. Picture a ski slope:
You start at the top and go down to the nipple. You can be born with breasts
like this, or they can turn this way after breast-feeding.
2. Semi-supported: About 30 percent of women. You don’t
quite have the fullness of a 16-year-old girl who just got her breasts in, but
it’s a nice look.
3. Self-supported: Sixteen percent of women. This would be a
code word for implants. Anyone with augmentation would fall into this category.
With or without a bra, breasts are supported.
4. Conical: About 6 to 7 percent of women. Generally, a
woman who is a C-cup or smaller. The breasts are cone shaped rather than round.
5. Uneven: Forty-two percent of women. This is when one
breast is larger than the other. Most women have uneven breasts simply because
if you’re right-handed, that muscle makes the breast on your right side
smaller.
The best bra: Always fit your bra to your largest breast.
Look for bras that are contour-cupped. A bra cup with a thin layer of foam can
act as a nice filler to mold the smallness of your other breast.
6. Settled: Twenty-seven percent of women. This is a nicer
way of saying that your breasts are deflated or hanging. You need support and
you need to pull those girls up! As you age, breasts are not as firm, but they
are malleable, so you can form them into any shape you want.
7. Thin: About 5 percent of women. If you look in medical
journals, this shape is referred to as “tubular breasts.” What that means your
breasts are not as wide as the traditional underwire of bras.
The best bra: Bandeau bras. By “smooshing” the breasts
together, you make them less “long,” if you will. A contour cup will also work.
8. Splayed: Twenty-seven percent of women. Splayed means
your breasts go east-west, so you want to bring ‘em in toward the center.
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