I consider myself extremely lucky – and smart – because, many years ago, when I was shopping at a regular department store I found a bra I really liked. The smart part comes from the fact that I didn’t buy just one. In foresight, I bought four. Thank goodness. Because I have never since that time ever found a bra in my size at that store that actually seemed right, felt right, or looked right on me.
The bra I did get is described as a “lace demi” meaning it has a lace design and it is low cut revealing the upper part of the boob. Because my boobs are so small there’s not a lot of upper boob to actually be revealed so, if I were to wear any bra that was non-demi it would look ridiculous. At least with these demis it looks as if I have boobs. I see that even women with “normal”-sized boobs often wear full-coverage, non-demi bras but to me seeing just lumps of nylon on the middle of a woman’s chest does not look particularly sexy no matter how stylish the design of the fabric, padding, or lace. By the way, the bras I found have minimal padding, much less than is standard in all the bras I see in the store. I like it that way. Why have all that padding in a bra?
I am transgender and they say that trans females’ breasts tend to be one cup size below what their genetic equivalent would be. That makes sense to me. I guess one can’t have everything. But I’m very thankful for the breats I have: They feel good, they are large enough to look good, and they are small enough to not be a nuisance either.
But almost every time I’m at the department store I go through the vain ritual of browsing through the intimates section and being disappointed because all the bras are wrong. Mostly, it is clear, they are designed for boobs much more massive than mine. Its like the whole scale of proportionality is wrong and I’m on the wrong planet. Its a drag.
For so long I’ve just repeated this process and left feeling disappointed but the last time I was there I felt a tinge of anger. Are women’s boob sizes really that much bigger? I asked myself the question and thought of investigating it and the first thing I immediately noticed after walking away was that every woman I saw around me was large with gargantuan boobs. I guess being a female with a similar Body Mass Index (BMI) of an average women from Niger or Cambodia (20.7) has its consequences in a country where the average female BMI is an appalling and catastrophically unhealthy 27.
Tonight I decided to research the breast-size issue a little bit more and found this useful map:
Despite everything, it seems that there are actually billions of women in the world similar to me. My breasts are not abnormally small. As a trans female they are probably a slight bit smaller than they would be if I was a genetic female.
But the breasts of women are becoming abnormally larger and larger. I would think things like growth hormones given to dairy cows would have a significant effect on those who consume dairy products, which I’m sure most women do in considerable quantitites throughout their lives.
Regarding the bras I got at the department store all those years ago: my guess is it was a fluke. It was probably a batch made to be sold in Asia which somehow got shipped to America. In the future if I want to have a new bra I may resort to getting the elastic, lace, clips, and other materials and having a seamstress custom make it for me. Or perhaps I will have to go to Asia or Africa.
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