Can ANY shop 手段 your bra size without making a boob?

Last week, a London hospital （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that many women considering breast 削減 外科 would be better off buying a 適切に fitted bra.

So, why are millions of us wearing the wrong bra size? Is it really that difficult to find a bra that fits?

Over the years, my breast size has fluctuated 大いに, depending on 負わせる 伸び（る）, 負わせる loss, my 演習 決まりきった仕事 and use of the contraceptive pill. I have a drawer 十分な of pretty but now useless bras, in every size from 32C to 36D.

Today, I am a 32E, making my breasts 正確に／まさに the same size as the voluptuous Kelly Brook - although sadly, I don't have the 残り／休憩（する） of her 団体／死体 to go with them.

Am I wearing the 権利 size? I spent a day visiting bra shops to find out.

RIGBY & PELLER

I begin at Rigby & Peller, where the Queen is said to buy her bras. If it's good enough for Her Majesty, it's certainly good enough for me.

I like the 'we're all women here in all 形態／調整s and sizes' approach, which makes me feel comfortable and normal.

Buying a bra here is about support, not sex. The assistants aren't afraid to hoist your breasts into place. They show you the 訂正する way to put on a bra - cups first - and how to position it 正確に.

The friendly, but efficient assistant asks me to 除去する my 最高の，を越す and 対策 me by sight. 'You're a 32E,' she says. 'Although, in some bras you might be a 34DD - they 変化させる によれば the elasticity and the 形態／調整 of the cups.'

She brings me a 選択, some of which fit better than others. We settle on a pretty car amel lacy bra which gives me a Fifties sweater girl 形態／調整 and plenty of support.

It costs £53.50, but it's 井戸／弁護士席 価値（がある） it. As it fits so 井戸／弁護士席, I decide I can use it as a （判断の）基準 for the 残り／休憩（する） of my fittings.

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VERDICT: 32E

MYLA

The 高級な lingerie shop sells itself as a 'lifestyle 概念 蓄える／店' - you can buy sex toys and scented candles with your smalls.

Kate Moss has bought underwear there, which should probably give me a 手がかり（を与える） that I'm not their 的 顧客.

As I'm the only person in the shop, I get the 十分な attention of the friendly - but intimidatingly わずかな／ほっそりした and beautiful - shop assistant. She says they don't do fittings, but she can help me find a bra that fits. Then she asks me what size I usually wear.

'I'm sorry, but we don't do E cups', she says, making me feel outsize. 'But we do have a few DDs.'

She brings me a 32DD, which is so small that even a contortionist couldn't fasten it.

Then she brings me a 36DD, which is so big at the 支援する I can fit both 手渡すs in. Flustered, she fetches a 34 in the only other style made in bigger sizes. It's lacy, white and costs £79. She says it's too tight.

'You definitely need a 36,' she 結論するs. 'But we don't have one in 在庫／株. I can let you know when we get one in. And you always need a 十分な cup bra at your size.'

I know this isn't true - if anything, 急落（する），激減（する） and balconette styles 控訴 my 形態／調整 better.

VERDICT: 36DD

BRAVISSIMO

After feeling outsize all day, it's a welcome 救済 to visit the bra shop

for 'big boobed women'. Unfortunately, they've made a bit of a boob: there's no 記録，記録的な／記録する of my 任命, but they fit me in.

'We don't use tape 対策,' says the assistant, who looks about 16. She asks me to take off my 最高の，を越す, then to raise my 武器 as high as I can.

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'You're between a 32 and a 34,' she 結論するs, and points out what's wrong with the bra I'm wearing. 'And you're an E or F cup.'

When I say I want an everyday bra, she brings a 選択 of nude and white bras in both sizes, which are 機能の, not pretty. She stays while I put on each one, asking me to raise my 武器, 診察するing the fit and altering the ひもで縛るs.

The one which fits best is a 32F white mesh and lace number, which costs £28. It's supportive and gives me a 広大な／多数の／重要な 形態／調整. Sold.

VERDICT: 32F

AGENT PROVOCATEUR

The 強調 is on sensuality - many bras come with matching suspender belts.

Again, there's no fitting. I'm asked what size I take and am 手渡すd a pile of 32Es in every 形態／調整 and colour.

非，不，無 fits. When I tell the assistant, she returns with a pile of 34Es.

I have better luck with these, finding a beautiful 海軍 blue and pale pink lace number that gives me a cleavage to die for.

It's £75 (the matching knickers are £50), and 供給するs no support どれでも but, to be fair, I don't think スパイ／執行官 Provocateur bras are designed to stay on that long.

'It's perfect for everyday and for, er, dressing u p,' says the assistant.

VERDICT: 34E

JOHN LEWIS

The hassled shop assistant - she's 手段ing two 顧客s at the same time - passes a tape 手段 around my 支援する and tells me I'm a 34FF.

Unsurprisingly, the bras she brings me are big enough to fit my shopping in. She comes 支援する with 34Es, which don't fit either.

John 吊りくさび must have a 'no touch' 政策, as she 主張するs she can't manipulate my breasts to fit the cups, showing me on herself instead.

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結局, she finds me a わずかに padded nude 急落（する），激減（する） bra (£26) in size 34DD which she 宣言するs fits me perfectly. Then she disappears and doesn't come 支援する.

I don't buy it - already own this particular bra, but in size 32E!

VERDICT: 34DD to 34FF

LA PERLA

This is to bras what Armani is to 控訴s: the haute couture 選択. It's so posh there are 安全 people on the door. It's certainly 排除的: I'm the only 顧客.

'We don't do many bras in E cups,' says the petite Italian assistant. She gives me a pile of 32E bras and waits outside the changing room.

When I tell her they're too small, she comes 支援する with a pile of 34Es, 範囲ing in price from £75 to £150. One just about fits, but it's an impractical maroon and is £139.

'We can send bras to our studio to have the ひもで縛るs or the 支援する altered,' the assistant 知らせるs me. 'We do a made-to-手段 service.'

VERDICT: 34E

MARKS & SPENCER

After 手段ing my 支援する and 破産した／（警察が）手入れする, the matronly bra fitting assistant tells me I'm a 36DD. Noticing my surprised 表現, she 対策 me again and says I'm a 34DD or 34E.

She comes 支援する with a 選択 of bras, all of which are far too big in the 支援する, making the cups gape.

Not only won't she touch me while I'm trying on the bras, but she orders me to stand with my 支援する to her at all times so she can't see my naked breasts. I feel like a freak.

When the bras she's brought don't fit, she gives up. 'Get dressed, go out on the shop 床に打ち倒す and choose some bras in a 34E,' she says. 'You'll find one that's 権利 for you.' Then she abandons me.

I can't find a 選び出す／独身 bra in the whole 蓄える／店 which fits. It's by far the worst experience of the day.

VERDICT: 34E to 36DD

FINAL VERDICT:

Bra shopping is a minefield. I'm going to stick to Rigby & Peller and Bravissimo.