I spend a great portion of my day looking at women’s breasts and there is nothing more painful than seeing women suffer with blisters and bruises because of ill fitting bra underwires.
The underwire in a bra is designed to hold the bra cups in place against the ribcage while giving additional shape/support to the bra. When making a bra, there are various sizes of underwires to use for the different bra cups. Different styles of bras will also contain different styles of underwires. (For example, a Demi bra will have a more shallow underwire, and a full coverage bra will have a more defined U shaped underwire.) When I began sourcing underwires from a manufacturer in China back in 2003, the sales representative would always laugh at me when I asked for a large size. She could not fathom my need for an underwire larger than a D cup and though it was hilarious that women’s breasts could actually be bigger than a D cup. Thank goodness the lingerie industry has realized that women’s breasts are getting bigger and large sized underwires are now easier to purchase in the market.
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