I got into a conversation about this with my wife, and I could swear I remember a time when AAA and AA were out there as choices for women with small chests. Chests that are smaller than the A cup.
She says no, that the smallest bra has always been the A size.
So what is the correct answer? or is AAA and AA something that refers to undergarments that are designated for children?
Since I have no real knowledge in this area other than “field experience”, I beileve my wife has the upper hand here. I personally have never seen a AAA or AA bra, but for some reason I remember those sizes. Why, I have no idea. Perhaps I’ve confused bras with batteries.
can anyone shed any insight to this? Is my wife correct?
I haven’t seen them lately, but I haven’t looked lately.
I did, however, wear those sizes when I was the appropriate size…which is to say, not much past 14. But still…I’m not surprised they aren’t just considered ‘training bras’, but I suspect they’re just not so common that every bra comes in that size.
p.s. I suspect someone needs to look beyond just Victoria’s Secret. Which…doesn’t seem to carry anything smaller than a B. (Though I don’t have cookies enabled for there, so perhaps it’s an option hidden from me. Or something…)
Actually, VS really should be catering to all sizes. I’m surprised they’re slacking off in taking care of pretty much just the basics and leaving so many women, both big and small, out of the loop. Huh.
I have never seen an AAA bra, but my college roommate wore an AA. I know this because when my then 12-year-old brother visited during family weekend, she snapped at him to stay out of her underwear drawer, and being a 12-year-old boy, he peeked as soon as she left for the night. He asked me how it compared to battery sizes, forever cementing it in my mind.
I thank you for these links. I will say that the AA pictures are completely misleading, as anyone who knows a flatchested woman knows that there isn’t probably even one “A” cup in those photos. B cups, for sure.
The second link is a great source link in that in refers to a stylish line of lingerie, with a very small breasted woman posing.
It looks like I have the upper hand so far on this discussion. Maybe my wife has never seen them for sale? I don’t know. Perhaps you have to ask for them at many of your lingerie retailers?
There are both AA and AAA sizes that are still and have been available as long as I remember. Like exceptionally large sizes they are rare and hard to find, particularly in pretty designs.
She’s wrong. I remember getting a perfectly flat “training bra” when I was a kid that was a size AAA. I was pretty excited to be moving into an AA a short while later.
Anything smaller than a B cup is pretty hard to find. Many women who wear an A cup or smaller tend to just forgo bras, or wear sports bras that cover a range of cup sizes, or get a B cup and stuff.
No… I don’t think that was the case at all, which makes this all the more curious to me. My wife is very tall and thin, so if anything, she should have been familiar with the smaller sizes. It’s not like she zoomed into a B cup during puberty.
Now that it’s been mentioned, I think I remember AAA being the equivalent of a training bra, so that’s where I must have picked that up. I also knew A cups existed, so I just logically assumed that AA would exist as well.
I think I’ll have to dig into this with my wife a bit more. Maybe she’s been “whooshing” me all these years, but I can’t imagine why. And I can’t imagine she’s self-conscious about her own size. It’s not like I haven’t seen them, for crying out loud. :dubious: hmmmm.
Thank you all for the replies. I think I have enough evidence to show her and to now inquire as to what the big mystery has been.
My first bra was a 28A. I was so proud. And so flat. But not as flat as my friend Christine, whose first bra was a 28AA. I personally have never seen a smaller cup than AA but AA definitely did exist.
Really? I’m barely an A, and have several friends similarly sized. We all wear attractive, properly-fitting, grown-up lingerie, just like the girls with the “real” boobs. Support may not be as much of an issue for us, but it is to a degree, as is having nice lines under our clothes (read, no nipples, no clunky bulky sports bras, and good smooth shape.) I’m sure there are many small-chested woman who do as you say, but I can vouch for those of us who do wear “real” bras.
Oh, sorry, I’ll admit that I do sometimes go braless in tight-fitting, lined clothes, like some dresses and tanktops but overall I have never had a problem finding an A cup, and regularly see AA.
I went from nothing to B-cup almost overnight when I was 10 years old. Now I need a 32-DD, which is almost as hard to find as an AAA. They’re out there, but you gotta dig sometimes.
Yeah, I’ve been an A-cup all my life (except for when I was a B-cup once, for twenty minutes), and I’ve never had trouble finding A-cup bras in department stores. I never go bra-less because of nipple-show. Not appropriate!
And chiming in on the thread topic, I used to wear an AA cup when I was a teenager.
A cup bras can be found just about everywhere - except sometimes in stores/sections targeted at over-35 women. I’ve tried on a 32AAs at Victoria’s Secret before. AA bras are fairly commonly available, and have been at least since my flat-chested mom grew her ‘bosom’. She’s never been able to fit a regular A cup. AAAs are much less common, but are manufactured by several brands.
I can fit some 32As these days (but my true size is a 28B or C and that is what I wear - have to get them online). I have a lot of friends who have or have had small breasts - none of them forgo bras. It’s very uncommon IME for women not to wear real bras these days, no matter their size. I’m an outlier because I only wore stretch ‘bralettes’ for many years. But real bras with structure and lining/padding are more flattering and less revealing, since I have nips of steel, and help clothes fit better, so now that I’ve found sizes that fit properly and don’t hurt, I always wear a bra.
Most of my experience comes from my own shopping, and from the time I spent selling bras…our store didn’t carry A cups, so the women that I saw who had A cup sizes were the ones who either went without a bra, or who stuffed, or who didn’t buy bras from our store. I went from wearing vests (underwear vests) to wearing a B cup in 4th grade, and in high school I was a C or D cup, depending on the style, so I have no real firsthand experience with A cups. I just knew that some of my friends wore A or AA cups, and I saw them listed on the size charts.
