# Ladies, can we discuss "Boobage Overflow"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 15, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328 "2004-07-15T21:34:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/41 "2004-07-17T03:44:52Z")
> [@Profane](#): > > Lane Bryant catalogue has lots of bras in large cup & band sizes without wires: [http://www.lbcatalog.com/lbcatalog/layout/layout.asp?dept\_id=844&parent\_id=843&rootdept=600&](http://www.lbcatalog.com/lbcatalog/layout/layout.asp?dept_id=844&parent_id=843&rootdept=600&) > I’m also going to second [www.Brastop.com](http://www.Brastop.com) and add [www.figleaves.com](http://www.figleaves.com). Both have pretty bras in big cup sizes. I’ve ordered from both and been happy every time. 🙂 Lane Bryant’s web site I’m learning to hate. [www.figleaves.com](http://www.figleaves.com), on the other hand, DO go up in sizes! Yay! 🙂 So far this is the best one. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/42 "2004-07-17T15:14:17Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > If you haven’t alredady done so, go visit a lingerie store (or the lingerie area of an upscale department store) and get properly measured. You would NOT believe how many women I have known that thought they were one size, and found out they were something completely different. The most dramatic was a good friend of mine who wore 36B for YEARS, then finally got measured and learned she was really a 32D. That’s a huge difference. > > Anyway, with proper measurement, you can even order bras made to fit you that aren’t normally on the racks at stores. You, and your boobs, will be much more comfortable. A 36 B and a 32 D are the same size, but they fit differently. As the cup size goes up the rib size goes down, and vice versa. (ymmv at different stores, etc) I shop at a local bridal consignment/lingerie store. Professional fit and on site alterations (the bras I wear have to have the underwires switched, so the part that’s on the outside is now on the inside. I get a bit of third boob (when the underwire sticks up in between my breasts and pokes out my shirt) but I don’t have as many back problems with the support they give me. I’m a 40DD or 36 F in this brand. Try finding that at your local department store. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/43 "2004-07-17T15:29:08Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > I’m a 40DD or 36 F in this brand. Try finding that at your local department store. So bridal consignment/lingerie stores carry big bras too? Never thought about trying there. I think I’ve exceeded department stores also. The biggest I’ve ever found in LB’s is 44 DDD. It’s a little better, but I still get spillage on the right side. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/44 "2004-07-17T15:39:34Z")
> [@Cherry2000](#): > > **harmless** , I know exactly what you mean. Some days, I think I need a whip and a chair to keep mine under control. I am a DD (and probably should be in a DDD, if I could find the things). I am between a 34 and a 36 band size. I hate bra shopping :mad: I forgot to mention yesterday, Lane Bryant carries that size as that’s where I’ve been buying mine. Sometimes you really have to search through them, and they usually don’t have that size in the style you’d prefer, but they have them. Fashion Bug too, I think. They definitely have DD’s. ---
**Author:** ![Cherry2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cherry2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cherry2000)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/45 "2004-07-17T16:41:07Z")
Thanks **harmless** …I will have to give Lane Bryant a look-see. Unfortunately, we don’t have Fashion Bug out here in CO. I remember them from when I lived in FL. Used to love shopping there 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/46 "2004-07-17T17:58:02Z")
It really pains me to see the way in which the traditions of the SDMB are being ignored in this thread. Where is **Ranger** when we need him? I weep for the future generations who will open up similar threads, unaware that they are _supposed_ to be able to look forward to the heated cry of . , JPEG!! hmmmm. Re-reading the thread, I see that there should actually be multiple cries of JPEG! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/47 "2004-07-17T18:43:00Z")
😛 What’s really funny is that one night, years ago, me and my roommates got a lil’ drunk (all together now: OMG! **harmless** imbibes? :eek: 😉 ) and everyone signed their names on my girls. Not anywhere inappropriate - there was plenty of _acceptable_ writing space. Anywho, I pulled my top down just a bit and someone took a close up picture. After we sobered up and got them developed, we sat around trying to figure out whose _ass_ it was with all the writing on it. 😛 [This one](http://www.suzi-quzi.com/foot.GIF) was fun to figure out too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/48 "2004-07-18T00:54:58Z")
> [@Kallessa](#): > > Do a seach in IMHO and you should be able to find an old thread called “Ask the Bra Professional”–I pulled it up during a vanity search not long ago, so I know does exist. Unless the search function has been expanded, the only searchable term in that title is “professional.” > [@LVgeogeek](#): > > …I think that they are really “Midevil Torture Devices” in disquise… That would fall under “Punative Underwear,” according to _3[sup]rd[/sup] Rock_’s Sally Solomon. FWIW, you can count me in as another Overflow Lover. As with everything, it looks better on some people than others—the only exception being capri pants, because _nobody_ looks good in capri pants—but I’m not a member of the fashionista storm troopers, so please do what you think is best. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/49 "2004-07-18T01:17:21Z")
I’ve heard the overflow referred to as the “cutlet”. You know, because it’s a slice of breast. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/50 "2004-07-18T03:24:22Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > Unless the search function has been expanded, the only searchable term in that title is “professional.” Well then, do a vanity search for my name. That’s how I found it so it shouldn’t be too hard. One K, Two A’s, Two L’s, One E, Two S’s. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328/51 "2004-07-18T04:11:46Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > I’m a 40DD or 36 F in this brand. Try finding that at your local department store. I need a 38G in most brands. ☹ I haven’t bought a bra in a real store in over 7 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-can-we-discuss-boobage-overflow/255328.md?page=2)