My favorite bra of my teenage/early 20's

Vanity Fair "Lace Piquant underwire"(4572) circa 1988 JC Penny Cataloge

Favorite bra of my youth/young adult life

I recently stumbled across this old page from the 1980's .On this page  shows my regular bra that I wore for years. It is a way discontiued Vanity Fair underwire. I wore this model size 34B.It seemed to fit fine from what I can remember . Comfy too. I have since then went up in  band and cup to around 38DD/E or 40D.I used love this bra back when Vanity Fair was quality. Those were the days.

New Bras for me today!

   Today in the mail should be two new bras for me. They are used but will be new for me. I bought them both from Bratabase users through Bratabase's "Bra Listings" Both are higher quality bras . A Chantelle "Rive Guache" (3281) in a purple kind of color. (which I love!). These bras sell usually for about $88. Also a Panache "Andorra"(5675). They go for about $62.  This one in a pretty teal color. Both bras are in my size 38DD/E /40D. Together both bras would cost me over $150. But both used, only cost me $45. This is the only way I could afford these bras.
      I'm really excited about this and I am going to measure them and review them, take pictures ect. to add back to Bratabase.

My breasts aren't so big after-all

My 3 friends let me measure and add these 3 bras to Bratabase

  For the longest time I thought I had large boobs. My 3 friends, Tara, Marguerite and Cathy have made me re-think what my definition of "large" was. These 3 friends of mine all let me measure their underwire bras so I could add them to Bratabase. So I showed them around the site and they watched me measure and photograph their bras and then add them to the database.
         I measured and photoed Tara's and Cathy's the same day. I was over at Cathy's house to measure her bras and mutual friend Tara stopped by and saw what we were doing and took off her Freya Deco so I could do it too. After I was done they were debating who had the biggest boobs.( It definitly wasn't me. ) Tara and Cathy are both plus sized girls and both have really large breasts. So here's tara at 38FF and Cathy at 44DDD and by just looking at them it was hard to tell who had the bigger boobs.With their bodies and heights being so different it was kind of like compairing apples and oranges. to settle this debate I happened to have a UK "sister size" chart with me. Included on the chart was breast volume in cubic centimeters for all the sister sizes of 28AA through 32JJ. As it turns out, Cathy has bigger boobs at 1810 cc's  and Tara at 1580 cc's. A difference of 30 cc's. Pretty close. I only have a volume of 1000 cc's. This means Tara's boobs are over 33% larger than mine. And Cathy's are over 75% larger!
         I measured Marguerite's on a different day.She had a piece of crap Fashion Bug bra.That's the bra she brought to my house to be measured. I did apriciate her bringing over the bra, I just wished it had been a "real" bra and not one made in T.J! This bra was a 42DDD which is a sister size of 38FF (Tara's Freya Deco) So, hopefully, one day I can get the 2 of them together and compair their boobs.

Bratabase

  I've been on Bratabase regularly for about a year now. I  discovered it about 2 years ago but  didn't understand what it was about . I first was on a bra site called Brayola which I got bored with and decided to try to figure out Bratabase. I am so glad I did too! I've learned a lot from the girls on Bratabase. Everyone is so helpful with answering bra-related questions. Either on their forum called "Bra -Adventures" or with "Fitting-help". you can get advise and ideas from very knowleadgeble "Bra experts. 
    Thanks Jj for creating Bratabase! :D

My 1st try at Bra Blogging

My old bra collection

Here's a picture of my bra collection a few months ago. M y collection consisted of mostly department store, 30$ to 40$ bras like Bali, Maiden Form,  Vanity Fair and Playtex. All underwires sizes 38 or 40 C's and 4, 40D bras shown on the right side of picture. 21 bras total in this picture.

 I bet you can tell I don't know what I'm doing and I'm no blogger!
This blog is just an experament and for my ammusement.I am definitly no bra expert like some of the girls from Bratabase. But I must say, in my defennce , I know more than most of my friends and all of my family and relatives!I didn't even know what "sister sizes" meant or what a "gore" was. Or if your bra was "tacking" was a good thing or a bad thing before I discovered
  http://www.bratabase.com/.  For this I am grateful!
Oh well, I guess I am done with my 1st attempt at becoming a real "Bra Blogger".