The Back Band of your Bra

The back band is the size of your bra that is typically something like 32, 34, 36, etc. Most of the women we see wear their back bands too loose, this causes the back band to ride up, which in turn creates the back fat that noone likes to see. Please, try anchoring your bra band below your shoulder blades, just a tad lower than the bottom of the bustline in the front (easily done while viewing your profile in a mirror).

The picture on top has the band higher in the back and you can see a back-fat roll. While the picture on the bottom has the bank pulled down a bit and the back fat roll disappeared. We illustrate this to clients all the time.

We recently went shopping with a client - Bratique Helene provides a complimentary bra shopping service to full bust women. This woman is a beautiful hourglass, maybe fourteen inches or so between her bust - waist - hip measurements. Previously she'd been measured as a 34 band size and even she knew herself that was too big. We tried 32s, because that's all we found at this particular store. But when we found a 30 back band and put it on her she proclaimed, "there, now I feel like I have on a bra". Really, a snug & seccure (as opposed to moving up the back) back band takes the pressure off the breasts. And takes the pressure off the abdomen (if breasts are laying there), the shoulders (if the straps are super tightened), and relieves back pain from heavy breasts. She purchased Freya balcony plunge bras in size 30HH.

Prior to that we shopped with a client who was wearing a 36G. She had lost some weight and we put her in a 34G. As she wore it that evening she said, "This is really uncomfortably tight (in the back), I think I may return it". I told her to wear it for a week and if she still didn't like it, then return it. A week later she says its the best fitting bra she's ever had and is going to buy more of the same kind.

BH recommends the following:

• Wear your new bra on the loosest hook, so as it stretches you may tighten it.


• See how snug you can go. You may be pleasantly surprised at your uplift - both mental and physical.


• If the bra band can be pulled several inches away from your center back, its time to either a) wash it, b) tighten it, c) go shopping!

And finally, do you have a good bra size story? I'll start . . . we had a client who was wearing a 36DD from a mainstream lingerie retailer. I could tell by looking at her that she was a 32 band size because her body was a small size 4-6. Sure enough we fit her in a 32GG. Again, an enviable hourglass with more than a 10 inch difference in her measurements (and believe it or not she wish her body was less curvy). We also have a 32GG client who has a size 14-16 body, can you guess on which body (the S or L) the bust-line looks bigger? Because technically they are the same size - 32GG.

Remember, embrace your endowment; it is a blessing and not a curse