{"id":376,"date":"2016-08-05T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/?p=376"},"modified":"2016-12-17T18:32:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T18:32:19","slug":"the-bra-fitter-diaries-to-pad-or-not-to-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/the-bra-fitter-diaries-to-pad-or-not-to-pad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bra Fitter Diaries: To Pad, or Not to Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy boobs are already too big, I don\u2019t need any extra padding!\u201d<\/h4>\n

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\u201cWhy would anyone busty want a padded bra??\u201d<\/h4>\n

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\u201cWhy do you even carry these?\u201d<\/h4>\n

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Based on what I\u2019m hearing around the store lately, the padded bra seems to be kind of controversial. You\u2019re either Team Padded or Team Unpadded! But what if I told you that a padded bra isn\u2019t always a padded bra? That padding isn\u2019t always there for the reasons you might think? And in fact, it\u2019s often not padding at all? Friends, follow me down the <\/span>bra<\/span><\/i>bbit hole\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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I don’t feel even a little bad about that pun.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Everything isn\u2019t as it seems…<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"IMG_6633\"Sometimes a bra looks padded on the hanger, but in reality it\u2019s just got some lining, or has molded cups as opposed to seamed cups. Molded cups are made by heat-forming a piece of foam over a generic \u201cbreast-shaped\u201d form. (Since we know that not all breasts are the same shape<\/a>, these can be a trickier fit.) Bras with molded cups also tend to look bigger on the hanger, since they retain their shape with or without boobs inside. For the most part, though, they really don\u2019t make you look bigger.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are lots of reasons someone might want a lined or molded cup: they provide nipple coverage, they\u2019re smooth under t-shirts, they tend to offer a rounder shape…the list goes on, and it\u2019s really all down to personal preference. A good example is the Bijou (right) by Elomi. It’s totally smooth under summer tees and keeps nipples hidden in the chilliest of A\/C, thanks to molded cups. Without padding! <\/span><\/p>\n

…but sometimes it is<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Sometimes there is indeed padding, even in a full bust<\/a> bra. Often it\u2019s not there to create the illusion of bigger boobs at all. Instead, it\u2019s there to create a specific shape. For example, a bra that has padding in the bottom of the cup is going to provide lift and cleavage that an unpadded bra couldn\u2019t, particularly for breasts with softer tissue. If you\u2019re looking for a smooth (seamless) bra with amazing lift, a bit of padding might be just what you need. And bras with removable pads are great for balancing breast asymmetry – just remove the pad on your fuller side! The Cappuccino (left) by Ewa Michalak, offers a little cleavage boost AND removable pads. (And pretty straps, but that’s neither here nor there.) However: some full bust bras <\/span>are<\/span><\/i> padded to give a size boost, because some fuller-busted folks want to look even fuller-busted. Which brings me to why we carry all of these types of bras…<\/span><\/p>\n

Our clients are diverse, and so are their preferences.<\/strong> \u201cToo big\u201d or \u201ctoo small\u201d is the most subjective thing ever, and has way more to do with you than with the size of your boobs. There\u2019s no \u201cright\u201d way to look, no \u201cright\u201d size to be, no \u201cright\u201d shape. The only right <\/span>anything<\/span><\/i> for you is the one that makes you feel good. This is the m<\/span>oral of the story: everyone\u2019s personal taste and comfort level is different and, well, personal. Even two people with identical body and breast size and shape won\u2019t necessarily want the same things! Except for pizza. We all want pizza.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy boobs are already too big, I don\u2019t need any extra padding!\u201d   \u201cWhy would anyone busty want a padded bra??\u201d   \u201cWhy do you even carry these?\u201d   Based on what I\u2019m hearing around the store lately, the padded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[49,9,35,16,22,19,32,21,62,17,60,18,61],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-the-bra-fitter-diaries","tag-body-talk","tag-bra-fitting","tag-bra-shape","tag-bras","tag-breast-shape","tag-danforth","tag-elomi","tag-ewa-michalak","tag-lined-bra","tag-lingerie","tag-padded-bra","tag-toronto","tag-unpadded-bra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadlingerie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}