To expect to actually be measured for a bra fitting?

[CaptainCabinets]

I booked a bra fitting at M&S today as I’ve just finished 13 months of breastfeeding and have also lost a little weight (only about a stone) so my old bras no longer fit properly. For context, I wore a 34G (properly measured and fitted) prior to pregnancy/breastfeeding/weight loss. The band still fits properly but the cup is now too large, so I guesstimated I’d be around a 34E-F these days.

I arrived for my bra fitting, expecting the fitter to have a tape measure to measure me, but she said she ‘just goes by eye’ and that she guessed I would be a 42C based on my shape. She brought a 42C into the fitting room and, predictably, it did not fit me at all. I explained I’d been a 34G previously and she actually laughed at me and said there was no way a 34 band would fit me.

She went to get a 42D and I scarpered from the fitting room while she was out because I had no confidence in her fitting ability and felt completely humiliated after she had laughed at me. Is ‘going by eye’ the norm for M&S bra fitting now?! I could do that my bloody self!

That's the problem. I'm sure HQ know most women are in the wrong size, but it's easier for them to rake in the cash flogging 'sister sizes' crap than to do some in store education and make sure they stock the most common 'missing sizes'. Their range in a 28 and 30 back with even quite normal sized norks is absolutely dire. I'm a 30EE/F (M&S advise 32B) and there is usually a couple of ranges that do that size but rarely in stock.

Exactly this! I wasted more than £70 in Bravissimo only to get painful bruises around my ribs halfway through day one of wear.