Guess what size bra M&S suggested

[Katz]

My DD wears a size xs or 4/6 and 00 jeans. Guess what size bra M&S suggested for her?

34b.

36C

Ghetto - spot on!

The fitter tried to convince me that the band size was perfect. She pulled it out an inch. I could easily extend it by 4-6inchs without DD even noticing I was. I pointed out she was slipping out from underneath the cups but no that was a perfect fit!

I’ll go 32b

How can they get it so wrong. We’d tried the 30C on and that was to big round and the 28 was the right band but they don’t go bigger than a C cup. Which is why I’d tried the 30C to get the cup volume. The fitter told me that the band was strangerling her! DD was quiet happy in the 28 band but the cup was too small.

M&S are so shit for bra sizing, its laughable.

Thankfully DD believed me when I said there’s no way she’s a 34b. She watched the fitter measure her and then add 4 inches to get the band size. She asked me why after but not the fitter.

Had the same hideous experience with my DD (12). Size 6/8. 34 B. She's a 28 back.

Tsk. 34B will totally fit her. You only have to wrap it around her body twice

Wow.
I self fitted myself the other day for bras. Used the better bra campaign fit advice and I'm currently sat in a PERFECTLY fitted 30GG.

Bet you'd never believe that I'm a good sturdy size 12, a size 14 bum and thigh area and a wobbly mum tum to boot.

Why, oh why do places still insist on using outdated and useless measuring services that do nothing good for us?

I hope your daughter is fitted into underwear that's the right size by now OP. M&S really need to step up their game.

I'm fully convinced that M&S bra 'fitters' have been given strict orders to only offer 2 sizes - 34B and 36C . There's no other explanation.

Oh sorry, and of course there is the 3rd option, tell the woman she has weird shape boobs, impossible to fit.

They had me in a 34C aged 12 at a size 6. 34C when I was 16 and a size 12. 34C aged 22 and a size 8. It was at that point I gave up and went to Bravissimo. Size 10 now, 28FF although I sometimes buy 30FF.

All of those 34C bras fit differently and wrongly btw. I had quad boob for a while.

M&S measured my elderly mother, who is a tiny size 8 , 10 at most , bony and post mastectomy, at a 36B. I’ve told her time and time again there’s no way she’s a 36 band. I wear a 36 and I’m a size 16! She won’t have it though. So I’ve tried to make her try on smaller sizes and she says they’re agony. I think she’s so used to being (non) fitted by M&S she doesn’t know what it should feel like . It’s hugely frustrating

try Debenhams for 28 inch backs, they do some which are "non scary" as my then young teen DD described them . Also don't bother with fitters, take a range of sizes and try them on yourselves.

I had a similar experience with M&S. Bought several bras at the size the fitter insisted I was and then had to take them all back because I was at least a band size smaller.

FOr goodness sake, M&S are soooo rubbish, why can’t they see that that size bra was way too big in the back for your dd???

I WISH WISH WISH they would take notice of this. I mention it every time I make the vein attempt to buy a bra in there. I say ‘I have money to spend. I want to buy spend it here - you have pretty lingerie in most sizes but because you measure incorrectly, you think the majority of women are smaller in the cup / bigger in the band. If you listened to us, you’d actually make some money’.

I’ve said it to various managers. They nod in a patronising fashion...

We went to Debenhams too but they didn’t have any cups bigger than B in 28s. We did get lucky there as they had 3 30C shock absorber sports bras for £2 each which we did buy as on the tightest hooks were fine on her and at £2 I don’t care when they stretch a bit and need getting rid of plus I think she’ll have grown by then too. Poor kid doesn’t stand a chance of small boobs. I’m a 32G and her sister is a 30H.

Hadn’t thought of Victoria secrets she loves the pink clothing - how does there sizing come up? Do they go down to a 28 back with c or d cups?

I wore a 36C from the age of 16 to around 19 after a "fitting" at M&S. I was a size 6 at best at the time but an ample cup size. Turns out i was a 30 DD... which back then was almost impossible to find!

I was measured as a 36C in M&S.

Rigby and Peller put me at a 32E by sight (no tape) which looks and feels SO much better.

Marks's bra measuring is a joke.

Debenhams measured me but there was so much fat hanging over the armpits I'd have looked hideous in t-shirts. They insisted it was a perfect fit. I found my own perfect fit instead.

@Theresahairbrushinthefridge where did you get suitable 28 back bras from. My DD is 12 too and I’ve worked out she needs a 28d but it’s recommended to not have wires. She wants some normal bras not just sports ones.

Bravissimo stock 28D.

It’s ridiculous that a 28 back is do hard to find! I’m a fairly average size 8 adult and have always been a 28 or 30 (and was wearing a 10-12 when I was in a 30!). I have no idea how skinny teens find bras that even remotely fit!!