Comments on: A poll: small-bust bra choice on your high street

By: Katrina

Katrina — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:10:47 +0000

I have a hard enough time as a small A. While its true that American Eagle’s lingerie branch (Aerie) carries a lot in my size, the styles are more “cutsie” because they’re geared toward teenagers. I’m a married woman in my 20′s, and while I like some cute bras, it’s very rare that I can find anything “sexy” in my size. And forget finding any other lingerie or bikinis that are sized by cup in anything less than a B. (And if I see one more blog telling me that I need to look like Kim Kardashian or Christina Hendrix, I’m going to strangle someone! Excuse me for naturally being on the small size! I feel any woman can be sexy; she doesn’t have to be a D cup!)

No fully grown woman in a small cup size should feel forced to buy her bras in the juniors department or online. Of course, many departnemtn stores are doing away with petite sections completely; if I want to buy petite jeans at Old navy, I have to go online. There seems to be this misconception that petites either don’t exist anymore or we’re so few and far between that it’s not worth a store’s time to carry our sizes.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:34:56 +0000

“They” has been used in answers, in the interest of brevity and it refers to the group “Women with AA-cup bra size” defined by the question.

This isn’t the only space the poll has been posted in — also on Twitter and Facebook — where I’m hoping to collect the views of everyone, both small-busted women and others.

Added to which, decision makers in lingerie stores and departments are not all small-breasted and it is their views that shape the choice of lingerie available to small breasted women like me and you.

I’m hoping that evidence — in the form of polls like this & action taken by small-busted women who support the idea of the Every Body Loves Lingerie campaign — will start convincing those decision makers that women with small breasts should have the wide choice in lingerie that they deserve.

Thanks, C

By: Lexica

Lexica — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:23:52 +0000

As far as the wording of the poll goes, I think anyone who’s able to use the pronoun “they” to refer to “small-breasted women” shouldn’t be allowed to answer. If somebody isn’t a woman with small breasts, I don’t care what they think about what my lingerie choices should be.

Half-joking, but half-serious…