The stress-free way of understanding bra size
Melons? Oranges? Leaving aside the unsavoury nature of comparing boobs to fruit, it's interesting that a consistent urge many people have when it comes to bra sizing is to relate a cup size back to an imagined shape or volume. People in general are visual, and it makes sense that we want to translate the information on the tag into a picture of what that breast looks like in real life. Most of us could size up a friend's dress size with reasonable accuracy based on the bodyshape images we've come to associate with standard garment sizes. The problem with this urge when it comes to bras is that cup size doesn't refer to a fixed volume: those aforementioned oranges could be either a B or a DD depending on the frame they sit on.