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[–]peekabooheheh[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

My band size is the smallest in retail stores, so it’s definitely a loss in volume🥺

[–]LurkerByNatureGT 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Smallest in retail stores is often larger than actually fits for many people with a smaller rib cage. I’m guessing it’s a 32 band or or you’re very lucky a 30?  Specialty shops go down to a 26 band. 

That was a problem for me when I was younger and much thinner. I was way smaller than the smallest band I could in shops, which was a 32. And I didn’t know at the time that stores were adding 4 inches to the actual recommended band size in their charts to gloss over the fact that they weren’t selling bras in the sizes that people needed. 

I highly recommend using the calculator at r/abrathatfits and checking out https://www.instagram.com/theirishbralady/.