There was once a time when 34B was the average bra size in the USA. So if your breasts were neither small nor big, they were a B. However, the lingerie industry has come on a long way since those early days of cup-sized bras. And with a B cup or even C cup now being the upper size offered by many small-bust specialist brands, can we still call B cup breasts pretty average? Or are they simply considered small?
B Cup Breasts: Bra Pictures, Implants & Bras - B Cup Boobs
A cup breasts are tiny, right? But do you really know what an A cup looks like? Here, we explain all of this and more, plus recommend the best bras for A cup boobs. The letter is calculated by deducting the measurement just below the breasts from the one around the center of them. Think about it this way: a person who wears an XS and a person who wears an XL can both have breasts that stick out the same distance, but on the larger person those breasts will be wider. Hence, they will have more breast tissue overall than the size XS person.
The shape and size of the breasts are determined genetically, but they can change as a result of pregnancy and lactation, intensive workouts, and sudden weight fluctuations. The breasts can become bigger temporarily when a woman is pregnant or breastfeeding. Sometimes, it can be related to weight gain and sexual arousal.
So you think you know what a D cup looks like? So the above photo — what size does that look to you? You might be chiming up with a D cup, pretty big but not huge. As you might remember from our How To Measure Yourself video , cup size is relative to band size.