Let's talk about bras! Specifically bras worn in Germany and the U.S.
Hey everyone! I'm Dana and you're watching Wanted Adventure Living Abroad.
First up on the agenda today: a little bra vocabulary.
Bra-cabulary if you will. And I will. Bra-cabulary. Uh-huh. That's what I'm going with.
In English this is called a bra.
This part of the bra here is called the cup.
The wire here underneath the cup is called the underwire.
These are called the straps of the bra.
And then you've also got here the hooks. Ta-da!
Whereas in German this is referred to as a BH.
BH stands for Büstenhalter. Which literally means bust holder. The holder of the bust.
And it is. That's actually perfectly descriptive.
And as for the bra cups, I have seen them called BH Cups in Germany, as well as two other things:
Brustkörbchen, which literally means little breast basket.
So the cups are the little breast baskets in German.
As well as Schalen, which can also mean bowls.
So in English these are cups and in German, Schalen, which also means bowls.
Bra straps are called BH-Träger.
And in the back of the bras in German you've got the BH-Verschluss. There we go!
And before we move on from the bra-cabulary, German even has a common saying involving the bra.
Alles klar im BH? Which literally translates to "is everything okay in your bra?"
Only it almost rhymes in German, and just means something like "is everything alright?"
But now leaving the vocabulary stuff behind, let's move onto something a little bit more complicated.
Bra sizing.
You might think that I'm exaggerating here, being too dramatic, and okay, maybe I am just
a little bit, but seriously: what is up with bra sizing?
Why is the sizing of the bust holders so complicated?
Okay, so in both the U.S. and Germany bras are sized by cup as well as by the band that
goes around the bra.
And the band number is in inches in the U.S. and in centimeters in Germany.
But watch out!
Watch out here because the normal conversion from inches to centimeters does not work here.
It does not work with bra sizing.
Yes, the band size is computed using inches in the U.S. and centimeters in Germany, but
there are some sizing changes that often get made along the way, which is what leads to
the whole inches to centimeter or centimeter to inches conversion not really working
as far as bra band sizes go.
What in the world am I talking about here?
Okay, 34 inches would convert to about 86 centimeters, but on the bra sizing charts
that I've seen, a size 34 bra in the U.S. unfortunately does not correlate to a size
86 bra in Germany.
No, that would be way too simple.
And then because that's not confusing enough, there's the letter part of bra sizing, the cup size.
And unfortunately that does not seem to be the same in the U.S. and Germany either.
And to complicate things further, different charts that I have seen actually give slightly
different information on what an American cup size would correlate to here in Germany.
American bras start with a size double A and then it goes: A, B, C, D, then double D and
triple D, although in some of the charts triple D was actually written as E, and then alphabetically
from there.
While German bra sizing starts at A and does not have any double letters or anything like
that, it just goes A and then alphabetically from there.
However, some charts showed an American double A cup as being equal to the German A cup,
while other charts showed the German A and the American A cups as being the same size,
and I guess in that case then, the American double A cup would just be smaller than a
German A cup.
And I guess that size just doesn't exist in Germany? Yeah, I don't know.
I think the lesson here is that bra sizing is confusing. Very confusing.
So my question for you is: What's your take on this?
And what bra differences have you noticed in Germany, the U.S. or anywhere else around the world?
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I wasn't even really that surprised when I saw that.
I was like, yeah, of course the charts say different things.
Cups versus bowls. Interesting. Languages are so interesting.
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