End of giveaway!

So, folks, this is the end of my giveaway!

I've had 1169 entries, and it has boosted me up to 8066 views this month! I'm blown away by all the positive feedback, and I'm so happy that Biubiu, Elomi, Ewa Michalak and Large Cup Lingerie wanted to participate in this!

Congratulations to Pat, Nora, Lyndsay and Mariëlle! If any of you wish to do a guest review of your prices, let me know, I'd be honoured! :D

1 YEAR BLOGIVERSARY GIVEAWAY - BIUBIU

I am proud to present to you:

“Clothing in 3D”: Biubiu is dedicated to making great clothing for the larger busts.
Their size chart aims at fitting each women in tops and dresses that fits perfectly at both the waist and the bust, with three different levels of ‘bustiness’:

What more is, Biubiu keeps very reasonable prices, while maintaining high quality: Truly, there are no downsides :)

I myself have shopped at Biubiu several times and always look forward to their new things! Due to their popularity, they sell out certain sizes fast, though, so you must be quick :D

They sell popular button-down professional shirts, which any woman who’ve struggled with gaping buttons will love, as well as wonderfully casual tops. And let us not forget the wonderful dresses!

MARSALA

VIENNA purple

PEONY FIELDS

(Just to name a few!)

What’s not to love?

This is why I’m thrilled to tell you, that Biubiu will gift one of their dresses (subject to availability) to the lucky winner of my giveaway!

Just participate through this rafflecopter, and I’ll draw the winner in the 31^st of July!

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1 YEAR BLOGIVERSARY GIVEAWAY - EWA MICHALAK

In the occasion of my blogiversary, I present:

Ewa Michalak is a Polish bra-brand with the widest size range on earth!

They are what many full-busted women have been dreaming of: A front and centered shape you’ll hardly find anywhere else, padded bras in larger cup sizes, colorfull plunges – everything you’ve wanted for your boobs!

I find myself always reaching for my Ewa Michalak bras when I want to have an amazing-looking chest, and I’ve thus bought and blogged about these incredible garments many times :)

Many other bloggers, namely CurvyWordy, are also spell bound by these bras, so they are rightfully quite a popular brand in the ‘bra-community’

And who can blame us? Look at some of these brilliant bras:

S Ptýs

 

HP Rokoko

 

PL Onyks

 

3DM Malinka

CHP Orchidea

I’m therefore happy to tell you, that one of you can win one of the beauties (or any other EM bra), including shipping, here in my giveaway!
Just fill out the Rafflecopter, and I’ll draw the winners on the 31^st of July!

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1 YEAR BLOGIVERSARY GIVEAWAY - LARGE CUP LINGERIE

In the occasion of my blogiversary, I present:

Large Cup Lingerie is an online specialist who believes in providing great fitting bras for big cups!

They offer 28-40bands in D-K cups, in both regular lingerie and swimwear. They stock favorite brands such as Freya, Panache’s brands, Parfait by Affinitas and many more!

And as a rare treat, they offer free worldwide shipping! This makes them a favorite among the D+ shoppers outside Europe and North America especially!

One thing I particularly like about Large Cup Lingerie is their facebook activity! They are very much in touch with their costumers and the bra-community in general, frequently sharing things they found interesting from blogs, or issues they would like their followers opinion on.
Not only do they post bra-related things, but they’ve picked up on the general body-positive and feminism trends within the bra community, and they participate in these topics as well. I can definitely recommend to add them to your newsfeed, especially as you will also get amazing promocodes (*cough* this month they have 20% off in a flashsale with code FLASHJULY *cough*)

I am therefore proud to tell y’all that they’ve generously given a giftvoucher of £50 to be given to a lucky winner in my giveaway!

Just participate through the Rafflecopter, and you have a chance :D
I will draw a winner the 31^st of July!

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1 YEAR BLOGIAVERSARY GIVEAWAY - ELOMI

In the occasion of my blogiversary, I present:

Elomi is without a doubt a very fitting brand to be featured here on my blog!

Beautiful Lingerie For The Fuller Figure is their tagline, and not only that, they are one of the only actual full bust brands­, going up to a K-cup!

And beautiful? Indeed:

Maggie

Paloma

Kenya

Maria

Roxy

The last which I’ve just ordered myself – the Roxy, which is probably the set I’ve been most excited about in my life. Massive kudos to Elomi for making one of the only longline bra above G! It still doesn’t come quite in my usual J/JJ-cup, I am hoping it runs a cup large (as I’ve experienced some Elomi bras does!), as I simply can’t let this beautiful bra slip past me! :D And the bottoms too! Even though my band size doesn’t limit me to brands that specialize in fuller figures, my butt does! I’ve had very little success with most other brands in this department, so I’m thrilled of the prospect of the bottom of a set fitting me well!

So, without further ado, Elomi has generously put up their bestselling set Elomi Caitlyn in Black or Pearl Black (L8030 and EL8035) to be gifted to a lucky reader here on my blog!

Caitlyn set in Black

Caitlyn set in Pearl

Just enter here through the Rafflecopter here, and you are in! I’ll draw the winners on the 31^st of July!

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1YEAR BLOGIVERSARY GIVEAWAY

­­­­Wow! It's been a year since I started this blog!

When I first started it, I didn’t know what to expect: I’ve never had a blog before, but after having spend months on bratabase, r/ABraThatFits, r/BigBoobProblems and various bra-blogs, I wanted to join in!

I never expected to get so many readers, nor to be linked as a resource on reddit and other blogs, and I’m blown away by the tight community that I have become a part of! I’ve learned so much, and I appreciate the entire experience :D  
A couple of statistics of my blogs career involves:

• 34 posts, almost 3 a month
• 43774 views (wow!!)
• My most read post is Bra Fitting on a Fat Body, My Bra Journey: Shape! And How tofind your bra size
• Most my readers are from the US, UK and Canada
• I get the most references from Google, Reddit and BrasIHateandLove
• Speaking of google, the key words that bring most people to my blog (besides when googleing my blogname) is “and warm and I don t doubt”, “busty in too tight bra” and “ewa michalak”

All very interesting!

Anyways, so on my blogs birthday, I wanted to give something back: And is there anything we love more than give aways? I’ve allied myself with a couple of brilliant boob-related companies, who have generously allowed me to gift a prize to a reader in my blogiversary! I will draw a winner on the 31^st of July, so don’t hesitate to enter the rafflecopter to win some great prizes! :D

Check out the giveaways:
Biubiu
Ewa Michalak
Large Cup Lingerie
Elomi

The results of "How big are your thighs?"-survey!

Some time ago, I created a survery, as I had a theory that the most common tights size-charts do no account for the diverse ranges our bodies (and thighs, specifically) come in.

Well, the results are in!

Some notes first, though:

Only the first 100 answers are free for me to read, so they are the only ones included. Which, is a shame, as I noticed around the 60mark that I didn't have so many 250lbs+ answers, so when I continued to spread the survey link, I specifically called out for the heavier women.  I can tell this was listened to, as the later respondents tend to be heavier, so I assume those beyond the 100 first responses would have represented that range better.

Another thing to note, is that out of these 100, only 86 people provided enough information - I had a few that answered "no idea" to all but the height for example, which is very difficult to use in any regard to tights.

To present the data, I've used the size guides that I mentioned in the original post: Evans and WeLoveColors:

According to Evans, I got 49 (57%) women as size 1, 31 (36%) as size 2 and 5 (6%) for size 3.

For We Love Colors, I got 8 (9%) for Medium, 9 (10%) for Tall, 22 (26%) for 1X, 11 (13%) for 2X, 21 (24%) for 3X and 14 (16%) for 4X.

They both use height, but one uses hip measurement, and the other uses weight, so continuing with the theory that we are very diverse, this will give very different sizes.

So, let's see diverse the results are.

For all those who fell into the "size 1" at Evans, here is what their sizes were at We Love Colors:

WeLoveColors sizes

Hmm! That seems a little odd, eh? Can it really be right, that tights in size 1 from Evans is to fit both those who go for Medium or 4X at other tight manufactors?

Well, since my theory is that most tight size-charts inadequate, so let's see how these ladies compare with their regular jean sizes:

Jeans sizes

Well, that's probably more diverse! From a UK size 4 to 32! There seems to be no system at all.

And last, let's see how their tighs match up:

Thighs

There's 15" difference between the largest and smallest thighs who would be recommended the size 1! It seems quite unlikely that these women would have much success trying to follow the chart.

Going on to those in Evan tights size 2 we see much of the same trend:

WeLoveColors sizes

Again we see that the women who are recommended the same size at Evans, will be recomneded widely different sizes at WeLoveColors. Though, it's worth it to note that there are no Medium's this time around, so they do afterall follow along a little bit.

Jeans sizes

Here both the smallest and largest sizes we saw for jeans sizes in Evans size 1 are gone, but this is most likely due to the smaller sample size. So this batch just about as diverse in their regular sizes as the one before.

Thighs

Again we see that the largest thigh is almost twice as big as the smallest! How could the possibly fit the same tights?

For Evans Size 3, I had too few respondents (5) for it make sense to graph. This is probably partly down to the fact that I had a bit too few of the largest ladies, and the very important reason, that it takes a lot to be an Evans Size 3: I'm pretty sure a 5'3" women with 61" hips will in many cases need at least as wide tights as a 5'5" women with 57" hips, yet the shorter women will be catagorized as a size 2.

All the women who were size 3 at Evans, were size 4X at WeLoveColors, and their thighs were between 31"-43", and jeans sizes from UK 26 to 34. Even with so few respondents, that's a huge diversity still!


So, there you have it, that's how the tight sizing compare to both each other, but also to what usually fits our bottoms as well as our actual tigh size.

In the comments section of my survey, the vast majority felt exactly like me about the sizing: It always ends up to small!
A problem I ignorantly hadn't considered was the diverse heights as well: A lot of complaints were from shorter women who always ended up with way to long, as well as to narrow, tights: This of course makes sense when looking at the typical height/weight size chart: Often the shortst heights aren't represented at all - and if you then choose only by the weight, they are made for 5'7"+ for example, as is the case for the larger sizes with WeLoveColors. Or, it will be done as Evans, where a short women will be recommened a smaller size than a taller but narrower women, thus ending up with perhaps good lengt, but way to narrow.

So, my theory that tight sizing does not match up well with actual sizes needed, is looking pretty likely!

Plus size ladies: How big are your thighs?

I hope some of you will do me the favor of answering this quick survey, asking for you height, weight, and thigh measurement, and jeans-size :)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LMDKXNL

Why I'm curious:
When buying tights, it bothers me that they size chart is often based on height and weight (even rarely including hip-measurement) With such diversity in bodies, I feel like this can't possible be accurate size-advice. And I've seen the inaccurcy on my own body too: I know my thighs are proportionally larger than so many other women, so I always make sure to buy at least a size larger than recommended - yet, they are still too small.

For my last 2 tight purchase, I've payed extra attention to how I matched their sizing chart:

I bought pairs from WeLoveColors: I weigh 225lbs, and I'm almost 5'9", so their 3X size ought to be enough - I could even have had 35lbs more on a 2" shorter body (thus, you'd expect the body to be wider), and my hip measurement of 49" was also within the limit - I opted for the 4X, though, which ought to fit someone who is 105lbs heavier than me while being 3" shorter - additionally, the hip-measurement is for "over 50" - they don't state how much 'over', but their other sizes can accomodate a difference between 8"-10", so I'd think these were up to 58"ish, which is much larger than me.

But, you guessed it, when they arrived, they were too small at the thigh.

I also purchased from Evans - their sizing chart puts me in a 'size 2', which is for 49"-55" hips (so I'm the smallest hip they are made for), a height of 5'7"-5'10" (So I'm smack in the middle). Yet again, I opt for a larger size, which is made for hips up to 62" (they even recommend that if you are under 5'4", you should take the smaller size, even if your hip still measures 62")

Yet, again, too small: I couldn't even get them over my knee!

It might just be me who is build in such a way no tight-producer even thought of, but I still find it difficult to believe that they would fit the majority of people they say they do. Thus, I want to use this survey, to see just how different sized thighs we have, even if we fit the same criteria for hip and height/weight!

1000 views!

At 02:00am, I hit one thousand views on my blog! Thanks to all who have read what I had to say, I hope it was useful to you :)