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Northshore October 2025
In the last year, my bra size has been guesstimated at 32C, 32D, 34A, 34B, 32B, and 34C, and I've got a drawer jammed with lacy underthings to prove it. Some of them may actually fit, though I couldn't tell you which.Neither can most women. The statistic most often cited, from Oprah to the New York Times, is that 85 percent of us wear the wrong bra size, which can cause back pain, sagging, and aesthetic disaster."The right bra should be snug, with room for no more than a finger or two inside the band, and your ribcage-not your shoulders-should bear the weight," says Merit Tukiainen, owner of Night & Day Lingerie. The store's two locations
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