Bra and clothes rant....

Happy this week, I managed to pour myself into two pairs of favourite trousers that didn't fit previously and one of those was a size 22. However, as good as that felt, I don't think it really means a lot, sizes vary so much between shops and styles, take for instance I have two pairs of jeans from Evans, both the same size but slightly different styles. The one pair now fit me beautifully, the other pair, I still can't even nearly do the buttons up despite losing over a stone, yet I can get into a whole size lower from a different store. It drives me batty. I buy so many clothes that are ill-fitting and I am the worlds worst at taking things back, I hang onto them in the false-hope that at some point they are going to fit.

The thing that really gets on my tits is bras (yes, pun-intended - ha ha!), I have measured and measured, been on different websites to check their bra fitting policies but can I get a bra to fit properly? No I cannot.

I know I am not a normal size, as such, being rather well-endowed in the 'bangers' area (bless you Gok Wan for that description) but how hard can it be to make bra sizes standard-ish. I either spill out over the top giving me weird lumps under my tops, over the sides with the wires rubbing furiously at my arms or the back strap rides up so far it nearly touches my neck, or worst of all I actually fall out the bottom of my bra (that is my current issue) and all of this is within a small range of sizes that I have desperately tried to see whether that the size for me.

At the minute I have two bras, same style, same shop, same size, one fits okish (a little big but sadly the best fit I have found) and the other not at all, its way too large, then I have another bra, different style, same shop but same size which is really so tight the band rubs my skin raw.

How on earth is this possible and what chance do I have if exactly the same product varies so much and then the same size varies so much within one store? I think I am just going to start bandaging my boobs in place and burn my bras!