Bra Overloading Basics

Or perhaps that should be 'Overloading a Basic Bra?' Anywho, following on in a similar vein to Developmental Studies, I thought it would be both a good speculative exercise and also a good reference as to what happens if you take an everyday bra and stuff it with as much boob as it can hold.

I've done similar sequences before, such as Bikini Busting Beach Expansion, DD Bra Test, Kat's Bra-Busting Test, Lisa's Laboratory and Mammary Enhancement Machine, and you can find pleny of other illustrations and scenes in my various Galleries that feature these sorts of cup-stuffing capers! So, lets start at the start...

Please Note: This sequence of sketches uses the UK (United Kingdom) Bra sizing scale (or at least, a commonly accepted variant of it), tweaked with the one used in BrasByDesign Lore. You can find conversion charts online should you need to translate (although a LL-cup and S-cup may require some manual calculation!).

Fig. A - 34 C-cup

So, a 34 C-cup bust in a 34 C-cup bra is our reference, and whilst that doesn't sound too out of the ordinary just yet, we can at least talk about the bra; it is a Smooth-cup Underwired 'T-shirt' Bra, often called this because it is designed to give a smooth, rounded shape under fitted clothes, although this isn't always the case in practice. Smooth-cup bras often tend to utilise a moulded, one-piece cup to give that uninterupted silhouette, rather than the more traditional two or three-piece sectional cups, or those with a lace or trim added over the top. It has a two hook fastening at the back, and 12mm wide adjustable shoulder straps - it is, essentially, a basic, everyday bra...

Fig. B - 34 F-cup

An F-cup, whilst only four cup-sizes larger, already poses a problem for the shallow moulded cups of our test bra. We see most of that extra boob pushed by the cup shape to the lower, more open part of the bra at the gore. There is also some spillage around the armpits, as the straps tighten and pulled slightly away from the chest, and also begin to dig in to the shoulders. Most of the breasts weight should be, ideally, supported by the band of the bra, not the straps, but as out example is already reasonably overloaded, those comparitively thin straps are holding more of the load. The gore or bridge (the centre part of the bra, between the cups), begins to stretch and also pull of the chest somewhat as the swell of breasts behind it causes it to deform...

Fig C - 34 JJ-cup

Whilst with an F-cup it was arguable that the bra was still doing its job to some degree, when stuffed with a double-J cup's worth of bust, it is clear that it is being overwhelmed. The cups are beginning to be forced out at quite an angle, as the swell of breast pushes forward and out, and even under the gore, to the path of least resistance. The band of the bra will also have stretched further, meaning that their will be an increasing chance for boob to escape from behind the cups and be pushed under the arms. The adjusters on those skinny straps will have let out completely, their resistance unable to compete with the sheer overload - load spreaders have been used on the shoulders, simply to stop the bra cheese-wiring the skin. It's full, sure, but in true BrasByDesign style, I'm sure it can take just a little more...

Fig. D - 34 Q-cup

With the cups buckling as they overflow with flesh from all angles, it is holding, but for how long would be hard to say. Even a steady walk would most likely see a strap pop or the hook and eye fastening rip apart at the back. With the elasticity of both the gore and the band stretched to its fullest, only the tension caused by the breasts helps it hold onto the chest a small amount, and so the cups pull forward and the back of the bra rises up - even the load spreaders on the shoulders are struggling to do their job as ninety percent of the weight of those bountiful breasts impatiently pull on them. Under static load, you might get away with another cup size, maybe two, but I would probably wear safety goggles, just to be on the safe side!