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I notice that in a push-up bra (with all that push-up padding at the bottom of the cup, designed to push your breasts up and give you the look of cleavage), I am a size 30C.. but in non push-up bras, 30C is often too big in the cups for me. This is because in push-up bras, the padding takes up a lot of space in the cup (they don't seem to account for this when sizing it.. but I guess the padding is meant to displace your breast tissue and force it up?)

Anyway, I notice that I have gaping sometimes with push-up bras. The other day, I walked into a Change of Scandinavia store and tried on a push-up t-shirt bra in size 30B and there was a lot of gaping at the top.. so I tried the 30C and the gaping lessened, but there was still some. I didn't bother going for 30D bra because the cups just looked way too big. I think this is just a problem/flaw with many push-up bras - even if the bra seems to fit, there is gaping because of the placement of the padding. Usually, you hear that gaping is due to the cup being too big but in the case of push-up bras, I don't think this is true...

Anyone else have this issue sometimes? It doesn't happen to me all the time, so it seems to depend on the design of the bra. I like wearing push-up bras because it gives a lot of extra oomph.