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Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:00a.m.

New Zealand women are getting bigger breasts, with D cups and bigger accounting for nearly half of Bendon bras sold in New Zealand last year.

Though the C cup is still the most popular bra cup size, sales of D to J cup sizes have increased by 53 percent over the past three years, compared to a 2 percent increase in the sales figures of AA to C-cupped bras, according to Bendon figures.

The figures were calculated based on sales of Bendon, Fayreform and Elle Macpherson Intimate ranges of bras.

Fayreform "braologist" Carol Rashleigh had seen steady growth in breasts over more than two decades of helping women into fitting bras.

"More than 70 percent of women in New Zealand wear the wrong bra size or style, which can affect posture, cause back pain and lead to sagging breasts," she said.

NZPA

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Comments [11]

Gary
19 Mar 2009 9:00p.m.

Oh gosh...what a calamity....breasts getting bigger as womens sense of humour diminishes...what do we men have to do for a bit of a titter?? Its a strange thing about womens libbers...they get soooo SERIOUS about themselves...oh well, bring back the feminine stick insect physique....at least they knew how to laugh about life.

Colette
19 Mar 2009 11:10a.m.

Ok Gary, yes we are getting bigger....as your brain gets smaller. It's fairly obvious that you're just trying to wind up 'Wanna' and it's incredibly childish, grow up.

Gary
18 Mar 2009 9:09p.m.

Actually, its not only womans breasts that are getting bigger, its their bums as well. I mean, in the old days, we men would hold a door open for a woman. Nowadays, we need to demolish an entire wall! And as for changing a tyre for a damsel in distress, these days women wear the spare tyre around their waists! Have you ever tried walking around the average Kiwi woman on the pavement? You put your life at risk, because the only way to pass is to walk in the road! All the talking scales around the country have been rendered speechless, by women with bums the size of Volkwagens! Maybe its a balance thing, to counteract the increased size of breasts, so women dont fall over. One things for sure...women are more equal than equal these days.....equally fat all over.

Gary
18 Mar 2009 8:56p.m.

Gosh 'Wanna Bikkit'......Did I press your buttons?

Wanna Bikkit
18 Mar 2009 4:09p.m.

Gary - I see you think with the contents of your trousers rather than the contents of your cranium. I suspect there's little to work with in either case!

Colette
18 Mar 2009 11:00a.m.

Maybe because we're getting fatter like 'em Americans!

Tania
17 Mar 2009 9:45p.m.

We may be getting bigger (myself having gone from an A-DD since menopause), however getting them to fit small across the back for petite women isn't getting easier. I'm an 8DD.

Gary
17 Mar 2009 9:39p.m.

They are getting bigger because their brains are shrinking back to their proper size. I blame the Womans Liberation Movement, and what a movement it was, when they burnt their bras. That only had two good points about it anyway, and was probably the only thing we can thank Germaine Greer for, other than buggering off to Australia. Personally, I think women should just be obscene and not heard.
The only thing that worries me is all the extra material needed for bigger bras. I mean, won't that increase the carbon footprint left by the likes of Bendon? Save the environment, and do away with bras altogether, I say.

Codez
17 Mar 2009 3:16p.m.

Hell yeah mark, got to love them 'hungry eyes'.

mark
17 Mar 2009 12:40p.m.

Do we really need a photo of a women in a bra making 'bedroom eyes' to accompany this story?!

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