About Bra Sizes

Before I forget, I meant to have a tirade about bra sizes. They are really annoying. Alright, so you have the standard A, B, C, etc., and we all know the AA, BB, CC, DD, etc. Those are fairly simple, well-known, and in general, just there. It's what you have to put up with (or for you grammarians, up with which you have to put). 

But now there are also Nearly A, NB, NC, and half sizes, and for the life of me, I can't tell if these are the same thing by different name, or if they're two completely different systems. The half I understand: midway between point x and y. Gotcha. No confusion. It's these "nearly" sizes that keep tripping me up. See, I recognize that there is leeway in defining "nearly," but if I were going to venture a guess, I'd say that Nearly would be greater than Half. If a job's less than halfway done, you don't call it nearly done unless you're the Government. Then you call it done until someone chews your ass out. But clothing lines usually don't get away with such inadequacy; people are actually watching them.

Nearly. Nearly A should be say, 90% the size of a true B. That makes sense: it's almost the size of a B but not quite. Instead, I find that "nearly" bras are often 10% bigger than what they're supposed to be. For example, Nearly B would actually be closer to an A+ (forgive the pun). Seriously, it's like a 110% A, which I understood to be synonymous with AA. 

See? This is too complicated. If I could just have a cheat sheet with everything written down, that'd be great. The problem is I'd need a different sheet for everything clothing line. And I'm lazy. At least on this topic, I'm extremely lazy. I don't want to have to work at clothing. I define matching clothes as something with sleeves matches something with pant legs. Seriously. It can be that simple. Women are just determined not to make it so. A conspiracy, I swear.