I know it can be an absolute mare unless one gets properly fitted first. Isn’t there some factoid trotted out about the percentage of women who wear the wrong size bra?
cassandrakitty
10 years ago
Sizing is pretty much the same, I think? I know that for the larger cups in Japanese sizing you need to add one cup size from the British size. British sizing seems to be more precise than American though, ie. I can buy almost any British 34E and it will fit, even if the style isn’t right for me, whereas with American bras it’s a bit less reliable.
Marie
10 years ago
@kiwi girl
I can’t tell if I’m reading those right, because I got different results for every single one…
Kiwi girl
10 years ago
Maybe I’m not looking at the right row. I was looking around the 34C, which is my size. I got boobies in my 30s.
And maybe more women would have gone out and conquered countries in past centuries if it hadn’t taken them bloody 2 hours to put their clothes on, and 2 hours to take it off again to go to bed, and all those whales kept all their bones.
Kiwi girl
10 years ago
Marie, did you get the sizing conversions sorted?
Marie
10 years ago
@kiwi girl
technically not, but it’s not terribly important atm, since I don’t even money for bras.
Marie – US sizings are four smaller than their Oz equivalent, so I’m a 16 in our sizings and a 12 in yours. If you’re a 12 in ours you’d be a US 8. You’d like our shops, there are 12s (Oz) everywhere!
emilygoddess – yes, finding boots that fit over my calves is a pain. Finding flat ones, ditto, is even harder. I did have a pair by Y.So that had the elastic side same as chimsaur mentioned, so they might be worth a look. They were barely over the knee.
Kiwi girl, can you get Bonds underwear in NZ? Their good old Cottontails line might be helpful.
@kitteh, yeah we have that brand over here too. The bit I forgot to add in my post in that I resent having to pay $12 for one pair of plain cotton pants. The Bendon ones, which I used to like and would wait until they had had a 3-for-the-price-of-2 sale are now incredibly thin with really flimsy elastic, so I’m nervous about wearing them under skirts.
Why does a woman’s pants, which has way less material than men’s boxers and seems to be less intricate, cost very similar?
And don’t get me started on beach bikinis – seriously $150 for a two piece togs outfit???!!!
Kiwi girl
10 years ago
On a different note entirely, I have almost finished this: http://www.crochetme.com/media/p/109281.aspx which has sat for 3 years until I could read crochet patterns better. I’m doing it in a denim-coloured pure cotton double-knit (that’s light or light worsted for the North Americans).
I am intrigued that most UK/Aust/NZ patterns I have for crochet and knitting use DK and most North American patterns I have use Aran/worsted. It makes trying to get local yarn substitutions a nightmare, so I normally import the yarns. Acrylic worsted-weight isn’t a “thing” in NZ. 🙁
It’s the same with most women’s clothes, isn’t it – more flimsily made but cost more than men’s.
That’s a lovely jacket!
I haven’t tried crochet but I’m knitting a beret in cotton at present – first thing I’ve tried in it, everything else has been wool or synthetic combinations. Do you find cotton hard on your hands while you’re working it?
I tend to go arse about face with yarns – I’ll see one I like and then start thinking of what to knit with it. Then I’ll usually find it’s a withdrawn colour …
Kiwi girl
10 years ago
I don’t find cotton too bad, I just can’t do anything with wool in the summer because … allergies plus heat. But Feb is normally our hottest month, and today’s high was about 18C, and we have the heatpump on tonight.
This is what I am wearing on my right hand as I crochet at the moment, because I kind of overdid it over the long weekend: http://www.dritz.com/brands/showcase/details.php?ITEM_NUM=82308 they come in a pair, but I find it’s normally only the working hand that gets issues. I think with cotton that maybe the twist might influence how much it rips one’s hands, I assume pecunium would know more about yarns because of his spinning, so I wish he was here to answer that. I’ve not experienced it with cotton, but some wools have split my finger, where I tension the yarn. I think that might also be because using that yarn in the winter tends to mean I have drier (sp?) hands and so the skin may just be more prone to that rather than it being a yarn thing.
I tried to find similar locally (i.e. anywhere in NZ, even via website) and nope.They’re just straight pull-on with no velcro or anything like that, which could catch on the yarn.
Do you use the throw or continental method for knitting? I use throw and have been trying to shift to continental, but purling is blargh in that method and I tend to lock my joints which means pain from knitting. I have looked at the two-hand method for knitting fair isle/ intarsia, which I would love to learn, but I need to learn how to stop freezing/locking my joints otherwise that would be asking for a world of hurt.
I have a glove for sore hands too, the Handeze brand. A manboobzer put me onto them and now I’m really embarassed I can’t remember who it was – not someone currently active on site. (Big thank you if you’re lurking!) I don’t have to use it much, and am just as likely to need it if I’ve been doing a lot of mouse work as when I’ve been doing knitting.
The beret pattern’s the Supplement on Ravelry. It’s very easy – I’ve done one beret in it already. I’m adapting it for this, though, ‘cos the cotton’s finer and I like my berets really floppy, so I’ve gone for 98 stitches for the brim and 195 for the crown (15 x a group of 13). The cotton’s so springy when it’s knitted that it’s not going to be too lose around the brim. I’ll also be knitting it fairly deep. I hate my hats feeling shallow! 😛
Kiwi girl
10 years ago
Thanks for the glove link, I hadn’t seen those ones before. And none of the knitting shops over here have craft gloves. I haven’t noticed if Spotlight sell them.
The beret looks really cool, are you going to take a photo of this new one when you’re done? What colour are you doing it in? 🙂
Yes, I will take snaps! It’s a pinky-wine colour, fairly dark – my hairdresser said it’s a cranberry shade.
Forgot to say, I do the throw method (is that the same as the English method?) – yarn in the right hand. I’ve never tried the continental.
Do you find knitting to the front or the back of the stitch seems to be dictated by the yarn? I learned to knit into the back, and had no idea that wasn’t just the ordinary knitting. Now I mostly still knit that way, but some yarns are easier to do from the front. Quite odd.
BTW this is how my first beret in this pattern came out. It’s a nice yarn, acrylic I think and very soft.
Arctic Ape
10 years ago
Since “lives on the beach” has become a meme here on Manboobz…I know it’s just an idiom in my native language but it always gives me a mental image of a homeless person, specifically when referring to a man. As in, someone who sleeps under upturned boats.
Re: crafting with cat hair.
Another Finnish idiom refers to “cat’s fleece” as something utterly useless. That finger-puppet certainly fits the image.
Making bras — Joann Fabrics carries preform cups in at least A and B, I think C too, but it’s been awhile so I won’t swear to that. Larger cup sizes are still SOL, but maybe it’ die an idea for the large band // small cup folks?
Learning to sew — McCall’s I think carries one hour patterns that include ALL the instructions, no shorthand. They’re a couple of bucks, might be able to get them on sale. Besides that all you actually need is fabric (duh) and a beginner sewing kit ($10-20). And an iron, you’ll definitely want an iron (mine was like $20, you don’t need the fancy kind)
*used to work at Joann’s*
AIT
10 years ago
Kittehserf:
Is there any way I could email you about something? I have a couple questions I’m a little embarrassed to ask out here in the open.
chimisaur
10 years ago
About the worsted/DK chatter: where are you folks getting all these large weight patterns?! Everything I want to knit seems to run to sport/lace weight, and since pretty much all yarn shops up here sell is worsted, I would be SOL if not for internet shopping. Also, Ravelry: I’m new to that network though I’ve been knitting for years, and don’t have a lot of friends that do the same, so it’s lonely there. Anyone have one I could friend? I want to oggle your knitting! 😀
chimisaur
10 years ago
Ah, screwit: I pulled most of my identifying info off Ravelry anyway, so you guys can add me if you want: Tinasaur is my nym there.
titianblue
10 years ago
I’ve only just joined so nothing on there yet (as titianblue on there, too) if you’d like to friend me.
I get almost all my patterns from http://www.tangled-yarn.co.uk/ and a lot of them are worsted weight and originate from the USA (so if you’re states-side you can always google to find them over here). I love her website ‘cos you can filter patterns by knitting ability or yarn weight as well as by end product.
chimisaur
10 years ago
Ooh. Neat website. Thanks for the link, titianblue!
We Hunted The Mammoth
Also this: http://www.brasize.com/au-to-us-uk-eu-fr-it.html
I know it can be an absolute mare unless one gets properly fitted first. Isn’t there some factoid trotted out about the percentage of women who wear the wrong size bra?
Sizing is pretty much the same, I think? I know that for the larger cups in Japanese sizing you need to add one cup size from the British size. British sizing seems to be more precise than American though, ie. I can buy almost any British 34E and it will fit, even if the style isn’t right for me, whereas with American bras it’s a bit less reliable.
@kiwi girl
I can’t tell if I’m reading those right, because I got different results for every single one…
Maybe I’m not looking at the right row. I was looking around the 34C, which is my size. I got boobies in my 30s.
I really like t-shirt style bras that don’t show seams under shirts and are really plain. I got myself one of these last year http://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/red/catalog/product/As-Seen-On-TV-Belvia-Bra-Original-Black-M?SKU=1759890 and it’s quite comfortable. But I’m only a C cup (and up to my mid-30s I never thought I was even going to get that big).
And maybe more women would have gone out and conquered countries in past centuries if it hadn’t taken them bloody 2 hours to put their clothes on, and 2 hours to take it off again to go to bed, and all those whales kept all their bones.
Marie, did you get the sizing conversions sorted?
@kiwi girl
technically not, but it’s not terribly important atm, since I don’t even money for bras.
🙁
What happened about your eye/s?
Marie – US sizings are four smaller than their Oz equivalent, so I’m a 16 in our sizings and a 12 in yours. If you’re a 12 in ours you’d be a US 8. You’d like our shops, there are 12s (Oz) everywhere!
emilygoddess – yes, finding boots that fit over my calves is a pain. Finding flat ones, ditto, is even harder. I did have a pair by Y.So that had the elastic side same as chimsaur mentioned, so they might be worth a look. They were barely over the knee.
Kiwi girl, can you get Bonds underwear in NZ? Their good old Cottontails line might be helpful.
http://www.bonds.com.au/womens/underwear/tails/where/color-filter/white.html
@kitteh, yeah we have that brand over here too. The bit I forgot to add in my post in that I resent having to pay $12 for one pair of plain cotton pants. The Bendon ones, which I used to like and would wait until they had had a 3-for-the-price-of-2 sale are now incredibly thin with really flimsy elastic, so I’m nervous about wearing them under skirts.
Why does a woman’s pants, which has way less material than men’s boxers and seems to be less intricate, cost very similar?
And don’t get me started on beach bikinis – seriously $150 for a two piece togs outfit???!!!
On a different note entirely, I have almost finished this: http://www.crochetme.com/media/p/109281.aspx which has sat for 3 years until I could read crochet patterns better. I’m doing it in a denim-coloured pure cotton double-knit (that’s light or light worsted for the North Americans).
I am intrigued that most UK/Aust/NZ patterns I have for crochet and knitting use DK and most North American patterns I have use Aran/worsted. It makes trying to get local yarn substitutions a nightmare, so I normally import the yarns. Acrylic worsted-weight isn’t a “thing” in NZ. 🙁
It’s the same with most women’s clothes, isn’t it – more flimsily made but cost more than men’s.
That’s a lovely jacket!
I haven’t tried crochet but I’m knitting a beret in cotton at present – first thing I’ve tried in it, everything else has been wool or synthetic combinations. Do you find cotton hard on your hands while you’re working it?
I tend to go arse about face with yarns – I’ll see one I like and then start thinking of what to knit with it. Then I’ll usually find it’s a withdrawn colour …
I don’t find cotton too bad, I just can’t do anything with wool in the summer because … allergies plus heat. But Feb is normally our hottest month, and today’s high was about 18C, and we have the heatpump on tonight.
This is what I am wearing on my right hand as I crochet at the moment, because I kind of overdid it over the long weekend: http://www.dritz.com/brands/showcase/details.php?ITEM_NUM=82308 they come in a pair, but I find it’s normally only the working hand that gets issues. I think with cotton that maybe the twist might influence how much it rips one’s hands, I assume pecunium would know more about yarns because of his spinning, so I wish he was here to answer that. I’ve not experienced it with cotton, but some wools have split my finger, where I tension the yarn. I think that might also be because using that yarn in the winter tends to mean I have drier (sp?) hands and so the skin may just be more prone to that rather than it being a yarn thing.
I tried to find similar locally (i.e. anywhere in NZ, even via website) and nope.They’re just straight pull-on with no velcro or anything like that, which could catch on the yarn.
Do you use the throw or continental method for knitting? I use throw and have been trying to shift to continental, but purling is blargh in that method and I tend to lock my joints which means pain from knitting. I have looked at the two-hand method for knitting fair isle/ intarsia, which I would love to learn, but I need to learn how to stop freezing/locking my joints otherwise that would be asking for a world of hurt.
Have you got a link to the beret pattern?
I have a glove for sore hands too, the Handeze brand. A manboobzer put me onto them and now I’m really embarassed I can’t remember who it was – not someone currently active on site. (Big thank you if you’re lurking!) I don’t have to use it much, and am just as likely to need it if I’ve been doing a lot of mouse work as when I’ve been doing knitting.
The beret pattern’s the Supplement on Ravelry. It’s very easy – I’ve done one beret in it already. I’m adapting it for this, though, ‘cos the cotton’s finer and I like my berets really floppy, so I’ve gone for 98 stitches for the brim and 195 for the crown (15 x a group of 13). The cotton’s so springy when it’s knitted that it’s not going to be too lose around the brim. I’ll also be knitting it fairly deep. I hate my hats feeling shallow! 😛
Thanks for the glove link, I hadn’t seen those ones before. And none of the knitting shops over here have craft gloves. I haven’t noticed if Spotlight sell them.
The beret looks really cool, are you going to take a photo of this new one when you’re done? What colour are you doing it in? 🙂
Yes, I will take snaps! It’s a pinky-wine colour, fairly dark – my hairdresser said it’s a cranberry shade.
Forgot to say, I do the throw method (is that the same as the English method?) – yarn in the right hand. I’ve never tried the continental.
Do you find knitting to the front or the back of the stitch seems to be dictated by the yarn? I learned to knit into the back, and had no idea that wasn’t just the ordinary knitting. Now I mostly still knit that way, but some yarns are easier to do from the front. Quite odd.
BTW this is how my first beret in this pattern came out. It’s a nice yarn, acrylic I think and very soft.
Since “lives on the beach” has become a meme here on Manboobz…I know it’s just an idiom in my native language but it always gives me a mental image of a homeless person, specifically when referring to a man. As in, someone who sleeps under upturned boats.
Re: crafting with cat hair.
Another Finnish idiom refers to “cat’s fleece” as something utterly useless. That finger-puppet certainly fits the image.
Making bras — Joann Fabrics carries preform cups in at least A and B, I think C too, but it’s been awhile so I won’t swear to that. Larger cup sizes are still SOL, but maybe it’ die an idea for the large band // small cup folks?
Learning to sew — McCall’s I think carries one hour patterns that include ALL the instructions, no shorthand. They’re a couple of bucks, might be able to get them on sale. Besides that all you actually need is fabric (duh) and a beginner sewing kit ($10-20). And an iron, you’ll definitely want an iron (mine was like $20, you don’t need the fancy kind)
*used to work at Joann’s*
Kittehserf:
Is there any way I could email you about something? I have a couple questions I’m a little embarrassed to ask out here in the open.
About the worsted/DK chatter: where are you folks getting all these large weight patterns?! Everything I want to knit seems to run to sport/lace weight, and since pretty much all yarn shops up here sell is worsted, I would be SOL if not for internet shopping. Also, Ravelry: I’m new to that network though I’ve been knitting for years, and don’t have a lot of friends that do the same, so it’s lonely there. Anyone have one I could friend? I want to oggle your knitting! 😀
Ah, screwit: I pulled most of my identifying info off Ravelry anyway, so you guys can add me if you want: Tinasaur is my nym there.
I’ve only just joined so nothing on there yet (as titianblue on there, too) if you’d like to friend me.
I get almost all my patterns from http://www.tangled-yarn.co.uk/ and a lot of them are worsted weight and originate from the USA (so if you’re states-side you can always google to find them over here). I love her website ‘cos you can filter patterns by knitting ability or yarn weight as well as by end product.
Ooh. Neat website. Thanks for the link, titianblue!