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English mechanical engineer (professor) John Tyrer from Loughborough University decided to tackle the problem of bra design after his wife returned disheartened from a shopping trip due to not finding anything to suit her needs. And on assignment from British government uncovered that 80 % of women wears a wrong sized bra. In particular because chest diameter and maximum breast diameter rather than the volume is measured. Especially when the body is in motion. "In order to get the most supportive and fitted bra it's infinitely better if you know the volume of the breast and the size of the back.". "The whole design is fundamentally flawed. It's an instrument of torture" Tyrer has developed an bra design with crossed straps in the back. That uses the weight of one breast to lift the other using counterbalance. Standard designs constricts chest movement during breathing. One of the tools used in the development has been an projective differential shape body analyzer for 40 000 GBP. Contrary to popular belief breasts weighs ~1 kg and not ~0.2 .. 0.3 kg. This was covered by the TV-documentary I Didn't Know That in episode 24. "By measuring the diameter of the chest and breasts current measurements are supposed to tell you something about the size and volume of each breast, but in fact it doesn't". Bra companies remain reluctant to manufacture Tyrer's prototype. Which can be described as a front closing with more vertical orientation and adjustable cups.

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