Am I the only one on this thread who was tried it. I used the True & Co. service to try to avoid shopping for bras, a chore that I dread. Unfortunately they were way way off on my sizing. Way way off. The sizing, the construction fitting to my shoulder shape, color (they send you some bras that they chose for you, which were colors that are not versatile to wear under normal clothing)... pretty much everything.
I tried another bra quiz service, Herroom's Know Your Breasts Bra Finder, which gave me a lot more insight into my sizing and why certain bras didn't fit right- particularly the way my breasts naturally hang and the way my shoulders are shaped. Unfortunately it gives you around five different characteristics of your ideal bra and no way to find bras that share several of them since they don't have faceted search or anything like that.
I ended up going to Nordstroms, where they were really unhelpful despite advertising having a "bra fitter" and I bought a bra that sort of fits and ended up buying a second shoulder strap for it on Amazon to gerryrig it not to slip all the time.
But it sounds like you agree that it's a real problem to be solved, right? That True & Co aren't very good at it means that more companies should be jumping in with novel solutions, getting funding, and trying to make it work. In other words, your boobs totally need an algorithm, they just need a way better one.
I tried another bra quiz service, Herroom's Know Your Breasts Bra Finder, which gave me a lot more insight into my sizing and why certain bras didn't fit right- particularly the way my breasts naturally hang and the way my shoulders are shaped. Unfortunately it gives you around five different characteristics of your ideal bra and no way to find bras that share several of them since they don't have faceted search or anything like that.
I ended up going to Nordstroms, where they were really unhelpful despite advertising having a "bra fitter" and I bought a bra that sort of fits and ended up buying a second shoulder strap for it on Amazon to gerryrig it not to slip all the time.