I have just spent 2 hours on Oxford Street in London in a store well-known for it's wide range of lingerie searching for at least one attractive bra in size 40D or DD. I realise at last why I have been squishing my breasts into size 38DD for the past 3 years. All the attractive bras are designed for the smaller breast and I and my fellow women of more ample proportions are relegated to bras that look like they have escaped from an upholstery department.

I kept finding myself retracing my steps to prettier styles but no matter how hard I stared the labels continued to state that the attractive ones came in sizes 32C-38DD. Whereas their industrial sisters proudly catered for those of us with boobs so monstrous that designers have presumably decided we are beyond considering them as deserving of attractive attire.

The difficulty with squidging boobs into a size too small is you can only really get away with it whilst you are upright. Your nipples aren't properly cupped but are heading upwards and inwards towards the cleavage. When you bend down they plummet forwards and downwards and get caught up in the cleavage area and stay there when you stand up again. All very awkward, especially under a lightweight fabric.

Whilst I have coped very well with unexpected nipple appearances the time had come to finally accept my fate and stop all the time wasting of dashing into loos or diving under desks to realign myself. I returned home with some highly comfortable bras but confused as to why nobody bothers to make them look sexy.