I am flat chested. There is no other way to describe me; I am nearly 40 years old, but I still buy my bras in the Junior section. A few years back, I used the Victoria's Secret online bra size calculator to check my cup size, and when I entered my numbers I got an error message. I measured again, and then had my husband help me measure. Sure enough, I am too small to register on the program. The problem is that the basic bra measurements assume that one has at least a five inch difference between one's rib cage and the largest part of one's breasts.

I do not.