Fit Guide
Fig Metrics
FIND YOUR FIT
Standard sizing assumes your tissue compresses and moves a certain way. But implant anatomy plays by different rules — it projects forward, sits higher and more centered on the chest, and doesn't compress the way natural tissue does.
Figiúra uses an approach that accounts for how your body actually works.
MEASURE YOUR UNDERBAND
Wrap the measuring tape snugly around your ribcage, just below your bust — where your bra band sits. Keep it level all around. The band should feel secure, not tight. A well-fitted band is what delivers the lift and support. The Revolution Form J-Frame® do the rest.
Your band size doesn’t change with implants — measure the same way you always have.
Measure Your Breast TISSUE and LEANING BUST
Implant tissue doesn’t compress the way natural breast tissue does, so measuring your cup size requires a different approach.
Lean forward at a 45-degree angle. Starting from your cleavage, run the tape across the fullest part of your bust to where it ends near your armpit to measure one individual breast. Keep the tape snug, level, and not compressed.
This captures your full volume, which is what we engineer for.
WHY THIS METHOD?
Fig Metrics draws on the work of Dr. Edward A. Pechter, a plastic surgeon who pioneered a way to measure breast tissue directly instead of estimating cup size from the gap between two numbers — developed for bra fitting and for planning procedures like augmentation and reduction. We started from that principle and built Fig Metrics around what implant anatomy specifically does.
The principle: circumference, not subtraction. But cup size isn't a flat conversion — the same leaning bust measurement lands on a different cup depending on your band size. Cross-reference the two on the Fig Metrics cup sizing chart to find yours. It's a starting point we calibrated further against our own fit study of 253 women with implants.
Most implant clients aren't truly fit. They're accommodated — sized up in the cup, tightened in the band, until something holds. Fig Metrics was built to close that gap for good.
sources
- Pechter, E.A. "A new method for determining bra size and predicting postaugmentation breast size." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1998. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9734454
- Pechter, E.A. US Patent 5965809A, "Method for sizing and fitting a woman for a garment." patents.google.com/patent/US5965809A
- "Breast measurement and bra sizing in post-mastectomy patients." PubMed, 2012. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22456367