In message , Rosemary 
Miskin  writes
>In article , "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
> wrote:
>>  I have been caused
>> to really wonder who devised the _very_ peculiar measurement algorithm,
>> and why. (Add four inches if even, five if odd -
>
>Surely that's simply to arrive at an even number, as bra sizes go up in twos
>- and if you're actually an odd number of inches, you're better off with the
>larger size.
[]
It wasn't the odd/even bit - that makes sense, to force it into an even 
number size - that puzzled me; it's the need to add 4 (or 5) inches at 
all - why?
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has been going 55 years, _Any Questions?_(discuss topical issue) 49, and
_Letter
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1997 (edited).]