How much chest compression do you want out of a binder?
Hey, @star-anise here. I’m sewing away and hit a question I can’t answer on my own, not being trans or someone who binds regularly. I’d really like transmasc peoples’ feedback here about what you want your chest to look like? and what makes you feel “flat enough”?
Because when I come down to it, making a binder involves a trade-off of how much it compresses vs how much it restricts. I can make this binder flatten me as much as my breast tissue will physically squish, if I don’t want to breathe. Something going around the chest has to accommodate for the fact that your chest is constantly expanding and contracting.
And I’m not actually sure what the ideal is here when people say “flat”. Most men’s chests are broader around their nipples than the rest of their chests, though until I can get a large sample of cis men’s bust vs underbust measurements, I don’t know how by how much.
TW: Body measurements: What kind of effects am I achieving right now?
