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To think that bras are just sweat/heat traps?!

58 replies

GreensAreGoodForYou · 30/04/2025 19:20

Am I being unreasonable to declare bras are absolutely awful in hot weather?

The worst offenders are the ones with foam or whatever padding is made from, I feel like I’m cooking my breasts (like chicken?!).

The underwire lacy ones, the stretchy ones, the sports ones, they ALL give me sweaty underboob. And I have not got a big pair! (Actually had a mastectomy so one is decidedly smaller than the other too!)

Tell me if I’m being unreasonable to think that bras are rubbish in warm weather?! And if not, what brand do you wear?!

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minnienono · 30/04/2025 19:31

Never had an issue but I’m not a sweaty person, (it’s actually a problem because barely sweating means I overheat, my grandmother couldn’t sweat at all)

Picklechicken · 30/04/2025 19:29

Yanbu. I am convinced in the future no one will bother wearing bras anymore. We will all just freeboob.

EveryOtherNameTaken · 30/04/2025 19:26

As soon as I get home after work I whip it off and put a t shirt on. I can't believe how instantly cooling it is when it comes off.

theunbreakablecleopatrajones · 30/04/2025 19:25

They can be the devil’s oven mitts in v hot weather

However in this sort of weather and more the cotton ones with no wire or padding should be fine.

Are your bras cotton?

Olika · 30/04/2025 19:24

I started disliking bras while breastfeeding some years ago and developed a horrible rash under my boobs. Since then I take them off the moment I get home and sometimes even go without to supermarkets nearby. The warmer the weather the faster I feel uncomfortable and start feeling like I will get some sort of itching soon.

BertieBotts · 30/04/2025 19:23

YANBU - I did get some little boob sanitary towel things for this last year which have helped a lot. I think they were from "More of me to love" on amazon. They soak up the sweat rather than the bra band just absorbing it constantly and then staying damp the whole day (ick).

I do think though boobs are just sweaty. If I go out with no bra my t-shirt gets wet instead on the back and under my chest.

SwedishSayna · 30/04/2025 19:23

Agreed. And at a larger size each individual one costs a small fortune and wears out quickly

Lostcat · 30/04/2025 19:22

YANBU. I find it impossible to find a comfy one. They are all made of the most awful fabrics as well