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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To not wear a bra around the house and let them be natural

124 replies

wehaveourlifeback · 26/06/2013 21:26

I hate bra's and as soon as I get home I take my bra of although I have been known to go to shop without bra, I am lucky I have small breasts.

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Sallystyle · 27/06/2013 12:05

I will measure, when I go buy a tape measurer.

grimbletart · 27/06/2013 12:09

I've never found bras uncomfortable but maybe it's because I never wear underwired ones. They seem to be the invention of the devil.

sparkle12mar08 · 27/06/2013 12:15

It's not rubbish Frech Ruby, if you would just spend even a little time reading the blog and the basic maths behind measurements into sizes. I would give you £20 here and now if the 32 didn't feel too tight becuase you were trying the wrong cup size in it...

sparkle12mar08 · 27/06/2013 12:20

And despite all the good that the intervention threads do, I still get very disppointed and upset at the level of ignorance perpetuated in society and the media.

FrenchRuby · 27/06/2013 12:20

How does the cup size affect the fact it was too tight underneath? I think I tried an f at the shop. Either way I felt like I couldn't breathe so I think I'll stick to my comfy 36D :)

ChunkyPickle · 27/06/2013 12:29

I've got one of those JML soft ones for round the house, which is lovely although not really supportive at all and looks hideous...

I've tried all combinations of sizes from Bravissimo, and very, very rarely is there a brand/style that actually fits (they all seem to assume that big boobs are wide boobs so the wires stab be in the armpits... when I find a style with big but narrow cups I bulk buy!).

I'm 6 months pregnant though, so I take it to an extreme. Soft bras and big knickers (feeling hot all the time) are what I strip down to the moment I'm in for the night!

littleginger · 27/06/2013 12:32

Sparkle i dont think like that at all. I was merely picking out a media figure that was large breasted and wound up just picking up a bunch of people who are known only for the size of their breasts (and the occasional political insight!)

I guess i could have made an effort to think of somebody famous who is known for reasons other than having big breasts but i cant because i dont even notice breast sizes unless theyre wapped out on a newspaper in front of me.

And I certainly dont think my own mum has loose morals or is brainless.

RubberBullets · 27/06/2013 12:33

If the cup is too small then it steals material from the band. If I wear a 40E which is what the high street measures me as then it digs in something awful. My 36K doesn't as the cups are the right size.

sparkle12mar08 · 27/06/2013 12:34

Did you try it on back to front, to isolate the cups completely and focus solely on the band fit? When tried on normally too small cups tend to 'steal' fabric from the band because of the stretch in the material. Therefore even a correctly fitting band will feel too small because it's compensating for too small a cup. Cup size alone means nothing without a correct band size, so it's important to get the band size right first and then move up through the cups till you find the one that's right for you.

Bands should feel very firm on the loosest hooks if they're actually the right size. This is normal and perfectly okay! You should never be able to fasten a new bra on the tightest hooks. It gives you somewhwere to go when the fabric gives a little with wear and washing. So many of us have spent too long in too big backs, that we have forgotten or never even known what a correct fit should feel like.

No wonder the 32F didn't feel right - it was at least two cups too small.

RubberBullets · 27/06/2013 12:34

If you should be a G and tried an F then it doesn't surprise me that it felt too tight. Try again with a bigger cup size and it will make a difference I'm sure

sparkle12mar08 · 27/06/2013 12:36

Littleginger - I'm sorry if it came across that way, it wasn't meant to. It's just that the media constantly pushes this image of larger breasted women as exactly that, and when you mentioned not being able to believe you were that size, well, I leapt ahead. Sorry.

StatisticallyChallenged · 27/06/2013 12:45

as the others said French, too small cups massively affect the way the back feels. I'm a 30hh but to test this I tried on a few smaller cups and could not do them up because my boobs were pushing the cups in to the wrong place making the back feel hellish. One to two cups too small still had an impact and made it feel far too tight although at that level I could at least do it up.

Binkyridesagain · 27/06/2013 12:48

I wore a 40f bra yesterday, I needed strapless and it was the only one I had, the difference in comfort and support was unbelievable compared to my now properly fitting 34HH/32J.
My boobs spent their day sitting either on my stomach or holidaying round the back. I also spent most of the day dragging the bloody thing back up to my chest as it kept making its way to my waist, because there were no shoulder straps to keep it up.
The correct sized bra means my shoulders don't hurt because of the weight hanging off them, my breasts are at the front, my back doesn't hurt and most importantly the regular armpit abscesses from where the underwires dug in and irritated have gone.
Listen to the wise bra women on here they DO know their stuff!

FrenchRuby · 27/06/2013 12:48

I always put my bras on back to front when I do them up, always have. It was too tight around my middle before the cups were even a factor.

SorrelForbes · 27/06/2013 13:29

This may help

FrenchRuby · 27/06/2013 13:33

I understand how a cup size affects the back size. It was too small when I did it up backwards, it was even tighter when I turned it round.

dufflefluffle · 27/06/2013 13:35

I think the FB thing was Dawn French saying no I can't come out this evening becasue I've just taken my bra off.
I assumed that the discomfort of a bra is restricted to the more well endowed of us??????

SorrelForbes · 27/06/2013 13:41

Bra discomfort is really always down to wearing a badly fitting bra.

FrenchRuby If you measure 30" underbust then I'm really surprised that a 32" is too tight back to front. When you did it up back to front was it around your middle or up under your bust? Can you remember which bra/brand it was?

SorrelForbes · 27/06/2013 13:42

really good article here

SorrelForbes · 27/06/2013 13:43

Sorry, I'll try again!

Another good article here

SauvignonBlanche · 27/06/2013 13:51

I'm a G and never wear a bra in the house, unless we have guests.

Sizzlesthedog · 27/06/2013 13:53

Love the feeling of flinging off my bra at the end of the day.

YANBU

SolidGoldBrass · 27/06/2013 15:24

Honestly, why not just go without a bra if you feel more comfortable without one? Other people's opinions simply don't matter.

I think of bras as being more like a jockstrap ie men wear jockstraps to stop their bollocks getting in the way when they are playing sports; I wear a bra when I'm going to leap about a lot and dance but otherwise I don't. And so fucking what if my tits are droopy? They're comfortable.

Sallyingforth · 27/06/2013 16:50

It wasn't so long ago that women didn't have bras to wear, and they seem to have managed.

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