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Boobs in your face!

462 replies

YehaaYessir · 11/10/2025 16:01

So I've been to a couple of wedding receptions recently and a formal event for DH's work.
Is it just me getting older or does anyone else notice the amount of women/ girls at these kind of events whose boobs are almost out?

I'm no prude but really? When did this become so widely appropriate? I'm not talking a bit of cleavage here, I'm talking everything on show, the whole lot out to a millimetre or two from the nipples.

I just wonder why so many girls these days feel the need to do this? Are they insecure about the rest of themselves? Or is it an empowerment thing- that they will know what every male who sees them that night will be thinking?

I for one would prefer not to be confronted by pairs of bare boobs in my face on a night out?
Has anyone else noticed this?

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LittleJustice · 11/10/2025 16:57

Thephantom · 11/10/2025 16:56

The question is -would they wear scrunch leggings to a works meeting/social?! 😆

Are those those ones that look like it's a butthole because I don't understand those either could somebody please explain those to me

Leeds157 · 11/10/2025 16:59

A lot of flattering outfits happen to also be low cut, so anyone with anything beyond a C cup will inevitably be showing cleavage, should they chose to go with these outfits. I think women should dress how they want and in outfits that make them happy rather than spend their lives covering up so that men around them don’t feel the way you are describing

FortyFacedFuckers · 11/10/2025 17:02

It sounds like you are insecure if you are worried about woman wearing what they like around “attached” men

Breli · 11/10/2025 17:03

YehaaYessir · 11/10/2025 16:25

OK so obviously the boobs aren't literally in my face. What I meant was they're difficult not to notice - especially I would imagine if you're male.

As there will be a lot of attached men there with their partners, is it really appropriate to attend one of these events with your boobs very nearly out?

I don’t think you need to concern yourself about what others may or may not think about other people’s bodies.

I’m sorry that other people’s breasts are an issue for you, and that is something you’ll have to manage yourself, but you don’t need to project your issues onto others.

ambergot · 11/10/2025 17:03

I do find it strange that a woman can walk around a supermarket with little more than a bra but a man is asked to leave if he has no shirt on.

BatchCookBabe · 11/10/2025 17:03
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Yes I agree @YehaaYessir ALL busty women should dress like this, and keep their filthy breasts covered up. Shameless hussies! 😱

#joking obvs!

BatchCookBabe · 11/10/2025 17:05

ambergot · 11/10/2025 17:03

I do find it strange that a woman can walk around a supermarket with little more than a bra but a man is asked to leave if he has no shirt on.

How often do you see a woman with 'little more than a bra' walking around the supermarket?! 😂

Hint: I have NEVER seen this.

EuclidianGeometryFan · 11/10/2025 17:05

YodasHairyButt · 11/10/2025 16:33

This is something I struggle to get my head around. People can wear what they want, doesn’t bother me personally. But it seems a contradiction to insist you’re body confident and so want to go out showing acres of flesh and then call people perverts for looking? Why put it all on show unless you want people to look? I don’t understand.

The power to make men look is one of the very few forms of power that young females have. So they revel in it.
Meghan Trainer even had a song about it "I made you look".
They want men to look, discretely, but not to take any action, like speaking or approaching.

ambergot · 11/10/2025 17:07

BatchCookBabe · 11/10/2025 17:05

How often do you see a woman with 'little more than a bra' walking around the supermarket?! 😂

Hint: I have NEVER seen this.

I have in the summer, It’s very common for woman to walk around the shops in bikini tops and shorts while men are asked to put a shirt on.

AmyDuPlantier · 11/10/2025 17:08

YehaaYessir · 11/10/2025 16:25

OK so obviously the boobs aren't literally in my face. What I meant was they're difficult not to notice - especially I would imagine if you're male.

As there will be a lot of attached men there with their partners, is it really appropriate to attend one of these events with your boobs very nearly out?

Hahaha shuurrrrrup 🤣🤣🤣

Dweetfidilove · 11/10/2025 17:09

I'm all for decorum, but I absolutely disagree that it's a woman's job to protect men with partners from other women's breasts.

KittyRannaldini · 11/10/2025 17:12

My boobs are the only bit of me that's with putting out there any more. So I'll carry on hoisting them up.

OhFeyreDarling · 11/10/2025 17:12

I don't think we should be policing what women are wearing OP, it's a bit of a slippery slope.

It sounds like you have an issue with your DH looking at these boobs, which of course is a you and DH issue not the issue of the women to whom these boobs belong.

As an aside OP, does your username indicate where you might be from? Yessir!

ExposedCankles · 11/10/2025 17:15

I really can’t understand why this is on the Relationships board? Unless it impacts your relationship but that seems like it’s not a problem caused by the actual boobs.

DirtyBird · 11/10/2025 17:15

I notice it more with celebrities, haven’t seen it much out and about but I don’t attend many formal functions.

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 11/10/2025 17:17

Love your username @OhFeyreDarling❤️

AnotherVice · 11/10/2025 17:19

I agree with you OP. It’s hardly empowering for these young women to ‘wear what they want’. I see it that they are just so well trained to appeal to men at all times.

Charlenedickens · 11/10/2025 17:20

LittleJustice · 11/10/2025 16:57

You are getting a lot of hate here but I totally understand what you are saying.

I look at the young girls and I think oh my goodness imagine if they get drunk they're going to be falling out.

My son who went to university down south says it's more of a Northern thing so I don't know whether you're north or south but it really does seem to be prevalent in the North.

And yeah I can't understand why they don't wear a bra it looks really tacky.

But you als0 know they look at you and also think something negative. Right.

Thephantom · 11/10/2025 17:21

LittleJustice · 11/10/2025 16:57

Are those those ones that look like it's a butthole because I don't understand those either could somebody please explain those to me

Haha..I was referring to a thread a few weeks ago where a woman wore scrunch leggings to a works meeting/social and a male colleague commented that "she knew exactly what she was doing " when she wore those leggings to the works meeting but accidentally? sent the message to her 🤣. Scrunch leggings sort of gather in the butt crack area for a more defined arse I think 😆. I didn't know what they were until saw that thread!

Boobs in your face!
OhFeyreDarling · 11/10/2025 17:22

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 11/10/2025 17:17

Love your username @OhFeyreDarling❤️

I see you're a fan too 😉

LittleJustice · 11/10/2025 17:23

Charlenedickens · 11/10/2025 17:20

But you als0 know they look at you and also think something negative. Right.

I think I'm just glad I only have sons tbh. And I hear from my sons what boys think about girls that dress that way.

I suppose in a society that thinks sex work or what Bonnie Blue does is empowering to women then this is just another, milder manifestation of it.

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 11/10/2025 17:27

LittleJustice · 11/10/2025 17:23

I think I'm just glad I only have sons tbh. And I hear from my sons what boys think about girls that dress that way.

I suppose in a society that thinks sex work or what Bonnie Blue does is empowering to women then this is just another, milder manifestation of it.

Declaring that your son’s are sexist and misogynistic isn’t the moral high ground you think it is

BatchCookBabe · 11/10/2025 17:27

ambergot · 11/10/2025 17:07

I have in the summer, It’s very common for woman to walk around the shops in bikini tops and shorts while men are asked to put a shirt on.

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Not where I live. I never see it.

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 11/10/2025 17:28

OhFeyreDarling · 11/10/2025 17:22

I see you're a fan too 😉

#teamRhys 😍

Charlenedickens · 11/10/2025 17:29

Op. The underlying tone here is you’ve been to a few events recently, where some women were wearing some low cut tops. Your husband was having a good look and you felt insecure and threatened, or you were worried he was and he found them attractive, but instead of addressing your husbands behaviour with him, or dealing with. your own issues, you’ve decided the women are to blame, and should cover up. If that’s the case, think about that. Can you see what’s wrong there.

and then think about why you chose to use the phrasing you did. About these women putting their breasts in your face. When no such thing happened . Or the ridiculous comment that women should cover up if married men are present.

what’s really driving you, insecurity, fear of your husband fancying other women, dislike over your own appearance. Whatever it is, that’s what to deal with.

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