Plus size models, no bra- what’s going on?!

[TheIsaacs]

I’ve been looking for a dress for my sisters wedding over the last couple of days. I’m plus size myself and want something flowy with a nice neckline and sleeves.

I’ve noticed this weird trend on asos and H&M of some of the plus size models seemingly not wearing a bra. Has anyone else noticed this? What the hell is it about? It ruins the line of the dresses and makes them look baggy. There’s one in particular that I think if you put a bra on and actually lifted your boobs, the neckline would come under the bra!

I can’t buy the dresses and not wear a bra so it put it’s me off buying them massively. Am I the only one who can’t see why they would do this?

Examples:

www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.1019981001.html

www.asos.com/asos-curve/asos-design-curve-dobby-shirred-wrap-maxi-dress-in-blue/prd/201963458

www.asos.com/asos-curve/asos-design-curve-dobby-twist-front-pleated-midi-dress-with-all-over-embroidery-in-navy/prd/201024988

Not a good look. But for no one. Not a size 10 and not for overweight women...

I reckon you could wear a plunge bra with the first and the third ones. Something like a Curvy Kate Superplunge or Bravissimo Enya would work.The second one, I think, is a size too big for her and the elastic over the shoulders is too long, causing the bodice to droop.

All of my friends (late 20s) hardly ever wear bras, and even then its crop tops or bralettes, I've noticed it even more with younger people. I'm breastfeeding so I wear a crop top. It's not political really, more for comfort and a switch to dressing more for ourselves then for men (ok I guess that's slightly political!)

All I can say is that they're really going to regret it when they get older. Unless saggy boobs down to their knickers is the look they're aiming for. I'm only a C cup but I never stopped wearing a sleep bra after giving up feeding my third baby. Now post-menopausal and my boobs still pass muster, unlike most of the rest of me. Apart from clothes fitting better, I don't have the sweating yuckiness in the crease that my contemporaries complain about in the summer.

She looks beautiful. Its a nice dress.

Wow some of the comments in this thread, I don't know why we worry about men so much when women are so awful to each other. Why cant an overweight woman not wear a bra, why does it impact your day so much how someone looks. Sagging etc is mostly genetic and wearing a bra does not affect it. Ive had kids and don't wear a bra and my boobs are the same, one friend wears a bra and has had one child and they're saggy. It's genetics mostly. Also we are supposed to sag as we get older its the ageing process

There seems to be a current fashion trend towards braless.

Each to their own but I won't be participating. I'm not plus size but at size 32g, there isn't a chance in hell of me going braless.

The second link in particular, is horrendous!

@hellosunshineagainx

Wow some of the comments in this thread, I don't know why we worry about men so much when women are so awful to each other. Why cant an overweight woman not wear a bra, why does it impact your day so much how someone looks. Sagging etc is mostly genetic and wearing a bra does not affect it. Ive had kids and don't wear a bra and my boobs are the same, one friend wears a bra and has had one child and they're saggy. It's genetics mostly. Also we are supposed to sag as we get older its the ageing process

^ this with nipple tassels on.

@KimikosNightmare

I assume this is the dress on the OP's second link?

Looks about 10 sizes too big for her.

@LottieDot

All of my friends (late 20s) hardly ever wear bras, and even then its crop tops or bralettes, I've noticed it even more with younger people. I'm breastfeeding so I wear a crop top. It's not political really, more for comfort and a switch to dressing more for ourselves then for men (ok I guess that's slightly political!)

This, me included. I mainly wear crop tops as does almost everyone I know.

That second one looks rather precarious. I think in real life it would gape too much.

Also - ‘if slim women don’t ‘have’ to wear a bra, why ‘should’ larger women?’

I don’t “have” to wear a bra, but i do because at my size not wearing one hurts, is uncomfortable, i can’t move freely or faster than a walk. I don’t wear underwires, i wear sports bras or similar soft cups for comfort.

I would like the option to buy clothes that can be worn with a bra.

I hadn't noticed this but as a plus size myself, I am seeing a lot of plus size models and they are all oddly posed or leaning back or photoshopped?

I find with asos a lot of the plus size dresses are just the small designs sized up. Rather than catering for bigger boobs, bigger arms whatever. So yeah a size 8 with a flat chest could pull that off - my dinner lash arms and matronly bosoms could not!

Agree re the lack of bra trend too, it's all over the plans

All over the PLACE

I wear unwired bras if I'm out or at work, but otherwise, can't be arsed. I'm a 40DD, quite wide of back, but not much up front. I'm a size 18 on top. If a dress is built in a certain way that I don't need a bra, then I wouldn't see a problem.

The dresses in the op links do look a little cheap and cheerful, badly designed and thoroughly impractical, which more or less sums up fast fashion brands tbh.

I would simply look elsewhere.

I dared to approach ASOS for a white cotton sundress last week, almost every single offering was either see through, neckline at belly button, or otherwise designed for a cheap nightclub experience. Whatever that is.

Same with any of the cheaper websites aimed at youth.

What I was supposed to say is that the clothes are simply bad.
It isn't you, nor should any self respecting woman have to faff around worrying about what else to buy to make a cheap shitty garment look decent. If it isn't decent off the rack, or doesn't allow me to wear a bra (and I have small tits) it simply isn't good enough.

I'm often amazed at how so many of us bend over backwards to correct terrible designs, or else contort our self perception to be somehow to blame for them.

I wonder if part of the problem is that the shoot stylist doesn’t have bras that fit the models or the selection they do have (or the one the model comes wearing) don’t work with the dresses.

God boohoo is just as bad. I’ve also noticed plus size bras when they clearly don’t have much support the picture is taking with their arms in the air! Saw that on M and s and jjb today

The navy one is nice - you could wear a pretty camisole underneath perhaps picking out one of the colours in the embroidery which would give you a "modesty panel" and mean a bra was not a problem. Slip dresses and camisoles are coming back into fashion so there should be more around to choose from.

@YellowAndGreenToBeSeen

Also - ‘if slim women don’t ‘have’ to wear a bra, why ‘should’ larger women?’

Body confidence, size acceptance also being reflected in fashion.

It’s got nothing to do with slim vs larger. It’s to do with the size of one’s breasts! A fat person with B cup breasts can easily go braless whereas a skinny person with F cup breasts not so much.

@LadyHenryofRawlinsonEnd agree with you about clothes quality and thinness, though nothing to do in my opinion about whether or not you choose to wear a bra.