Experts warn that not wearing a bra during lockdown could cause breasts to sag - warn experts!

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Yes - at a time of global crisis the DM has decided this is an important issue that women should be made aware of.

If anyone want to bother reading it www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8159731/Not-wearing-bra-lockdown-leave-saggy-breasts-experts-warn.html

Not sure if it is response to this www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/benefits-of-not-wearing-bra_ca_5e7bca84c5b6cb9dc1999297

I’m wearing a crop-top bra every day

And large undies.

Because I can’t wander round in the nuddy.

No video calls for me.

My old knockers are beyond all wrangling. Tis too late for me.

Two bras broke just as lockdown started and I didnt want to spend the equivalent of a small countries GDP on new "proper" bras that I can't try on first so bought 2 packs of comfort bras for "home use" instead. Never. Going. BACK.

So my tits look decidedly more matronly and the old nipples look like they're pointing out bits on the floor I've missed when hoovering.

The menfolk will just have to adjust to their "reduced boner inducing" appearance. I'm sure they'll cope.

Laughing out loud at that last post, chez horse.

Gotta keep us / breasts in their place eh!

When you get to larger cup sizes, the underwires impale your armpits

I think this is also related to having a short torso? There are some brands where you're like, maybe this was made for someone a foot taller than me.

I think the DM are getting a bit desperate with no women wandering around outside to take creepshots of. It must be very sad for them.

Have enjoyed this thread so much.

And hope no one minds but at the mention of comfort bras & crop tops I am so frustrated as these have never worked for me.

And now think that as suggested in another post its about the length of the torso or something. I just drop out of the bottom of most of them and if I try to make the rib cage band a bit tighter with a few tucks just end up feeling like I am trussed up again!

So are we allowed to mention brands or hints. Wearing layers of jumpers or whatever kept you warm in the winter, it wasn't a worry for me. But into loose t-shirts and would like something. even a snug cotton vest!

Have you ever tried the tshirts or strappy tops with the shelf bra on the inside built in? It's not supportive enough for sports or anything, but for just pottering around at home or if you're not particularly busty it should be fine. I have some from Bravissimo.

if I try to make the rib cage band a bit tighter with a few tucks just end up feeling like I am trussed up again!

I have to take the comfort bras in as well. The trick is to put a tuck below each nipple in the band to reduce the back size whilst maximising the space available for the norks.

In the attached image, I fold along the dotted line and overlock the solid line with the seam allowance on the outside of the bra for comfort. Test for fit, then cut away the surplus fabric. I also shorten the shoulder straps, taking more off the back than the front because the mass of the breasts pulls the shoulder seam forwards.

I recommend using safety pins not straight pins to hold the tucks in place during fitting, unless you like looking like you fell tits-first into a thorn bush.

They don't give the kind of support that an underwired bra gives but they cushion the bounce when traversing stairs.

Soft comfy crop tops are the way forward. Not sexy but meh.

I’m not sure how to break this to the DM and all Mankind, but all naturally large norks obey gravity. (I am available for counselling if anyone is too distressed by this). Personally, Molke bras were just life changing for me - enough support to wear for running (and nowt budges) and no jabby underwiring, no shoulder straps that slip down, no weird scratchy bits. No, I don’t work for them .

bd67thSaysReinstateLangCleg - thanks will dig out some old ones and make this an Easter task. I think in the past I just did an open tuck rather than a tapering off one. Sorry dont know their proper names. And your tip about straps much appreciated!

Craftycorvid - also thanks but sad to say web site suspended due to coronavirus. But got an interesting answer to what they say is my bra size!

What about undies any risks from not wearing those

What about undies any risks from not wearing those

Yes, by the third week everything turns inside out and falls out, according to next week's Daily Mail. They've got a Pants Scientist to explain why.

I saw this a couple of days ago!

It made me rage! 😡

Women of the world, in these unprecedented times, please do not prioritise comfort over the future aesthetic nature of your breasts!

Remember in a month or two men will be disappointed if you allowed your breasts to become 'saggy' (ducking hate that word) and you don't want to become repulsive to men! So keep that bra on ladies! Keep our men folk happy with perky tits!

Ffs! Honestly don't be ducking comfortable during a NATIONAL DUCKING CRISIS!

Keep perky for the lads! 😡

psst the daily mail are not "experts"

They're experts at trolling, the OG trolls in fact.

I have to say, I'm wearing my bras, otherwise it hurts.

But that's for my comfort. No one else's.

I gave up on wired bras a while back and I've not looked back either. I don't need definition, uplift or "oomph", whatever that's supposed to be. I just want something that stops them flapping about in a distracting manner.

Does anyone else think that bras today are far more rigid and confining than in the '90s when I started wearing one?

I think the bra designs go in cycles (whether you could do a study on how different bras signify women's status at any one time could be interesting!).

In the 50s(?) when there was that whole push to get women back into the home because they had got all that freedom in the war years there were those long line bras with lots of push up. (And panty girdles.) Then in the 60s / 70s it went back to a looser style. And so on.

My Ma was instant that it wasn't right to wear bras with lots of support and elastic and was a firm supported of a type of bra (that was arround until quite lately) that was just a crisscross of staps across the front (a bit like a grecian dress style) with very thin straps, and basically 2 "pockets" in the crisscross.

But for those needing more support probably not ideal.

And yes my sercret pleasure is no undies at home, particularly in the summer. Very freeing. But then one day I went out and forgot to put a pair of pants on, and became very tense and worried!!

I'm wearing a bra as it minimises sweaty underboob and that starts me off with eczema and underboob is not somewhere you want eczema - but I couldn't care less about saggy tits - gravity won that battle long ago and my fuck supply is limited on that particular front.

Huh, my nipples point downwards and have done for years. I discovered crop top bras years ago and haven't looked back. I have big boobs (H cup) so gravity is going to effect them either way! I also only wear bras if I'm going out, although have been known to go without in the height of summer (while only wearing a thin silk top.) I was so hot I didn't give a damn if anyone could see my nipples through my top.