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Training bras just don't make sense.

-- kirsten, December 17th, 2003 1:47 PM.

Why on earth do Training Bras exist? I just don't understand it.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, thank you!

― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I never bought into the training bras thing. When I was about twelve, I got slutty hand-me-down bras from my cousin and they were just fine, and I don't feel as though I'm untrained/uneducated in that area at all.

― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely the best way to learn is with the real thing?

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought they existed for the purpose of getting one used to wearing one before they're actually *necessary* in a support role.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

But if theyre not neccesary, dont wear them! I can get away without one a lot of the time and I'm damn glad about it, I can tell you. I hate the things.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

BRA BONFIRE!

― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought they were for when you don't need support as such but are mature (and shy) enough not to want people seeing yr nipples through thin school blouses, in the changing room, etc.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Is anyone else as turned on as I am?

― may pang (maypang), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. but then again I'm wearing a training bra.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I honestly have no idea what a training bra is. This is embarassing to admit? Is that like a AA bra?

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, or AAA even I think! Isadora is OTM. Also they give 10-yr-old boys another way to make fun of you.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

They're like soft, thin, sports bras, if I remember correctly. I tried to get away with wearing tank-tops under my clothes. My mom had to force me to wear the training bra. She told me "they" were "getting too big." I was in 5th grade. I walked around with my arms folded across my chest a lot.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(okay, i really did not need to post all of that.)

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too - except mine was a girl in my class who yelled out loudly on sports day "I CAN SEE YOUR NIPPLES, YOU NEED A BRA, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?"

I still hate that bitch.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember ever needing a training bra, to be honest with you. It seems as though I automatically leapt from being able to get away with just tank tops to actually needing regular, real bras.

Um, TMI? What the heck.

*clicks Submit*

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Training bras sound like they should be for boys, like they should be strapped onto mannequins during elaborate training montages like in kung-fu movies where boys listen to "Eye of the Tiger" and learn how to properly remove their ladyfriend's undergarments without making a total asshat of themselves.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha I was wearing a D bra when I was 12, my breasts have shrank over time inexplicably. This is probably why I had no idea what a training bra was, it was just like regular bras for me?? I don't like sports bras though, they're uncomfy.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in 6th grade. My first boyfriend ever was behind me in line for the water fountain. I turned around and he looked down and then whispered, "Sarah, Don't you think it's time you started wearing a bra?"

Yeah, it was so fucking romantic. I hate that guy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG Ally -- I've had the incredible shrinking boobs thing too!! No joke. It's sad as hell. It's like I deflated or something.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I just don't get it? It was really horrifying when I was young but now that I'd rather have larger breasts, they are stagnating at C. It's like an alternate dimension or something.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You have no idea how happy I am to find out that this has happened to someone other than me and my best friend. Well, not "happy" but you know what I mean.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

my last two girlfriends both report massively fluctuating breast sizes in the years since adolescence (unrelated to any weight changes, pill usage whatever)- i think this one of those weirdly unreported phenomenon.

― TMI, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm wearing a training bra RIGHT NOW...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Hence the alias?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I probably shouldn't admit this, (SARAH, SKIP THIS POST OR YOU MAY NEVER FIND ME ATTRACTIVE AGAIN!) but once in my early teens, I had a dream that I had breasts, and that if I held my breath, they would inflate like balloons. It was so bizarre that I still remember it, despite forgetting things like my dad's birthday and howt to typeklajsdlkfjasldf

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss my big boobs.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dean is officially My Favorite Poster Of The Day.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It works better on a green background but on white it makes PW look ELECTRIC. Also, yes, this is how I feel about training bras.

xpost dan, ally - Love all God's children.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm torn between laughing at Peewee and being weirded out by Ally's concept of 'stagnating breasts'

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I brought up training bras at work this morning, and a coworker said she thought they were for young girls because they knew they'd be growing more, so they could buy really stretchy, comfy bras instead of spending big bucks on actual nice bras, because they'd be wearing a larger size soon, anyway. I still don't really get it, though.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss my girlfriend!!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that is a kind of creepy thing to say on a thread about training bras, for some reason.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it probably is.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, still in hysterics.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!!

I don't wear training bras!!!

― Allyzay, Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

are you sure?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

tart

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember being obsessed with the training bra pictures in the sears catalog when i was 10 or 11. apparently real human breasts in real bras were a bridge too far for me at that point.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nadiineseden.mybravenet.com/smelabra.jpg

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ANDREW: I am disturbed by the concept of "stagnating breasts".
TOM: I MISS MY GIRLFRIEND!
DAN: THE JUXTAPOSITION IS KILLING ME OH GOD...

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

a year or two later and i was a mammary champ, however.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't even know what they were til today, I'm pretty sure I don't have one on. Well I'm not wearing a bra at all right now but in general. Where do you get them though? I am intrigued by the concept.

xpost I CAN'T HELP IT THAT MY BREASTS ARE STAGNATING MR. PERRRY. I CANNOT TURN MY TITS INTO A HEART, ETC.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's all do the mammary chomp.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe you need a "sports" bra?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i hear sony makes them in yellow plastic

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I have decided bras are the devil.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 December 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm shaving my thighs for you right now, jess.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Did none of you read Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?? That's total training bra lit! All the girls except, uh, Nancy (or was it Gretchen, she was the first in the menarche league) got a Gro-Bra.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 18 December 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaaaaagh! There is a Judy Blume book for every possible preadolescent problem. And then there is Wifey.

Was walking to shops with a friend last night and we saw some 13 year old boys in their hooded tops drawn up like wee gangstahs. My friend said they were junior thugs on manouevres and those were their 'training hoods'.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 18 December 2003 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I cannot believe that you are stupid enough not to know what a training bra is. It is a bra that you wear before you get tits in order for you to get used to wearing a bra. You aren't required to wear a bra when you don't have any boobs, so you could wear it when you wanted so you could get used to it. I think that it is very disgusting not to wear a bra, mainly because your boobs will look nasty and saggy.

― Angelique Michelle Smith, Friday, 27 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

woah. calm down.

i always thought training bras were for girls with little lumps not big enough for regular bras.

no ones mom wants creepy dudes checking out their little girls' little lumps and erect nubbins.

― the angry cowboy (dick), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

Hooray for the search function!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)

PW LIVES

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Aaaaaagh! There is a Judy Blume book for every possible preadolescent problem. And then there is Wifey.

I am DYING here.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 December 2004 05:11 (twenty years ago)

I am so fucking proud to have started this thread. Dan, I'm coming to LA in February and I really hope to meet you there.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 23 December 2004 05:27 (twenty years ago)

(you are from LA, right?)

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 23 December 2004 05:27 (twenty years ago)

I think he's in MA.

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Thursday, 23 December 2004 05:48 (twenty years ago)

Or TA, if this thread is any indication.

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 23 December 2004 05:52 (twenty years ago)

Bras of all sorts were hated by the Feminazis (who I fucking hate) but according to them they never burned any bras.

― Dante, Der Führer (Sean3), Thursday, 23 December 2004 06:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, and who the fuck uses the terms "lumps" and "nuggins" any more. Training bras should be called n00b bras, since the girls wearing them are new to having bras.

― Dante, Der Führer (Sean3), Thursday, 23 December 2004 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Dan's somewhere around Boston, Andrew. Ned's in LA - perhaps you were mixing them up?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago)

IMAGINE MIXING UP NED AND ME (obTopic: It must be the matching training bras, oh I've said too much.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago)

training bras come in D sizes now?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago)

(I AM FURIOUS THAT I CANNOT FIND A PICTURE OF THE BARBO-BOT/SPARKIMUS PRIME ON THE INTERWEB)

(D-CUPS OF JUSTICE!!!!!)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago)

IMAGINE MIXING UP NED AND ME

It's our stunning wonderfulness which often causes this confusion, I think.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago)

or stunning wonderbras.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago)

ken c: mammary chimp

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.enlighted.com/pages/nervebra.shtml

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Dug hugs.

― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

DO NOT WEAR IN BOSTON

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

TERRORBRA

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

i'm vaguely ashamed of my "sports" bra joke upthread

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Nuggins?!?!?!

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

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