How many times do you wear them before washing? Do you select the day's bra with a great deal of thought? Do they vary in cup size (I'm always hearing some statistic about how many women wear the wrong size)?
― N., Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― katie, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sarah, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Trevor, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Emma, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― DG, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark C, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Me: two black, three white, one ratty black one for emergencies/laundry days. Plus a few more I don't count because they are NEVER worn or were sent from US by my mum and are too big.
― suzy, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Evangeline, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Samantha, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Kerry, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Steve.n., Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I have probably about 10 pair, which I try to keep clean with regular washings with the Victorias Secret liquid soap/detergent for lingerie -- the only problem is that I realized I despise the smell of the stuff but I need to keep using it so I don't feel like I wasted my money. They are mostly in goff colors -- black, red, dark purple. Plus one white and one pale pink one. All the same size.
― Nicole, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
This happened in last week's episode of top fashion docudrama It's a Girl Thing. Oh the shame! I didn't know that's what water bras were. I hoped they were just made of water.
Emma - top complaint of women in 'men are useless at presents' is when they buy tacky 'sexy' underwear of the type you suggest. They want subtle, classily sexy lacy or silky stuff - not red PVC crotchless panties. It is my contention that you have millions of British men at your disposal.
Women don't really want classy underwear, they just say that so their boyfs don't think they are hos. I'd rather a bloke said 'Oh my girlfriend she's a right goer wahey' than 'Oh yeah my girlfriend is really classy in bed'.
Were is this La Senza place? It sounds like a great place to HANG OUT. Time to get the MAC out of storage.
― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago)
― nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago)
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago)
But I made a note re the AP for some future time, so thanks.
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago)
depends what that is - i spotted that exact pic over my gf's shoulder the other night and thought for half a second that it was a ZIP!
but no, it's just a posh way of doing crotchlessness. classy...
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago)
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago)
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago)
― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)
― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)
― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)
― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)
― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)
It was cheap and I can put it in the washing machine and I am very comfortable in it.
― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)
― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)
I'm also intrigued by my idea, which is this: that someone should create an anti-gravity field generator (perhaps using the power of the new-fangled nanotechnology??) and apply it to our breast area. It would be the ultimate in support. And maybe it would play mp3s. This is what I really want.
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)
CURSE NATURE! :(
― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)
i totally want that too!
i have one wacoal bra that i got very very much on sale, with the matching lace underpants. but it's all Full Figured looking, and so well made that i was afraid to wear it very often. now it doesn't fit me anymore anyway.
nothing ever fits me right these days. i'm kind of fascinated by the spanx ones. how do they fasten? it looked like there weren't typical hooks in back.
― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)
(Sometimes I think about becoming an Engineer, but really, it's a bit boring to me :( I just need to work with engineers. They seem to like me. Or at least are amused by me. I'm sure they'd LOVE the idea of nanotech bras.)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)
I think there's anti-grav potential somehow using superstrength rare-earth opposing magnets.
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)
Now, if your boobs have some volume, it might be alright. But the color and look of this thing is just awful, not to mention the "wiggling in and out of it" part. That is not something I would want to do every day.
Final analysis: Hideous. Medical. Flattening. A BRATROCITY.
― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 30 March 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)
― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)
TONIGHT, 8pm, ITV1:
Trinny and Susannah Undress the Nation
"Tonight they launch an ambitious campaign to refit 1,000 women with properly fitting bras."
http://www.itv.com/Lifestyle/trinnyandsusannah/AboutUndresstheNation/Breasts/default.html
― PJ Miller, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 10:15 (seventeen years ago)
Dear (relative) newcomers to ILE: please read this entire thread, it's a stone cold classic.
― Mark C, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 10:42 (seventeen years ago)
xpost Trinny and Suzester always use the "get yr tits out" line. It's like MC5 coming out with a bra line. Urgh.
I now have/use three (breastfeeding) bras. My regular ones are of course much too small.
― nathalie, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago)
I am really quite worked up about this programme.
― PJ Miller, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago)
Well, this is awkward:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9987571/Research-suggests-bras-do-no-good.html
― Alba, Friday, 12 April 2013 07:11 (twelve years ago)
What a shitty article. No mention of whether the people who went bra-less were those smaller/firmer/whatever breasts in the first place. 'those who fared best against gravity didn't wear a bra'.
Don't trust any online science reporting that doesn't at least link to the article.
― kinder, Friday, 12 April 2013 08:02 (twelve years ago)
Slide rule? He used a slide rule? Where do you even buy one these days?
― What fresh Hel is this? (doo dah), Friday, 12 April 2013 11:28 (twelve years ago)
Why am I not surprised that this is French research?
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 12 April 2013 11:39 (twelve years ago)
Professor Jean-Denis Rouillon of Besançon University spent 15 years studying the anatomy of 330 women
― mizzell, Friday, 12 April 2013 16:49 (twelve years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKPGwiyXUAA8plw.jpg:large
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 21 September 2017 15:00 (seven years ago)
Five bras on your phone
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 September 2017 15:32 (seven years ago)
Jules Rimet still gleaming
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Thursday, 21 September 2017 15:46 (seven years ago)
congrats to the daily mail on newspaper of the year
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 September 2017 16:24 (seven years ago)
This thread is peak ilx.
WOMEN: any recs for bras for smaller endowed ladies? I've sort of given up and taken to wearing a camisole half the time but I'm ready to get back in the game.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 22 September 2017 03:35 (seven years ago)
try the playtex 18hr line - v affordable, wire-free & hella comfortable.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 September 2017 04:05 (seven years ago)
there are lots of new "bralettes" for sale these days -- no wires, no padding, ideal for smaller chests
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 22 September 2017 13:11 (seven years ago)