Visitor comments concerning bra wearing, page 2

My aunt, of which I was the caretaker before she passed away recently, was overweight and coped with irritation caused by sweating under the breasts and other body skin folds by using deodorant.

I'm 62, and it only dawned on me in the last month or so that I live alone and don't have to wear a bra at home. I'll probably continue to wear them away from home out of modesty and habit, but loafing at home has sure gotten more comfortable. As for wearing them so my breasts won't sag... at 62 the sagging has set in anyway.

Susan

Thank you for this site. It is very encouraging to know that other women hate bras as much as I do.

I am 24 and haven't worn a traditional bra since I was 15. That was when puberty started and my mother told me it was best I start wearing one. I wore it to school for 2 days thinking it was cool because I was the same as all the other girls (I was late developing). That weekend I went without the bra at home and realised I preferred going without. I was (and still am) only a B cup so I don't have the problems other girls on this site have had.

Now I wear a sports bra when I play sport (but often don't wear any other top). I never wear any other sort of bra or substitute. My work uniform is a dark colour so not see through, so why should I? Bra fee is the best

Belinda

Okay, I may not have perky breast but I do have large ones. I'm only 15 and I am (professionaly fitted) a 36 E, but that is just too weird feeling and they don't feel right, so instead I wear a large sport bra or a tank top with a built in bra, but since I'm not a C (which those shirts are made for) I have to wear another tank top or shirt over it so no one can see my clevage. I have done this since I was 13 ( which is when I was a D) I have tried running without any support, but it was too painful for me because of all the tugging and pulling. But once I turn 16, my mother has agreed to let me have a reduction so I can live without the pains that my breast cause on my back, shoulders, and the occtional rib pain. I try not to wear a bra for more than 12 hrs but some days I wear one for 18 to 19 hours. But once I get this reduction I will be brafree!

Shanice

When I go out to a shopping mall I carry my valuables, such as money, credit card, and car keys, inside my bra cup. This is something I have been doing from my early teens and is something I've seen my mother and aunt do. So you can say my bra has two jobs, it does.

linda

My wife recently came across your web page. She asked me to write about a bra experience that we had a few years ago. This may be in-line with the, understandable, comments of Karen, Charlotte, Emily and Bob. This is a story about a male who had to wear a bra for a while. Call it, LESSON LEARED. I had never dated a girl who hated wearing bras more than my wife. After we got married she constantly tried to get me to put one on for a day, so I can see what she was going through. Shes small to start with, so I tried to convince her to just stop wearing bras. But, she was afraid to, because her mother had convinced her for years that she should. Anyway, during the first year we were married she tried repeatedly to get me to try on a bra, but I would always decline her offer, for many reasons, including the one that Bob mentioned of people seeing this. Then her parents offered to let us go away to their vacation house for a couple weeks. Again, she tried to convince me to try on a bra there, since nobody would be there to see me. She continued to push this over and over. So one day, I gave her the checkbook and told her to go and shop for a bra that she thinks would fit me. Then I did something really, really stupid. I promised her that if she did, I would wear it for the whole two weeks that we would be there. I did that in part, because I really didnt think she would go through with it, BUT SHE DID!!!
On the first day we were there, she opened her suitcase and pulled out a shopping bag with 5 or 6 bras she had gotten for me. I couldnt believe it. She told me to sit on the bed and she put that first bra on me. I will never forget that feeling as long as I live; it was horrible. I had never felt anything like that in my life. I couldnt understand how any woman can stand to feel like that all day. I had no idea bras were that bad; I hated it. Nevertheless, she held me to my promise and I had to wear it for next 2 weeks. No matter what I did, I could not get that stupid thing off of my mind. I thought about it constantly. I tried hiking, boating, watching movies, but nothing worked. Everyday, I would look foreword to night, because thats when she would let me take it off to sleep. It felt so comfortable to get out of that thing at the end of the day. I savored that precious time I spent braless. Of course that was night and I began to realize that the only time I was comfortable, I was unconscious (asleep) and couldnt enjoy it much. And every morning it was like clock work, Id take a shower and when I came out, she would be standing there with a clean bra ready for me and Id be in it again.
I read some of the comments on your page and I have to agree, if more men had to do this, they would learn something and would never want to do this to their women. I also have to agree with Joyces comment about a bra feeling like youre a horse in a harness. That is so true!!!!! Or, Veejays comment about the torment of an elastic strap across her back, I couldnt agree more. I was constantly aware of that. Sometimes I thought I was going to climb the walls.
When we got back from that experience I finally convinced my wife to give up her bras and she did. Happy ending, theres no bras in this house now!!!!!!

Carl

I stopped wearing bras when I was 16 (I am now almost 21) -- it was the beginning of my junior year in high school and I hadn't worn a bra at all during summer vacation... it was suddenly torturous to be wearing one every day again. I put up with it for about a week before I gave them up. Now the only time I'll wear any kind of bra is a sports bra when I go jogging -- otherwise the constant bouncing can make me really sore.
Troll

I hate bras and have always hated bras. I wear one only because my clothes look funny if I don't. I have never found a bra that was comfortable. It might be comfortable for a few weeks or months then would start irritating me. Of course I was told that I was wearing the wrong size so I had a fitting done. Well, the fitter sized me as a 32A, a size I hadn't worn in 15 yrs, and I was now wearing a 36A with a band extender to keep it loose enough for comfort. I can't stand any constriction. When I see women with tight band lines over back & shoulder I question how healthy it is. I cringe when I see my daughters wearing these tight fashion bras and try to steer them away with camisoles but to no avail. The theory about bras and breast cancer was something I had in mind over 10 yrs ago well before a book on it came out.

Roseanne

I am 34 years old and I have never worn a bra. When I tried it I felt a large discomfort, and had an intuitive feeling that it would be better for them to keep them free if I want them to stay firm and healthy (though I have heard opposite comments from other women). I am very glad to read on this page that my intuition was true. My breasts are small but well-shaped and still as firm as they were when I was 15. I love the feeling of freedom of motion, and love to feel my breast muscles which are strong due to this freedom. I enjoy exercising and have never felt it would be better with a bra. If you are lucky (like me :-) to live in a country where topless beaches are a normal thing, try swimming topless. This can give you an uncomparable more freedom in moving your arms/shoulders, and it is much more pleasant. I hope I will never need a bra in my life!

Dijana

I wear a bra because if I didn't, whenever I ran my 40DDD breasts would slap me in the chin.

April

Just a note to those who've commented before that bras give the female body a cleaner look. After I came across this site, that too was my first thought (and I am someone who has refused to wear bras for most of my life). However, as soon as I had that thought, I caught myself. Of course I (and some of you) think that - that's what our society has taught us. It has taught us that there is something a bit disgusting or wrong about breasts that aren't bound. When this kind of thinking has been pumped into you since day 1, it's obviously very difficult to overcome. I hope that someday we as a society will realize just how silly it is to believe that breasts must be bound to be beautiful or normal. Just as silly as the old Chinese tradition of binding Chinese women's feet in order to make them beautiful.

Renee

My bra size is a 34DD, and I have a very narrow back, however the main reason I wear a bra is to hide my large protruding nipples. I have tried 'nipple tape', but it shows through t-shirts without a bra. Just the rubbing of my nipples against my clothing when braless is enough to create "Mt. Fuji" on each breast. Very embarrassing.

aileen

Hi,I am encouraged to see I am not the only one who does not like bras. I am a 32 year old B-cup. When I worked in an office, I used a bra to hide my nipples under the blouse. But in my private life I find it more comfortable to wear none. I prefer cotton camisoles and shirts. Since in 2000 I stopped working and nursed my first baby, I put all my bras away. Now I am nursing my 2nd. Well, there is little problem with leakage, but never I had painful or swollen breasts like my friends who wear nursing bras.
In my opinion, a bra is a health-risk for lactating breasts due to pressure on the milk ducts and wet nipples.
I understand breast movement may irritate a woman that is not used to go braless. Myself I learned to accept and enjoy it as a part of my female anatomy. :-)
I will recommend this page to my friends.
Regards from Germany

Gisela

LOL--I think you are crazy. I am 43, I weigh 120lb's yet I am a 34 DDD cup. If I don't wear a bra it is very painful. Also, I literally cannot put a shirt on!!! Sorry, but some women really do need to wear bras.

Sheila

Hurrah! I've been released from my bra-wearing bondage. . . I never wore a bra in my early 20's, but became afraid of sagging breasts; what man wants to marry a wife with sagging breasts, so the bra came back out. I HATE WEARING A BRA! and it aggravates my heart arrythmia. The pictures of the normal breasts has freed me from my misconceptions that I must look like I'm ready for a Penthouse pinup! I also was concerned about breast cancer . . . Thanks a million from a 46 year old sexy woman with naturally sagging breasts!! Amen . . .

michele

I have always had large breasts on a small frame (I'm a size 32E), and I can honestly say that it is more uncomfortable for me to NOT wear a bra than to wear one. In fact I usually wear a camisole w/ a built-in soft bra for sleeping, because otherwise my boobs flop around and are very uncomfortable.

Right now I'm breastfeeding my third baby and I'm a 34F. If I go braless I really feel like my boobs are about to fall off my body from the weight!

Maybe for people with smaller cup sizes or bigger frames braless is more comfortable, but not for me!

I do like this site, I was getting a complex about my droopy boobs but after viewing the gallery they don't seem so bad!

Sally

I did a bit of research on the new and could not get past the point that bras are supposedly for modesty, when the people selling them use words from this list to advertise them. Obviously for sex appeal, not modesty.
Sexy
Seductive
Passion/passionate
Alluring (lure)
Hot
Flirty (flirt)
Enticing
Luring
Foxy
Ravishing
Sophisticated
Glamorous
Cute
Adorable
Sensual
Demure
Devilish
Indulgence
Rapture
Exotic
Magic
Miracle
Ultimate
Sultry
Charming
Provocative
Irresistible
Angel lined
Secretly angelic
Rendezvous
Innocent
Revealing
Heavenly
Enhancing
Devil bra
Angelic/angel
Hypnotic
Transparent
Divine
Feather
Furry
Cavegirl
Enlightened
Wicked
Leopard
Fringed
Tiger print
Zebra
Rubber
Jezebel
Daring
Goddess/ diva (female god)
Leopard skin
Candy bra
Uplifting
Mesh
Silicone
Boosting
Stud and chain
Tank bra
Edible bra
Candy bra
Open tip bra
Net bra
Beaded bra


Dr.Kayla Brown, Phd.

I would feel funny going around without a bra on. The size that I am it would be very noticable. WHich is 40DD. Because they are so big I get back pain all the time.

Darci

It is painful for some large breasted woment to go without bras. I've gone a few days without a bra before. I did wear a-line tanks for some support. I ended up with terrible chaffing and my nipples even blead a little. I had to support them with my hands if I wanted to run because the bouncing was so painful. I am stuck. Bras, even well fitted ones give me pain under my breasts, but not wearing one gives me much more pain and discomfort.

michelle

I spent some time in Africa where bare breasted women are the norm and I know of young teenage girls who have never wore a bra, never had children and their breasts aren't even particularly large but they deffinately sag. I never met any women there with pert breasts but I have met women with pert breasts who come from a country where bra wearing is normal.

About the relation to breast cancer, I do not wear a bra to bed and I think I would advice other people not to so that at least some time is spent bra less.

Maria

...the idea that everyone could or should go braless is impractical. My breasts HURT after going braless about an hour. They have always been this way and I am 56 and they are not excessively large. Some of us have adhesions or something in our breasts and they are much happier supported. We don't have to wear weird, tight bras, but we need support.

PB

When I was younger I stopped wearing a bra as much as possible. I have always been a between a FF and HH cup. Got larger after nursing my children. Thinking as you do that it didn't matter whether I wear one or not... I now SO VERY MUCH REGRET that decision. My breasts sag HORRIBLY and am ashamed at the way they are. My sister (who is 9 1/2 years older then I) who is a DD cup stayed throughout the years wearing a bra and her breasts (as well as others that I know that are large chested who did the same and not as I did) are tight and firm.

Pain, yes I have had pain with wearing a bra, but nothing compares to the pain of sagging breasts. Saggy breast pull on the chest wall, the problem with sweat under them, the movement when not supported, the back aches, necks aches, feeling top heavy, etc is a problem MORE WITHOUT a bra then with and I haven't even discussed feeling so very unattractive. I so wish I had never went without one. Now if I could afford a breast lift I would do so, but cannot as insurance does not pay for cosmetic surgery.

The problem is finding a bra that fits properly most do not make them my size. The best and most comfortable I have been was when I was able to find a long lined bra in my size (at that time I was a teenager and a FF cup) and they don't. And the saggier you are the harder you are to fit. So again, I SO REGRET MY NAIVE earier years. If I could go back I would wear one 24/7.

Sandra

I have been going braless for 6 months now, and being such an active person who cycles everyday, being braless is the most comfortable feeling I ever had. When comes to work environment, it's your attitude and not your outlook counts, simply avoid clothes that makes the nipples and breast transparent... and you are on the way to long term good health and pain free and most of all your self-confidence will increase tremendously.

Nic.Tong

Thanks so much for your site. I recently became brafree and your site was a big encouragement to me. I decided to stop wearing a bra because they were always so uncomfortable and I really felt confined. I wear a 36dd. My breast feel so much healthier now. I have actually come to enjoy the movement of my breasts as I walk. It just feels healthy. Thanks again!

allison

Can anyone help me? I am trying to find a "new alternative" to the traditional bra. I want to buy, or have custom made, a thick cotton camisole, cropped just under the breast (i.e., like a sports bra), with a v-neck and thin straps. I do not need support, but I need thick material to provide padding for my constantly cold nipples. I've been searching the web and I think my best best is to have this custom made. But I have no idea where/who to go to. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Laura

I am a 41 year old married male with one child. I have worn a bra regularly since I had Testicular Cancer nearly two years ago which has resulted in a hormonal imbalance and a resulting growth in 'breast' tissue. I feel more confident in being strapped up rather than being floppy as I walk around.
I don't get a 'kick' out of wearing one-and I wish I didn't need to, but I would rather wear a bra that have widowed my wife and left my son fatherless!
Food for thought for those who say ALL MEN SHOULD NOT WEAR BRA's.

Nick

Wonderful article. I've been brafree for four years (since I was 16 - I think I was a 34B or C at the time) - I saw a documentary on the link between breast pain and bras, and decided to try giving it up. I always felt relieved to take my bra off at the end of the day, so being without it all the time seemed like a great idea. It's been a good decision for me and I've never regretted it for any reason at all - I don't even have to think twice about most clothing, I don't worry about bouncing or sagging, and I'm free from problems like itchy underwiring and feeling I have to make my breasts look just like everyone else's. It's good to know that I'm far from alone in finding that this is the way to go.

Lucy

I am 27, have a 13 month old little boy. I tried to breast feed, but it was difficult because he was diagnosed with a cyst on his vocal cord at around 2 months (he sucked really hard). I've tried to wear bras in the past but just found them too uncomfortable. I constantly pull on it. I work at Wal-Mart and wear a vest, so not wearing a bra works out for me. Of course when I worked in accounting at Sam's and Wal-Mart we did not wear vest and I work thick shirts or wore t-shirts or tank tops under my shirts. I have small breasts (A). I can't stand to wear a bra and refuse to wear one. I just feel so self-concious about my nipples showing.

Tonya

I'm still 14, but have a full B cup, and sometimes a C. It's impossible for me to not wear a bra. It's simply too painful to walk, let alone go up and down stairs. Perhaps it's just my age, and the fact that I'm still growing, compared to a grown adult.

Drisana

I think bras are very uncomfortable. I wear no bra in my house and it feels very comfortable. The only time I wear a bra is when I go out in public. I would not wear a bra in public but I live in this tiny town that if someone sees you with no bra then you become the talk of the town. I think todays society plays a big role in what we do. I bet you, if todays society wasn't like that women would be wearing nothing under their shirts.

Elizabeth

This is in response to all of those women who have posted about not wearing a bra to work by violating the "dress code". I used to work in Human Resources for fortune 500 company and let me give you this advice. If anyone, ANYONE, at work ever asks you to wear a bra to work simply respond with this...." Excuse me, are you discriminating against me because I have breasts? So, I will assume all the men will also be wearing bras as well????" This will shut them up. You have the right to not wear a bra. It is discriminatory based on gender to require you to wear a bra. So Ladies, LET FREEDOM HANG!!!! Happy working!!

Melissa

I just asked today if the dress code at work required us to wear a bra and a supervisior looked it up and said it isn't in the dress code== when I go to work on sat. I work better and feel better - I hate wearing bras I feel like a old horse in harness - I believed some man invented bras because they hate women to be free

Joyce

I came upon this site about 4 months ago and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it had a hand (or future hand) in saving my life. I was one of those girls who was never interested in having breasts in the first place, and was certainly not interested in strapping some bra around my chest. That made for very difficult teenage years. -pressure, teasing, humiliation -all from friends and family...and all in the name of helping me become "normal." I would never give in though..there just seemed to be something a bit sadistic with "the bra". I was told, "You'll feel much more free if you wear one." Free? "Bras give the breasts a more natural shape." OK, I think we need to review the definition of "natural." "Your chest muscles will start to drag if you don't wear one." OK, over time I was starting to believe that, -that's all I ever heard until I came upon this site.

College came around and I gave it my best shot to be "normal." When I joined the tennis team, and since it's been mostly girls that have given me troubles about not wearing a bra, I wore a sports bra when playing...even though I had never needed one before.....

Several years after I graduate from college, I still only wear a bra when I run...actually, it's a crop top. I've gotten to a point though, where the pressure from "society" has become ridiculous. "I'm getting too old to not wear a bra and fit in. Why can't I just be normal and WANT to wear a bra?" I would think. I've also been tiring of the clothes I have to wear to hide the fact that I don't wear a bra. I don't like most of them. (in the summer at least). and day after day of wearing clothes that I hate was wearing on me.

On top of all this, for the last couple of years, I've had increasing breast pain, to the point where I didn't even want to walk. Every day, the ONLY thing I thought about were my breasts. How they hurt, how I noticed them moving all the time, how I'm such a "freak" because I refuse to wear a bra. And, wondering, am I really in pain because I'm not wearing a bra? What about the thousands of years before bras were invented? Didn't breasts do just fine then? Well, in the last few years, I've become increasingly suicidal. I don't know that I could ever actually commit suicide, but this personal hell that I've lived in for so long, had brought me to a point where I started thinking about how I could do it, with the least amount of pain.... those thoughts were a wake-up call... the thought came to me to research "breast pain." What a TREMENDOUS relief this site was for me. It was like the weight of 17 years began to slip off my shoulders. It wasn't just me who thought there was something wrong with these bras.

Well, just the mental relief began to east the breast pain. A couple days after, I went running, still with the crop top. Suddenly, the pain was back! You mean, wearing this crop top for a total of maybe 5 hours each week is the cause for my pain? Oh, and it was. After 11 years of wearing bras when running, it took some getting used to to go without, but I can PROUDLY say, I can once again go without. And, guess what...I have ABSOLUTELY NO BREAST PAIN. And I do think my breasts were starting to atrophy, but they feel "stronger" now. I don't notice them moving around anymore, I hardly notice them at all. I'm still dreading the summer. A person can only take so much staring and mocking, but at least I'm better prepared mentally. Thanks for your site.

Sara H.

I am 34 years old and haven't worn a bra in 10 years except while participating in sports such as jumping rope or mountain biking. I have 2 kids, breastfed for a total of 6 months. I do chest exercises with weights, and my breasts do not sag. Muscle supports breast tissue, if the muscles are firm then the breasts will look much firmer. I have found nothing that helps with the stretch marks though. C'est le vie! Great article!

Rabbit

Thank you for your site, my husband found it and requested I sit down and take the time to read this, at the age of 11 I was required to wear a bra as long as I was not in the bed by my father. Well as I got older it was like I could not go out of the house without one on. I guess you could call it my security blanket. I did not come out of my bedroom without my bra. I am now 30 and the pain I was having was unbareable. But thanks to my spouse he has showed me how the pain is not there when I do take the time to go braless. I wish there was a way we could get this article out to all the fathers like mine was and just let them realize the pain they put their daughters thru. Just because he might see his child's boobies jiggle. Thank you for the reading and I am going to work on going braless more often.
Tammy

Thank you for this website and the information. I am 71 and have never had a comfortable bra. Now that I am retired I find other alternatives.

One alternative I have found; I use heavy cotton tee shirts and paint a design across the bustline. Very comfortable and inexpensive.

Again, thanks. Elsa Limbocker

Is it really a possibility that the "no bra" dresscode play out in the workplace. What about the "jiggle factor"?
Virgie

Consider wearing camisoles or tight tank tops that are made of elastic material, and will keep the breasts somewhat in place.

I'm glad I ran across your site by accident. I love the idea of not wearing a bra. I'm 42 years old, a C cup, and I've always hated wearing bras. I usually whip mine off as soon as I get home from work. Occasionally, I'll wear a vest over my shirt at work and then I don't have to wear a bra. It's so much more comfortable! I think all women should just get rid of their bras forever, and we should make it the norm to go around natural all the time. Then no one would think anything about it! By the way, I'd almost bet that the bra was invented by a man!! Why do we need all those cold metal hooks, binding elastic, underwires, etc? We're all beautiful just as we are, ladies!

Kelly

I agree with the rest of the women about how liberating this site is. I remember when I was told I had to wear a bra (that never fit) and then taking it off and flinging it across the room relieved it off my body. I don't like wearing bras cause I feel like I look better without one. Besides I hate wearing padded bras cause when you do that you don't want the truth to be known that you are not that big so I say just be who you are and don't hide anything. But I also think you need to dress with taste and not have your nipples showing thru your clothes That is still a temptation to men and offensive to other women. I do agree that a man should not be lusting after other women's breast. But women can't be ignorant and dress any way they want either. That's irresponsible and selfish. Thanks again for this site. I have passed the link to others.

Tracy

I was raised in Malaysia and we were taught that all women had to wear bras. I even wore a bra to bed in the hot, humid climate. When I moved to the USA, I started to loosen up, wearing bras only when necessary under revealing clothes. Now that I don't have to work, I hardly wear a bra. Being bra-free means being really free to be yourself and to feel the freedom of not being confined by a bra. It's the most wonderful feeling. I just wish there were bra-free clothing out there - t-shirts, dresses, blouses, etc. I'm thinking about starting a bra-free line of clothes.

Choo Choo Love

If your bra fits correctly its comfortable. A bra can't be fitted correctly with a tape measure. Expert fitters can assist in finding comfort and fit.

Tracey

Fantastic reading! It confirms what I have always believed. I am 51 and only wear a bra for a few hours, once a week (when I teach Sunday School and go to church.) I breast fed all five of our children and and the only thing that changes the condition of my breast is gaining weight. I enjoyed your article very much. Thanks!

Holly B.

We would like to thank you for the info on this site, my wife used to wear bras all the time and was always having pain in her breasts. then she stopped wearing a bra all together when she read what I had been telling her that she should stop wearing a bra. You know what her pain is gone!

Scott and Laurie

This is a VERY cool site. An online friend told me about it. I'm 15 and my mom won't let me out of the house without a bra, but the more I'm learning, the more I try to NOT wear one! If I have daughters, it will be THEIR choice if they wanna wear one or not. But they'll know why I choose NOT to! Thanks for a great site!

Ann M

The professional bra fitter below raises an excellent point that much of the problems with bra wearing stems more from not wearing a properly fitted bra. However, the 80-90% statistic of women wearing the wrong size bra speaks more about the great difficulties in finding a well fitted bra rather than any real lack of a conscientious effort by women in searching for a properly fitted bra.
Consider this, breasts are asymmetrical, bras are not. For the small percentage of women who do wear the correct bra size, many of them are probably just lucky enough to have a very small degree of asymmetry and are of a size and shape that is catered to by bra manufacturers. For some of us it will be impossible to find a commercially available bra that fits and so could never join that 10% of women wearing the right size bra. I am a 36AAA and I have yet to see a bra available in that size and that's why I'm braless better than 95% of the time. I've been to several high-end, specialty-size shops and fitted by a professional in every one of them, but in their attempt to find a bra that fits in the cup, they have me in a petite 34A, but I already have 34A's that I unhook by midday because it is too tight in the band. Strap extensions are virtually useless in an industry that doesn't even have a standardized bra strap system.
One day I hope to have a smooth-cup, underwired bra to wear occasionally for when I want a certain look but I will have that bra custom-made, molded to my body rather than the other way around.

Tara

The only reason I prefer to wear a bra is because my skin sweats under my breasts even though I use anti perspirant there. I wear a sports bra that is a few sizes bigger than recommended just to provide an absorbant layer between my breasts and my chest where my breast lay. This way when I sweat it is absorbed and in normal weather evaporates. In very hot weather I wear the same type of bra but also place strips of terry cloth on the bottem of the bra between my breasts and my chest. This absorbs more moisture and I can change it though out the day if needed and I can also wash the terry cloth strips when I wash my bra so that I have fresh ones as needed.

I also want to mention. On special occasions (For Formal Dressing) I will wear a comfortable uplifting bra so that I don't look saggy under a tight fitting top or dress.

I also want to say that the reason I stopped wearing regular bras all the time is because I was getting head aches, neck aches and shoulder aches so awfully. I noticed on a regular basis that at night around 7:00 I would feel like ripping the thing off and not more than a half hour later my head aches, neck aches and shoulder aches would go away. In an instant I could feel the heat of the blood rushing up my neck like the bra was blocking circulation.
I am not a big breasted woman. I just could not handle the tighness of the straps on my shoulders or around my chest. Oh, also where my underwhere much bigger than recommended because I also cannot stand the tightness around my groin area or my waist.

Mariann

My motive may be a little different than most, but I don't wear a bra because my husband asks me not to. That's the way he likes me. I am 31 and measure a natural 36-C. To be honest, I was somewhat concerned that my breasts would sag from the lack of support. Fortunately, I've seen no evidence of that. I have remained high and firm. I am not sure if my husband is motivated by any health related issues or if he just likes the sight of my bouncing boobs. Either way, I do it because I enjoy him enjoying me braless.

Mona

It is totally crazy how many of us are so quick to blame the bra for our pain and problems. 80 to 90 percent of women wear the WRONG size bra. Imagine how sore your feet would be if you wore the wrong size shoes for 40 years. As a professional bra fitter I have seen it all. Women who don't wash bras grow mold. Women wear the wrong size and get grooves like river valleys in their shoulders. Wires that are popped out, backs up at the neck, breasts coming out in all directions. Believe me, I am a 32 GG. I have LARGE breasts, and have done the research. Go get fitted at a reputable store. You simply CAN NOT do it yourself. Get educated on how a bra should fit and be amazed at how comfortable a really good, properly fit bra is. No reddness, no rubbing, pulling, squishing and prodding. Join the 10% of women who have been fit properly and feel great everyday. Believe me, if I'd read this website 2 years ago (before being fit) I would have agreed 100 percent. Now my shoulders are groove free, I have solved my back pain and am able to run freely without pain.

jacquie

I cannot stand anything like elastic across my back - especially if the weather's warm. Sooooo, no bra for me. I do wear vests a lot, and the A-shirts (are they "husband-beaters" if we wear them?), and whatever form of camouflage I can come up with. I've already had a spot of cancer on my back, and to this day, blame the B-R-A!!!!!!!

VeeJay

Thank you for the info about breasts. I have shed my bra a long time ago, I only wear it when I work and take it off in the car. I have had a few stares from truck drivers but the relief is well earned and needed. On my days off I am free of the bind that the bra puts me in. I have been lucky to find a few from a few ladies stores that do not torture too bad, but there is nothing like taking it off at the end of a busy day or night since I do restaurant management I move and am in the public eye. I do need my releif at the end of the night or day.

Thanks again for this wonderful site, and I will be back to visit more.

Thank you, lyn hollen

I just recover from fibrocystic disease of the breast. My doctor told me not to wear a bra to reduce pain and lumps in my breast. At first I was not comfortable because my breast is a bit bigger than the normal size of a filipina woman (38,26,36 is my vital statistic) so its very shameful not to wear bra. I don't like the pain all the time, and am worried that it will become cancerous.
So now am used to it. Being bra less is more comfortable, and I feel free. I don't care what people think about why I am not wearing bra.

shaine

I choose not to wear a bra, just because of the confinement that they cause. If I absolutely need an undergarment, I will go for a camisole, which is still extremely comfy but does possess a undergarment look.

JAKI BOWERS

I like your camisole suggestion, but have another to add.

I've been wearing cotton bras from Decent Exposures that support just enough that I don't feel clammy and sweaty underneath for years now. My best friend thinks mine aren't supportive enough, but for me they do just enough and don't have me feeling cramped or confined. The girls can move, and they're readily accessible for nursing our daughter. Best of both worlds in my opinion!

Meiri

I am so shocked that the cause of my breast pain was from bras. I have bought so many bras over the years and am getting sick of it. I will be attempting the no bra for the second time. I believe that this time it will be successful. I love the idea of the gallery. I feel better about my breasts. They are normal and natural the way they should be. Keep it up spread the word.

Gemma Santiago

I haven't worn a bra for years and I truly love it! Wearing a bra was torture! the wires, the elastics...if men want to see women wearing bras, they should try wearing them before they say anything!

charlotte