Bra Fit Tips...
I'm posting this because even though I'm supposed to be an expert I learn new things every class and thought some I should share with the other women in my life.
1. Each bra wearer should have 7 different bras. One for each day of the week. If you wear a bra more then one day the fabric actually stretches and you've ALREADY ruined it. Each day when you take your bra off it has a chance to mold back to it's original size. Also you should be rinsing your bra out after a day of wear.
2. Never put your bra in the dryer (I know most everyone knows that). The heat stretches the elastic = ruining your bra.
3. You should hand wash all your bras. Longer life.
4. You should be able to put two fingers and trace them under your straps above your shoulders.
5. You should be able to hold out the band of your bra = where it hooks in the back about an inch if it stretches longer then that a) You need to go down a band size (ex. 38 to a 36) or b) the bra you have on now is already stretched to far and is damaged. You need a new bra.
6. Those lovely areas of fat beside your breast area under your arm are infact Breast tissue when you put your bra on move it forward and put it in your bra.... (I'm not kidding)
7. You should never wear a sports bra as a regular bra..... Why? Because it has actually flattened and smooshed you in there and your breast tissue begins to grow differently after extended wear.... Yikes!
8. If you band rises up in the back instead of going around in a perfect oval you are wearing the wrong band size or it is stretched out and you need a new bra.... Your back tissue will actually start to mold to that band and you'll start to get a side ways C imprint of fatty tissue growth.
9. In most front clasping bras you need to go up a cup size.
10. If the underwire is poking you under your arm you either need a bigger band or a horse shoe shapped wire bra for the cup.
**** Remember bras should be comfortable and feel like they are molded to you!
I'm posting this because even though I'm supposed to be an expert I learn new things every class and thought some I should share with the other women in my life.
1. Each bra wearer should have 7 different bras. One for each day of the week. If you wear a bra more then one day the fabric actually stretches and you've ALREADY ruined it. Each day when you take your bra off it has a chance to mold back to it's original size. Also you should be rinsing your bra out after a day of wear.
2. Never put your bra in the dryer (I know most everyone knows that). The heat stretches the elastic = ruining your bra.
3. You should hand wash all your bras. Longer life.
4. You should be able to put two fingers and trace them under your straps above your shoulders.
5. You should be able to hold out the band of your bra = where it hooks in the back about an inch if it stretches longer then that a) You need to go down a band size (ex. 38 to a 36) or b) the bra you have on now is already stretched to far and is damaged. You need a new bra.
6. Those lovely areas of fat beside your breast area under your arm are infact Breast tissue when you put your bra on move it forward and put it in your bra.... (I'm not kidding)
7. You should never wear a sports bra as a regular bra..... Why? Because it has actually flattened and smooshed you in there and your breast tissue begins to grow differently after extended wear.... Yikes!
8. If you band rises up in the back instead of going around in a perfect oval you are wearing the wrong band size or it is stretched out and you need a new bra.... Your back tissue will actually start to mold to that band and you'll start to get a side ways C imprint of fatty tissue growth.
9. In most front clasping bras you need to go up a cup size.
10. If the underwire is poking you under your arm you either need a bigger band or a horse shoe shapped wire bra for the cup.
**** Remember bras should be comfortable and feel like they are molded to you!
If you don't put them in the dryer, how do you dry them? Not even on tumble with low/no heat? I can't hang them from the shower like I've heard cuz.. I don't have a shower rod in my bathroom. Not to mention the shower gets used 2-3 times a day and they'd be in the way.
ReplyDeleteKind of strict to say it's ruined if you wear it for 2 days, isn't it? I wore mine to bed last night and have randomly other times as well, but it still fits just fine.
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