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They say most women are wearing the wrong size bra, so for fun I decided to look online at my local bra shops to see what they'd recommend. For reference, I wear a 30E.
La Senza - THE big bra retailer near me. According to their charts, I could fit either a 32D, 34A or 34B.
La Vie en Rose - another ... bra shop in my local mall. My measurements aren’t even on their size chart.
Victoria Secret - their online sizing tool gives me an error message.
Aerie - 34A
Wonderbra - 32C
And this is why Canadian women have a hard time finding bras that fit. I’ve been wearing mostly La Senza bras for almost 20 years, and I thought there was something wrong with me, that I was always spilling out of their bras. I spent years wearing sports bras or even 2 bras (a t-shirt bra with a bralette over top) to keep everything contained.
I’m still seething mad that those La Senza saleswomen sold a naive teenager 36A and B bras when they sooo clearly didn’t fit. I still remember the surprise and confusion the first time I heard that gores are supposed to touch your sternum!
Even my local good lingerie boutique is hit or miss. I’ve had amazing salesladies and truly terrible ones. I’ll never forget the one who made me feel like my breasts were deformed (they aren’t.) and that no company made bras that would fit me (they do). She tried to force bras to fit me, by loosening the straps and pulling the band so low it could’ve been a belt. The underwires were way below my IMF and smooshing my breasts downwards. When I called her on it, she got the manager to come look, who tugged the band even lower and said it was a great fit.
So that’s what bra shopping is like in Canada - in my area anyways. I’m so grateful for the internet, communities like this one and Amazon prime! What’s bra shopping like in your country?
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I wash them after one wearing because I live in a very hot and humid state. If it’s cold outside I might do it every other wear.
i wash after 2-3 wears and more often in the summer. I feel that washing them often will prevent the band from losing elasticity as quickly but i don't have proof of this. I just know that for me a newly cleaned bra regains the tightness that was lost after 2 days of wear.
I will wash a sports bra after 2-3 wears. Because i wear them for only an hour at a time, accumulation of oil and dead skin isn't as much of issue. My regular bras get dirtier from a relatively sedentary 14 hour day than a half hour of jogging. The sweat evaporates and I don't leave behind any body odor on them (as far as I can tell lol....).
i don't feel like soap damages the materials as long as you're using something gentle and not like a ton of Dawn.
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