Breaking in your bar

[Brenda]

A woman once told me it take three days to break in a bar, to let the elastic stretch to the contours of your body. While I've found that to be true, it takes longer (including a couple of washings) for mine to feel really comfortable, to the point that I start to forget I've got it on. Is that true for you too?

I love the comfortable feel of a worn-in bra.

[Carolynn]

Now which did you mean, a new bar or a new bra? I was very confused from the title and the first paragraph!!

Carolynn

[Carol Ann]

I can brake in a new bar real quick and feel real comfortable, now a bra I like them best after a few washings and softing up a bit.

[DonnaT]

never paid that much attention to it. Last bra I bought seemed to fit the same initially as it has later on, IIRC.

[April Rose]

I've been thrown out of more bars than i've broken into.

[KimberlyS]

Brenda I wonder if the reason your friend needs three days to break in a bra has anything to do with a high percentage, 75-80%, of women are wearing the wrong size of bra.

I am with Donna in that the bras I have bought that are the right size and fit are just comfortable. They fit the same now and new.

April does that hold true for the bras you have broken in to? or tried to?

[Absaroka]

Maybe it depends on which bar you wear the bra to.

Zari

[Davita]

I haven't broken in any bars or bras. By the way, do car bras need broken in? I'd worry about any alarms going off.

About the only thing that would make a difference to me is the lace trim getting softer with washing. I haven't notice anything else.

[Paula G]

I've never tried to break into a bar, although I have often been helped out of one, but there were occasions in my past when I might have tried to break into a bra..........

[Anthony Simon]

I confess to having just one bra I feel confortable in (and quite a number I don't). I read somewhere that because the male upper body is so different from the female it's hard to get a bra that fits. If most women are also wearing the wrong size bra, it seems like the people on this group are quite exceptionally able and astute in their selection of these items - seeing as no-one seems to have problems getting their bras to fit.

But anyway, I like corselettes - and tend to wear these out of preference. I just like the way it can give you an overall bodyshape that looks kind of female. That's a big buzz and satisfaction for me. I know when I get into one and start to see that shape appear it gives me a kind of "coming home" sense - and there's a comfort in that.

[Absaroka]

I find that over time bras often become more comfortable. Also, as noted elsewhere, the way I need to measure myself seems a bit different from how women are told to measure themselves.

I've actually had the best luck with cheap bras from Wal Mart. The more expensive ones sometimes seem less comfortable.

Probably the most comfortable bra I ever had was a bralette. Sort of a flimsy sports bra. My wife, who is a tad small breasted, also loves them-I gave her one of mine, the one I use for Halloween. They only work with small inserts however, there isn't enough support for the larger ones.

Zari

[Vieja]

Well what the hey I just learned something. I will throw mine in the "hand washable" cycle three or four times and see what happens.

When I wear a Bra all day I itch across the chest where the bottom of the Bra crosses.


Vieja

[DonnaT]

When I wear a Bra all day I itch across the chest where the bottom of the Bra crosses.

You could try a rub on deodorant, applied where the bra causes the itch.

[BabyDoll(SO)]

I find washing new bra's before wearing them and make sure you use a good fabric softner(liquid) this will help the elastic relax abit takes the finishing starch out no itch.

[Liz S (SO)]

I find that it depends on what it is made of. Some of the nicer bras are as comfortable when you take the tags off as it is after it's been washed. Some of the not-so-nice ones can be sort of stiff, or scratchy, and really need to be washed more than once to sort of 'break them down' more so than breaking them in. I do have one that is THOROUGHLY broken in. You can't even read the tag on it anymore. lol I will admit that it IS my favorite.