What is a bra to you?

[Caith]

I'd say that makes you a woman who has more than one of each style. I can imagine always buying at least two (nude, black) of any bra style, if not three (add white).

[Stephanie H]

Multiple colors and multiple style..
There is one for any and every ocasion.
When dressed to the "nines" and weight is down,, the Long line is the best. When casual in a skirt and blouse I try to match the color of the bra to the blouse.
When in a sweater it is just a basic bra that ensures proper fit.

[Paula G]

I just checked, I now have more bras than my wife - and she needs them

[Kittie]

I just checked, I now have more bras than my wife - and she needs them

So have I (I also need them now)

[Robyn Katie]

Hi Sisters,

Wow, I have worn bras for decades, and still I've learned so much from reading this thread. I loved Kimberley's post that started it all off. I share that obsessive interest in, and passion for bras, and what many of you have said about them has spoken for me too.

What are bras to me? First of all: the most feminine, the most female item I can wear. With forms they give me the breasts I crave. Someone said they are euphoria—exactly! As others of you have said, bras make me feel good about myself, and I don't feel right without one. They seem to make me complete as a person. I feel like myself at last! (I don't wear one to bed, however, as some in past threads have said they do. I'm a pajama girl and nothing's underneath but me.) They make me seem female to myself, and so I tend to wear them beyond the 14 hours or so when they're comfy, well into the discomfort stage.

They're very sexual to me; that hasn't waned in the least in all these years! I love the look, the feel, the implication of a bra. It makes me feel I'm a woman as long as I have it on; without it I feel shorn of what femininity I manage to summon. As I posted in the longline bra thread, they do also have a li'l bit of bondage feel to them. So yes, I love the feeling of restraint, of straps pulling, band snugging, pressure of forms warm against me, of being contained.

I love what Ralitsa said about the ritual of putting on a bra in the morning. Choosing which. Matching colors. Thinking how this will make my day. Whether I need stealth for going out, or will be at home and can be obvious about it. I'd miss that if I couldn't do it every day.

Anthony mentioned the transgressive aspect. Definitely I still feel deliciously transgressive in a bra and always will. A delightful guilty secret that, knock wood, I'm getting away with: being a secret girl. I suppose I connect this with my earliest feelings when, age 7 or 8, I tried on my mother's bras. They were the first femme garment I wore. They aided and abetted what was to be a lifelong breast fixation. I always wanted breasts of my own.

As one of the older posters here, my sensibilities were forged in the 50s, so though I was a child of the 60s as well, my tastes are for lacy bras, net, underwire, the traditional sexy styles, even leaning toward the bullet cup. I have a drawer exclusively for bras—about 20 at last count, mostly underwire, pretty and sexy and some more ordinary. All fabric (I hate those foam-cup things so popular now and will not wear them). Two are strapless, plus several sports bras, 6 or 7 cami-bra string tops. Only one or two of my bras are white and three black; I love floral ones and all the colors of the rainbow. I don't have any longlines yet, but am curious and may go for that.

Interesting to point out that the bra *holds* my forms. So how would I feel if the forms would stay put on their own? I have never tried adhesives so I don't know. If I had C breasts like I wish for, I'm sure I would keep wearing bras, loving them as I do, but would sometimes go braless because that too would be amazingly sexy too.

My wife, the darling, buys me bras and helps select them. Hugging against the forms is less easy, something she's only recently begun to do. I am so grateful for her tolerance!

I like what Zari said about the bra being a toy. I'd go farther and say a bra makes me playful to the max. It is a playful, delightful thing and sensation. Oo do I feel good in one! And Oo do I miss it when I don't have one on!

Love, Robyn Katie

[Latanya]

getting into this late but for me a bra is a sign of my femininity.
its a constant reminder that part of me is fem
and now that i have been in this mode which i call integrated mode(where i wear both fem and male clothes) i wear a bra (i know not normal) 24/7 it is comfortable feel for me!
have 9 bras all dif colors with matching panties also in different cup sizes depending what forms i wear

[Kittie]

I have replied before! Once you wear a bra you realise how well it supports you & how comfortable it is to wear if it is the right fit. My boobs hang down without support so for that reason alone I ned to wear one hence I wear one,, yes with my wife's approval, most of the time

[Amanda Steele]

For me it is the epitome of the feminine form. I remember that when I first started dressing, I was focused more on pantyhose and how it felt, but when I first tried on a bra I felt immediately more womanly. I think it is because there is a masculine dress equivalent to most other pieces of clothing with the exception of a bra. The bra has a sense of sensual, feminine uniqueness and when I had my older pair of forms in, feeling of my breasts being held close to my skin, I felt as if I was one with them, and as a result I do find completion with my bra.

One other aspect that I find enjoyable is the tightness of the bra. I prefere the fuller support over the lace bra for this reason.

Anyway you look at it (both figurative and literal) Bras are wonderful. Both on myself and on my GG friends.

now I am quite excited for my first fitting tomorrow!

Amanda

[ArleneMcCarthy]

A gift from the gods.