Current Events > Going braless... the NEW NORMAL for women??

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https://www.instyle.com/fashion/bras-are-over-quarantine

And yet. Throughout the pandemic, as women have become more accustomed to spending their days sans bras, their tatas experiencing a freedom unlike ever before, the long-established fact that bras aren't actually medically necessary has finally started to break through especially for those of us in the IBTC.

The idea that women need bras to prevent saggy boobs? A myth. (According to this French study conducted over 15 years, wearing a bra can actually increase sagging. But also, who cares?) And for women with heavier boobs who feel relief from the support bras provide, it turns out that there are other ways of alleviating back pain caused by a heavy chest, from strengthening exercises featured in yoga and Pilates, to massages, to wearing a good ol' fashion compression or sports bra.

Adele*, a 29-year-old from Ottawa who works in a management role in the fitness industry, found that traditional padded bras actually caused her pain, even after a proper fitting. "I notice I get pain in my shoulders a lot of the time, or going up my neck, or a headache," she says. Though as quarantine gave her more freedom to dress as she pleases, "I wore sports bras more, even bralettes, and [the pain] completely goes away."

According to this 2014 article in NPR (which notably features the phrase "over-the-shoulder boulder-holder"), the demise of the bra was predicted as early as 1969, when Danish fashion historian Rudolf Kristian Albert Broby-Johanse penned an "Obituary for the Bra," which he assumed would go the way of the corset any day now.

So why have we yet to embrace the #FreetheBoobies movement, discarding the idea of bras as easily as we discard actual bras at the end of the day? In a word, men.

"Quarantine has totally changed the way I think about bras because I don't wear them hardly at all anymore," Erin*, a 28-year-old from Seattle, tells me over Zoom. "Quarantine really opened my eyes like, 'Oh, this is really restrictive and conforming and unnecessary and a patriarchal tool, so, no thanks.'"

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Damn_Underscore posted...

So why have we yet to embrace the #FreetheBoobies movement, discarding the idea of bras as easily as we discard actual bras at the end of the day? In a word, men.

I dunno... I'd assume the vast majority of guys wouldn't mind a mass-braless movement at all, or movement of braless mass.

Damn_Underscore posted...

So why have we yet to embrace the #FreetheBoobies movement, discarding the idea of bras as easily as we discard actual bras at the end of the day? In a word, men.

This is bs, I've never worn a bra in my life

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Yeah, let the titties jiggle freely!

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Damn_Underscore posted...

wearing a bra can actually increase sagging

is this true?

then, can someone explain the boobs of like National Geographic-esque always topless tribal women?
cause majority of the ones i've seen are hanging down to the belly button

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So why have we yet to embrace the #FreetheBoobies movement, discarding the idea of bras as easily as we discard actual bras at the end of the day? In a word, men.

When in doubt, blame men. -_-

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Women went bra less a lot in the 90s too. Im all for nippy tops!

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bump

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free the tiddies

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I hope so I hate wearing bras

Doesnt bother me

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I support freeing the boobies. Free all the boobies, let them bounce and jiggle in the wind.

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Why does this talk about sports bras as an alternative to bras? I would think that sports bras provide the most support of any bra type.

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#JustGoTopless

Seems like a lot unnecessary friction on the nipple just to bring down the patriarchy

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Proof? Preferably the photographical kind

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yeah destroy the bras like the masks. they are not needed.

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