Things I neither like nor understand

[frightened]

"T-shirt bras"

I thought the purpose was to have a bra you could wear under a clingy t-shirt and not have seams or lumps. Apparently not. As far as I can tell, the purpose is to have a bra you can wear under a very baggy t-shirt, and still have your breasts look cartoonishly large and pointy.

And what the hell is with all this padding? I'm a D-cup! They don't need to be any bigger! They don't need pushing up and out of the damn cups! They just need to stay in one place while I run for the bus.

Also, when I buy underwear, I find myself pitching my voice higher and softer to save us all the confusion and embarrassment.

Comments

[gavagai]

I find my sole T-shirt (or, more often, work shirt) bra useful, but then my breasts look cartoonishly large and pointy whatever I do.

Do you have a sports bra? They squish your breasts together and clamp them (to me) weirdly tightly against your chest, but you might have better luck getting a smooth silhouette with one of those, and obviously they're designed for activity. And not padded.

[frightened]

I've got a couple of sports bras, but I use them for actual sports. And with all the squishage, they get sweaty and manky. Plus I really like wearing vest tops - I spent so many years in long sleeves, dammit, I'm gonna flaunt my old scars - and the thick straps look very weird.

It's not even a smooth silhouette, so much as keeping the boobs in the bra. The 't-shirt bras' I got today have this extra-thick wodge of padding underneath the breast, that pushes the breast up and out of the bra, so I get this overflowing cleavage. It's ridiculous. If I wanted my boobs all free-range and bouncy, I wouldn't be wearing the damn bra.

[gavagai]

*belated comment* Yeah, that's just weird. If you're a D cup or above Bravissimo do lots of t-shirt bras with minimal or no padding - they usually have a thin extra layer of moulding to conceal nipples and stuff, but I have the Panache Superbra with none of that and it's pretty good. Costs a lot more than M&S though :(