Wow, you ladies are grossing me out with your lack of bra washing. Icky! Shouldn't the clothing so close to your armpits be washed MORE often, not less?
I rarely wear mine more than 1 day before washing . . . maybe twice if I travel and end up delayed due to a cancelled flight or if I travel and decide to work out more than I thought I would. And I am not an OCD neat freak, trust me!
I machine wash in cold with my other clothes and hang dry from the clasp side using a pants hanger with clips (one bra per clip to balance the weight.) This means I have a lot of bras, see below.
When ex-Mr. Zamboni was in charge of laundry, I decided I was never ever going to nag him (Laundry was pretty much his only regular household chore and I am not his mommy who needs to remind him to get his shit done.) Instead, it was on me to make sure that HE was always the one who ran out of clean clothes. At the time I only had maybe 4 bras (like many of you, apparently), so the result was that if I was on my last clean bra I just stopped on the way home to buy new bras until I had so many that I could outlast his pants (his clothing item in shortest supply) even if he wore them all 2-3 times.
I would think this stuff is something that most very large breasted women find out about as we end up having to shop in a specialty bra store and get experts to help us find decent bras as opposed to women that can buy their bras anywhere.
Yep! It was actually a combination of Stacy and Clinton on What Not to Wear, Oprah, and MMM -- yes that's right, MMM -- who inspired me to get my bra act together with a recent remeasurement.
Although technically I knew exactly how to measure it myself (Momma Zamboni taught me right), I finally just bit the bullet and went to Nordstrom's to get a correct official measuring: 36G. Yep, that's what I thought, too, and now it is confirmed thanks helpful Nordstrom's bra lady with the funky haircut and bitchin' tattoos, which was not what I envisioned in my head prior to going there, but she sure knew her bras. Victoria's secret can take their 40DD's and shove them where their pink tape measures don't shine.
The best part was that, after measurement, the helpful bra lady brought me like 30 different bra styles in my size to try on while I hung out topless in the fitting room sipping a seltzer water. I bought the two that I liked the best and made notes and took photos on my phone about a couple of others that were okay. One of the ones I bought was . . . $85 . . . gasp! The other one was $42. Sounds like ripoff city until you see how happy my girls look in these contraptions. Totally worth it.
And now, guess what? I can get the exact same new "$85" bras with tags in a variety of colors on ebay for $20-$25. I just check in periodically and more seem to pop up at this price regularly over the past year and a half as the manufacturer cycles through fashion colors (although most of the ones I have bought are black or nude; not sure how the ebayers end up with those colors.) Does Nordstrom's cull their inventory regularly and the excess ends up with the ebay retailers? Now I am up to something like 10 of my favorite expensive lacy style in 5 different colors, 2 plain jane white underwires, and 5 highly supportive jog bras. I did get burned on one that was advertised as new but clearly was not: shame on that seller! But, the rest have definitely been brand new.
I agree: what the heck is up with the "light support" jog bras. That is an oxymoron.
