7pm and the Bra is off.....

Phoenix. Your bottom/knee comment made me smile and I have the same problem!

My problem is that I seem to have abnormally slippery shoulders

Oh me too anno I adjust the straps so they are nice and tight and within half an hour they work themselves down . I am forever hoiking them up !

I havent worn a bra since retiring from work four years ago.... I wear tight cami or t-shirts....hated bras from day 1 of wearing them at 15...never saw the reason for being trussed up like a chicken ready for oven . Gone for good...let alone the 7 pm deadline. Free yourself ladies .

I can't wear a bra any more, I seem to have something wrong with my ribs they're really painful to the touch so if I do wear a bra I have to have it too loose to really do any support anyway.

My old gran thought so highly of her bras that she used to hang them from the mirror of an old dresser near the front door so that visitors could see them.

I love putting my pj's on between 7-8 - not so much to take my bra off but to get my jeans off. They are mostly comfortable during the day but come evening my legs itch, the waist is too tight and my legs feel cold. Cosy jammys, warm dressing gown and that feeling of all restrictions gone - pure bliss!

Once I am indoors and don't have to go out again that day off it comes and on go my comfy PJs what ever the time of day I have some "day time PJs" and "night time PJs" all with loose baggy tops so I am not constricted in any way.Total bliss

Me too! And now I’m older often don’t wear one all day if not going out to meet up with friends

I can't wear them since my surgery so I wear swimming costumes under my clothes. Not the supported style the sports style. I find them so comfy and also help to reduce the bulges under my clothes as they give me a little bit of control around the midriff.

As for the loo, I just pull to one side. I must own around 12 of them in different colours. Easy to wash also as I tumble them although it says not to. And they last and last.

Sorted.

I don't swim anymore

I have always been rather well endowed in the boob department, as a teenager used to wear jumpers and tops two sizes too big to hide them. Back then there were only standard size bras, and none of them fitted me - I really thought I was deformed. When proper cup sizes began to appear in lingery shops it helped. Back then I found a small back with a double D cup worked well.
Having given birth to and breast fed five children and with advancing years, they are much larger, (as is the rest of me), but with a very much southwards pull. Bra wearing is an essential for me - I have always so envied women who have tiny breasts and do not need to wear such items.
However, around 6- 7 every evening, I do put on my nightie - underneath that I wear a soft pull on bra. Even at night I cannot really go without some support, however minimal.
Yes, I also like to wear nighties, not PJ's - find these more comfortable and also better to accommodate my stoma bag.
My children all know that Mum is in nightie and dressing gown by 7 pm every evening (even when I visit them I still do that).
Think I am entitled to that lovely comfort each evening. Supper things all washed up, breakfast tray laid for morning, me in soft bra, nightie and dressing gown in my lovely electric recliner armchair with knitting to hand.

Used to have bra discomfort in the evening, but taking Starflower Oil for breast pain completely fixed that. I can't wear underwired types, but something like the Berlei non-slip, and taking out the boning pieces in the sides, and I don't know I am wearing one, except for the better shape in the mirror!

I too do not wear my bra indoors. I just hate bras and why should I worry when at home alone?

Eight years ago I had a breast reduction. I went from 38J to 38C. Unsurprisingly, I had developed curvature of the spine and my GP suggested the op. It was a major operation and I was in hospital for 11 days due to blood loss and continued bleeding which was being drained.
A painful episode but so worth it.. I lived in France at the time and the hot weather was torture for me before my op. Afterwards the relief made it all worthwhile. I hardly wore a bra after that as the surgeon( a Professor of Surgery)had done such an excellent job. I still silently thank him when the weather is hot or I am trying something on that actually fits.
Having said all that I still love the feeling of taking my bra off in the evening,( started wearing a bra again when we returned to UK) so liberating!

I have rather large boobs (even though the rest of me is OK) so I'm actually more uncomfortable without a bra than with one. I get a bit raw underneath if I don't have one on. ?

*Ready meals *Your painful ribs sound like costochondritis, which I get occasionally. It usually affects your ribs by your sternum, but I get it all round my ribs. It is apparently quite common in older people. Mine comes and goes every need months.

Should read every few months.

Stays on until I go to bed even though I change into pjs when home from work.

I am not doing very well today. I posted my comment to Readymeals before I had finished it! And I don't know what happened to the bold printing. I was going to say, you will find a lot of information about costochondritis if you Google it.
Daffydilly, try Canesten cream on your raw patch under your breast, it helps. Then a smear of zinc and caster oil cream (the same stuff you use on babies' bottoms), every night will stop it coming back.
I sound like a doctor!!

I'm the opposite here, uncomfortable when not wearing a bra even though I'm not hugely endowed. Gossard for me, usually check out their sales lines online.

I don't wear anything in bed so no pj's but the comfy joggers come out as soon as I get home.

So glad I am not the only one to abandon my bra in the evening. Just feel uncomfortable wearing one. But happy to do so all day even if staying home.

phoenix Your bottom/knee comment had me in stitches so much so I laughed out loud then had to read it out to DH who found it equally hilarious!!

Usually stays on until bedtime depending on the bra. Some are less comfortable than others. There have been times I found a bra so unbearable, I couldn't wait to get home just to take it off.

I once had a co worker who made most of us cringe by boasting she even slept with it on to keep her breasts from sagging as she got older.

Just got home, it’s already off!

I enjoy taking mine off at bedtime.

Yes about 7pm here .If in for the evening obviously!For my frame I have quite big boobs and have not gone without a bra in the daytime since I was a teenager. But once I got the sofa and am off duty for the day all of a sudden I can't stand wearing the thing.I have my' slouchy' outfit or get in PJs.Not glamorous but very comfy.