Wired or non-wired that is the question?

Only wear non wired bras. So comfortable and I get my underwear from M&S have tried other shops but not as good.

I can only wear one type of bra and it is a Triumph wired one.

Wireless all the time now, used to wear wired bras but after I had a benign breast lump removed I was seeing the District Nurse for dressings & she recommended that "larger ladies" should wear unwired bras.

I have lots, plain t-shirt bras & some very pretty ones from M&S.

Day6 - “chesticles”!
And MOnica having a “quick fumble”!
This thread has really cheered me up.

I always wear cotton bralets now and think that your posture improves because you become responsible for it!

Always wired but not padded. Had myself measured in Debenhams and buy nearly all my bras there. Freya is my favourite make.

I try to avoid wearing bras whenever I can.
When I am at home and not expecting visitors, I wear vests.

I find you can get away with that more during winter when wearing thick baggy jumpers. But in summer, I do have to wear one when out.
Always non wired. Can't stand anything tight around my chest.

Wired, no choice as aGG cup! Saw newswimwear at Tesco yesterday, bikinis wired , swimsuits not- ? crazy!

kittylester.
Snap!

I have recently found wired bras uncomfortable, even after a shop fitting. I have changed to non wired and although rather ' industrial ' looking, are so comfortable and supporting. I now wear Delicate Doreen by Triumph, but have found it is now discontinued in size 34. ( I wear 34g). Now purchased four on eBay.

Wired, plastic? slightly padded, quite discrete really, bought some lovely T shirt bras at Matalan of all places, they are SO good, and inexpensive.Try them out ladies!

Worn non-wired for decades, wires always seemed to be sticking out of bra previously after washing - and more comfortable, especially after boobs shrank post-breastfeeding

Wired because of ff cup size. If your bra is the correct size and fitted properly the wires shouldn't cause problems

M&S allegedly use a particular underwire that is guaranteed not to 'poke through' the bra seam.
It was mentioned in a 2015? article in the Daily Fail.
I rang M&S who confirmed that it had been using those underwires since 2013.

Nanny41
Shhh...discrete = separate.
It's discreet. ?

Wired and always have been . At least sinceI began buying my own bras

Not about bras, but "Fillerina" - an expensive product claiming to be a DIY alternative to fillers. Could the admins put this in the right place, please? And if you've tried this, I'd be really interested in your comments.

Always non-wired, but I'm 38A. Mostly the cups are far too big and I look like the cow with the crumpled horn on one side ( it's a nursery rhyme). I divest myself of my bra at every opportunity, but it can be embarrassing if I answer the door and haven't put something loose on to disguise my droopers.

Always wired from M&S - never a problem!

I like wired though I go braless in the on holiday & summer. My biggest embarrassment was when one of my M&S "chicken fillets"accidentally fell out while I was conducting the school choir. A pupil simply picked it up , handed it to me saying"you dropped this,Miss'

I started a thread about bras a year or so ago and the posts are much the same - we ladies are still having problems with I'll fitting bras even after being measured. I have tried wired and non wired, cheap and expensive and am still struggling to find a nice bra which gives a nice shape AND comfortable! Each to their own - if you find one make that suits, just stick to it

Love the 'chesticles' day six ?

I have loathed bras since my mother first forced me to wear one at 16.... (which by the way I didn’t need). To be quite honest I still don’t need one! Never have. None of us do. Invented by the fashionistas to shove our tits up round our necks. I’m 68 and haven’t worn one since reading ‘the Beauty Myth’ by Naomi Woolf. Burn it or throw it away. Not wearing bras hasn’t stopped me from being married 45 years and getting two kids and two grandkids. Freedom women...freedom!

I can't be the only person who cannot now wear a bra because of having a lumpectomy due to breast cancer! I tried but due to the 2 totally different cup sizes needed found if one boob fitted, the other was either exploding out of the cup or flopping around with masses of room to spare! I thought about just padding out that side but found that bra seams etc. just rubbed on the scar tissue.

Result is I now have a rapidly aging multi coloured selection of 'secret support' cotton camisoles but they are very difficult to track down. I got my first ones 10yrs ago from Lands End but they don't sell them any more, Boden did them for a season several years ago and they are still very comfy (I look after them very well!). The latest have come from good old M&S but WHY don't more manufacturers make them? We all know that breast cancer will affect 1 woman in 9, so what do all the other survivors out there wear?

Wired tee shirt bras for me so smooth lines in clothes and no nips showing