Amazing discovery on bras

Depends on the size of the hips though I should think !

Same here Saxifrage. It took me ages to discover that pulling them up is best. And I love the comfort of them, after years of wearing horrible boned things.

Saxifrage its not just bras, my physio has told me to sit on the bed to put on my trousers, pull half way up and then stand! no more hopping around. We live and learn

Since having shoulder surgery, and - years later - a broken shoulder, I've fastened my ordinary bra and then pulled it on over my hips. I also sit on the side of my bed to put my trousers and my socks on.

I have stepped into my bras for a good long time now but can’t get on with the sports bra they kinda flatten it all down squishy squashy but I don’t wear wires any more way too uncomfortable I have found M and S do a plunge bra which suits me for now

Ooh you lucky ladies with such slim hips! (And tums…..etc!)

Wow, it works! How could I have struggled for so long??🤯

It also helps to lean forward so the ‘girls’ fall into the cups properly! Saves lots of manual pulling and shoving.

I'd like to wear underwired bras for some uplift, but since the menopause, I've developed extra fat that spills out over the top of the band under the arms. Not very attractive .

This reminds me of 40 odd years ago when we were all on holiday as a family group. My Mum and her sister were sharing a bedroom. I was making breakfast and my Mum came and sat at the table in fits of uncontrollable laughter. The tears were streaming down her face and she couldn’t speak.

Her sister eventually emerged from the bedroom and once the hilarity settled they were able to tell us what had just come to light. My Mum had come out of the shower to find her sister tangled in her pantie girdle with it wrapped round her neck and one arm in it. It was a revelation when my Mum suggested she should be stepping into it. The poor woman had spent her entire adult life pulling her pantie girdle over her head 🤣

Granny nanny. - yes exactly the sort of tangle I was getting in before the inspiration!

The more I think of it it was a corset type garment. What were they called? I can’t remember. It couldn’t have been pantie girdle. They had a gusset didn’t they? That really would have been impossible 😆

As I read your post I thought why doesn’t she pull them up!

Anyway, you got there in the end 😊

Grannynannywanny

The more I think of it it was a corset type garment. What were they called? I can’t remember. It couldn’t have been pantie girdle. They had a gusset didn’t they? That really would have been impossible 😆

I think they were more like this - without a gusset

That’s exactly it PinkCosmos thank you 😊

18 hour girdle

Do you mean a roll-on? Horrible wide band of elastic type material, not necessarly with suspenders. You wore them under knickers. You could also wear tights over the top. Honestly, things have got so much better for women, clotheswise.

Now you’ve said roll on NotTooOld I think that’s what my Mum and aunt called those dreadful garments.

No way could I step into a bra, the haunches would firmly object.

silverlining .... Well! I didn't even know I had haunches. I had to look it up!
I learn something new every time I come on Gransnet

Me too Danni.

I have been known to take the wires out of a bra I otherwise liked. Mind you I was never very bountifully endowed, so perhaps I have less need of them than many other people.

After swimming lessons at school, age about 12, when some of us first started wearing bras, the girl I shared a cubicle with put her bra on upside down and inside out, fastened the hooks at the front and then twizzled it round, arms through the straps and bingo! Job done. Not fiddling about blind behind your back. I copied her and have done it that way ever since. Since babies and menopause I'm a G cup ( not sure what that is in UK sizes) and I am really grateful for this method.

Leaning forward to settle into the cups is one of the tips I picked up working as a Saturday girl in the lingerie and corsetry department of a department store. I wish I could remember more about it.

NotTooOld

Do you mean a roll-on? Horrible wide band of elastic type material, not necessarly with suspenders. You wore them under knickers. You could also wear tights over the top. Honestly, things have got so much better for women, clotheswise.

I remember roll-ons. My nan used to wear one 😁.