Ditch the Bra. Keep All the Support.

I told my husband it was another internet promise and I would be sending it right back. I have sent back nine things this year. This one is not going anywhere. I took it on a ten day cruise, wore it under sundresses, under a blazer at dinner, packed it in a corner of the suitcase and it came out fine. Held me the whole trip, no digging, no adjusting at the table. I got compliments on how I looked in a dress I have owned for six years. Four in my drawer now. My advice - take the maximum while the free one is on the table, because ordering one at a time is just paying more for less.

I did not believe a word of it. I have worn a 38DDD since 1979 and every wireless thing I ever tried went flat in a week. I ordered my normal size, using the size finder, put it on and just stood at the mirror a full minute. It actually holds. No wire, no hooks, no reaching behind my back at seven in the morning. I wore it eleven hours at my nephew's wedding and never adjusted it once. A regular bra is four little strips holding up all of you. This one carries the weight across everything. I have four now. One would have been the mistake, because the second one comes free and then you just want more.

Thirty-one years in the church choir and I have spent every one of them tugging at a strap. Not anymore. Nothing digs in. Nothing rolls down. Nothing shows. I ordered my usual size and it fit the first time, which never happens to me. My sister came over, felt the fabric, and I said fine, take mine. So I sat down and ordered six between us. Six sounds like a lot until you do the math on buy one get one and realize you are paying half of what a department store charges for one miserable bra. She has already asked for two more.

I bought exactly one, and that was my mistake. It came, it fit my normal size perfectly, and I wore it four days in a row like a woman with no shame because I did not want to go back to hooks. No clasp, no wire, no fighting with my own back. You step into it and you are done. It holds you up instead of squashing you down, which I honestly thought was not possible without underwire. I went back that Friday and took three more in three colors. Order more than one the first time. Learn from me.

At seventy-nine I have earned the right to be comfortable and I am not going backward. I have five of these, one for every weekday, and the laundry basket has never been simpler. Black under everything, white under the church blouse. Smooth as glass under a knit top - my daughter could not tell I had anything on under there at all. No band cutting across my ribs, no red grooves in my shoulders at the end of the day. I gave my last three underwire bras to the donation bin and I did not feel one bit sad. Buy several. You will only be ordering again anyway.

I am fuller busted and I have made peace with a lot of bad options over the years. This is not one of them. It holds everything up where it belongs and it does not flatten me out like a pancake, which is what those compression things always did. No back closure to fight, no strap sawing into my shoulder, and it lies perfectly smooth from top to bottom. I ordered my normal size and did not have to guess. My only complaint is my own fault - I only took two. I am going back for four more this week before they change the offer. Take more than you think you need.