“Wrong bras” can damage breasts

The BBC reports here that “wrong bras” can damage breasts. Very interesting stuff.  One of my pet peeves about Spain is the women’s underwear.  Firstly, it’s all nylon!!  Secondly, the sizing is rubbish.  If you don’t want a plate-armor granny bra, but you’ve got a cup size bigger than a B, you’re pretty much stuffed.  And all the bras have that horrible foam reinforcement that makes your boobs look all boyish and smushed.  Woebetide you find a pretty cotton bra in various cup sizes.  In the Shopping centre in Benidorm (La Marina), there a whole lingerie shop that sells bras only in B-cups.  What?  LIke every woman in Spain wears a B-cup?

At least it’s better than Italy, where they do the sizing like this:  1,2,3,4,5,6 etc. each number corresponds to a certain width at the ribs and on the bust.  So what happens if you have a big ribcage and small boobs?  Or big boobs and narrow chest?  At least in Italy they have cotton underwear.

For my money, the UK has better women’s underclothing  than either Spain or Italy.  I mean, everyday, comfortable, supportive underwear.  It has to do with feminism and women’s roles in society, I reckon.  The more male-dominated society, the more boobs are treated as objects of lust, trussed up but unloved.   The more that woman are self-defined, the less need they have to endure discomfort in order to be deemed worthy.  But don’t get me started on high heels and the City of London!!!

Ladies, free your bodies, love your selves.