I am now going to write about a very important topic. I hope you're ready.
At some point during business school, over the many weekends that I stayed with various friends in NYC, I realized something very strange. I noticed that one of my friends puts her bras on upside down and backwards. She clasps it in the front, then turns it around and flips it up and puts it on.
I saw this go on (without seeing any boobs, for those of you who are wondering, hello any men reading this) and was all, "Are you 13 years old? Put your bra on like an adult." I thought it was totally crazy that a grown woman would still do this. I put my bra on the way it's supposed to go on. I clasp it behind my back and it takes me all of 3 seconds.
The next time I was out at dinner with the girls, I took an informal poll as to how people put their bras on. And you know what I found out?
EVERYONE PUTS THEIR BRAS ON UPSIDE DOWN AND BACKWARDS.
Further polling has given me similar results.
I mean, what the fuck?
I was flabbergasted. Everyone was all, "wah wah it's easier, it's so hard to do it when you can't see." PEOPLE! Do men not take bras off without seeing? I mean sure maybe it's easier to open than to close but some guys can do it with one hand and my friends, I most certainly cannot clasp my bra with one hand so I'd say we're about even. Me and the men, that is.
Also, I do this every day. Most men probably don't deal with bras every day. And if they do, well, lucky them.
For realsies, though. Am I the only woman out there who took the time to struggle through putting a bra on PROPERLY, much in the same way we struggle to learn to tie our shoes? Sure, at first it's a little slow but after doing it like, 10 times you get the hang of it. I swear, I will race any chick out there who puts her bra on backwards like a 12 year old and I'll win. Even with one of those bras with 3 clasps.
Okay, the idea of this race is pretty weird, so feel free to not hold me to it. But you get the idea.
What is this world coming to when women refuse to learn a simple task? Dear women out there: if you have an itch on your back, let's say, right around the spot where your bra usually is, can you reach back and scratch it? Can you write legibly between the lines on a sheet of ruled paper? If you answered "yes" to both of these, congratulations! You are both flexible enough and have strong enough fine motor skills to be able to put your bra on without all the twisting and whatever else. Try it out sometime.
Is anyone with me on this?
The odd woman out
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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Okay, so the truth is - I thought I was totally normal with my clasp in the front, move to the back routine. Then my little sister saw me and had the same reaction as you did.
A few weeks later, I went to a bra fitting at one of these old school, size you up just looking at you places. (If you ever need a bra-fitting, Georgette is your woman!) Georgette said that it's also about 50/50 about how you put on your bra. And believe me, she's about 90. She's seen quite a bit.
BUT (and this is where I get to be a gloating big sister!) Georgette said that MY way was better. Because when you put on your bra, you should bend over and place your breasts in the cups. People who put on their bra like you, often forget to do this.
So, take that front-bra-hooking hater!
This is shocking-- I am happy to report that I put my bra on like an adult. I guess I was *aware* that there are ladies putting their bras on inside out and backward, but to have that many? Let's get it together, please. Even when I was wearing a crazy-ass, must-have-had-13-hooks thing (bustier? merry widow?) under my WEDDING DRESS, I fastened the hooks in the back like an adult. (Thus making me the winner of the Getting Dressed Game, clearly.)
I never understood why women still do that! Yes, maybe when you're learning to put on a bra, but even then I never put it on that weird way. Put it on like a normal person! It's not hard!!
I clasp in the back & move to the front - just backward, though, not upside down. I started doing it because at the time I began wearing bras, I also had some pretty severe back problems that made it impossible for me to reach behind me to my bra-line. I always figured I was freakish for doing it this way, but I got so used to do it when my back was jacked that I never stopped...
But WHAT WAS EVERYONE ELSE'S EXCUSE?
Yeah...guilty. Half guilty anyway, I clasp it in the back but its upside down and I flip it up. But I have big boobs and it's just easier to adjust the girls that way so I stand by it.
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