Why can't they make bras that fit right?

[Evo]

Why can't they make bras that fit right? Why are the shoulder straps so close to the outside edge of your shoulders that the straps keep sliding down my arms? I am NOT built with the shoulders of an American football player (not soccer), which apparently, is what they had in mind.

Ok, aside from cross dressers, there are probably less than 6 other people in here that can relate, but I don't care.

Am I the only one that has this problem?

 

[Kurdt]

Why can't they make bras that fit right? Why are the shoulder straps so close to the outside edge of your shoulders that the straps keep sliding down my arms? I am NOT built with the shoulders of an American football player (not soccer), which apparently, is what they had in mind.

Ok, aside from cross dressers, there are probably less than 6 other people in here that can relate, but I don't care.

Am I the only one that has this problem?

I frequently find my bra straps fall half way down my arms. I also have trouble with strapless ones since I am allergic to nickel underwiring.

Hope you don't feel I'm belittling your problem, only kidding

Perhaps there is a gap in the market for you to exploit?

 

[ZapperZ]

Why can't they make bras that fit right? Why are the shoulder straps so close to the outside edge of your shoulders that the straps keep sliding down my arms? I am NOT built with the shoulders of an American football player (not soccer), which apparently, is what they had in mind.

Ok, aside from cross dressers, there are probably less than 6 other people in here that can relate, but I don't care.

Am I the only one that has this problem?

Evo dear, while I'm reading your post, I am watching "What Not To Underwear" on TLC. They are doing an episode on how these 3 women are wearing the wrong underwear, including the wrong bras. They just finished showing them being evaluated by a bra consultant, and instructing them what actual bra size they wear, and how to wear them.

Maybe you should see if there's a bra consultant at one of the bigger clothing stores where you live - preferably the one that do not have a mountain lion! :)

Zz.

 

[moose]

How would you design them so that they would fit perfectly? The anatomy of a woman isn't exactly made for wearing bras...

You aren't the only one with this problem, considering that I see this everyday.

Anyway, where is your entrepreneurial mind? Design new bras and market them! heh

 

[radou]

...I am NOT built with the shoulders of an American football player (not soccer), which apparently, is what they had in mind.

Start playing American football and have deep faith in shoulder growth.

 

[Evo]

The problem is you have to fit the chest size and the cup size. But this is not a "fitting" issue, it's a "design" issue. The bras are made with the straps too far out. If they would position the straps more in the center of the cup instead at the very outside edge, it would solve the problem. Sure the "edge" position makes the bra look nice but makes it a nightmare to wear. I'm just going to have to start wearing "racing bras", they come to a "T" in the back to prevent the straps from falling off.

Perhaps it's because I have a very small frame and sloping shoulders that the design really does not work for me. If I had broad, square shoulders it wouldn't be a problem.

Kurdt, no that was funny! Actually I have given thought to designing bras, there have to be millions of women out there with feminine shoulders.

 

[Cyrus]

You should go 'european'...

 

[Anttech]

You should go 'european'...

give me a break, you don't actually use that as a phrase to imply not wearing a Bra?

Evo, although I can't help you on that one, my girlfriend also has the same problem

 

[mattmns]

I will be your Bra Consultant Evo. Just send me a few pictures, and I will give you your correct bra size

 

[JasonRox]

You'd think they would make them for girls with smaller frames too. They should have like width size options.

 

[GeoMike]

My wife had this same issue, she tried a type of double stick tape that was supposed to keep the straps in place but it was useless. She eventually found a product online that she's been happy with, it's basically a small elastic strap that runs across your upper back. It pulls the ends of the straps together to keep them in place (a lot like the sternum strap on some backpacks). She says it works great, I'll see if she remembers where she got them (although they're probably easy enough to make yourself...)

-GeoMike-

 

[Evo]

There are times you want pretty bras and times you just need a functional bra. Unfortunately I haven't had the need for a pretty bra in a very long time.

mattmns, you devil.

Thanks guys for letting me know I'm not alone. I just finally cracked tonight. The bra I'm wearing is particularly bad and the tag says it's "the best fitting bra ever". Of course they didn't say what animal it was supposed to fit best, I'm thinking a baboon.

So, why do the bra makers continue to make such ill designed "ugly" bras? There's just no reason for that.

 

[larkspur]

Why can't they make bras that fit right? Why are the shoulder straps so close to the outside edge of your shoulders that the straps keep sliding down my arms? I am NOT built with the shoulders of an American football player (not soccer), which apparently, is what they had in mind.

Ok, aside from cross dressers, there are probably less than 6 other people in here that can relate, but I don't care.

Am I the only one that has this problem?

The push-up bra straps are the worst.

 

[Evo]

My wife had this same issue, she tried a type of double stick tape that was supposed to keep the straps in place but it was useless. She eventually found a product online that she's been happy with, it's basically a small elastic strap that runs across your upper back. It pulls the ends of the straps together to keep them in place (a lot like the sternum strap on some backpacks). She says it works great, I'll see if she remembers where she got them (although they're probably easy enough to make yourself...)

-GeoMike-

See, they make devices to fix the problem, why don't they just move the freaking straps in toward the middle of the cup, that would solve the problem. Aaarrgh. or position the the back straps in more toward the middle of the back?

Thanks, let me know, yeah, I've actually thought about tying the straps together behind my back but don't know how I would manage that without injuring myself.

 

[larkspur]

Here you go Evo:
http://www.herroom.com/Fashion-Forms-Strap-Mate-Bra-Straps,Fas001-2001,4.html"

 

[Evo]

Thanks!

But how does a klutz put that on?

 

[larkspur]

Thanks!

But how does a klutz put that on?

Can you get Spawn or Evo child to help?

 

[Math Is Hard]

The Victoria's Secret IPEX tech forum..

http://www.slate.com/id/2139801/

Have you tried restarting the bra? If that doesn't work, you may have to reinstall the software. BE SURE TO SAVE YOUR PREFERENCES to an ext hard drive! First time I reinstalled, it switched from Earth Mother to Banana, ouch!

 

[Danger]

I had a similar problem with a shoulder holster several years ago.
Why don't you just cut the seams where the shoulder straps attach to the back strap, and swap them? You could, alternatively, reattach the front of the straps farther inboard.
You can sew, can't you?

 

[tribdog]

there have to be millions of women out there with feminine shoulders.

by definition.

 

[Evo]

IYou can sew, can't you?

In my teens I actually made (sewed) my own clothes. I never bought anything pre-made from a store, but then I was a hippie freak. NEVER considered myslef a hippie, we called ourselves freaks. If you called yourself a hippie, you weren't one. Anyway... If you listen to the Mothers, you know what I mean.

******

What's there to live for?
Who needs the peace corps?
Think I'll just DROP OUT
I'll go to Frisco
Buy a wig & sleep
On Owsley's floor

Walked past the wig store
Danced at the Fillmore
I'm completely stoned
I'm hippy & I'm trippy
I'm a gypsy on my own
I'll stay a week & get the crabs &
Take a bus back home
I'm really just a phony
But forgive me
'Cause I'm stoned

Every town must have a place
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . . .

Oh, my hair is getting good in the back!

First I'll buy some beads
And then perhaps a leather band
To go around my head
Some feathers and bells
And a book of Indian lore
I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce
How to get to Haight Street
And smoke an awful lot of dope
I will wander around barefoot
I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times
I will love everyone
I will love the police as they kick the sh*t out of me on the street
I will sleep . . .
I will, I will go to a house
That's, that's what I will do
I will go to a house
Where there's a rock & roll band
'Cause the groups all live together
And I will join a rock & roll band
I will be their road manager
And I will stay there with them
And I will get the crabs
But I won't care

http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/We're_Only_In_It_For_The_Money.html

 

[Danger]

I indeed listen to 'The Mothers'. To this day, I have an aversion to eating yellow snow.

 

[Evo]

I indeed listen to 'The Mothers'. To this day, I have an aversion to eating yellow snow.

You and I may be the only ones here that appreciate the Mothers, perhaps Astrounuc. We're getting old Danger, but we're extremely cool, something the youngsters here will never be able to achieve. (actually the Child of Evo loved the Mothers so much that she turned all of her friends onto them and they all listen to the Mothers now)

 

[JamesU]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2e/Freak_Out!.jpg/200px-Freak_Out!.jpg


BTW I had to look the mothers up on wikipedia to find out who they were

 

[Evo]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2e/Freak_Out!.jpg/200px-Freak_Out!.jpg


BTW I had to look the mothers up on wikipedia to find out who they were

<sigh>

At least you figured out who they were. Ok, you're cool too.

How are you feeling? Any better?

 

[JamesU]

yep, pneumonia's almost gone :)

cooler mothers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mothers_Trilogy

*thread de-railing in process*

 

[Evo]

yep, pneumonia's almost gone :)

cooler mothers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mothers_Trilogy

*thread de-railing in process*

Hey, I already derailed my own thread.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Hey, I already derailed my own thread.

oh, good, since the thread is officially derailed I can mention this funny llama picture I found today:

I have no idea what it means.

 

[Evo]

oh, good, since the thread is officially derailed I can mention this funny llama picture I found today:

I have no idea what it means.

Me and my llama, no doubt set to that extremely annoying song by Harry Nilsson "The point" "me and my arrow".

Aaaarrgh, make it stop, I HATE that song.

 

[hypatia]

That looks soooooooo not fun to wear!