Why are we still suffering for our appearance?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwire_bra
You may like your wife or partner to look like this but do you know what it feels like?[Though once or twice these wires have deflected bullets] never knew what underwires looked like until I accidentally bought a nice looking bra online.When I felt the wires I decided to remove them.I am really shocked to see how tough and strong these wires are.I imagine unless you were very thin [and would not need much of a bra] the wires would really cut into your flesh at the sides where it runs up the cup edge.The wires are so strong I am sure one could make a weapon from them.I showed one to a friend and he was horrified.But looking round Marks and Spencer that great British shop [!] most bras are underwired.
I can’t see how,if you have large breasts that these wires would hold them up.They’d just dig in and then the breast would hang over the edge.
With all the fear of breast cancer,why do we submit to the diktat that we must make our breasts stand up or out?
If we are that bothered then wearing a long waistcoat over a top or blouse would hide our bulging figures.
So either I return to modelling birds from wire [ I have done before] or else it’s the garbage can for these nightmare objects.I wonder who invented them?
When the underwire breaks through the bra fabric, it can cause tremendous discomfort. Celebrity chef, television personality, and businesswoman Clarissa Dickson Wright only wears a bra on special occasions. At her 50th birthday party, she was dancing when she suddenly felt a “terrifying pain in my chest.” She initially thought she was having a heart attack. “The pain got more and more intense. I staggered off and discovered I’d broken my underwired bra.”
How my heart sings 
UNDERWIRES…hurt the well-endowed…like my Missus. 😦
They are dangerous I think
For all but the tiniest?
I’m too old to know but if you were tiny you wouldn’t need one!
OH? 😀
My wife gave them up, she researched them, apparently so dangerous.
Yes, they are yet most bras are underwired.And it is strong wire.I am glad she gave them up
Yes, she feels much better, so simple yet so deadly for health.
They should be banned.Breasts are delicate and should not be harmed like that
Yes, there’s not yet enough protest though, so until it gets loud I guess it won’t be banned, you know how it is, they want the money.
Feminism has no effect sadly
No, it’s like everything from the 60s, 70s and 80s has been rolled back or silenced in some way. But I have hope, I think it is a time of gestating. I was listening to a pod cast on On Being with Krista Tippett where America Fereira was quoting another woman leader as saying: this is a time of the womb and not one of doom.
That sounds hopeful.I shall try to get that podcast.Thank you.
You might indeed find it inspiring, simple as it is as a discussion.
I’ll definitely do that.Best wishes to your wife!!
Thank you.