Sports Bras Don’t Work!
I’ve been getting so angry about the failure of sports bras lately. They bind your ribs more than your chest, they push your boobs up, and they don’t really compress well. I have to wear them at work because I can’t tolerate my tri-top binder for 12 hours at a stretch, but I’m getting very frustrated. I need a better binder until I can get top surgery! (And yes, I’m sure there are some lucky small-chested people out there for whom sports bras work just fine as binders. I’m not one of those lucky ones. The majority of sports bras push my boobs up and end up making them look BIGGER rather than smaller. The only one I’m halfway happy with at the moment is a plain Fruit of the Loom one from Walmart – it’s the only one that DOESN’T push my boobs up.)
Hey, I recently read this memoir called “Nina Here Nor There” and this guy (identifying then as either female or gender queer) spoke highly of The Frog [sports] bra as an alternative to a binder. I just looked it up and apparently the fabric isn’t being made anymore but the company, Title Nine, is trying to get it back in the works. You should check it out – maybe they have other options that would work well too. Just go to titlenine’s website and search “the frog bra”
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