How to wear a healthy bra? Why most Chinese women aren't wearing the right bras

Most Chinese women don't wear the right bra

Chinese women wear bras almost every day for good reasons, either to shape their curves, or to prevent them from showing, or to force them to upgrade their A-cups, or to prevent them from sagging. However, most don't realize that they've never actually worn the right bra; all they know is that when they get home and unhook it, it's the most comfortable moment of the day.

According to statistics, Chinese women will buy four bras per capita per year, and if the frequency of replacement is every three months, women are still paying some attention to bra consumption. However, 72% of women do not wear a comfortable bra, up to 88% of women are not particularly clear about how to choose to buy a bra, 60% of women have encountered public **** occasions shoulder straps slipping embarrassing situation, cups are too large or too small, lift the hand when the cups upward, strangulation of the secondary breasts and other problems are also very common.

Clearly, wearing a bra is not that simple. Do women have to wear bras? Why do Chinese women always wear the wrong one? Regardless of breast size, wearing a comfortable is a good bra, but bra in the end how to wear the right it?

To wear or not to wear, is a question

Underwear in the East and West have a long history. Ancient Chinese women have been relying on belly bibs and breasts to cover their bodies, but did not develop into a modern sense of underwear. Lingerie form to plane division, and there is no complex three-dimensional modeling, more emphasis on the soft and comfortable underwear.

In the West, the function of lingerie has been developing in different directions, at first it was to cover up the body, and then it pursued to shape the curves of the chest, waist and hips, and emphasized the sexy features of the female body, so it developed corset. in the beginning of the 20th century, the first bra was born in the West, and the corset that had been binding the women for more than three hundred years was discarded, and the function of the lingerie began to develop towards the healthy development.

Today's Chinese bras are also the result of Western learning. in the late 1920s, with the opening up of the Republic of China's social trends, the bra as an imported product to China, Chinese lingerie gradually accepted the Western lingerie culture of the concept of body shaping.

Unlike in the past when it was just a cover-up, lingerie has become more and more versatile. At the same time, women's self-awareness is also increasing, not only feminists, many lingerie researchers, women themselves are also thinking, in the end should wear a bra. The debate has naturally converged into two forces.

First, let's look at the reasons for wearing a bra. It is generally accepted that wearing a well-fitting bra will not harm the body, but on the contrary can provide support for the breasts. Breasts are mainly composed of adipose tissue, mammary glands, connective tissue, a large number of blood vessels and nerves and other tissues, relying on the surface of the skin and tissue pull to resist the effects of gravity. A properly fitted bra allows about 80 percent of the weight of the breasts to be carried by the bra's underwire, leaving the shoulder straps to carry the rest.

Most women's breasts flatten or elongate with age, a problem that is exacerbated if they don't wear a bra. This is widely recognized by bra-supporters, but there are a number of researchers who disagree: while bras do help support the breasts, they don't ultimately prevent them from sagging, and gravity will eventually come into play.

One of the extremes of the bra opposition is French sports science researcher Jean-Denis Rouillon, who believes that wearing a bra does nothing to support the breasts, reduce back pain, or prevent them from sagging. The professor led a team that conducted a 15-year study looking at the effects of bras on 330 women aged 18 to 35 and found that wearing a bra may even increase the chances of sagging.

The eye-catching study attracted widespread discussion when it was published. But by the professor's own admission, the women in this study don't represent everyone. Many women wear bras for other reasons, such as to prevent showing, to prevent their breasts from bobbing up and down, to match their outerwear and to accentuate their curves ......

So it remains controversial whether wearing a bra is a necessity for women. In the opinion of feminists, the bra is a product of a male-dominated society, and in foreign countries where feminism thrives, it is very common to go bra-less and let yourself go. In China, it may take a little courage to go bra-less.

What is certain is that there are some occasions when wearing a bra is very necessary. If you're motivated to be a sports girl, it's best to wear a well-fitting sports bra. Experiments have proven that walking, aerobics, jogging, and other exercises result in maximum vertical breast motion and maximum deceleration forces for those who do not wear a bra. A well-fitting sports bra can limit vertical and lateral breast movement, reducing the amount of breast movement by more than half, thus reducing strong breast bounce and also reducing pain.

And wearing a bra does not interfere with performance or respiratory function during exercise. This is especially true for large-breasted women who recognize the importance of support during exercise.

Wearing a nursing bra is at least not harmful for moms-to-be who are pregnant with children. Some women's breasts may become more sensitive during pregnancy, and contact with outerwear can be uncomfortable. Pregnancy may make the breasts larger or heavier, and if a bra is not worn, the breasts may become painful from the pressure. A bra also prevents breast milk from showing when it is rising.

Why am I always wearing the wrong bra

Women suffer from a myriad of sins because of ill-fitting bras, such as exposed steel rings that sting the skin, straps and under-edge girdles that cause strangulation on the skin, and straps that slip off. More seriously, it can lead to poor posture and pain in the chest, back, shoulders and neck. If the shoulder straps are subjected to excessive weight bearing, the wearer may also exhibit muscle tension and fatigue, neck pain and numbness in the arms.

Why do you keep wearing the wrong thing? Never swallow the aggravation feeding the big pattern. Chinese women wear bra sin, the bra itself design defects to bear the primary responsibility. 1974 China began to use direct measurement method for the production of the bra, has not yet established a national body type database, the classification of the bra type and bra structure design can only rely on international standards inside the bust and underbust, underbust as the number of the bra to the bust and underbust as the difference between the bra type of the bra.

This measurement and specification method is too single and not geographically specific to provide a sound basis for scientific and rational bra structure design. Women's breasts are in various forms, such as conical, hemispherical, disc-shaped, etc., which cannot reflect the three-dimensional shape differences of women's breasts. Different regions of China have large differences in body shape, even if the difference between bust and underbust is the same, breast height, breast spacing, etc. are also different.

Bra production requires a deeper understanding of the basic anatomy of women's breasts to determine the relationship between body shape and bra fit, but compared to foreign countries that are constantly pushing new measurement methods, such as three-dimensional anthropometric technology, China still specializes in traditional measurement methods. Bra pattern makers also tend to limit themselves to years of production experience, and only use constant trial and error correction to improve the fit of their bras.

Besides the imperfections in categorization and production standards, China's bra industry, like most others, is still a mover and shaker. Although there have been some strong brands for domestic women to carry out anthropometric measurements, body type analysis and then research pattern, but in terms of style design most brands still choose to borrow or copy foreign, such as in Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan on the basis of the pattern slightly modified and become.

Of course, in addition to the bra itself, most Chinese women don't really understand the bra they wear every day. According to a survey of some female college students at Jiangnan University, more than half of them have a half-baked understanding of the basics of bras, such as understanding the significance of the size (34B or 75B) a question that only 35.35% of them clearly know, while 12.10% do not understand at all. Most women are also too exclusive to realize that breast size and shape changes with life cycle stages, fertility stages, menopause and hormonal changes, always choosing to buy the same model of bra.

Female college students from dozens of colleges and universities across the country take part in the Hengdian Breast Model Contest on February 1, 2018 in Hengdian, Zhejiang province. / Visual China

Knowledge changes fate, bra knowledge changes the fate of the breast, the education of bra knowledge is very necessary ...... Three researchers at an Australian university distributed an expert-produced educational manual on bra knowledge to 115 teenage female athletes, comparing them with another group of women who did not have the manual. It turned out that all of them had very little knowledge about bra knowledge, comfort, and level of breast support, but after four months, the specially educated women improved significantly, increasing their amount of bra knowledge by 19 percent compared to the other group.

For a long time, Chinese women favored extra-thick bras with big lace or lace detailing. In recent years, young Chinese women's bra-consumption concepts and behaviors have begun to change, and they have become more focused on bras that are lightweight, healthy, comfortable, and made of high-quality fabrics, in addition to styles and fashions. However, this small change still can not hide the lack of knowledge of Chinese women on the bra, in those who talk about the color of the breast, you can hardly do anything to popularize the knowledge education on the bra.

Guide to wearing a bra properly

When is the best time to start wearing a bra, if at all? Most girls begin to develop breasts at age 10 or 11. Some start as early as eight, while some as late as fifteen. So age doesn't exactly determine when you need to start wearing a bra.

If you're going to wear a support bra, how old are your breasts before you need one? Opinions vary. Some say when the breasts start to sag, but that's a hard standard to keep track of. There's an old test, the pencil test, which says you don't need a bra if you can't hold a pencil underneath your breasts, but there's no scientific basis for that.

If your breasts are large and have a need for breast support, it's better to wear it in time. During puberty, girls are always hiking or leaning forward to try to hide their breasts that are characterized by development, which can lead to poor posture problems instead.

When choosing a bra for a woman, it is important to think about what your needs are for wearing a bra. If you are a mom-to-be, then you can choose a nursing bra that is more supportive and allows your breasts to decompress; if you are planning to buy a sports bra, then you should give more consideration to the comfort level, which is related to the fabric and material properties; if you are just wearing it for daily wear, then you have to focus on the consideration of the everyday type of bra that has a better fit and comfort level.

Secondly, many people buy bras for so many years without realizing that there are different types of cups and functions. Full cup bra can embrace the entire breast, more conducive to tighten the armpit side breasts, so that the breast is more stable, suitable for full-breasted people wear; 3/4 cup in addition to shaping the perfect breast shape, more able to work with the shoulder straps, the breast from the slanting downward to the middle of the aggregation; 1/2 cup of the coverage area is half of the full-cup, focusing on the support of the breasts, with the role of aggregation and lifting, suitable for sagging breasts of women on the other hand!

Women often use breast stickers to match their dresses to achieve the illusion of not wearing a bra.

There are also many women who are tortured to the point of madness by the slipping of shoulder straps, in fact, the way to save is also to choose the right bra. Neck-wrapped straps of the bra, the body of the band is connected to the cups, the set of neck wear, can effectively prevent the straps from slipping, can better raise the chest, but the centralized effect is not good, affecting the squeeze breast groove.

Back cross type straps in the back cross, adjustable length and free to remove, very good to fix the bra on the body, effectively prevent the straps from slipping, can better stabilize the chest, sports bra is generally this style; parallel styling of the straps firmness is strong, the most convenient to wear, but also able to have a certain centralized effect, so the most common.

As for the width of the shoulder straps, thin shoulder straps (1cm) in the style of a certain beautification effect, but in the case of a certain amount of force to withstand, the area of the small pressure will be large, which will make the shoulders have a strangulation of the feeling, especially unsuitable for women with large breasts. Shoulder belt too wide (2cm) modeling will be more unattractive, women will mostly choose a compromise 1-2cm shoulder belt width.

Of course, the most important thing is how to know your exact chest shape and size in order to buy the right bra. If you trust the bra shoppers, you may be able to find the right size and style of bra for your body with the help of the retail shoppers.

According to the current classification method in China, bust size generally refers to the length of one week around the chest along the nipple, bra size refers to the underbust, that is, the length of one week around the chest along the underline of the chest, and cup size is the difference between the bust minus the underbust. Cup is generally expressed in capital letters such as A, B, C, etc., every 2.5cm for a level, the smallest is 7.5cm, A is 10cm, and so on.

In the environment of China bra model tends to be one, women in the purchase of bras, must personally try on and feel, to believe that you know more about their own bodies than anyone else. Male compatriots, love her to bravely accompany her into the lingerie store. As well as, a friendly reminder, how to want to know their own body type, most of the Chinese women are what breast type, what size, be sure to look at the wave of the studio's "Chinese women why small breasts".