Forget cleavage - the only thing plunging in lockdown is the demand for push-up, padded bras However amenable they seem in the changing room, chances are, at least two out of three of your bras feels tight by the end of the day.
Bodies swell with heat. Nylon and silk don’t. Underwiring should – it’s metal – but after seven or eight hours it develops a mind of its own.
A mind is the very last thing underwiring needs. It just has to sit there, where you placed it, all day and well into the night, and not rub or twist or otherwise make its presence felt.
But it can’t help itself. The underwired, padded bra is an imperfect invention, even though it looks good. I say ‘good’ because while I’ve read (parts of) Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and