As the title says. When did you find that you needed a bra? I have been on low dose medication (spiro and E) for the best part of 2 years and measure a 38 A+/B, and it is becoming increasingly uncomfortable when running/stairs etc.
Think you might have answered your own question there :-)
Ellie xx
I suppose I have xx
Quote from: Jan on November 27, 2017, 03:29:47 AM
As the title says. When did you find that you needed a bra?
When I
needed the support. Bras are not as comfortable as going bare chested or with just a t-shirt. I started wearing a bra when my breasts became more than a handful. I started with a 42C to be exact. Now I wear a 40D.
I started wearing one when I was an "a" cup because well even then when I walked, jogged, or ran they bounced and it was painful. So like you said when it is painful is probably when you should. Being that you have been on e for 2 years, you could invest in some nicer bras too. I have been on e less a year and will still be developing. I don't want to invest a lot in bras due to growth I may see. Good luck!!!!
I'd wear a bra when i transition and get some breasts. Even if my breasts will be small, i'd use a bra just because i find bras and most lingerie sexy.
Quote from: Jailyn on November 27, 2017, 06:14:48 AM
I started wearing one when I was an "a" cup because well even then when I walked, jogged, or ran they bounced and it was painful. So like you said when it is painful is probably when you should. Being that you have been on e for 2 years, you could invest in some nicer bras too. I have been on e less a year and will still be developing. I don't want to invest a lot in bras due to growth I may see. Good luck!!!!
Jailyn, a great idea. Still growing though, and still tender....may have to hold off for a while.
Started a while ago because of pain while exercising. A nice inexpensive jog bra did the trick. Now @ a full 36B and still growing I wear one nearly all the time. I've gotten used to the tenderness pretty much but since I'm "pointy" without one, especially with only a T, I don't want to look piggy. I'm not that kind of a girl ::). Toni
I have been on HRT for 10 months and I am not even an AA yet. But I started wearing a bra a month in to protect my tender nipples. I was just using a shapeless sports bra, which also allowed me to hide the girls when in male mode. Though they are small, they are shapely, and were obvious with the wrong shirt without some concealment.
Once I went full-time, I switched to a padded sports bra for vanity. I can't yet wear a sized bra, so it's mostly sports bras for me. I do occasionally, when I am trying to be fashionable, wear a "proper" bra, size "medium" (based on band size, not boob size!) which I can almost fill. Padded, of course.
The stairs at work told me when it was time. Gotta love the jiggles. ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on November 27, 2017, 10:42:32 AM
The stairs at work told me when it was time. Gotta love the jiggles. ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
Every time I run now I jiggle. Without support, my boobs hurt within a 1/4 mile. Gotta strap those girls in!
Quote from: Jessica on November 27, 2017, 10:46:01 AM
Every time I run now I jiggle. Without support, my boobs hurt within a 1/4 mile. Gotta strap those girls in!
This.
without one... Ouch!
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+1 for stairs, also every time I had anything in my breast pocket of my coveralls at work and it was agony..
ALL the above -
I love to wear lingerie - unfortunately I am a big lady and so my handful of boobs is still not in a cup range so I wear a Bali unlined bra - it has hooks in in back, but is a 3x - and it fits sometimes the cups stretch a bit too much and I have to adjust them - but I love that too - it is just a reminder that I get to wear a bra! And the girls do jiggle too much and are sore anyway and more sore when they jiggle - so I wear it! :) This is a fun post!
Love and hugs Marcie
Oh my girls! After my last comment about running, I went running and realized I need a bra for my butt now!
Jiggle all the way, Jessica
I hate cold days as my nipples get very sensitive and brushing against my blouse is very painful. So, yes it's time to buckle up. I just got a front loader because it is impossible to snap the back.
Mama got me started ages ago. I just wear them for fun nowdays, never was a real necessity. AT 38C and still perky, I like to let them breathe! And move and love the jiggle. And I love to watch rubber-neckers walk into things!
Driving the Jeep on a rough road is about the worst for making me strap them in.
Taming my pokies when dressed for Church.
Looking good for my wife puts me in lace.
I have been asked to put my bikini top back on at the hotel pool.
Quote from: DawnOday on November 27, 2017, 12:11:35 PMI just got a front loader because it is impossible to snap the back.
I've been able to hook the back since I was 13. :angel:
I think it's the running more than the stairs that will force the issue. If I'm not wearing a tight undershirt I have to run with an arm over my chest, and seeing as I dress male mode in public that gets second glances.
Quote from: DawnOday on November 27, 2017, 12:11:35 PM
I hate cold days as my nipples get very sensitive and brushing against my blouse is very painful. So, yes it's time to buckle up. I just got a front loader because it is impossible to snap the back.
Put it on backwards and then pull it around or that is what I do when I wear a bra.
I don't though. Wear a bra that is. I know, horrible of me right?
I think it was 8 months on hrt when I could not possibly hide them anymore but I could not find a bra that fit. Too big around with too small a cup size. Even sports bras fit miserably. I could get them made but I had very little money and it was more comfortable to go without.
Cut to 2 plus years later I am smaller around have a bigger cup size and I have more than one bra that fits. I still do not wear them though.
So I am a comfortable b cup maybe closer to c by now, not too big and they are firm. No pain going up or down stairs and I don't run. They are well shaped with a largish and puffy areola. Here is the thing, even if I really wanted to wear a bra I still might not. I don't at all so I won't. Well, not entirely true, something a little more official, like when I went to court to get my name changed, I will wear one.
It began to irritate me more and more how much crap my friends gave me. Even my best friend who shows more than an acre of cleavage every day. More than 99% of the women who have ever lived did NOT wear a bra. In the 1970s none of my aunts did and in the early 1990s in Germany very few of my friends did. What happened? When I ask they say,"I don't want my man checking out your boobs." Your man is looking, not a guess a fact, if not at me then at someone else. Like my man is checking out your bongos right now. SO WHAT?!?!
I do not look or dress trashy unlike my one friend who loves to wear leopard print yoga pants when she goes to the store and literally climbed her son's best friend and wrapped her arms and legs around him at the end of her grandson's birthday party. I know that sounds judgemental, maybe is a little, but I love her to death and we have soooo much fun. Just, how is it she is calling me slutty because I don't wear a bra?
All of my friends are girls, great that really works for me, but to me it seems to that they are so much more judgemental than men. It gets tiring.
The girl that does my nails rounds them instead of making them square or pointy. Really? That bothers you?
I can't believe you came out without putting on makeup.
White skirt in January? You are brave. It's full length and layered, it sure as hell wasn't made for July!
It's okay that you bought food instead of making for our picnic, you are busy I guess. 3 jobs and a boyman for a boyfriend? Yeah, you could say that I am a little busy.
I love my life and my friends. I just never thought that I would miss the laid back and straightforward approach men have to their friendships.
Anyway, I don't wear a bra and most of the time no one notices. Sometimes men drool, and more rarely a woman. Nowhere near as much as at my friend who does wear a bra and shows most of her giant boobs though. But don't go by me. My nieces could not wait to wear a bra, it is a cherished passage into womanhood. When you want to is the only answer that I can give.
Quote from: KathyLauren on November 27, 2017, 01:05:57 PM
I've been able to hook the back since I was 13. :angel:
I was able to too. Until I hit a growth spurt. I even used to dance ballet with my sister until I was twelve or so. Somehow all my abilities to be flexible disappeared. My arms are also shorter than most people my height. So instead of taking ten minutes to pack up the girls I can do it in one by connecting in front. I wish I were more flexible as I really do like to dance. But I am more Drew Scott than Baryshnikov.
I wore a BRA after years of HRT. Mostly for some support and to hide nipples. I had a BA with 555 ml implants and would not think of not wearing a bra now. My nipples need to be protected and are out most of the time now and the weight would hurt to walk now. Bra's are a necessity not. I love to take it off and lounge a bit before bed.
I was working and driving a large truck. When regular road bumps hurt it was time.
I started wearing a bra about a month into HRT. I didn't need it for support, but to protect & hide my nipples. They were always sensitive, erect & puffy, which easily showed through my shirt. I don't really mind wearing one at all, once I got used to it.
As Sarah_P says, most girls start wearing them to protect their sensitive, erect and puffy nipples from rubbing on their shirts whenever they move.
Quote from: Sarah_P on November 28, 2017, 07:56:52 AM
I started wearing a bra about a month into HRT. I didn't need it for support, but to protect & hide my nipples. They were always sensitive, erect & puffy, which easily showed through my shirt. I don't really mind wearing one at all, once I got used to it.
^^^ Same for me, about a month into taking estradiol the pain was just too much when running so I got a sports bra, then some nice camisoles to help with the pain with cotton under shirts. Now at four months I'm borderline needing one to hide the forming girls at work [emoji17] not yet ready to break out a bra full time till next year when I transition OTJ.
Quote from: jill610 on November 28, 2017, 12:12:35 PM
^^^ Same for me, about a month into taking estradiol the pain was just too much when running so I got a sports bra, then some nice camisoles to help with the pain with cotton under shirts. Now at four months I'm borderline needing one to hide the forming girls at work [emoji17] not yet ready to break out a bra full time till next year when I transition OTJ.
Oh yes, a camisole was great early on, too. Now I have to wear a sports bra (or a tight comfy bra) to help hide the girls while at work. Even then there's still some curve there.
Quote from: Sarah_P on November 28, 2017, 01:29:06 PM
Oh yes, a camisole was great early on, too. Now I have to wear a sports bra (or a tight comfy bra) to help hide the girls while at work. Even then there's still some curve there.
Ah, hiding the girls at work is also a big issue for me.
I love to wear lingerie, so I really don't mind wearing a bra, if a bra fits you right, it really comfortable. (go a professional fitting..its worth it)
I started to wear a bra on a daily basis about 3 days into HRT, I was a padded sports bra to help protect my sensitive nipples. I had nipple sensitive and growth very early into HRT. About a month in, I reached A cup and I bought my first real bra (it was a t-shirt bra) that I could actually fill with my own flesh. (It felt amazing) B cup came about 2 months later.. then I started adding more lacy and sexier bras to my collection.. I owned my first pushup bra at this stage.. Growth slowed down after B cup.
Anyways.. I am now a D cup and I need a bra to support my breasts, I love wearing sexy bras and I love to show off my cleavage.. My breasts are natural, but I have read women with my size breasts do get sagging in their 30's.. so I think in my late 30's I will get some work done to firm things up and maybe go up a bra size. I am late 20's now.
Quote from: noleen111 on November 29, 2017, 08:25:53 AM
I am now a D cup and I need a bra to support my breasts, I love wearing sexy bras and I love to show off my cleavage.. My breasts are natural, but I have read women with my size breasts do get sagging in their 30's.. so I think in my late 30's I will get some work done to firm things up and maybe go up a bra size. I am late 20's now.
Reached D cup just with hormones? :O You're lucky! I have not heard about so much growing yet.
I started wearing a bra as an experiment in under dressing, but soon found out that I needed to wear one all the time.
I soon realised that even with my original man boobs, that I enjoyed the support of the cups (no more "thumping" on the stairs).
In my bra, I feel so firm, pert, shaped and confident. I am also in control of my nipples, which could be rather immodest when braless!
Well girls I had an interesting "Bra" Development last week. I am now 44C in Bust size, but with my build I prefer being D Cup. When I first started transition 5 years ago, I went out and bought a beautiful and very authentic set of Amoena Breast Forms, to help with my overall shape:
See:
http://www.amoena.com/us-en/breast-forms/partial-breast-shapers/partial-delta/balance-essential-volume-delta-breast-form-ivory-2225/#Tab1 (http://www.amoena.com/us-en/breast-forms/partial-breast-shapers/partial-delta/balance-essential-volume-delta-breast-form-ivory-2225/#Tab1)
Anyway last week I had to come up to Melbourne from my house on the coast for a Laser treatment on my décolleté and afterwards went to my favourite shoe shop (Diana Ferrari outlet in Fairfield) as I have wanted to see if I could find some nice kitten heel court shoes. At my age I have rather outgrown my beautiful 100mm Louboutin Pigalle shoes
http://asia.christianlouboutin.com/au_en/shop/women/pigalle-1.html (http://asia.christianlouboutin.com/au_en/shop/women/pigalle-1.html)
That morning I had put on a new padded underwire 44D cup bra(middle clips) under a really nice lace sleeveless green dress (with incorporated slip), green flat shoes and green handbag with a fawn mid length short sleve cardigan.
In the shoe store I tried on a bunch of shoes of different shoe sizes (and heel sizes) - in the end I selected a dark grey pair of kitten heels in 10 C wide fitting and some very comfortable soft tennis shoes. (They are doing a second pair half price deal now). Whilst trying on a pair of heels (higher than the one I bought), I noticed my dress looked a bit awkward looking in the mirror. Anyway I adjusted things (without trying to bring attention to myself) and headed to the checkout. Anyway I went to pay, made some pleasant remarks to the sales assistant and walked out of the store, got back in my SUV and headed home. About 30 minutes later, I had to make an emergency stop because of an idiot male driver in front pulling out in front of me. With that I felt really strange as the safety belt pulled up on my right side and I realised that my right Amoena breast form was not where it was supposed to be.
Hurried phone calls to my beauty therapist confirmed that it was not there and finally one of the sales assistants at Diana Ferrari said they had noticed it on the floor near the sales checkout. At first they couldn't work out what it was but as its mainly a womens shoe store (huge) put it in a bag at the checkout assuming someone would return to collect it. Of course this required another 250 km round trip the following day as the store had already closed.
The morale of the story is I think is not to wear new underwired bras out in public with a breast form until you are absolutely certain this will not happen. In the meantime I am reverting back to my non wired cotton 44C bras which I know will not cause such accidents to happen!
Judith
Quote from: tskriszti on December 09, 2017, 06:14:45 PM
Reached D cup just with hormones? :O You're lucky! I have not heard about so much growing yet.
A D cup on hormones only is not common, but not unheard of. I do not have breast implants and I wear a 40 D. I have been on hormones almost 3 years now. I am not bragging, just that in my experience, genetics plays a very important part. Look at your female blood relatives to get some idea of how much you can expect to grow on your own.
Quote from: Dani on December 10, 2017, 08:13:45 PM
Look at your female blood relatives to get some idea of how much you can expect to grow on your own.
What I always heard was one cup less than your close female relatives was likely.
In my case that as not true... I had very little natural development and my female relatives were NOT tiny.
- karen
Quote from: Karen_A on December 10, 2017, 08:37:21 PM
What I always heard was one cup less than your close female relatives was likely.
In my case that as not true... I had very little natural development and my female relatives were NOT tiny.
- karen
The one cup less than your close female relatives is just a guide. I also broke that rule, My mother and I are both D cups, she is a 34D and I am a 36D, so technically I am bigger. But saying that.. all the women in my mothers family are big breasted, DD and up.. so then I am a cup smaller or more smaller.. Genetics are a funny thing.
I agree with what Noleen said. In my case my mother was big breasted at 42G and in later years as she aged slipped to 40DD. My 1st Cousins on my mother side are also women with big bosoms. One is 44DD and another 40DD.
When I went for my BA Consultation at the Nuffield in Bournemouth in the UK, my surgeon recommended Mentor Moderate Plus or High profile 495cc round silicone implants indicating that this would make me comfortably a 44D or 42DD cup size. He said I really shouldn't expect any more growth than I have at the moment which is a small 44C, although since being on Progesterone (Prometrium) my breasts have become more rounded at the upper pole meaning I am now getting some cleavage, something that was missing despite nearly 5 years of Oestrogen therapy.
Judith
My back hurts.
Thanks for your input on this matter Judith. 😆 💖 i have to go check out that shop in fairfield. I've got a c cup breasts and getting harder to hide them. lol 😆 haha .it usually buy my bra's from target as they are very cheap and feels so comfortable and looking very feminine. Lol.😆
Linda;
Which part of Melbourne do you live in. For Lingerie I go to some really nice women that own a shop in Croydon:
See http://www.femmeline.com.au (http://www.femmeline.com.au)
They are TG friendly.
Also if you are looking for a Beauty Therapist (Laser Hair removal and other treatments), I recommend Sara and Monica at Depskin in Templestowe: see : http://www.depskin.com (http://www.depskin.com). Talk to Sara or Monica
Again Depskin are very TG friendly
JudithLynn
I tarted eating a demibrah wen I first came out to my wife it is more of a comfort me being me thing then a real need to thing being I'm pre HRT, I also ware a padded push-up bra wen I go out as myself now to give me some boobs
I started wearing a sports bra about two months after starting HRT. In the afternoons I walk up the street to greet my youngest kid when he gets off the bus. Sometimes he likes to race to the house. After feeling the pain of the movement up and down I decided a bra might come in handy.
I wore sports bras to hide my boobs until I went fulltime and then starting wearing regular bras at a 34A. I do not like push-ups and have never worn them. Now, after some weight gain, adding progesterone, and time (mostly time) I'm a 34D. I have wear a bra or else I jiggle and not in a comfortable way. I also noticed that my boobs look better supported now that they grown.
Pisces228, with 34D's you can't do much moving around without feeling the weight and bounce of your twins.
Quote from: mm on January 10, 2018, 11:50:08 AM
Pisces228, with 34D's you can't do much moving around without feeling the weight and bounce of your twins.
They really don't look that big with the shape of my ribcage and my height! But then you feel them or they bounce around and it's like wow that's a good amount of boobage that requires a brassiere lol
I think about 3 months in i noticed some pain when i was running to a sandwich that was left in the press too long, which was suprising considering i wasnt packing much under the shirt. Plus my nipples were really making themselves known and it was getting a bit awkward. [emoji38]
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Quote from: Devlyn Marie on November 27, 2017, 10:42:32 AM
The stairs at work told me when it was time. Gotta love the jiggles. ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
Lol, yep the jiggles [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]... Pretty much sums up the deciding factor.
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