I usually bind with tight fitting bras and a medical bra, doesn't do a very good with binding but makes my chest appear smaller than what it really is. Last night I gave my new ace bandage a shot, it does make my chest very tight but after so long it slips and well the girls pop out grrr not to mention my shirt likes to bunch up under the bandage. So I was wondering could it be possible to try to wear a bra over the bandage to help prevent these things from happening?
My mom, when showing me how to bind with an ace wrap, would start from just a little bit beneath the things and then move upwards, overlapping the bandage a little bit and then she would secure it just above them. The wrap never slipped with how she did it, but she might have done some trick I wasn't aware of.
Wear a tank top or some type of undershirt under the ace. I don't think it ever slipped when I did that. But my tank tops ended up having a lot of holes in the from the safety pin....
Hmm those are pretty good suggestions, I'll give it a try :) I hope it helps cause of chest size.
a sports bra under could help. I would reccomend something a little different though. I when I used to bind with an ace, I would use a pair of cut down controll top pantyhose over it. Cut the legs to make arm holes and a hole in the crotch for your head. It worked really well for me to keep the bandage in place and also smoothed everything out. If you get a kind of shiny pair it will be smoother under your shirt and should keep things from bunching up. A compression tank top like http://www.underarmour.com/shop/us/en/search/results/pcid1201484-Men-s-UA-Performance-Tank/1201484-600 (http://www.underarmour.com/shop/us/en/search/results/pcid1201484-Men-s-UA-Performance-Tank/1201484-600) could work also.
Thanks :)
I don't really have an answer for your question, but I have advice =] If you put two big safety pins on the corners at the end of the bandages, then pin the bandages to themselves. If you do that, you don't even have to wear a shirt under them, and they always stay up. When I first tried ace bandages, they fell down even after 30 minutes, but after I started using safety pins I was able to wear them for 8 hours without them falling down.
I used to wear ace bandages too. I used about 12 safety pins, to pin it together and to my shirt (I wore the shirt underneath). then I wore another two shirts over that to hide the little bumps the pins make. I also used two ace bandages at one stage, I wraped the first clockwise around my body and the second anti clockwise. Make sure you don't bind to tight with these as they tend to tighten while you wear them.
I appreciate all of your advice guys :) I really do, I will try them all out and see which may work best for me. And looks like I have an excuse to go to the craft section at wal mart to get safty pins, because I think we don't have any here heh.