An advice columnist (Prudie) recalls some of her worst and best advice of the year in the following link:
http://www.slate.com/id/2240073/?GT1=38001One of the worst was in regard to a man who wrote in about how infrequently his girlfriend washes her bras. Now I wonder if I'm normal - how many days do you wear a bra before washing (I figure that since this is completely anonymous, hopefully I'll get some honest answers).
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Unless you are nursing or sweating a lot, you aren't really excreting anything. Its mainly for support. Guys sweat in undershirts and we all know what happens to undies, so those should be washed frequently, but I don't see any reason to wash bras frequently.
EDIT: Daily washing of bras would be like washing your gloves every time you wear them.
I used to wash them after every wear or so, and then I had a few months where one would fall apart in the wash every.single.time. That got expensive even with cheap Target bras, so that ended frequent bra washing for me.
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Right now I own about 5 good bras - 2 white, 1 nude color, 2 black. I alternate when I wear them, depending on what I wear over them, so I might wear the same one twice, but 3 days apart, then wash it. I checked 2-3 times. I also line dry them, but I do wash them in the regular washing cycle.
I remember reading that Prudie letter/response and thinking it was weird. I mean, bras are durable, but they are next to your skin and do accumulate sweat and skin cells after a while.
Sometimes I'll go to grab a bra and think, "You know what? I wore this for 20 hours yesterday and it was hot out. I think I'll go with a fresh one."
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[QUOTE]I dunno about you but if I get hot i get under boob sweat so I dont think the glove thing is the same. Your back also has the ability to sweat more than your hands if you get hot or exert yourself.
Posted by Nebb[/QUOTE]
If I happen to sweat a lot that day, then I'll definitely wash the bra before wearing it again but that doesn't happen very often for me at all.
My every day bras I probably wash every three wearings or so. I don't wear bras back to back though. I have five or six that I switch around. Do people wear the same bra for five days straight? Because aside from the ick factor, wouldn't they stretch out doing that?
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[QUOTE]Do people wear the same bra for five days straight? Because aside from the ick factor, wouldn't they stretch out doing that?
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Personally, I don't usually because I at least want to air them out a little, even if they are bad enough to wash.
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My regular bras I wear a few times (I picked 4-7) before I wash them unless I feel they are dirty or starting to smell. I just don't want them to fall apart, if they didn't fall apart I'd wash them more often.
honestly? i can go weeks without washing my every day bras. i was my sports bras after every use.
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Oh wait.
I disagree with whoever said that they don't sweat - you totally do, I'm just lazy and don't wash them as much.
And yes, sports bras always get thrown into the laundry after I use them.
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Poll: Bra Washing : Personally, I don't usually because I at least want to air them out a little, even if they are bad enough to wash.
Posted by msmerymac[/QUOTE]
You are actually supposed to give your bra 24-48 hours to "breathe" and reshape itself.
I wash them when they are dirty, same with my jeans, jackets, and dress pants... I spend way too much money on these things to let them get ruined by too much washing
this thread reminds me of when calypso wanted to buy a bra, leave the tags on, where it to her wedding, and then return it. haha.
sorry, calypso, to bring that back up.
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[QUOTE]I wish verona was here to tell us that we're all dirty and gross for not washing them every single time. Oh wait. I disagree with whoever said that they don't sweat - you totally do, I'm just lazy and don't wash them as much. And yes, sports bras always get thrown into the laundry after I use them.
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Sorry, verona's over on the fashion and beauty board on the nest.
Bras are washed after 2 wearings unless I melted in the heat wearing one.
When I wore sports bras, they went in the wash right after one wear
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I have about 4 or 5 bras on high rotation (haha). Usually I'll wear them once or twice before throwing them in the wash. At a push, I'd wear them three times, but that's where I draw the line. I figure it's just like any other item of clothing- and perhaps worse because of the sweat factor- and I wouldn't wear them any longer than that without washing. I can't imagine going two weeks, although in travelling overseas with limited access to washing machines I think the longest I've worn the same bra for without washing was a week, and I found that pretty gross.