How often do you girls have to replace your bra?

[Anonymous]

[tiffany_g]

I have hand-me-down bras from my aunt that are older than my boobs. Some of them are even older than the rest of me. They're a bit outdated, even by the standards of a rapidly declining style (I'm a soft cup gal unless I'm wearing certain dresses but I have to dig through numerous padded bras in stores to find one), but they're all still in my rotation.

My aunt wore them for years, decided to stop messing with bras, realized that I was the same odd size as she was (large band, small cup), and gave me the ones that were still fit to wear. I have at least one that's almost certainly from the 1960s, 1970 at the most recent. It's an Iris Lingerie bra, and that company shut down in 1970, eleven years before I was born.

I buy bras on a regular basis, always on the hunt for a better fit (the sheer number of styles would make your head spin. I've come across 15 different varieties of soft cup bras alone), but the only ones I've actually had to replace were lost to various accidents. They either had substances spilled on them I didn't want to mess with (adventures in babysitting, am I right?) or got cut up on barbed wire fences or had to be cut off of me after a car wreck.

But barring those extraordinary circumstances I've never had a bra just wear out. My first bra, at the right point in my weight fluctuation, still fits and still looks as good as it did after its first trip through the laundry. The bra I wore yesterday is the same age or possibly older than my aunt's daughter who graduated high school the year I started kindergarten in the mid 80s (my cousin was born in 1969 and, as said earlier, it's a brand that ended in 1970). Still looks great if you're into the vintage styles, which I am. The bra I'm wearing now for all I know could be the very bra that my aunt was wearing when my mother called her to announce my birth.

They all fit, they've probably stretched to the point where they'd be loose on my aunt now but fit me like they were made for me, and the white ones are more of an off white now (skin oils will do that to a white bra), but they still see regular wear with no signs of wearing out and their ages run from 22 years old (the time when my aunt stopped wearing bras) to a minimum of 50 years old, and I wouldn't be surprised if the bra my aunt was wearing when she heard about JFK is in my rotation.

So I add bras frequently, don't wear the newer ones that often because they don't fit the same as the old ones, but I don't replace them under normal circumstances.

[Ioana21071997]

Like in buying a new one? It depends... If it was a cheap one 3-4months. The expensive ones last longer (1-2 years). If you are reffering to take off and wash it I would say every week