Ah, okay. I should have figured this out, having been a victim of this too, except I just threw the stained ones out and bought new ones.
Steve Martin, in wonderment, upon seeing his first Vegas stage show: “There must be… 79 tits up there!”
If I get blood on mine, it usually just washes out with some All. Or I try to wear my older, or already stained underoos…or towards the end, the black undies, where blood stains will never show! Heh. Come on, we all have period undies, right?
And they’re pretty soggy when you do.
Regards,
Shodan
I would have been throwing out several pairs a day, on some days. That horrifies my thrifty soul.
Bras come in different colors because the bra purchasers on this planet can be assume to not be Vulcans, and thus have aesthetic, as well as practical, preferences.
As far as the visibility issue, I’m very pale and look good in “cool” colors, and find most beige is so far from my skin tone AND being complimentary to it that, were a hint of beige bra strap to show, it would be both conspicuous and ugly. Pale pink calls less attention to itself on me, but doesn’t recover as well if it picks up dye from my clothing. (Amazing what colors will shed dye!)
I’m personally fairly obsessive about matching my bras and panties, though I’ve gotten to the point where I’m ok if they at least compliment each other. I dress for me, and that includes the things only I see.
Unless you work in the Playboy Mansion.
Lynn, to clarify (and not sound like I’m paralleling Crayola’s ill-named “Flesh” color), I meant “nude” as in the “the color of your skin when nude.” For some, it’s peachy; others, coffee; others still, chocolate, and so on. Huh. Skin color is named after food. Mmm…tasty.
And yeah, nude is the best color really under any garment. Sometimes I get bored, though, and enjoy the black shirt/black bra pairing, and so on. And my nude color panties are also my favs…though the ones with cutesy little patterns are fun, too. Just…not under a white skirt.
Which then brings the question–why was white the traditional bra color? Seems so darn conspicuous. Add all the lacey crap, and they’re even more conspicuous.
Reminds me, I need to go buy maternity/nursing bras. I’m outgrowing my old ones darn quickly, and I crave the comfort of them. Hubby craves the easy-access of them.
I wonder, too. White does look a little prettier than nude/beige which tends to be a bit dull. Maybe that’s why?
ETA: Dull when you’re just wearing the bra. Obviously, it’s not all that exciting under your clothes.
Maybe, and it’s easier to bleach out stains.
Plus, when people first really started wearing bras as an everyday thing, they would’ve been totally covered by clothes, not peeking out of tank tops or sheer shirts, so the color wouldn’t really matter.
A girl who buys white bras so she can bleach out the stains is my kind of girl.
Not to lech overmuch, but seeing a bra outline under a shirt is quite pleasant in my experience.
Not any more!
PS Hydrogen peroxide wasn’t too bad for stain removal.
I don’t know. I got a strapless bra and, for me, the only possible strapless was white. Actually I think they had it in black, too, but I was wearing a blue-green dress. Along with the bra were directions on how to use tea to dye it to various skin tones.
I made up my own. I used two teabags of Red Zinger and one of regular Liptons, made a very strong brew, and voila–fleshtone! But when I wore it, I could still smell the Red Zinger.
Sex on the breakfast table!
See, Doctor Jackson? Aren’t you glad you came back?
The modern bra is just an adaptation of a much older idea. Corsets and bodices have been around for thousands of years. Scroll down to Minoan Fashion to see an example from about 3600 years ago. Halter tops of some kind have probably been around about as long. The only thing that sets the bra apart is the use of materials like elastic that enable them to be made smaller and more form fitting while still providing support.
OK, I get you. I used to sell pantyhose, among other things, and one of my jobs was to match swatches of nylon with a customer’s skin tone. One of the colors was nude, which was a very pale peach, then there was tan, which was darker than I’d ever been, and of course we had taupe and coffee. Then we had the black, white, navy, mauve, and other fashion colors. To this day, when I see the word nude used as an indication of color, I still flash back to that swatch of nylon.
Bras and undies were made of white cotton because it was available, and because it’s bleachable. I remember my old neighbor (she was older than my grandparents) telling me about making clothes out of flour sacks, and especially making what she called “knickers” out of those sacks. She said it was pretty common, and the flour companies made sure to have pretty prints on the sacks, so that women would choose their brand over another’s.
I find that it’s very convenient to throw in all of the towels and washcloths in the same load of laundry, and it’s easier to do that if they’re all white. I suspect that this is one reason why bras and panties used to be almost exclusively white.
Hmm, I could’ve sworn some lady named “Victoria” Was responsible for the fashionable bras, and the gaudy pinkness that makes my eyes hurt lol…unless it’s a made up name.
You’re not allowed to mention that in a public forum. It’s a Secret.