# If you wear a bra, how do you put it on? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 19, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474 "2011-11-19T18:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/21 "2011-11-20T01:52:37Z")
What the? I didn’t even know there was a way to put your bra on apart from the clip it in back method. For me, this is an internet revelation comparable to when I learned pineapples do not grow on trees. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/22 "2011-11-20T02:04:10Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Sweet Lordy, I usually like to breathe while I’m wearing a bra. Isn’t that why most bras have lycra in the band? If I were to clip it that tight, it’d bite into my skin, leaving an angry red ditch, and that wouldn’t feel right at all. What century is that sadistic bra fitter from, anyway? > > I voted clip and turn. At my age, the girls won’t stay holstered until the bra is secure, if you know what I mean. I do clip and turn as well and had the same reaction – I don’t think I’ve ever owned a bra that was so tight I couldn’t move it around. That doesn’t sound like good advice… ---
**Author:** ![JoThrive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@JoThrive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoThrive)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/23 "2011-11-20T02:06:50Z")
I clip and turn. I doubt if I am flexible enough to manage the procedure any other way. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/24 "2011-11-20T02:08:03Z")
Clip and turn. No way could I fasten 4 hooks without being able to look at them. ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/25 "2011-11-20T03:24:39Z")
Clip and turn - I’ve tried reaching around but I always end up only getting one hook in. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/26 "2011-11-20T03:32:06Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I picked “throw the whole thing over my head” because I use [these](http://www.amazon.com/Braza-Happy-Strap-3-XL/dp/B00008677F/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321742439&sr=8-1) (one of the best things I’ve ever bought. seriously) and you have to when you do. Well, some women don’t understand and complain that they’re impossible to fasten, but the vast majority figure it out. Um…I think I should have voted differently now. While I do put it over my head, it’s not actually fastened at the time, I do reach behind me for that still. I had no idea some women turned bras around after fastening them. That sounds…chaffing. I’m tempted to try it because that doesn’t even seen possible without it being so loose it’d be useless or so painful that it’d be unbearable. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/27 "2011-11-20T03:40:30Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > I put my arms in, bend over a bit to let gravity help me situate my boobs in the cups, and then hook in the back. This is how I do it, too. I usually end by sticking a hand down each cup and lifting my boobs up to situate them further in the bra. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/28 "2011-11-20T03:42:43Z")
Clip everything then throw it over my head. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/29 "2011-11-20T03:49:35Z")
Currently, I do the clip and turn. Normally, without the rotater cuff issue, I would fasten in the back. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/30 "2011-11-20T03:52:48Z")
I am a reach-around the back person. Oddly this shocked my first (university aged) boyfriend, who assumed everyone did them up at the front and then twisted it around. He knew about that trick because that’s how his mother did it. Yes, then and now, some twenty plus years later I find that a disturbing level of knowledge for an 18 year old to have about his mother. But that is a different post for a different thread. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/31 "2011-11-20T04:15:49Z")
> [@hermette](#): > > I’ve been told by a bra fitter that if it’s loose enough to hook at the front, then slide round to the back, then it’s too loose. I dutifully dislocate my arms and hook it at the back on the tightest hook I can reach… > > So. Why don’t more bra’s have a front fastener? 😛 I had a wonderbra as a teen that clicked between the boobs - it was perfectly comfy and ruined at least one teenage boy’s plans for the evening! Uh–I hook it in the front at my waist level, then slide it around to the back, then pull it up. It’s loose enough to hook at waist level. Actually if I’m wearing a two-hook bra I can hook it in the back, but my favorite minimizers have six (count 'em) hooks, and that’s a bit much getting them all in the right places in the back. I always reach back to unhook them, though. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/32 "2011-11-20T04:18:43Z")
> [@Pyper](#): > > What the? I didn’t even know there was a way to put your bra on apart from the clip it in back method. For me, this is an internet revelation comparable to when I learned pineapples do not grow on trees. I had the same reaction (except that I’m a pretty serious gardener so I had already found out that pineapples are bromeliads\*). It never crossed my mind to try to fasten a bra any other way. Although I can see how it could be difficult for someone with a torn rotator cuff or arthritis to reach behind to fasten it, if I were in that situation, I’d just switch to front-fastening bras. \*Pineapple sidenote: You can grow a pineapple plant from the top of a store bought pineapple, as a novelty houseplant: > **[403 Forbidden](https://www.bsi.org/cgi-sys/tempdisabled.cgi)** ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/33 "2011-11-20T04:19:39Z")
I’m a DDer myself who has to wear her bra uncomfortably tight so everything stays in place, yet I do the clip and turn thing. I agree that there’s no way I could hook all those latches without being able to see them first. No chafing so far. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/34 "2011-11-20T04:34:24Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I’m a DDer myself who has to wear her bra uncomfortably tight so everything stays in place, yet I do the clip and turn thing. I agree that there’s no way I could hook all those latches without being able to see them first. No chafing so far. This, only I’m a G. My waist is a lot smaller than my boobs/ribcage so turning has never been an issue. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/35 "2011-11-20T05:04:28Z")
> [@Scathach](#): > > Clip and turn - I’ve tried reaching around but I always end up only getting one hook in. I do clip-and-turn too, because it’s too damn hard to reach back and get those hooks lined up. I don’t feel like I’m stretching it out by doing that. D, if size matters. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/36 "2011-11-20T06:35:29Z")
Clip and turn here, and yes, the bra fits, and no, it doesn’t chafe horribly if you drop it down a couple inches. I’ve tried doing the hook-behind-the-back thing, and I usually end up hooking one hook, and then while trying to hook the other, I pull the first loose, and then I manage to hook the second hook in the first loop, and that’s about where I give up and hook it together in front. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/37 "2011-11-20T06:37:00Z")
I put it on like a shirt because I am incompetent. Clip & turn never occurred to me before. Maybe I will try that. I can unhook it without looking, but hooking it is an entirely different matter. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/38 "2011-11-20T07:10:09Z")
I’m a fat girl with little t-rex arms but I can still reach back and clip my bra. Perhaps because I’ve always done it this way is why I still can do it this way. My twice-a-day shoulder stretches. I don’t remember what I did when I injured my shoulder. I know I told my therapist that I most noticed my injury when putting on a bra. I think I may have just winced through the pain but it was just “an injury” not something serious like “rotator cuff issues” like **missred**. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/39 "2011-11-20T07:16:35Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > This is how I do it, too. I usually end by sticking a hand down each cup and lifting my boobs up to situate them further in the bra. My husband thought that the bending over bit was kind of odd the first time he saw me getting dressed. I just think it’s sensible to let gravity do a bit of the work. But now I can tell him it’s not just me, that some of my imaginary friends who live in the computer do the same! ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474/40 "2011-11-20T18:00:36Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > I always put mine on upside down, reach back, button it and the flip it right side up, putting my arms through then. I can’t imagine doing it in the front. It’s not THAT hard to do back there XD My boobs always fall into my face when I try to put on my bra upside down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wear-a-bra-how-do-you-put-it-on/603474.md?page=3)