Hook in the back girl here. I can’t imagine it being comfortable to twist it around under the girls but that method seems really popular as well. My daughter, who has just started wearing a bra, does the clip in back thing too. I guess she got it from me but I was surprised she didn’t put it over her head like I remember doing at first.
My mom demonstrated the hook in front method to me when I was a 30AAA 12 year old, and I assumed that she had to do it that way because she was a 36 DD. I have always hooked it in back. However, my 34B 2-hook bras have been a bit more difficult to hook in back because my shoulder has been acting up. Oh, and my sports bras have been painful to pull on and off lately. I recently tried on a tight workout tank top (Reebok Easy Tone) at a sports clothing store and almost couldn’t get it off! Just about had a panic attack - picturing some store worker having to cut it off of me!
My daughter taught me a neat trick on how to get a bra off without taking off your top. (she found it hard to believe that I never knew this until she showed me!) You unhook the back and slip the strap down one arm at a time, then pull it off through the front top of your shirt. Now, I just tried this with long sleeves, and it was pretty difficult. Short sleeves - no problem!
I hate bras and never wear them at home unless I have company or yard work to do.
I just asked my daughter, who has only worn a bra for a year. Her reply: “I started off just hooking it and then putting it on like an undershirt, but now I do it the right way. I hook it in the back.” She’ll be 11 next month.
And jem, I thought everyone past puberty knew the “take off your bra without removing your shirt” trick!
I’m a hook it up in the back girl. Multiple hooks have never been a probem, they seem to line up somehow. It never even occured to me to do it up in front and then turn it around until a bunch of us started talking about it in the office one day. I think the split was about even.
If I could find front closure bras, I would buy them.
Does it count in the poll that I only wear sports bras and other stretchy bras? (And a few hooked ones where I sewed the flap over the hooks).
Uhm, I would’a needed multiple choice… or does the poll refer exclusively to bras hooked at the back?
Those, I reach back. The fancy one which looks like you don’t have a bra on needs some strange doings, I may need to ask for a helper. And sports bras don’t get tied, so they go on like the tightest T-shirt ever.
My sister in law has some which get hooked up front, but I don’t.
Long ago I learned the term for clip-then-turn-around was “the middle-school way” so I always feel vaguely ashamed when I have to resort to that method.
I never even know of the bending-over/gravity thing until I saw the scene where Nicole Kidman is getting dressed in “Eyes Wide Shut.” See - it was an edumacational movie! 
I thought this was what everyone did as soon as they got home…
Ah, the ol’ Flashdance move. I used to have a female (platonic) roommate who did this every day when she got home, much to the amazement of the guys in the room. It’s like that magician’s trick where he cuts a piece of rope into three pieces, palms them, and then miraculously they reattach themselves and he ends up with one long piece.
Voila!
Too funny - thanks!
I’ve always been a clip and turn, I’m surprised that “hook it in the back” seems to currently be the most popular (by a slight margin).
And I’m slightly surprised that clip and turn is almost as common as clip in the back!
I always clip and turn. The couple of times I’ve tried to clip a bra in the back I couldn’t manage. I have very flexible shoulders, so that wasn’t the issue, but I just couldn’t get everything to line up.
I’m another hook-it-in-the-back woman. A year ago, I broke my wrist, and I couldn’t reach behind me. For the 6 weeks I was in a cast, plus another couple of months after that, I couldn’t twist my wrist enough to hook in back. My most frequent worry during that time was that I would permanently lose the mobility to reach behind my back and hook a bra.
My 66 year old mother does it this way, and has ever since she needed a bra. In case it isn’t obvious, she’s no longer in middle school.
Why do threads like this always end up with one group slagging of the choice of some other group? For God’s sake, it’s putting on a damn bra. Just the fact of needing it suggests one is no longer in middle school.
She wasn’t slagging, she was just explaining her own associations.
Jeez. Wild guess here… nobody on this thread is in middle school, and yet nearly half do the clip and turn thing (that’s a whole extra step, is what gets me). So it’s not like we think you all are immature. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that nobody really thinks ANYTHING of you based on how you put on a bra, except… that that is how you put on a bra.
I’m with your daughter. I thought everyone who had ever worn a bra for longer than a week or so knew how to do that!
Imagine how surprised those of us who never heard of anyone doing it are! 
I’ve long been a clip and turn girl, but after reading this thread i decided to give the other half a try.
Bending did help some to keep it lined up but it just took entirely too long to clip. Not to mention how hard it was to get it to clip and how difficult it was to get all the clips to line up in the correct way. I had to redo it at least once. It just isn’t worth it when my method is so much easier and faster.
42DDD if it matters.
As a bonus, my method can be done easily under clothes when in a huge room full of people and changing without flashing anyone, as I’ve had to many times in the past.
Holy cow, I wasn’t slagging on anyone! I apologize if I offended anyone, your mother especially. What I meant was, young girls just learning how to deal with a row of hook-and-eye fasteners usually find it easier to start out by clipping it in front where you can see it and then turning it around. As they get older and get more used to them, many “graduate” up to reaching behind and hooking it by feel.
Anyway, it wasn’t my term - I didn’t make it up. Just passing along something I’d heard once, that’s all.