Hey, the business world still judges guys by quantity and location of body hair.
I occasionally notice this. I don’t really care, but it does give a bit of an impression of “I don’t care how I look and can’t be bothered with basic grooming”.
Breasts that are extremely large sag, and flop all around and that just isn’t an attractive sight.
But like most others here, my thought is much more "Ugh, how can she stand that? than “how tacky” or some such. I have to admit, I also feel the teensiest bit of envy. Someone who doesn’t care what others think to THAT extreme, that’s brave.
I’m really glad I’m a guy and don’t have to deal with what to do/not to do with my breasts.
It’s already been decided that women can’t possibly appear in public with exposed breasts without causing civilization to collapse. But I think deciding that specific underwear is also required is taking things a bit far.
Put briefly, I don’t give a crap.
I am rather largely-breasted. I’m also in the process of working on a full back-piece tattoo and can’t wear a bra until it’s completely done healing. I’ve been wearing those tank-top undershirts so at least I’m all nipply, but damned if I can understand how anyone over an a-cup can do this on a regular basis and be comfy. I feel like I’m bouncing and jiggling all day long.
Gah! At least I’m NOT all nipply.
Small & perky here.
I only wear a bra to work or social functions. In my opinion they are the work of the devil and if my nipples wern’t abnormally oversized (for such small boobs) I wouldn’t ever bother with one. They’re constricting, and in warm weather the get damp and clingy, which then leads to itcy-ness. I have a 45 minute commute and as soon as I get in my car to come home at night the bra comes off. 
I’m amazed at the women who are saying they are physically uncomfortable without a bra. I guess I just have no idea what big boobs must feel like.
As for what I think of seeing braless women in public, to be honest I must not pay attention because I can’t recall ever noticing one, though I’m sure they’ve been around. But of course I wouldn’t think less of them, as I am the president of the anti-bra club. 
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I’d probably, no, I’d assuredly notice.
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If they were your average breastages, I’d probably think, “To each, his or her own.” If they looked like two watermelons in a downhill race, I’d be amused.
Most women I notice are walking around sans brassière, look good without the bra. I suppose I either don’t notice or suppress the image of those that don’t.
Whether or not it looks “trashy” as opposed to sexy or cute depends on the neckline, length or tightness of skirt/pants/shorts, height of heels, state of disarray of the hair, if her legs are crossed or the amount of booze left in the bottle in her hand. :eek:
…And after reading through this topic, I now have that song Mambo No. 5 playing in my head.
I think you erroneously assume that I am suggesting that women with nice breats never wear a bra. I am not and have not. I am simply saying that I don’t think it a problem (from a purely aestetic standpoint) if they on occassion go bra-less and I certainly don’t think it makes them a slut.
Who said anything about women’s lib? I am glad you like bras. Wear 'em till they stick to your skin for all I care. I have never said that women with nice breasts shouldn’t or don’t wear bras. I said that they don’t “always” have to.
I does have SOMETHING to do with whether a woman has nice breasts. IF she doesn’t, she probably shouldn’t go bra less. If she does, she can ON OCCASSION, without incident, in my opinion, but, let me be clear, she DOESN"T have to. No one is looking to take away your bras. Relax.
**Impressions of people who go braless **
I’m sorry, I don’t do impressions.
I’m surprised to see there are more women responding with their opinions than men.
I might notice, I might not. There are certainly times when I notice bra lines, especially when a woman’s got on something that hugs too tightly around her sides and has on something tight over it, but I don’t often pay attention enough to notice their absence.
Either way, even if I notice, I’m more than willing to chalk it up to my own ignorance of women’s clothing — this is an underwired top with padding, this is a strapless whatsitz, this woman has on a tank top that doesn’t need a bra with it, that woman has some kind of bandeau or whatever. I’m the last person to stand up and point at the fashion offender and say “J’accuse! You have forgotten your essential foundation garment!”
If the woman is otherwise decently presentable, I figure she looks the way she wanted to look when she left the house that morning, so who am I to judge what she’s got on?
I always wear a bra to work, but I’ll go braless in a halter top on the weekends. Guess that makes me a tacky, low-class slut.
Yeah, I’d notice if a woman wasn’t wearing a bra. I doubt that I’d care very much. However, if she were falling out of her top or her clothes were see-through, I’d probably wonder if she had a mirror at home.
BTW: For the sake of this discussion, does wearing a top with a built-in bra count as going braless?
Pretty much. Her choice, but I always think-wouldn’t that be uncomfortable?
I don’t wear bras to bed-that’s about it. Otherwise, the bounce factor is rather uncomfortable. I like having that support. And properly fitted bras should NOT be uncomfortable, as already stated.
Um, if us bra-haters are willing to believe the rest of you when you say you’re uncomfortable without a bra, can y’all take our word for it that we’re equally uncomfortable with one? I don’t think it necessarily has anything to do with fit, some of us just do not like having any sort of garment there, particularly when it’s ninety degrees outside. It’s sweaty and itchy.
“Sacre beub!”
Amen to that.
Also, I’m surprised by how many think that the natural appearance of a part of a woman’s body is trashy, tacky, slutty, low-class, unappealing, or in some other way, inappropriate. Breasts and even nipples exist; they exist in many shapes and sizes. They feed babies, and they’re sexual playthings, too. They’re there for more than one reason.
I see no reason to harness a perfectly normal body part, merely for the sake of fashion or some concept of beauty. Sagging and stretch marks be damned; that’s gravity’s fault. (Or pregnancy, or weight gain, or weight loss, or aging…)
I think braless women look more natural, and more comfortable.
Some bras are very uncomfortable and itchy. I don’t buy those. If your boobs are going to sweat anyway (which they are if they are of any size; it was 100 degrees here today), and they are going to lay flat against your torso, wouldn’t it be moer comfortable to have something there to absorb the sweat rather than having it pool under there? That’s the same reason why I wear shorts in this weather and not skirts-- that way, my thighs don’t stick together and sweat more.
Really, there are so many different kinds of bras out there. They don’t have to hurt or itch. If you don’t want to wear one, that’s cool, but saying it’s because there are zero bras in the world that could be comfortable is like saying there are zero shirts in the world that are comfortable. It’s a little hard to believe.
I have a stupid number of bras for someone who is so anti-bra. It’s because I keep searching for a comfortable one for those occasions when I have to wear one. I don’t even know how many kinds of bra I have but out of the whole box there is exactly one that I would consider really comfortable. I bought it probably 10 years ago. I can’t find another like it anywhere. It’s now so worn that the fabric is transparent and tearing at the seams. I keep it in hopes of eventually having enough money to pay someone to replicate it. So I feel fully justified in claiming that I find bras as a general class of garment uncomfortable. Several people in this thread have asserted that if you just find a bra that fits it will be comfortable. I can assure you that this is not true for everyone.
I think that bras ARE, generally, an uncomfortable article of clothing. I’m not even disagreeing with that. But I have made it a point of finding ones that aren’t awful and they actually make my life better. They do exist and the cost big $$$, unfortunately. Also, I’d even rather wear a slightly uncomfortable bra than sweat like a pig without one, so to each her own, I guess.
Exactly! Not to mention, bras keep them from laying against the skin, that can cause some painful rashes when it’s hot. I think those who think it’s more comfortable without must mostly be of the small and perky variety. I could not STAND to have them swinging all about, and jiggling and all in the way.