This thread is worthless without video.
As a certified boobieologist, I can give objective feedback on your methods, but I need some sort of visual stimulat… uh… that is, um…
nevermind.
Yeah, sometimes when I’m putting on or taking off a snug jog bra, the stupid thing gets all twisted up and rolled on itself and it’s a pain to untwist. Seems like the over the head method woudl do the same.
It does seem like hooking in the back would be a good way to increase/maintain shoulder flexibility. If I ever start wearing real bras again, I may have to teach myself.
Hook in back. Always. Unless it’s a front-latch style, but I don’t like those much. I only use those on racer-back styles.
I’m a hook in front and swing it around kinda girl. I could never get the right hooks on the right loops. I’m a DD.
Hook it up, swing it around, arms in the straps and lean over and put the girls where they belong. Easy-peasy.
To take it off, I can unhook it from the back. (I’m much faster at taking it off! :D)
Wow. As others have said, I had no idea I was in the minority as a back-hooker. (Hmm… “back-hooker” sounds a little dirty. :p) It just seems so logical to do it that way. I’m going to have to try the swing-around method later, but most of my bras are pretty tight - the elastic part at the bottom anyway - and it seems like sliding elastic across skin would be very difficult.
My family is so weird. See, I hooked in the front and swung it around. No one ever taught me how to wear a bra (my mom has never actually been happy to be a mom; long story). So I did what was easiest for me and my big ol’ boobies. That is until I was in college. I was home and changed clothes in front of my mom and my older, married sister for the first time. And they both thought I was insane for the hook-twist method, saying that it damaged the bra. So I changed to wrestle-hook. (Why I listened to an A-cup and a B-cup tell me what was best for me, I’ll never know.)
Many moons passed. I married DeHusband and shortly thereafter was in an accident and couldn’t use one of my hands for a while. So DeHusband kindly helped me fasten my bra while I was healing. Now, 11 years later, he still considers it his job and gets a little miffed if I get dressed without him. 
I hurt my right arm at the batting cages (pulled muscle) and couldn’t hook my bra for most of this week. Ardred did his future husbandly duty and hooked it for me. I never once thought of hooking and swinging. The sweater method would never work for me as the band is much smaller than the full size of the cup, and wires aren’t exactly stretchy.
I don’t think there is really a minority, so far it seems half and half, with perhaps the back hookers being more than the front and twist.
I’m a hook in the front and twist round woman, and my breasts are not small, by any stretch of the imagination. My mum does hers the same way too, so I may have been ‘taught’ at some point that that was the easiest way to do it. Plus, the hooks are in front of me, I can see what I’m doing.
Interestingly, the SO can never undo my bra if he’s facing my back. He has to reach round, else he gets confused.
I do arms in the straps then back-hook. My mom does hook and twist so it’s not genetic.
Sure there is a minority: us sweater-methods. There are what, two, three of us in this thread?
We are barely heard, because we are so few. 
My husband wants me to time it again, though. He’s my biggest supporter.
Ar ar! [/mork]
Hook and twist. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the hook in back method practiced in the real world (my mom is also hook and twist). I am in awe of anyone who can reach behind their backs and fit the tiny hooks into the correct eyes without seeing what they are doing.
I don’t experience any discomfort with hook and twist, I tend to start lower on the rib cage than the bra is worn so at that point it’s roomy around the chest. I also twist at that level, so the boobs are not harmed! Hook, twist, slide on arm straps, pull up, adjust. I never lean forward either as many of my hook and twist sisters advocate in this thread.
I have never actually tried hook in the back, I’m going to try tomorrow just for a giggle. Since I can’t even scratch the middle of my back, I’m pretty sure it will be an enterprise doomed to failure.
It’s hook and twist only for me, baby. I’m surprised at the number of back-hookers here, too. My mom’s gone now so I can’t ask her but I think I remember her being a back-hooker. She has a radical mastectomy when she was in her 30’s of both breasts so there was no “settling” required. She wore a bra with silicone inserts. I don’t remember anyone ever telling me how to put on a bra, though.
Anastaseon… I apologize…
I forgot about yours!
MrsBrossa not only hooks in front and twists, but she does some topological trick whereby the bra is hooked upside down and inside out, so the underwires are open side down in the back and the hooks are at the level of her upper abdomen. She then spins the bra around and flips the whole bra up, sort of rolling it into place while she gets her arms through the sides. It’s really quite a fluid movement, and there’s a point at which the underwires lift up… and out… and then snapintoplaceallofasudden. A glory to behold.
Sorry, a guy here, but I need to know!
I can see that in semi-public, put does it matter if you’re with someone in private?
Almost all of the women who I’ve been with do the reach around, and I haven’t ever seen a sweater method. Only last year, I saw the hook and twist for the first time. It was a “hey, that’s cool!” moment.
Right - specifically, the cups should be pointing into the body, straps hanging down. Clip together, spin it around, pull up on the straps, and slip into the bra.
Well, the upsidedown and backwards lets you align the hook padding and the tag in the correct opposite directions. I was raised with the hook and slide and then taught myself the back hook. I can do both, but usually hook and slide (upsidedown and around the belly, below the ribcage) to get it on and mostly the back unhook to get it off. The bra never stays on as long as the shirt and it is easier to get off when unhooked.
The big question is: If you look at yourself (or your female-type significant other) from the top, with the nose as midnight, does the twist go clockwise or counterclockwise? I go counter…I’d have it no other way.
Clockwise, always. Doing it counterclockwise feels as strange as trying to write with my left hand.
I employ the reacharound method because I saw my grandmother do the hook-and-switch once. (From behind, you sickos, no boobies)
There is one strapless bra that is particularly tricky, because it has 4 (4!) clasps, and I am not very good at aligning them all on the same column. And I can’t get it to fit right if I don’t clasp it from behind, strapless bras aren’t meant for girls with 32D boobs.
-foxy