# Should It Be Expected or Required That Women Wear A Bra In Public?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-it-be-expected-or-required-that-women-wear-a-bra-in-public/200279>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 8, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-it-be-expected-or-required-that-women-wear-a-bra-in-public/200279 "2003-09-08T12:51:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-it-be-expected-or-required-that-women-wear-a-bra-in-public/200279/81 "2003-09-09T22:31:17Z")

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Why do so many people say their back aches in sympathy when a large busted girl isn’t wearing a bra?

I’ve never noticed back pain on the days that I go braless anymore than the ones I do wear a bra and I’m decently big (about 42D atm) In fact I find when I DO wear a bra my shoulders ache and I get rashes in some places if I wear it for too long. I can understand the flapping around issue… but unless you are running or exercising and stuff like that there isn’t much ‘flapping’

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**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-it-be-expected-or-required-that-women-wear-a-bra-in-public/200279/82 "2003-09-09T22:51:36Z")

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> \*Originally posted by belladonna \*  
> \*\*Tacky? Probably.  
> Do I care? [Hell NO!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=101600)  
> So what say you **Incubus** –care to join the revolution? 😃 \*\*

Hell yeah! Anyways, I find women much more attractive looking (in a completely benign, non-sexual way. Honest!) without a bra on. When I look at a man wearing a moderately tight shirt, I can sort of make out his torso which gives me a decent idea about body shape. With a woman though, a bra kind of bolts down some of the torso.

Some posters mentioned that some shirts are not made with a bra in mind. What shirts would these be? I never thought that shirtmakers would make breast pockets or anything like that to take into account a woman’s anatomy- I figured that most women could wear shirts just fine without a bra on (unless the sleeves were so big that a booby might make a run for it 😃 )

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**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-it-be-expected-or-required-that-women-wear-a-bra-in-public/200279/83 "2003-09-10T02:07:24Z")

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Pencil test? I’d fail the Smith-Corona test.

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**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-it-be-expected-or-required-that-women-wear-a-bra-in-public/200279/84 "2003-09-10T05:40:56Z")

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Wahahahaha! You kill me, BEANIE. 😛

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