# Women: How far out into public do you go without a bra? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749 "2007-10-06T14:38:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/41 "2007-10-07T01:47:40Z")
As a male, I assure you I’m only in this thread to see if my wife has posted yet. ::looks around:: Nope…guess I gotta keep checking. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/42 "2007-10-07T01:57:25Z")
I’ll run my kid out to the bus, or take the babies to the convenience store, or even go shopping at Wal-Mart. I’m probably a C or D-cup, or so, and I don’t really care. I’ve had three babies in five years, so my nipples and my boobies are the least of my concerns. If I wear a thin T-shirt, I just put Band-Aids over my nipples so they don’t show, if I even think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/43 "2007-10-07T02:17:04Z")
Nowhere in public, eek! 44DD I might run to the mailbox or the driveway without one, but I’m very uncomfortably aware of it the entire minute and a half. I have a few (crappy) non-underwire bras I keep around just for the feeling of going without, say on a jammie-wearing Sunday when I’ve no plans to leave the house. Just enough restraint/support to feel decent while still being comfortable. I take one along when traveling so I don’t have the dilemma of joining my hosts all awobble. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/44 "2007-10-07T02:44:48Z")
38D here. To bed, or after I put my jammies on. Otherwise, it’s just uncomfortable. One of my cousins even has to sleep in her bra, because she’s very full figured (at least on top). ---
**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:** [October 7, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/45 "2007-10-07T03:09:10Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] Going one step further, if I was to go bra less for reasons other than convenience of not getting completely dressed for a quick errand, or getting the mail, it’d be to distract men. Therefore, _in my opinion,_ women who go braless consistently, especially when well endowed, are looking for male attention. Which is more than fine in certain circumstances, but not at work, (unless it’s Hooters) and not at your kids soccer games, or volunteering at the soup kitchen. It’s called situationally appropriate modesty. [/QUOTE] Glad you said this was just your opinion. Those of us who did not pay to become well-endowed really had no choice. Although I cannot deny that it does attract male attention, that might not have been the intent and in my case it certainly wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/46 "2007-10-07T03:51:03Z")
**Olives** you look beautiful! Congratulations. For me, oddly enough since I love my weight I can’t go without the bra. Being 32 I think my skin elasticity has greatly decreased. Before I lost the weight I was comfortable enough to run down the shops without it - if I was wearing a baggy tshirt- about 100m. Was DD now small C cup. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/47 "2007-10-07T04:15:22Z")
I’ve checked my mail and taken laundry down a few times without a bra, but I almost always wear one. Expecting a delivery or pizza - bra. I never go to the store, work, or visit friends without a bra. It’s not so much the nipple factor as it is the wiggliness factor. I tried braless one day in high school and lasted as long as the bus ride. I couldn’t stand having my chest boinging all over the place at every bump. At home, though, if I’m in for the night, I hardly ever wear clothes at all. 32B ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/48 "2007-10-07T04:52:59Z")
36C and I go without a bra as often as possible. Usually, I’ll wear a camisole under my shirt at work, but if I don’t have one clean or if I’m feeling particularly sensitive I’ll wear a bra. The only time I really feel like I need one is if I’m running or going up stairs. This is why I hold the girls down while running up or down the stairs in my house. Luckily, nobody has ever caught me doing this. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/49 "2007-10-07T05:12:54Z")
34C. My mailbox is 1/4th of a mile from the house and that’s as far as I go without one. I don’t feel fully dressed without one. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/50 "2007-10-07T05:36:27Z")
44DDD. I generally don’t wear a bra around the house unless we have company or I’m exercising. I’ll take the dog out to pee in the front yard, go through a drive through, talk to the female neighbor across the street while the dogs play, or take a pizza delivery without a bra, otherwise I’m wearing one wherever someone can conceivably see me. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/51 "2007-10-07T05:53:49Z")
I’m a C cup and I don’t exit the building without a bra. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/52 "2007-10-07T12:05:27Z")
34B, and I \*knew \*I could not be the only woman who runs down the stairs holding my breasts, but it’s kinda cool to see it in this thread. In the past, I have _occasionally_ gone braless in the general public just because I have this weird thing: One shoulder is slightly higher than another, you have to look for it to see it but it’s there, I can’t wear strapless bras (they ride down sideways), and certain dresses (not necessarily ones that showed nipple action) just didn’t work with a bra. I was younger and perkier then. And in the 70’s/early 80’s, going braless, in my crowd, was really not that big a deal. These days the shoulder thing, with gravity and time, is worse than ever but I am no longer interested in wearing those types of dresses anyway. 😉 I’ll run around the house braless, and never wear one to bed, but outside of that, I am usually in harness. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/53 "2007-10-07T12:35:23Z")
> [@](#): > > 34B, and I knew I could not be the only woman who runs down the stairs holding my breasts, but it’s kinda cool to see it in this thread. Yes, and that mental image made me LOL, especially because I’ve been there myself! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/54 "2007-10-07T12:53:45Z")
I’ll check my post and do laundry (have to leave my flat and use the washing machine in my landlady’s garage, about 20m away) without a bra on. Anywhere else, not a chance in hell. I do lounge around the flat bra-less and I never wear one in bed, but that’s about it. DD cup here. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/55 "2007-10-07T13:16:14Z")
My wife says she’ll check the mailbox in our apartment complex but that’s as far as she’ll go. She also said I’m sleeping alone tonight if I mention her bra size. You can peek, but I ain’t sleeping alone. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/56 "2007-10-07T13:33:10Z")
At home, I’ll wear t-shirts or pjs without a bra, or sometimes just a bra and no top. I don’t answer the door without a bra on, and the furthest i’ll go it to take up the rubbish. I’m 30E so anything more than walking is uncomfortable if I don’t have some support, and it’s very, very noticeable if I’m bra-less in unless I’m wearing a very heavy coat or jumper. ---
**Author:** ![Shryn\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Shryn\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shryn_King)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/57 "2007-10-07T13:39:27Z")
[QUOTE=TokyoPlayer] My wife says she’ll check the mailbox in our apartment complex but that’s as far as she’ll go. She also said I’m sleeping alone tonight if I mention her bra size. You can peek, but I ain’t sleeping alone. [/QUOTE] Oh, that’s not fair! You did tell her that the rest of us are telling…right? Tell her it’s primarily just “us” girls and only a few peeping toms, **chowders** , **SSG Schwartzs** , **Asimovian** types and they are ONLY here to check out things for their wives benefits. Right boys? I have to say how surprised I’ve been that there have been no demands for proof. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/58 "2007-10-07T15:02:28Z")
As for my better half, she’ll go as far as our balcony to hang the clothes for drying. And **Olives** …you look great in blue. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/59 "2007-10-07T15:27:54Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] About 10 feet. That’s how far it is from my front door the the mailboxes in the common area of my apartment building. And even then I hold onto the sisters with my elbows. I don’t go outdoors to do it. I think once I ran down to switch the laundry with no bra on - that’s about 10 feet down as the crow-who-can-fall-through-floors-flies, but probably 40 feet in actual running distance around through the back. It’s not a modesty thing, it’s a comfort thing. I used to go topless entirely at clothing optional festivals, but nowadays it just hurts. **And yes, I do sleep in an (underwire) bra.** [/QUOTE] Me, too. The mailbox is about 100 feet from my door. I’ll do it but I’ll schedule it for after rush hour. You can’t be too careful. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749/60 "2007-10-07T16:26:29Z")
[QUOTE=Shryn King] Tell her it’s primarily just “us” girls and only a few peeping toms, **chowders** , **SSG Schwartzs** , **Asimovian** types and they are ONLY here to check out things for their wives benefits. Right boys? I have to say how surprised I’ve been that there have been no demands for proof. [/QUOTE] I’m offended by the mere mention of peeping toms here! I mean, I only have eyes for my wife’s breasts, so how can I fight my ignorance about how others live without the benefit of the details that the Doper women share here? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-without-a-bra/421749.md?page=4)