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Cafezinha
05/01/09

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I sweat too damned much to be able to get away with that. Since I don't drive, I do all my errands on foot or bike, so I never have a day where I don't get really sweaty...and that's not even including workouts, dance rehearsals, capoeira training, etc.

I wash mine whenever I wash a load of clothes, which is 2-3 times a week. I never find anything I really like at fancy stores, even when I get fitted right, so I tend to stick with cheap Hanes underwires from Wallyworld, so they last me about 6 months or so.
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NewsBunny
05/01/09

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I own three 'regular' bras, and one sports bra.

All must be hand-washed. Sports bra -- which cost me close to 65 dollars -- gets a hand-wash after every use.

The others -- every couple of wears.

That's the advice from the bra shop, which fitted me for this fifty dollars a pop bras.

My tits...feel SPECTACULAR.
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shorty63136
05/01/09

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I wash bras every 2 weeks or so and out of the 15 or so I own, I wear maybe 10. That is not to imply that they all fit awesomely. Maybe 4 fit awesomely - but others serve some kind of purpose. Here's how I deal with mine:

Wash: Cold, gentle cycle, bras hooked closed

Dry: Hang 4 to a hanger, dangling from the rack above the dyer - they get the warmth and dry fast without direct heat to them.

Underwire pops out: Inconspicuously sew it back up with needle/thread OR take a hot glue gun to it very gently. I have a VS bra that still lives, 2 years after I hot glued the underwire back in. (Never put them in the dryer after hot gluing)
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Eric Northman is mine
04/30/09

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6 times a year? I bet if you shine a blue light on it you'll see some real nasty organisms. Sweat, dirt, body soil...yeah don't think so.
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Snowbunny
04/30/09

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When I do laundry, if I've worn it, it gets washed. But I only wear a couple of them...
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lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black
04/30/09

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yeah I would be one of those nasty dirty ladies.
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lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black
04/30/09

@lucystrawberry hails Blair Waldorfs return!: adding to the problem is that bras are not made for my very small wide set breasts. I have found exactly ONE bra in my years ofbra wearing that fit me properly. how am i gonna wash the bra when...it is the only bra i wear? i need a bra to wear to the laundromat;)
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sassy
04/30/09

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This post just inspired me to wash my bras.

Thanks Jezebel, for making me less of a stinky hermit.
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vulcanized
04/30/09

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Holy shit. This is the first time in my life that I have been cleaner than the average woman. Excuse my while my unwashed hair, unshaven legs, and dirty jeans and I sit back in my apartment full of dirty dishes and stacks of magazines I've yet to take out to the recycling bin and luxuriate over this miracle.
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sybann
04/30/09

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I treasure bras that fit - I am smallish cup-size-wise - so when I find a good one I buy as many of the damn things as I can and ROTATE them so they have a chance to air out. If you wash these delicate creatures - even by hand with gentle soap - they will lose their snap. I probably wash mine less than the survey says but I wear them maybe twice a month. So there.
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sassy
04/30/09

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God, I feel so much better about my lack of bra washing.

It's so much work, and I'm lazy, and my old (male) roommates got way weirded out by my bras hanging all over.
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slutty teacher
04/30/09

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I hate when the underwire pops out and stabs me in the armpit. Does this happen to anyone else? Why does this happen to EVERY single one of my bras at some point?
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Devonna
04/30/09

@slutty teacher: That used to happen to me but for some reason the Maidenform ones I have don't do that.

I wash 'em in the mesh laundry bag on cold, hang 'em to dry and they still have well shaped cups & straps, even after 4 years.
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mbot says Spock yeah!
04/30/09

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Gross-- I just read the article, and it is basically like, "Shame shame shame, dirty disgusting lazy bitches!" Eff you, Daily Express.
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YourScreenplaySucks
04/30/09

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As Caroline of Brunswick proudly boasted to Lord Malmesbury: "I change my drawers once a year whether they are dirty or not". And she was the consort of George IV. If that was often enough for a king, surely it's good enough for us commoners.
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DoubleExpresso doesn't know what to think....
04/30/09

@Your Screenplay Sucks: I agree.

And I named my dog after the Second Lord Malmesbury

(true story - he's a labrador)
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t-yo3
04/30/09

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When I'm at home (in the tropics where I perspire abundantly, including under my boobs) I can only wear a bra once without having to wash it.

It took me a while to realise that in a cold country in winter, I can let a bra go two wears (maybe even three) without washing (but I usually won't wear the same bra two days in a row). So I'm looking at washing maybe once every four or five weeks. And I just toss my bras in the machine -- I don't even use a lingerie bag. My Marks and Spencers undies have stood up well to this sort of treatment, but the La Senza ones start to fall apart (seams coming open, wires poking out, etc.) quite quickly.
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iena
04/30/09

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I have three bras, all black, all unlined. I wash two of them every two weeks, while wearing the other (depending on how they smell). I really need new ones but damn! It's so hard to find unlined, no wire bras that aren't just tacky, lacy triangle lingerie. I found these three with a wire and amused the fellow to no end as I sat on the floor carefully cutting holes and inching the wires out.
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WashingMyHair
04/30/09

@iena: I don't wear them as much anymore as I gained some weight, but those are the exact type of bras that I wore for years. My fav.
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