Compression sports wear

[lblanchard]

The first of the two sports bras arrived yesterday -- Champion compression sports bra, size extra-large. Compression really means compression, as in squeeze the life out of you, and this is a skootch too small. Once Roy and I got it on me, there was some flesh oozing over the top around the armpits. Also, it felt a bit like the mammogram machine, if you get my drift.

Note that I said "when Roy and I got it on me." The wretched garment has no fasteners and I got trapped with one arm in an armhole and the other partially there. I couldn't get it on and I couldn't get it off because my arms were trapped. So Roy had to help me.

Bleah. I will set it aside for now. When I lose some more weight, it might actually work.

On the plus side, if I am ever able to get into it, the band is well below the Zone Of The Dark Side...

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

you might want to look into Just My Size (which is Haines, actually, I believe) I've been getting my sports bras there for a long time.

Sorry to giggle at the mental picture of you trapped by a bra...

[chakolate.livejournal.com]

I'm not clear on what it is you want to compress, and why.

I wear a sports bra all the time, from Hanes, and it doesn't compress anything.

[pameladean]

That sounds like a bra for high-impact sports, and is probably excessive.

I have Champion bras that fasten in the back like civilized garments and whose straps can be adjusted.

If you do want compression but want to be able to get in and out, the Enell Lite is probaby the way to go. It fastens up the front.

I do have some of the one-piece no-fasteners ones, but they produce a monoboob effect and I mostly wear them when everything else is in the laundry.

P.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I'm going to do one comment and hope you all see it. I had no idea what a "compression bra" was. Now I know and it's vile. I just ordered a 3-pack of Just My Size / Hanes "leisure bras" which I hope will do the trick. They're cotton/spandex.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

That sounds a bit too rigid a sports-bra for my liking. I have an old Endura one that I won in a mountain-bike race once (!) which is just perfect in the amount of 'give', but a more recent one I got is exactly like the one you describe. Getting it on is fine - taking it off requires the skills of a contortionist...

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

The Champion cotton bra is better, but still too tight. I shall put both aside until I've lost a little more weight.

The cheapie Fruit-of-the-Loom bras, 3 for $10.99, are perfect. All I want is a little separation between the sagging mammaries and the lower chest. The skin trouble has cleared up nicely now.