Let's design the perfect sports bra

[margo49]

1. Front fastening
2. Ready-made to fit silicon titty (prosthetic, post-mastectomy), but those who still have "both" can wear it too. My FILA sports bra has a kind of cotton-y, wick-y semi-lining at the sides and bottom of the cups and "titty" just slpis in and sits there all day quite happily
3. Options for racer back or regular straps (over-the-shoulder)
4. Colours - as many as possible

My $0.02

[indigoiis]

The most comfortable non-bra support I ever got was when a girlfriend and I taped our boobs with med/athletic tape to wear backless dresses on a double date.

I didn't feel it at all all night long.

But taking the stuff off was a bear. I still have the pictures.

[Tuckervill]

There exists a tape just for taping up boobies. I think it's called Hollywood tape or something like that. I saw it in the hoity toity clothing store my son used to work in.

Karen

[OakLeaf]

And room for a heart monitor!

I know someone (Nike?) already makes one that has a holder for a Polar transponder. But just generally, they should have a... under-breast band... there have to be names for all the parts of a bra!... that's wide and elastic enough to hold any brand of heart monitor strap in place and not push it out of place, or be pushed out of place by it.

I like the Champion Double-Dry myself, but it's a little more constricting than I need for cycling.

But see, I think the deal is there *is* no "perfect sports bra." There might be a perfect sports bra for me, but it's probably not the perfect one for you. Margo wants front fasteners; I want a pullover bra with no fasteners to jab me in the sternum or back. It sounds like I'm built a lot like Blueskies... but I don't mind a sports bra that compresses my barely B-cup breasts into training bra size. When I'm wearing a sports bra I'm showing off my biceps, my delts, my traps, maybe my abs (and if I flatten my boobs enough they look like extra pecs ); when I want to show off what boobs I have, I'm wearing something sexy and I don't need the same type of support. Sundial wants adjustable straps; I don't want those digging into my shoulders either.

SbS, I think you're onto something. Could TE have a Brassiere World outlet?

[latelatebloomer]

and could it pleeeeze come in a 42B? Not every curvy gal carries big'uns!

[spokewench]

I'd pay big bucks to find a bra that will support a 34 C and not turn into a wet turkish towel after a little sweating!!!

[SlowButSteady]

The basic design flaw in sports bras as I see it: most are more or less racer-back cut. The shoulder straps lie close to my neck and tend to ride up towards the neckline. They almost always peek out of street clothes that don't have collars.

Which means I can't wear my fave--it's multicolored polka dots--under street clothes unless I want to look like Bozo the Clown.

Oh yeah, Brassierre World will allow you to take 27 bras into a fitting room so that you don't have to try two on...get dressed...go pick up two more...get undressed...try them on...get dressed....................