Home Care Nurse Reveals 7 Reasons Why Women Over 70 Are Starting to Feel 30 Again After Throwing Away Their Bras

🪞 She Used To Call Herself “Two Empty Socks”

REASON 1: SHE LOOKS IN THE MIRROR AND SEES THE SHAPE SHE HAD AT 30

Shirley is 70. For years she joked that her bras made her look like “two empty socks.”

A bra squeezes you with a tight band and hangs you from two thin straps. You get a shelf where the band sits, and your blouse hangs off you like a sack.

The Susie’s Built-in Bra Comfort Tank has no band. Its molded cups shape you in front, and the long, snug body runs smooth from under your arms to past your waist, one clean line from ribs to hips. It won’t push you up like a push-up bra, but it holds you where you belong.

The first time Shirley put it on, she turned sideways to the mirror in her hall and went quiet for a second.

“Well, there she is,” she said. “That’s the shape I had at 30.”

Susie’s is having their Fall Sale right now, so that’s the first thing you’ll see on their page. Scroll down to pick your size and color.

✨ Her Daughter Asked If She’d Lost Weight

REASON 2: THAT ROLL ON YOUR BACK WAS NEVER YOUR AGE. IT WAS THE BAND.

A lot of my ladies hate the bulge across their upper back. They see it in every family picture, and they blame getting old.

That roll comes from the band. Tight elastic presses into soft skin and pushes it up and over itself. Take the band away and the roll goes with it, even though her weight hasn’t changed.

The tank has no band. Nothing presses into your back, so nothing gets pushed up.

Marian is 73. She hid that roll under loose cardigans for ten years. The first Sunday she wore a fitted blouse over the tank, her daughter asked if she’d lost weight.

“I didn’t lose a pound,” Marian said. “I lost the band.”

🦴 She Wore A 42DDD For 40 Years

REASON 3: SHE’S A 42DDD AND STANDS TALLER WITH NO WIRE THAN SHE EVER DID IN UNDERWIRE

“Big ones need a wire,” my fuller-busted ladies tell me. But a bra hangs all that weight from four narrow spots: two thin straps and the band at both sides of your ribs. The heavier you are, the harder they pull your shoulders down and forward. You start to stoop and don’t even know it.

The tank spreads that weight out. The molded cups, wide flat straps and long, snug body all share it, so no one spot carries you.

Dolores is 74. She wore the tank to the grocery store and her grandson’s ballgame. “It held me all day,” she said. “I walked in with my shoulders back, like I was 40.” A week later, she filled that box.

Bev, 68, had been burned by flimsy shelf camis before. “The cups float around like they’re mocking me,” she said. She tested this one with both arms over her head. “Nothing moved.”

📏 “Peggy, My Size Doesn’t Exist Anymore”

REASON 4: NO BRA MATH. SHE PICKS IT LIKE A T-SHIRT, AND A WRONG SIZE IS FIXED FREE

A bra size is a number and a letter, and both stop matching as your body changes. Every brand measures a little differently, too. Most of my ladies quit trusting the tag years ago.

This tank skips all that. There’s no band size and no cup letter. You pick it like a T-shirt, from S all the way up to 6XL.

If you still get it wrong, Susie’s has a 90-Day Perfect Fit Guarantee. Size not right? Tell Susie’s within 90 days, and they ship you the right size free. It’s a simple size exchange.

Loretta is 76, and she was between two sizes. She picked the smaller one. It was snug, so she told Susie’s, and they shipped her the next size up, free.

“First time in years a size just worked,” she said. Now she wears it to lunch with her sister every Thursday.

🛏️ Some Nights She Forgets To Take It Off

REASON 5: SHE GOT HER AFTERNOONS BACK, BECAUSE NO BAND IS SQUEEZING HER BY 3 O’CLOCK

Ask a woman what time her bra starts to wear her out, and she’ll give you a number. For most of my ladies, it’s about 3 o’clock.

That’s the band. It’s a strip of tight elastic around your ribs, and it feels tighter every hour you sit. The wire presses under your chest, and the thin straps pull on your shoulders. By the afternoon, you’re just waiting to take it off.

The tank has no band and no wire, and its straps are wide and flat. Nothing gets tighter as the day goes on, so you stop watching the clock.

Edna is 81. Her daughter-in-law found her the tank two years ago.

“Peggy, I got my afternoons back,” she told me. “Some nights I go to bed in it because I forget it’s on. I haven’t felt this good since I was 30.”

☀️ Why She Kept A Sweater By The Door In July

REASON 6: SHE WEARS SHORT SLEEVES IN JULY AGAIN, BECAUSE THERE’S NO BAND TO SWEAT UNDER

Ask a lady when she gave up her bra, and a lot of them say it was summer.

That’s the band again. It holds tight elastic around your ribs for 12 hours, and on a hot afternoon it’s a damp line you peel off your skin.

But going without brings its own trouble. Irene is 79. She quit bras one hot July, then kept a heavy sweater on the hook by her front door “just in case somebody pops by.” She even asked me to bring in her mail so the neighbor wouldn’t see her.

The tank has no band, so nothing wraps tight around your ribs, and she’s still held.

A few weeks after her daughter ordered her some, a delivery man knocked while I was there. Irene answered the door in a short-sleeve blouse, and the sweater stayed on the hook.

“I haven’t answered the door like this in ten years,” she said.

📸 Easter In The Back Row, Mother’s Day In The Front

REASON 7: SHE’S BACK IN THE FRONT ROW OF THE FAMILY PICTURE, AND THERE’S NOTHING TO HOOK

A bra hooks in the middle of your back, where you can’t see. That’s easy at 30. It’s hard with stiff fingers and a shoulder that won’t bend back. The CDC says nearly half of Americans 65 and older have arthritis.

Pull-on sports bras aren’t the answer, either. One of my ladies, who is 83, calls them “a danger to life and limb.”

This tank has no hooks and no tight band to wrestle with. It goes over your head, then your good arm, then the other one.

Joan is 72, with arthritis in both hands. Last Easter she couldn’t work her hooks, so she went without, put on her heaviest cardigan and stood in the back row of the family picture. “Like I came in my nightgown,” she said.

On Mother’s Day she wore the tank under a short-sleeve blouse. She’s right in the middle of the front row.

WHAT ALL SEVEN HAVE IN COMMON

If you read all seven, you saw the same few parts come up again and again: a tight band, two thin straps, a wire and the hooks behind your back.

My ladies blamed their age for the flat, lumpy shape, the roll on their back, the stoop, the 3 o’clock slump and the sweater in July. A lot of that was the bra.

A bra was made for the body you had at 30. Your body changed, and bras didn’t. Going without fixes the hooks, but then nothing holds you, and you reach for the sweater.

My ladies needed both at once: nothing to fasten, and something that holds them with the weight spread out. Take those parts away, keep the hold, and they stop feeling old in their own clothes.

Susie’s says more than 50,000 women have ordered these tanks, and over 10,000 have left a review. None of my ladies has gone back.

I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE

Since then, I’ve told a lot of my ladies about it, and I’ve heard from plenty of women who wear it. Here are a few of them in their own words. You’ll see Linda and Susan again on Susie’s page, with their before and after pictures.

THE QUESTIONS MY LADIES ASK ME FIRST

Whenever I tell a woman about it, she asks me the same few things. Here are my answers.

“I already stopped wearing a bra. Why would I go back?”

You wouldn’t be going back. There are no hooks or band, and nothing to reach behind you for. It’s a tank top you pull on over your head. You get held again without the part that made you quit.

“What size do I get?”

Pick it the way you’d pick a T-shirt. There’s no band size or cup size. It comes in S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL and 6XL, in 8 colors. The size chart is above the sizes on Susie’s page.

“Will it show under my blouse?”

It looks like a plain tank top. The cups are molded and built into the front, and the straps lie flat, so there are no hooks or bumps showing through the back.

“Can I put it on with a bad shoulder or stiff hands?”

Yes. Sit on the edge of the bed, put it over your head first, then your good arm, then the other one. There is nothing to fasten.

“Will it ride up?”

Not if you tuck it in. It’s cut long so it tucks into your slacks and stays down. Untucked, it can creep up when you bend over.

“How do I wash it?”

Wash it on gentle, in cold water. Lay it flat to dry, or tumble dry on low. The cups are built in, so you just wash it as is.

“What if I get the size wrong?”

Tell Susie’s within 90 days, and they’ll ship you the right size free. It’s a size exchange, not a refund.

I DID THE MATH ONE NIGHT

One night I opened my own bra drawer and counted nine bras. I only ever wore two of them. Every other one was bought to fix the one before it.

Dolores had 23 in hers when she filled that box. “Most of them I wore once,” she told me.

Then I did the other math. Most women need three: one to wear, one in the wash and one clean in the drawer. That’s why Bev ordered three before she even left my kitchen.

When you get to their page, you’ll meet Susie herself. She’s 67. Every bra hurt her in the same spots, so she made one that doesn’t. She sleeps in it, just like Edna.

Right now, Susie’s is running their Fall Sale. The tank is marked down, and it’s Buy 2, Get 1 Free on top of that, so the third one costs you nothing. If you want five, it’s Buy 3, Get 2 Free. Shipping is free in the US, it ships the next day, and you can mix the colors any way you like.

I don’t know how long they’ll keep that going. If your size is in stock today, that’s when I’d get it.

On their page it’s called the Comfort Shaper Tank. Don’t let the word “shaper” put you off. It isn’t tight like a girdle, and it’s the same tank my ladies wear.

⚠️ One Of My Ladies Got Burned By A Look-Alike

WHY YOU WON’T FIND IT ON AMAZON

I need to warn you about something that already happened to one of my ladies.

Susie’s is only sold on susies.co. It isn’t on Amazon or Walmart, and it isn’t in stores.

Copycat sites have copied the look, and some even took Susie’s photos. What shows up in the mail is a thin shelf cami with two loose pads, the floating-cup kind Bev warned you about.

Phyllis is 75. She ordered a look-alike on Amazon first. The pads slid sideways after one wash, and she was right back in her old bra.

So get it from susies.co. That’s the only place the 90-Day Perfect Fit Guarantee and the Buy 2, Get 1 Free apply.

THE WAY I SEE IT NOW

You can close this page and keep going the way you are. Tomorrow you reach behind your back for the same tiny hooks, or you wait for someone to come do them. You count the hours until you can take it off. Or you leave the bra in the drawer and keep the sweater by the door.

Or you can do what Shirley, Marian, Dolores, Bev, Loretta, Edna, Irene and Joan did. Put the old bras in a box. Pull this on over your head, tuck it in and go about your day. If the size is wrong, they send you the right one free.

I’ve watched a lot of women decide they were just getting old, and stop going places. Then I watched my ladies start going again. Nobody got any younger. They just took off the thing that had been making them feel old.

Peggy

P.S.

Joan kept her old bras in the drawer for months. She said she couldn’t throw out something that cost that much. Last week she called me. “Peggy, bring a box.”

P.P.S. Remember Irene, who asked me to bring in her mail? Last week I pulled into her driveway, and she was already out at the mailbox, talking to the neighbor across the street. The sweater was still on the hook by the door.

Fall Sale: Buy 2, Get 1 Free. Free US shipping. 90-Day Perfect Fit Guarantee.