Nurses Reveal 7 Reasons Women Over 60 Are Done With Underwire, and How They Go Braless So No One Knows

📌 The Wire Came Through Her Bra In Church

REASON 1: THERE’S NO WIRE TO SNAP OR POKE, BECAUSE THE CUPS ARE MOLDED IN

An underwire is a thin strip of metal sewn under each cup. Its whole job is to push you up. To do that, it presses into the soft skin under your chest all day.

After 60, that skin is thinner, so the wire presses deeper. My ladies show me the red grooves under their chest and the sore spot under the arm where the wire ends. Sooner or later, the wire wears through the fabric and pokes right out.

The tank has no wire at all. The cups are molded and built right into the front, so they keep their shape on their own. There’s no metal to wear through and nothing pressing a line into you.

After the church wire, Marge’s daughter ordered her the tank. She wore it to church the very next Sunday.

“I sat through the whole sermon and never once pulled at my side,” she told me. “Sixty years of wires. What was I thinking?”

🛍️ She Wore A 44DD And Swore She Needed The Wire

REASON 2: HER 44DD IS HELD WITH NO WIRE, BECAUSE THE WHOLE TANK CARRIES THE WEIGHT

“I can’t go braless. I’m too big.” That’s what my fuller ladies tell me, and about going without, they’re right. With nothing under you, the weight pulls on your back all day, and skin sits on skin. By afternoon it’s damp and sore underneath.

But the wire was never what held you up, either. A bra hangs all that weight from four small spots: two thin straps on your shoulders and the band at each side. The bigger you are, the deeper those four spots dig.

The Susie’s Built-in Bra Comfort Tank spreads it out, like hugging a heavy bag instead of carrying it by the handles. The molded cups, the wide flat straps and the long, snug body all share the load, and soft fabric sits between skin and skin. It comes in S all the way up to 6XL.

Vera is 72, and she wore a 44DD for 35 years. She tried the tank on a three-hour bus trip with her church group.

“It held me the whole way there and back,” she said. “And I wasn’t wet underneath when I got off that bus.”

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.

🧊 Why She Crossed Her Arms In The Freezer Aisle

REASON 3: NOTHING SHOWS THROUGH HER TOP, BECAUSE REAL MOLDED CUPS COVER WHAT GOING BRALESS CAN’T

Nobody warns you about this part of going braless. In a thin top, everything shows. Walk into a cold store, and you know exactly what people can see.

Rita is 66. She quit her underwire last spring and went without. After that, she crossed her arms every time she walked past the freezers at the grocery store. She kept a cardigan on in the car all summer.

A cheap shelf cami won’t fix it. It has one thin strip of elastic and two loose pads that slide around. You still show, and that strip still digs into your ribs.

This tank has real molded cups built into the front. They hold their shape and cover you, so your top lies smooth. The straps are wide, and it’s cut long, so it tucks in and stays put.

Rita tested it the only way she would. She stood in front of the open freezer case in her thinnest white top and looked down.

“Nothing,” she said. “I didn’t cross my arms once. I just shopped.”

🪞 Her Grandson Asked Why Her Shirt Was Longer In Front

REASON 4: SHE DOESN’T SAG TO HER WAIST, BECAUSE THE TANK HOLDS HER UP FROM UNDERNEATH

When you go without, there’s nothing under you. Gravity works on you from breakfast to bedtime, and the skin up top isn’t as firm as it used to be.

Then your top hangs straight down from the lowest point of your chest. That makes your whole middle look bigger than it is. A lot of my ladies think they’ve gained weight. They haven’t. They’ve lost their shape.

The tank holds you up from underneath. The molded cups lift you back into place, and the long, snug body keeps your top from tenting, so it falls smooth over your middle. It won’t push you up like a push-up bra. It puts you back where you belong.

Phyllis is 77. “My grandson asked why my shirt was so long in front,” she told me. “It wasn’t the shirt.”

The first morning in the tank, she turned sideways in her hallway mirror and stood there a while.

“Well,” she said. “There I am.”

🕔 She Used To Count The Minutes Until 5 O’Clock

REASON 5: IT FEELS LIKE GOING WITHOUT, AND THE ROLL ON HER BACK IS GONE, BECAUSE THERE’S NO BAND

Ask a lady what she loves about going braless and she’ll say it in two words: nothing squeezing.

That squeeze is the band. It’s a strip of tight elastic around your ribs that gets tighter every hour you sit. It rides up your back and pushes your soft skin up and over itself. That’s the roll across your back that shows through your top. It was never your weight.

The tank has no band and nothing to hook. You put it over your head, then your good arm, then the other one. That matters when your hands hurt, and the CDC says nearly half of Americans 65 and older have arthritis. The long body runs smooth from under your arms to past your waist, so there’s no edge to make a roll.

Gloria quit her bra at 73 because of that band. Her granddaughter took a picture of her from behind at the farmers market last month, in the tank and a plain knit top. Her back was smooth.

“It feels like nothing’s on,” Gloria said. “That’s the whole reason I quit my bra.”

⛪ She Only Put Her Bra On For Church And Funerals

REASON 6: THE “JUST IN CASE” BRA STAYS IN THE DRAWER, BECAUSE THE TANK IS DRESSED ENOUGH FOR ANYWHERE

Going braless only works inside your own house. The minute you have to go somewhere, you have to choose: put the underwire back on, or feel undressed in front of people.

So the underwire never really leaves. Almost every lady I visit keeps one “just in case” bra, for church, for the doctor and for funerals.

The tank doesn’t make you choose. Under a blouse it looks like a plain tank top. The molded cups give you shape in front, and there are no hooks or band to show through the back. You wear the same thing in your kitchen and in the front pew.

Helen is 81. “Bras are for funerals and church,” she always told me. Her underwire came out for her doctor visits too, and it came off the second she got home.

Last month she wore the tank to church, stayed for the potluck and drove herself home. She didn’t rush to take anything off.

“I used to say bras were for funerals and church,” she said. “Now they’re for nothing.”

📏 “I Haven’t Known My Size Since 1980”

REASON 7: NO CUP SIZE TO GUESS, AND IF THE SIZE IS WRONG, THEY SHIP THE RIGHT ONE FREE

Underwire comes in a band number and a cup letter. Both stop matching as your body changes, and every brand measures a little differently. Most of my ladies stopped trusting the tag years ago.

This tank skips all that. There’s no band size and no cup letter. You pick it the way you’d pick 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 them within 90 days, and they ship you the right size free. It’s a simple size exchange.

Darlene is 64. “I haven’t known my bra size since 1980,” she told me. She picked an XL, and it was snug. She told Susie’s, and they shipped her the 2XL, free.

“That’s the first time anybody fixed a wrong size for me,” she said. “I spent forty years blaming myself.”

Susie’s says more than 50,000 women have ordered these tanks, and over 10,000 have left a review. After watching my ladies, I can see why.

WHAT ALL SEVEN HAVE IN COMMON

Read all seven again and you’ll see the same trap.

Underwire gives you the wire that pokes, the band that squeezes and rolls, and the hooks behind your back. Going braless takes all of that away, and then you sag, you show through, you’re damp underneath, and the “just in case” bra comes back out.

My ladies wanted the freedom of going without and the cover and hold of a bra, both at once. That means no wire, no band and nothing to hook, but still held up and covered from morning to bedtime.

That’s what the tank is. None of my ladies has gone back to underwire.

I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE

I’ve told a lot of women about it since then, and I’ve heard from plenty 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

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

“I already go braless at home. Why would I wear this?”

Because it feels almost the same. There’s no wire, no band and nothing to hook. The difference is you’re held and covered, so you can wear it out the door too, and the “just in case” bra can stay in the drawer.

“I’m a DD or bigger. Will it really hold me?”

Yes. The molded cups, the wide straps and the long body all share the weight, so no one spot carries it. It goes up to 6XL. It won’t push you up like a push-up bra. It holds you where you belong.

“Can people tell I’m not wearing a bra?”

No. The molded cups cover you in front, so nothing shows through, even in a cold store. From the back there are no hooks or band lines. It just looks like a tank top under your blouse.

“Is this one of those shelf camis?”

No. A shelf cami has one thin strip of elastic and loose pads. This tank has real molded cups built into the front, wide flat straps and a long, snug body.

“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 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.

“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 COUNTED MY OWN DRAWER

I wore underwire for 45 years. One night I opened my drawer and counted eleven bras, every one of them with a wire. I don’t wear a single one now. I wear the tank under my scrubs, and I’m on my feet ten hours a day.

Here’s the other thing I learned from my ladies. You need three: one to wear, one in the wash and one clean in the drawer. That’s why Vera ordered three the night she got home from her bus trip.

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.

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.

THE WAY I SEE IT NOW

You can close this page and keep going the way you are. Tomorrow you put the wire back on to go out, and you take it off the second you get home. Or you skip it, cross your arms in the store and keep a cardigan in the car.

Or you can do what Marge, Vera, Rita, Phyllis, Gloria, Helen and Darlene did. Pull it on over your head, tuck it in and go. It feels like going without, and nobody knows. If the size is wrong, they send you the right one free.

Quitting underwire never meant you had to stop looking nice when you go out.

Teresa

P.S.

Marge didn’t stop at the one in the trash can. Last week she bagged up every underwire she owned for the church rummage sale. “Let somebody younger fight with them,” she said.

P.P.S. Remember Helen and her “just in case” bra? She had a doctor visit on Tuesday. She went in the tank, and the bra stayed in the drawer.

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