We get a lot of questions from frustrated large busted ladies about strapless bras. What works for their smaller busted friends just doesn’t do the trick for them. They’ll often resort to less than perfect solutions in order to show off their lovely shoulders in strapless dresses and other shoulder exposing clothes. Let’s face it, though. Transparent bra straps are tacky. They may disappear at a distance of 100 yards, but anyone standing anywhere nearby can see them and they’re often uglier than standard bra straps.
Fortunately, there are solutions available, but you’ve got to accept a couple of facts if you’re a large busted woman:
1) Your boobs are heavier than your smaller busted friends’.
2) Your bra straps shouldn’t be supporting your breasts anyway (unless you like permanent grooves in your shoulder)
The key to finding a strapless bra for a large busted woman lies in an understanding of how a bra should work in the first place. While every bra is not a shelf bra, most bras support breasts like a shelf. The underwire (or at least the bottom of the bra) acts as the shelf. Most women think that the bra’s shoulder straps keep this shelf from falling down. In actuality, it’s friction that keeps the shelf from falling.
Imagine you were tying a sign to a tree. The tighter your rope is to the tree, the more rope surface area you have in contact with tree surface area. This creates more friction, which opposes the gravitational pull downward, thus holding your sign up on the tree.
The same is true of the band of your bra. As bra bands get wider and tighter more bra surface area comes into contact with skin surface area, creating more friction to resist the pull of gravity. Bra straps should simply be co-supporters that help keep things positioned correctly.
But big boobs need all the support they can get!
Queen Latifah is always one of the most beautifully dressed ladies on the Red Carpet
Yes, when you lose the straps, you lose a little bit of support so your bra’s band has to do even more work. You should therefore look for a wider band. What a lot of people forget is that it’s okay to go really wide – as in a long line bra, bustier or corset. Many write these lingerie items off as strictly bedroom attire, but they were originally invented as underwear and they do serve a purpose.
Let’s think about a Hollywood Red Carpet – movie premieres, the Oscars, etc. There are a lot of ladies using tape and dresses with built in shelves, but one of the most consistently well dressed women on the Red Carpets is Queen Latifah. Does she limit herself to dresses with straps to hide her thick bra straps? Nope! More often than not, she’s wearing something strapless. Does she use clear bra straps? Not a chance! She’s wearing something that supports and enhances her luscious curves.
If Queen Latifah can do it, you can too.
Next time you find a great strapless dress, take a look at the best long line strapless bras as rated by some of our buxom examiners. Think about using a corset, or even a strapless bodysuit. You’ll get the added bonus of a waist shaper too! If you’re just having trouble find any kind of plus size bra, you can visit our friends at www.allplussizebras.com!