Wednesday, December 20, 2006

9 Bra Care Tips

Washing For Intimate Apparel

Invest in a delicate care wash bag for your intimate apparel. A delicate care wash bag allows you to wash your intimate apparel in a washing machine without damaging sensitive fabrics. If hand-washing is not an option, this wash bag is the best way to ensure that your intimate apparel won't be damaged in the washing machine.
 

Never Machine Dry Bras

All-around bra care is important. Whether your bra is underwire or softcup, putting it in the dryer will severely shorten its life and distort its shape. Instead, hang your bra over your shower rod or on an outside clothesline to dry naturally. This will help to keep the shape of your bra and extend its life longer.
 

Switch Up Bras on Various Days

Avoid wearing your bra for two consecutive days. Your body exudes heat and heat makes the Lycra in the bra stretch when it is warm. Wearing your bra for more than one day in a row will cause it to deteriorate faster. Lycra needs at least 24 hours to cool off --- so alternating bras each day will go a long way towards good bra care.
 

Store Bras Properly

Caring for your bras properly also means taking measures to store them correctly. In many cases, bras are haphazardly placed into a lingerie drawer with other bras and lingerie items. This contributes to wear and tear on your bra because the hooks and snaps on your intimate apparel can snare the fabric and cause tears in your bras. It is best to store bras in a separate drawer, folded neatly so they can stay in top condition.
 

What is Best Way to Care For My Bra?

After spending the time and money to be fitted and searching for the perfect style, caring for your bra properly is important. Ideally, you should handwash your bra daily to lengthen its life and remove all dirt and oil from the bra fabric that accumulated during the day. If you prefer machine washing, wash bras on the delicate cycle and prodect them with a lingerie wash bag.

Rotate among three or four of your best bras and wash each one daily after wear. This might seem like a lot of effort, however, if you invest time in caring for your bra and other intimate apparel, your collection will last much longer.
 

What is Best Way to Care For My Bra?

After spending the time to be fitted and searching for the perfect style, caring for your bra properly is important. Handwash your bra daily to lengthen its life and remove all dirt and oil from the bra fabric that accumulated during the day.

Rotate among three or four of your best bras and wash each one daily after wear. This might seem like a lot of effort, however, if you invest time in caring for your bra and other intimate apparel, your collection will last much longer.
 

What is Best Way to Care For My Bra?

After spending the time to be fitted and searching for the perfect style, caring for your bra properly is important. Wash your bra by hand daily. This will lengthen the life of the bra and remove all dirt and oil from the bra fabric that might have accumulated during the day.
 
One Hanes Place Tip: Rotate among three or four of your best bras and wash each one daily after wear. If you invest time in caring for your bra and other intimate apparel, your collection will last much longer.
 
One Hanes Place Tip: Caring for a bra and other intimate apparel is important because how you care for those pieces directly determines how long they will last. A wash bag will keep your lingerie intact even in the washing machine. Featuring a mesh design, a delicate care wash bag should be used on the gentle cycle. An open weave mesh design gives optimal protection to each piece of your intimate apparel, including underwear, bras, hosiery and more.

Bra Fitting Tips

 Bra Fitting Tips

The wire in your bra is digging in or poking you.

If you are being poked by the underwire, then your cup size may be too small and you will need a larger size.

The straps are digging into your shoulders.

You may need to loosen the straps. Or, your cups may be too small, pulling the bra downward and creating tension in the straps, you may need a larger cup size.

The band is riding up your back.

Your cups are too small, and you will need a larger cup size.

There is a gap between the cups in your bra and your bust.

If you are not properly filling out the cup, then your band and or cup size is too large and you will need a smaller size.

The straps are falling off your shoulders.

Most likely, your band size is too large and you will need a smaller band. If you are not properly filling out the cup, then your band and or cup size is too large and you will need a smaller size. It is also possible that your bra has lost its elasticity.

Caring for your bras.

If you wash your bras in the washing machine, put them in a mesh bag to protect them from other clothing. Always use the delicate cycle in warm or cool water, and use a delicate detergent without bleach. Never use a dryer; hang your bras up to dry instead.