There's A Reason Women In Nursing Homes Refuse To Wear Bras. Here Are All 7.

1. Bra Pain Ends The Day The Hooks Come Off

I assumed these women had stopped caring how they looked. That was wrong of me.

Reaching behind your back to line up two hooks takes coordination, and coordination goes years before anything else does. You stop asking someone to fasten it, then you stop wearing it.

The tank they switched to pulls on over your head. No hooks, no reaching, no clasp. I am 58, and I had been doing mine up at the front for a year without ever calling that a problem.

2. It Holds You Without Squeezing You

The first question I asked on that floor is the one you are asking now. If they have all stopped wearing bras, what is holding them up?

It looked too simple. Just a soft tank top with a built-in bra, no hooks, no underwire. I remember thinking this can't hold me.

Then I put it on. I felt held without being squeezed. There are real cups built right into the tank. They cradle you, they don't crush you. Everything stays up, everything stays covered and nothing is digging in anywhere.

3. The Wide Straps Sit Flat And Stay Put

Every woman I asked showed me the same shoulders. Two grooves, one on each side, still pressed into the skin hours after the bra had come off.

A narrow strap carries the whole weight of your chest on about half an inch of skin. That is where the ache comes from, and it is why rubbing your shoulders in the evening became something you do without thinking about it.

The wide straps sit flat and stay put. That night when I took mine off, no marks, no lines on my shoulders, nothing pressed into my ribs.

4. The Fabric Is The Reason She Puts It On

I did not expect to care about this one. The fabric is so buttery soft, it just glides over your skin.

My mother is 84, and anything stiff or scratchy is the difference between getting dressed and not bothering that morning. She noticed the fabric before she noticed anything else about it.

I am 58, and I noticed it too.

5. It's Not Just Comfortable, It's Flattering

Here's what surprised me most.

Smooths everything, no lines across my back, no bulges. And the cardigans I used to hide behind, I wear them open now.

My friends keep asking if I've lost weight. I haven't, I just stopped wearing the wrong thing.

6. Three Of Them Cost About What One Good Bra Cost Me, And They Outlast It

I have six of them now. That's how the Buy 2, Get 1 Free works out.

Three tank tops for about what one good bra used to cost me.

I wash them and hang them to dry and they come out looking brand new every time. They've already outlasted bras that cost three times as much.

7. My Mother Is 84 And Gets Herself Dressed Again

For two years my mother was handed her clothes. Not because she could not dress herself. Because one clasp at the back of one garment turned getting dressed into something she needed another person for, so she sat and waited to be helped, and by the time help came the morning was half gone.

This one pulls on over her head. She does it herself now, every morning, before anyone knocks on the door.

She told me on the phone that she feels put together for the first time in two years. I sat in that parking lot afterward and cried, and then I ordered two more, one for me and one for my sister. That is the real reason I wrote this.

Before I ordered, I did what you are probably doing right now: I googled the company and hunted for reviews. Over 20,000 American women have ordered these tanks. This reply landed under one of my posts about my mother, and it has been a screenshot on my phone ever since.