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Wearing (or not wearing) a bra is a personal choice, of course, though it’s also worth considering what its fundamental purpose is. “Bras can be helpful for women who have breast pain, which is very common, because, if properly fitted, the bra can provide support to the breast and can help reduce discomfort,” says Dr. Deanna J. Attai, MD, FACS, an associate clinical professor in the Department of Surgery at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine and the UCLA Health Burbank Breast Care. She also mentioned that a supportive bra is usually recommended for “at least during the immediate postoperative period” for people who have undergone surgery. Otherwise, Dr. Attai says, “There are no good medical reasons for or against wearing a bra.” Conversely, the early days of quarantine have pushed some to discover a new appreciation for the pulled-together feeling that wearing a bra can provide. “At the beginning of quarantine, I relished in the ability to wear leggings and a sweater and call it a day,” says Caldwell Harden, a client services manager based in New York City. “But as quarantine lagged on, I just grew tired of not making an effort with my outfits and I started really thinking about how I got dressed every day. Soon, I started seeing a correlation in the effort I put into my outfit and my outlook towards the day.” Eventually, Harden returned to wearing a bra on a daily basis. As a way to still feel fashionable and put-together, “I would buy summer dresses that normally have some sort of tightness in the chest area to push things together and keep [my breasts] up. That’s how you get away with not wearing a bra,” she says of how her habit of going braless began. “But I fully expect that in my later years I will become that braless old woman, and I do not care at all.” Rihanna attends Jean Paul Gaultier’s fall/winter 2014/2015 show during Paris Fashion Week. Michel Dufour Similarly, there’s a great deal of privilege when it comes to size, given that fatphobia remains present both in the workplace and the fashion industry. “I think it’s more acceptable for smaller breasted people to go braless, but I feel like if I [a D/DD] went braless, it would be very frowned upon,” says Megan Watson, a Chicago-based environmental consultant. “And especially for fat and plus size people—I feel like it adds to the anti-fat rhetoric if we don’t wear bras, i.e., we don’t care about our appearances, we don’t put in the effort, etc...,” she adds.

The reasons for reevaluating one’s relationship with bras are plentiful, but a common thread appears to be a journey toward body neutrality. Victoria Paris, an influencer based in Los Angeles, also said she started wearing bras less frequently in 2020. “I think I just stopped caring as much about the way I looked because…I wasn’t going into an office, I wasn’t going to school. I wasn’t worried about how people saw me,” she says of her early COVID uniform, which consisted of oversized shirts and tank tops with no bra. Paris, who is known largely for her fashion, travel, and home decorating content and has had partnerships with brands like Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, frequently posts photos of her outfits, many of them braless.