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If you’ve never had a proper bra fitting with an expert, what are you waiting for? Having a bra fitting, and wearing a great bra in the right size, is one of the simplest things you can do to boost your self-esteem and look as good as you’ll feel. Just by wearing the right bra, you can look ten pounds thinner, and shave ten years off your shape. Yes, a bra alone can elongate the look of your torso, and make you look leaner. As I reached into my bra drawer the other day, it occurred to me that this...

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During the year, especially at Bridal and Prom Season, we are inundated with requests for strapless, backless bras and bustiers. We stock a fair number of garments that fit the bill, but the truth is, there is a reason that none of the major lingerie manufacturers around the globe have been able to engineer such a garment for very large breasts: it’s called physics.   I don’t know how to stress this enough: If you are well endowed, and wear a bra size larger than DD, Go Shopping For Underwear Before You Go Shopping For The Dress.   Let me repeat...

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If you are fortunate enough to have healthy and flexible shoulders and arms that allow you to close your bra behind your back, do so. If not, it is perfectly OK to close the bra in front of your body and spin it around. Whichever way you get into it, follow these steps to ensure a proper fit.   Bend slightly from the waist and allow breasts to gently fall into and fill the cups. Lift the breasts one at a time, from the bottom, and Swoop and Scoop them up and away from your armpits, into the center of the cups....

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Welcome to Bra Tenders and my blog. I’m Lori, and this is My Life Behind Bras. People often ask me, “how’d you get into this business?”  To which I reply, “It’s a long, convoluted story.” The short version is that I discovered an odd and uncanny talent for being able to look at a woman and know her bra size, and also which bra would be best for her figure, while working at a crappy retail job in a schlock store near Rockefeller Center.  I was a 22-year-old college dropout, who also cut typing classes in high school and had...

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