We’ve already covered how to hand wash your bras, but let’s be honest, most of you probably don’t want to do that. It’s much more convenient to be able to throw your bras in the washing machine with the rest of your clothes. So while we still recommend hand washing your bras, here is the […]
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Ask a Bra Fit Expert: Why is my bra band riding up?

It’s an occupational hazard: I fit bras for a living, so when I am standing behind someone in line, I can’t help notice how their bra is fitting. For instance, say I’m standing behind someone whose bra band is practically riding up to their neck. What if I reached out and pulled the back of her bra down horizontal to […]
What to Consider When Purchasing Nursing Tanks

Nursing tanks are what many moms live in the first few weeks after baby comes: day, night, feeding, napping, and maybe an occasional walk around the block with another shirt thrown over the top. Tanks are on every mom’s list of must-haves, right up there with nursing bras and lanolin. What separates the great tanks from […]
How To Clean Your Pretty New Bras: Hand Washing Edition

If you’ve purchased a bra from Bosom Buddies in the past it probably set you back anywhere between fifty and seventy dollars. We’re okay with selling bras that expensive because we truly believe in the quality, and if you’ve purchase a bra from us we hope you feel that way too. However, if you’ve dropped […]
My first bra fitting…at the age of 52!

Kate wrote about her first bra fitting as a teen and the challenge is out at Bosom Buddies for each of us to reflect on our first bra fitting. The fact is, until we started working on selling bras at Bosom Buddies, I had never had a bra fitting. Who needed a bra fitting when I didn’t have much […]
Find A Sports Bra That’s Just Right: 4 Bosom Buddies Favorites

Finding a sports bra that fits “just right” can be an ongoing dilemma. Here are four of our favorite options which vary in terms of support and comfort to fit any activity you encounter.
Looking Back: My First Bra Fitting and How It’s Stayed With Me

Historically the women of my family have been flat-chested, never venturing beyond a B cup. When I hit puberty, my mother quickly realized that I wasn’t going to follow in the flat-chested footsteps of my fore-mothers. Cue panic. She didn’t know what to do with a 16-year-old girl quickly approaching a D cup, so she […]
10 Steps to Spring Clean Your Bra Drawer

Spring cleaning brings visions of throwing the windows open, shaking out rugs and devoting hours to heavy cleaning. More likely nowadays, the projects are smaller since most of us can’t (or won’t) devote whole weeks to house cleaning. If you’re looking for a small project this spring, consider your bra drawer. If it looks anything […]
Why do I need a different size bra?
When you are pregnant, you expect to gain weight and your belly to grow. What comes as a shock to many is the increase in breast size that comes with the deal. Probably long before you need to think about maternity clothes, you will notice your breasts being fuller, maybe even spilling over the top […]
Lesson from the lingerie show: women are wearing bras that don’t fit.
So you say, “There’s nothing new there. You’ve been quoting that yourself for years.” And you would be right. It seems like sometimes you have to learn and refresh and relearn, over and over. Especially when it is something as important as how a bra fits. For as long as I have been going to lingerie […]