I have a lot more patience today than when I was in my 20s or even my 30s. I still wouldn’t call myself a patient person in some situations; I am not sure anyone is patient all the time, except maybe for Mother Theresa and a couple of others.
One of my biggest pet peeves is why swimwear and athletic bra manufacturers don’t sew the padding into the garment? Instead, they design a small opening where the padding can be removed and replaced.
Why? Ladies, you know what I am talking about. After you wash an athletic bra or swimsuit, the padding either gets folded over, twisted, or comes out completely.
Trying to get one of those pads back in makes me feel like my small, thin fingers are gigantic. Impossible on a day when arthritis hurts my fingers. It’s a huge pain in the ass!
In a fit of fury and swear words, when one of those pads flips, turns, or bails from the garment, I hank them out and throw them into the garbage. Simple solution. Period.
If the point of the pads in a swimsuit top is to make your breasts look larger, then ok you have to deal with putting the pads in and out. However, the pads are like sponges making the top never dry, which feels yucky and unsexy.
If the point of the pads is to hide a person’s nipples, you are practically naked to begin with. I can understand modest people may care, but chances are they aren’t showing their areolas by wearing a see-through color, like a white bathing suit leaving nothing to the imagination. Dark-colored bathing suits tend to hide bumps, ripples, and nipples.
Last week, I ripped the pads out of all my sports bras and swimsuit tops and am pleased with how fast my bathing suit dries! I also don’t have any more shit fits when I take the laundry out of the washing machine and find one of the annoying pads.
Sports bras are meant for support, and we know “support can be beautiful,” maybe I wouldn’t be writing this blog post if the pads were simply sewn in.
I try not to be a complainer on my blog, I really do, but I am sure I am not the only one who gets annoyed by this nuisance.
Anyway, that is all. Carry on. ššš©±
I feel the same way. Drives me nuts when they come out. Why they canāt sew them in is beyond me.
I understand how you feel. I go through the same thing every day putting my prosthetics in my mastectomy bra every morning. Why do they make the bra opening so small?
First thing I’ve ever done over the years is to throw those fu@#ers away. They serve no real purpose except to, as you mentioned, hide the nipple. Screw that. Nipples happen. X