To Bra Or Not To Bra

To bra or not to bra, that is the question - apparently. There's a recent move for women to go bra-less. I didn't know you couldn't or shouldn't. I always thought it was a choice,  Apparently, the women who opt for this current kind of freedom, feel that somehow they've been denied it, but I recall in the hippy sixties, it was common for women to dress without the benefit of Lycra and wire. I am not sure that most women would be comfortable freeing this part of their anatomies, but I know that some men wouldn't mind at all. Just as staring would become a factor among women and others, if they freed certain parts of their anatomy. Why this is, is the sexual mystique that we all live within. It's a kind of unwritten law we consider to be acceptable under our modesty rules to hide what we certainly know is there. Not wearing a bra might cause somewhat of a situation in a social gathering, and in a way, the idea of it, intrigues me. I am not sure if we are ready to find it acceptable  to "let it all hang out", a term used in the article. Dressing bra-less in a light-weight fabric might cause one to receive a lot of unwanted attention regardless of good intentions. In the piece on bra-lessness, apparently women are flocking to get their new and "free", looks onto social media as quickly as possible. I am, therefore, not sure if their motivations are all that pristine in nature. No pun intended.  It certainly makes one wonder how much of this sudden display, is bravado or simply attention garnering. And why is that? I know many women who would find going bra-less quite uncomfortable since they are more endowed than others who feel it of no concern at all. We are varied in our shapes and weights and personal mores. And one should consider why bras were invented in the first place. I suppose they arose out of the corset era where anything visibly female was either exaggerated such as bustles, or denied such as the wooden fortified corsets. Evening wear in the most decorous eras strangely, was  freeing especially regarding corsets that permitted women's chest not only to bare, but to bear themselves as much as possible: their proud decolletage. Bulges were welcomed all framed in ruffles and lace, but only in the evenings. Not a woman I know, today, finds going bra buying enjoyable. We search often in vain, to find ones that don't pinch, squeeze or let us down. It's a chore of searching, sorting and trying on. And no one has invented a truly easy one of these garments to put on. They fasten mostly in the back. Why? Is it because many women used to have maids standing behind, to help them with that task? Why can't all bras be made to fasten in the front where one doesn't have to go to contortion lengths to fasten those tiny hooks easily and quickly. And straps? They fall down at the shoulders or dig into them or rub in unfriendly ways. The ladies who find bras easiest are the ones who don't need them in the first place. Theirs are hardly-there little lacy bits that are more a pretty excuse than a worker.  Ah well, we shall see how long the movement lasts. Could be but a bulge in time.