STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Tati · Chanel

how often do you wash your bras?

Kitty · Hermes

I hand wash all of mine about once a month.

luckylily · Gucci

I don't really have a system. I just toss them in a gentle load when I feel like they need it. I don't wash my shirts after every wear either tho.

TheLovelyLady71 · Hermes

Gosh - I guess I'd have to say 'maybe' once a month, when I'm in the mood for washing them. I wonder how to wash my 'water bra'. Any suggestions?

Kelly · Hermes

I hand wash bras once every week or week and a half. During that week, I usually wear 4 of them in a rotation (I always wait at least one day before wearing the same bra again). I use forever new lingerie soap and I can tell that the elastic has been restored after the wash. I usually hook them at the first or second hook the first wear after I wash them, and one tighter after a wear or two. So I can't really bear to go more than a week, for sanitary reasons and to keep my bras in good shape. Of course, after the week I only was the 4 or so that I actually wore the week before.

Bastet · Kate Spade

I try to wash them after I wear them a few times. Usually, after I wear a bra, I end up hanging it on m y dresser draw knobs instead of putting it back in the drawer.

So, after I get sick of seeing bras hanging from my dresser, I wash them.

dangergirl · Kate Spade

usually every 1-2 weeks

ico · Dooney & Bourke

usually I handwash every 2 uses

alagirl · Kenneth Cole

I wash mine after 2 - 3 wears.

Farrah · Marc Jacobs

When it stinks

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Suasoria · Chanel

Funny, I was just thinking about this recently. I'm with Bastet; when I get sick of seeing them hanging on the hooks behind the closet door. Every 2-3 weeks, probably.

Hand wash/hang dry, mostly. Then as they start showing wear and tear and become "around the house" bras, they go in a zipper mesh bag in the machine/hang dry.

I also rotate as much as possible and don't wear the same one twice in a row. And if I've been doing sweaty work in the yard or something, they go down the laundry chute posthaste, even if it's only after one wearing.

I have a friend who claims she washes her bras after EACH wear. Sometimes I think she's got OCD, though.