Binder Questions...

i don't know, I'm about a 36 B, bigger than you. i just think#1 it feels better on me. it maybe an individual choice. it is too bad there is no way to try it on in store. but thats why we need stores to carry them. there is a market they just not know it!

i think on me the shaping of my chest is much flatter because of the triple material binding, where as a sports bra is designed to not make it jiggle as much exercising. both have some definite positive effects with flattening compared to nothing or a bra. you will really need to just try for yourself if you really hope to know.

 

well right now id say a snug comfy soft feeling of compression, like a nice hug feels. It is pleasant not painful. i have accidentally forgotten to take it off and fell asleep with it on ..a lot. no, idk what others got that restricts breathing, mine i can play sports in and no problem. baseball was great.

there is soft next to skin layer in front, then the inner tight binding material, then the outer colored breathable material. it looks like a tank top for sports, and some kinds i bet you could work out in as a sports bra.

btw, i got your wall message. i can't message back! get full membership and ill pm u.

 

yeah it was expensive and can't really take back, so i gambled. i guessed i was a large, as asians are scrawny and Americans are big. I think I chose right, i maybe could have squeezed on a medium, but i do think it would be painful. see, you have to get it over the stuff you binding! its not as hard as others wrote, but it is like struggling to put on something, snug, rolls up, you gotta find that hem and get it down first! it is only akward doing it 1st time. i get it on and off pretty fast. it is not painful on.
yeah, better to mess up and get to big, you could get it altered by a seamstress smaller if really important.
i read some people wear 2 or 3 sports bras...and try to say it feels better than a binder.
how?
ouch!
it digs in my trapezius, hy would i want 3 times that?
cost would = a binder then.
i don't get why everybody says underworks either. you saw em, they are medical for old men! not any more comfy than a cast I'm sure. duh!
i only invested in one so far, but since used daily, I'm guessing i need one more for summer. but, how do i figure which is not going to hurt my shoulders, binds correctly, and will maybe be good in humid 90 weather?? :/

ps i will post my wall for now until u get yourself fixed.

 

i think they mean measure inches around chest, cuz you could be scrawny boned or big boned. weight is irrelevant, size is important.

im 5' 6" about 140 lbs.

but i can still take you down girly! so don't get any bright ideas on fun&games.

 

Hello ... I'm not ftm either, but I like the look of a smaller chest when I am wearing guyish clothes.

I tried the 2 sports bras for a while, but it isn't comfortable. Maybe its just the type of bra I was wearing, but it pushes on my traps too much and make it ache after a while. Also, it gets hard to breath.

I also have a underworks one. I guess you don't really like them, but I found that the material is very breathable and it works so much better than sports bras. I actually gained a bit of weight since I bought it so it is a tad too tight on me now and I've actually not worn it for a bit.

DNB, if you don't like the underworks ones, which ones do you get? I live in Canada so its more expensive to ship here.

 

Well Im not a doctor, I just play one on EC.
I have only worn a binder since April and I feel right as rain!
I think some people are doing stupid stuff you and I would not do, and they are also maybe fear mongers. :/
I can't wait for the 2 new styles I bought to get here, it take a long time...order now for summer. I am wanting the option of no sleeve shirts, but I do not shave underarms.
(I only started at age 26 to fit in and wear women's sleeveless tanks, I wish I had not bothered to try it)

Actually there are measurements to take on ankle and wrist to see if you are large, medium or small boned.

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I agree about sports bras!

I got mine from loveboat.com and they run smaller side, so be sure to read instructions for sizing accurately. They have you measure largest part of your chest, around the mountaintop, and just under on the bones, which you add both (metric) to get the number which helps you know what size to get.
I fell into the Large range, though I am rather medium sized person. It fits fine, no problems! Very comfy, no shoulder pain!

 

Doctor Deaf!
Niiiiccce!

Why would a person want to wear 2 binders? Oh, I know, mental health. They think like anorexics: not slim enough! Must make smaller. When they are okay as is.
They must want it stick flat. A MAN has boobs! Yeah some are nearly not there, they look weird, most have pecks and chubby guys have tits. About a size A or B some guys I knew in high school for sure! hehe! Yeah I told them they need a bra.
The bag as I recall was white and had a really small label said Loveboat. It does not say SEXY GAY GIRLS WITH FUCKING BINDERS HOT AND STEAMY INSIDE! no. It was delivered when I was not home by USPS so I had to go get it. Not a big plastic mailer really, and the binder is in a small plastic reusable zipped pouch. I can post a pix my photos if you need me to. It will be less than an inch thick, and 12 inches by 6 inches I am guessing. You will sign for it. So you want to be home when the postman knocks. What I did is after the company emailed me it is shipped and the USPS code, I went on it and had email updates sent, and saw when they planned to deliver. If only I had been home! But you can be.

Okay, so medium boned female bodied flat chest wannabe, measure them peaks and under them and add up the centimeters and that is the size to get. Like if is 71+5=76, then look for if that is Medium or Large, and if right on a border, there is Eenie Meenie Miney Moe!

I wish I never shaved! I had not until that time I wanted to be without sleeves, I had worn socks and sleeves EVEN SWIMMING when age 20 because I did not want to shave. I do not like how shaving is required for me to show my legs and arms, I am not a sex symbol lady, and I do not like how it changed the way hair grows under my pits...I preferred natural.
Don't start if anybody has not, don't obey the crowds...it is your body, and culture is just stupid.

 

USPS, not UPS. different. united states postal service, your regular mailman.

 

you can! get a post office box!

 

good comfort rating!
i think it will do good.
remmy it is not going to make you unnaturally wall flat, it is going to make you look naturally flat.
you will have to post pix on photos when u get it with your tank over it.

and duh, you mean you never thought about a private post box? now you can order whatever you need and not worry about others seeing it.

you owe me! (i am rather brilliant)