Find a bra that actually fits
Life Kit
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🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Life Kit, from NPR. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey everybody, it's Mariel. |
| 0:07.0 | In 2005, Oprah Winfrey aired this famous segment on her talk show show. So I'm going to ask you to do something I've never asked you to do before. |
| 0:18.5 | This may sound a little crazy, but right now this very second, those of you who are are watching I want you to take off your shirt |
| 0:27.8 | Okay, I'm here to announce that eight out of ten women even more, are wearing the wrong bra. |
| 0:34.6 | The 80% claim is hard to fact check, but there are several studies out there that suggest |
| 0:39.4 | many women left to their own devices are wearing the wrong size bra. It could be that |
| 0:45.4 | they had a bra that fit perfectly and then their body changed. Or maybe they |
| 0:49.4 | never found the right bra because their local stores didn't carry their size or because they just |
| 0:53.7 | didn't know how to get fitted. The thing is if you are wearing the wrong bra |
| 0:57.6 | size that can be pretty miserable. I compare it sometimes with shoes because if you |
| 1:02.4 | don't wear the right size shoe you're |
| 1:04.6 | uncomfortable the whole entire time right and then you also have white feed and narrow feed and |
| 1:08.9 | you have one foot that's bigger than the other, that's all the same with bras. |
| 1:13.3 | That's Laura Henney. |
| 1:14.4 | She's a bra fitter and the owner of the Rakshak, |
| 1:17.3 | a bra shop in New York City. |
| 1:19.4 | Everybody comes here at all ages. |
| 1:22.4 | We have a lot of sex workers that come here. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm specializing in trans fittings. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm specialized in big boob fittings. |
| 1:28.0 | Laura says one of the reasons fit is so tricky with bras |
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