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(NSFW) Do you think wonder bras are a form of false advertisement?

Asked by Axemusica (9500points) December 20th, 2009

Not to say that they don’t work, although what would I know I don’t wear any form, lol, but wouldn’t it kind of be like leading someone on?

Lets face it, a great pair is wonderful to catch a glimpse of, but if you get the lovely chance to unveil their majesty, ;) wouldn’t the jig be up? Like, “Surprise, they don’t really look like that.” haha.

Also, not to say we still wouldn’t like them, Just kind of curious and found it funny.

~edit~ By false advertising I do not mean the manufactures advertising. Their advertising is spot on and are saying exactly what the bra is supposed to accomplish.

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Seek's avatar

Ha ha… That’s hilarious.

In some cases, I say “absolutely”. In others, wonder bras are kind of a necessity. Without getting into too much detail—all boobs are not created equal, but for some reason all bras are. Some people need the extra padding in certain places just to make a “normally” shaped bra fit.

hearkat's avatar

I have joked, before the first time I’m intimate with a new partner, about the marvels of modern engineering allowing ‘the girls’ to appear to defy gravity… but alas, I am in my 40s, they are quite sizeable, and gravity always wins. sigh

marinelife's avatar

Are a tight pair of jeans false advertising?

Grisaille's avatar

If this is considered NSFW, then I really wonder what the website I was just browsing is.

Axemusica's avatar

@Grisaille haha, just trying to keep it light hearted. :)

@Marina In some cases I would agree, but there are some jeans that fit better than others as well as bras ? The reason I wrote this is because I just saw a wonderbra commercial and it said, “The appearance of two cup sizes” and was thinking, “dear god, lol”

CMaz's avatar

No such thing as false advertising.

fireinthepriory's avatar

Of course they are. So are all those weird slimming bodysuits you can buy, and control top pantyhose and all that. Even makeup could be considered false advertisement if you want to take it to extremes. But I say, there’s really nothing wrong with that if that’s what you’re going for. The “reveal” might be weird if you add a cup size via wonderbra on a regular basis, I guess…

I use bras the way I use makeup. Some days I wear a sports bra (ok, so only this one time but it counts!). On rare occasions I wear one that adds a full cup size. It depends on what I think will look good with the outfit I’m wearing. Just like some days I wear no makeup and some days I wear eyeliner, mascara and lipstick. Usually I wear a normal bra with no padding and very little makeup… but on certain occasions, I think it’s fun to change my appearance using undergarments.

laureth's avatar

Would using a thesaurus when writing be false advertising? :)

Seek's avatar

@fireinthepriory

Indeed. And sometimes, you need a certain shape to make a dress fit well. No harm in that. ^_^

pjanaway's avatar

The fact they have the name “wonderbra” and people associate it with it being f*ucking amazing. Means they are advertising correctly, its doing its job advertising wise!

filmfann's avatar

My daughter would wear wonder bra’s, and I always told her it was false advertising. Later, she got a boob job, and while she is no longer in “factory assembly line” condition, no one would be disappointed that she wasn’t what she seemed.
I was wondering how women would feel if they found a guy had placed a salami in their pants for the same reason.

Axemusica's avatar

…Removed by The underpants gnomes.

Ansible1's avatar

I think Booty Pop Panties are a much better example of false advertising.

CMaz's avatar

I do luv a good bra story. Keep em coming!

laureth's avatar

@filmfann – “Smaller than I thought down here, but at least there’s a snack!”

Seek's avatar

@laureth

But where’s the mustard?

Dog's avatar

I keep wanting to write a serious answer but am laughing too hard at what @filmfann and @laureth wrote.

dpworkin's avatar

All such things are forms of dishonest courtship, desined to make someone look more like a healthy ovulator than they really are.

sliceswiththings's avatar

Yes!! But they’re all there is! Bra shopping, as an A cup, is SO frustrating. It is impossible to buy an A cup that fits me that isn’t super padded. Every day I feel that I am lying to the world, but the only alternative is to wear a sport’s bra and make ‘em disappear altogether.

My least favorite part of a hookup is when my bra comes off, because he’d in for surefire disappointment.

filmfann's avatar

@sliceswiththings trust me, as a man, that the only disappointment would be if the panties came off, and the guy finds out that you’re a guy.

Axemusica's avatar

@filmfann OMG, lmao, well played my friend, well played! LURVE!

Grisaille's avatar

@pdworkin wonder what that says about my roll of quarters I’m stuffin’.

Dog's avatar

@filmfann I just spit my coffee out- too freaking funny! At this rate not only will I never get to my serious answer but this may end up on the Wiki as a classic!

Zen_Again's avatar

With age and experience comes enlightenment. So, too, with this marvelous gift from god called breasts. You are young, @Axemusica – and thus look at them and think “Big, small, medium, double d, not-as-advertised… I look at them and see only one part of a woman who has decided to let me be a part of her nakedness – and thank the heavens.

See beyond the breasts, for they can be lifted, siliconed, made smaller bigger whatever.

Every woman is beautiful and unique in her own way. Find that beauty. It’s there; and has nothing to do with the size of her breasts.

Axemusica's avatar

@Zen_Again actually this was purely curiousity. I’m not even a “breast man.” I do enjoy them, just not what I think about that much in terms of physical attraction.

Zen_Again's avatar

Oh, but I am a breast man my friend. And a leg man, a thigh man, an arm man starting to sound like an axe murderer now, no pun but especially a brain man.

Which is why I secretly am in lurve with Jeruba. * sigh *

chyna's avatar

@Zen_Again Well put, sir, well put.

SirGoofy's avatar

EVERYTHING that can be purchased is represented by false advertising.

Dog's avatar

Would it not only be false advertising if you were Buying the girl?

Only138's avatar

Naw, it still makes me WONDER what is in them. LOL

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Fact from fiction, truth from diction. Bras that “lift and separate”, “adds cleavage”, “adds one whole cup size” etc, are a fraud, they try to give the illusion of something that is not real. Like taking green dye and spraying over your dead lawn before a perspective buyer shows to give the illusion of a healthy lawn, or painting over the dry rot so it is not seen. Truth be told I would estimate half the women I have seen maybe slightly more do not even need a bra, they just make up reasons why they need one because they are afraid to show “bullets” on what they are wearing.

delirium's avatar

I call my makeup my “lying paint” for a reason.

phil196662's avatar

Ohhhh @sliceswiththings – I know how you feel because the wife is also an A Cup! She tries to find a bra that isn’t padded and they are out there because she likes the way she looks in a fitted t shirt with two speed bumps. She also lives in sports bra’s and crop tops because they are not padded but she has several that have stitching in the thin lining that defines her breast shape – but they ended up being over $40 bucks!

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