Author 丨 Samadhi
This year's double 11, as "comfort" has gradually become a new standard for women to buy underwear in recent years, "no size underwear" has occupied half of the underwear market. Once upon a time, the public's perception of "comfort" was vague, what did the size of underwear, the shape of the cups, and the thickness of the chest pad mean? The answer is also very vague. In search of an ideal piece of underwear, most women, with fragmentary experience and physical intuition, keep trying and making mistakes.
Buckle up your underwear and the sense of restraint begins.
This feeling is accumulated little by little in the process of work. Fang Yuan has been working in the real estate industry for 8 years, mainly responsible for the management and supervision of construction projects, spending at least 2 hours a day between the office and the construction site. There was a lot of noise on the construction site, and she had to raise her voice and wave her arms heavily to complete the communication with her colleagues.
Fang Yuan lives in chongqing, a famous "stove" city, and she remembers summers getting hotter and hotter every year. What she remembered best was that every time she returned to the office from the construction site, her underwear was soaked with sweat, and the breast pad sponge of the underwire was wet and sticking to the skin, smelling of sweat.
Every summer, she chooses breathable and sweaty clothes to reduce the burden of going out, especially underwear. She usually wears 75B underwear, she always chooses underwear with a smaller bottom circumference, so that the underwear can tightly wrap around her breasts, and when the bottom is tightened, she can reduce the number of times the underwear runs up, reducing the embarrassment that outsiders can't see.
But the tingling sensation of the skin being tightened always reminded Fang Yuan that his body was tightly wrapped in a piece of underwear, airtight.
So the first thing she does when she comes home from work is take off her underwear.
She also tried not to wear underwear, only to paste the breast sticker, but the quality of the breast patch is uneven, and after sweating, the itch is unbearable.
"I feel like I've been wearing underwear for so many years, it's like I'm wearing a lonely one." Fang Yuan shared with his girlfriend the frustration of buying underwear, "Why is it that Apple's mobile phone is constantly iteratively evolving, but my underwear has never evolved?" Why is my experience in lingerie always uncomfortable? ”
The question of how to buy a comfortable underwear has also plagued Li Yingjun for a long time. After entering puberty, Li Yingjun's first underwear was bought by her mother for herself, the bottom circumference is composed of hard steel rings, and the cups are filled with thick sponge pads, since then, underwear has become Li Yingjun's first choice for buying underwear, for a long time, she believes that the steel ring has better support, can support the chest of her own D cups, to avoid sagging.
But the underwire always "pressed tightly" to her breasts, and this sense of restraint became particularly pronounced when Li Yingjun was most anxious in her emotions — in order to soothe her emotions, she chose to undo her underwear.
A few years ago, Li Yingjun worked in a media outlet, and after breaking news instructions arrived at work group chats, Li Yingjun used to spend five minutes alone in the newspaper's toilet cubicle. In the cubicle, she unbuttoned her underwear on her back, and the pressure on her body instantly decreased to zero, as if she had unloaded the burden of life. For these five minutes, she emptied her brain in this sense of lightness and took deep breaths in order to cope with breaking news.
Although from the outside, women's body lines become more fluid after wearing underwear, behind this beautiful line, there are negative feelings everywhere. One of Li Yingjun's familiar physical sensations is that his chest is always tightly strangled, and they exist with such pain, adding a fire to the anxiety at work. Therefore, after wearing it for 8-10 hours a day, the first thing Li Yingjun did when he returned home was to undo the buckle behind his back and let his chest leave the steel ring.
Almost every woman has experienced frustration in choosing the right underwear for herself: it is too difficult to choose a underwear that fits the right size and fits the right size.
Fang Yuan has tried to rely on algorithms to buy underwear on major e-commerce platforms. After entering keywords, big data will recommend the corresponding brand underwear according to the size of her cups and chest, and Fang Yuan will study the size for a while, look at the appearance again, and then decisively place an order. But the result was not satisfactory, Bought dozens of underwear, still did not make her feel comfortable, empty cups, up, sweaty, not close...
In the history of Fang Yuan's underwear exploration, what touched her most was a "half-cup underwear", which was similar to a bandeau and easy to put on and take off. She saw that the style on the poster was good, and she wanted to wear a bare-shoulder top, so she placed an order. As a result, the underwear has a serious empty cup on the upper body and is not able to adjust the elasticity due to the lack of shoulder straps. Fang Yuan believes that there is a problem with the size of the underwear - he usually wears 75B, but the size of the underwear is 34B, which is also a B cup, but the calculation method of different brands for the bottom circumference is different. She thought to herself that this lingerie was not designed for girls with small breasts.
The dozens of underwear that Fang Yuan had bought could not achieve "no empty cup", so she began to have a subconscious action - grabbing the shoulder strap with both hands and lifting it back, and the gap in her chest was reduced. As a side effect of this movement, she often felt her shoulders sore from tight shoulder straps when she left work.
It is difficult to buy underwear that fits the chest, and it is also the underwear cognition that Fang Yuan formed in middle school, and even, she thinks that the underwear is not suitable for the chest.
Every morning before going to school, Fang Yuan used to put his chest very well, put the chest and the meat on both sides into a underwear with his hands, and then tighten the shoulder straps. She thought she had achieved the standard effect of wearing underwear —gathered and straight. But before the morning class was over, the forced gathering began to fail, and she felt that her underwear seemed to crack wide from top to bottom, and sometimes the shoulder straps would slip quietly down her forearm.
At this time, the 29-year-old Fang Yuan has been buying underwear for more than 10 years, and the average 3 months have eliminated a piece of underwear, and the price ranges from 60-300 yuan. After listening to her complaining, her girlfriend suggested that she try Ubras "size-free underwear", which is elastic, soft and breathable fabric, and wears it all day long.
This is the starting point for Fangyuan to buy "sizeless underwear", before she never knew that choosing underwear can be so simple, as long as you choose your favorite color and style, you don't need to worry about size.
On the other hand, the consciousness of pursuing comfort is also being stimulated by the strong stimulation of "discomfort".
As a surgeon, Wang Huan even felt that underwear was a burden to her. The long working hours and frequent changes make it easy for her to put on and take off underwear as an urgent problem for her to solve. She walks into the hospital almost every morning at 6 a.m. and doesn't go home until after the surgery around 9 p.m. She changes her clothes at least 5 times a day, changing into surgical gowns, plainclothes and pajamas, of which she needs to take off her underwear 3 times and put on her underwear 2 times. The buckle on the back becomes rougher at this frequency of changing clothes, constantly rubbing against the skin.
After 7 years as a doctor, Wang Huan has been exploring what kind of underwear can make her devote herself to work and no longer be distracted by the "discomfort" of underwear tightening her body. She did not expect that in the winter, the intern doctors in the unit had invented a more convenient way to dress - they put underwear underwear or sweaters outside. In the dressing room, she had seen several intern doctors enter the door wrapped in down jackets, take them off, and then put them on before changing into surgical gowns. These students often take a shower after the previous day's surgery, don't bother to put on their underwear, and go straight to sleep as soon as they get home.
Under the recommendation of colleagues, Wang Huan purchased a piece of size-free underwear, after wearing a long time without size underwear, Wang Huan gradually got used to the comfort of not being bound and easy to wear and take off, if one day is too tired, she simply does not take off her underwear to sleep directly, and the next day she wakes up and does not feel that there is a burden on the body.
Comfort is actually a choice, which is the conclusion he came to after experiencing the extreme discomfort caused by underwear to himself.
When wearing a work uniform and running around in the summer chaoshan, He Xin had a sentence in his mind: Women are sometimes really difficult. What makes her feel difficult is the summer heat. As a manager on the automotive glass production line, He Xin needs to follow up the production situation in the factory for a long time. The factory building is made of tin sheets, the indoor temperature is often as high as 39 degrees, and at least half of the rooms are not equipped with air conditioning. In the factory, she often felt that her chest was already soaked, but fortunately, the overalls were wide and not easy to be noticed.
Really catching up with the skin discomfort, He Xin would go to the toilet to scratch it. By the middle of the project, the length of work was often doubled, sometimes until the early hours of the morning. He Xin had imagined that she would not wear underwear to work, although others may not see this change, but she still feels embarrassed.
After starting the job three years ago, she was looking for a lighter, looser underwear. This summer, He Xin saw the "small cool breeze no size underwear" recommended by Ouyang Nana on the short video platform, and after she ordered the same model, she felt that it was indeed more breathable, although she was still sweating, but she could feel that the body was refreshing. Sometimes, while running around, she trances into thinking she forgot to wear her underwear that day.
Fang Yuan, Li Yingjun, Wang Huan, and He Xin all noticed a phenomenon: when female friends around them talked about buying underwear, they paid more attention to their true feelings and no longer valued "gathering" and "standing tall".
Out of professional habits, Li Yingjun is a loyal audience of e-commerce live broadcasting, she likes the lively atmosphere in the live broadcast room, and there is a kind of happiness and fulfillment of shopping while watching variety shows. In via's live broadcast room, she bought the first sizeless underwear, and the anchor's recommendation that "wearing it is as comfortable as not wearing it" attracted her to place an order.
After placing an order, Li Yingjun began to search for relevant information about the underwear brand on the Internet, and she joked that this is an "occupational disease", and even buying underwear must check whether the brand is reliable or not. She found that the lingerie brand claimed to have studied in the fields of materials, ergonomics and fabrics.
But she still decided that everything should be based on the feeling of wearing, and if it was not comfortable, she would return it immediately and not repurchase it.
After the big-breasted girl Li Yingjun put on the sizeless underwear for the first time, she felt that what Wei Ya said was not false, it was indeed very comfortable, the fabric was soft, and it was also very breathable to wear, but the gathering and supporting force were indeed not as good as the underwear underwear. She wore no size underwear to go out for interviews, business trips, no longer tied to the anxiety, she even often felt that she did not wear underwear, and then she changed the underwear at home to no size underwear, two months ago, she found that Ubras launched a new "soft support underwear", a new increase in support functions, but the comfort is not reduced, which is just needed for her big breasts.
Li Yingjun, who has been a journalist for 5 years, understands the importance of making herself comfortable, and when winter comes, she changes into a four-piece set of warm velvet bedding, bright yellow home cotton slippers, and a projector that can lie down and watch movies... Being surrounded by "comfort" makes her feel happy and down-to-earth, and also makes her more able to open her senses and seriously experience every tiny feeling in life.
She said she liked a passage that the Polish poet Szymborska said in his Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance speech:
"In the language of word-by-word poetry, nothing is ordinary or normal—any stone and any cloud above it; any day and any night that follows; and especially any existence, the existence of any man in this world."
It is also unusual to make yourself comfortable, and the inner strength that comfort brings to people can make you more determined and calm in the face of the storms and hardness of life.
(In order to protect the privacy of the interviewee, Fang Yuan, Wang Huan, Li Yingjun, and He Xin are pseudonyms)