MasterChef Brasil (Band) presenter Ana Paula Padrão told her Instagram about her process of stopping wearing a bra in her daily life. She reports that her relationship with the garment changed during the period of social isolation, and wearing it is no longer an obligation.
“Retired? Not so much. He just changed roles,” wrote Ana Paula, in a photo caption in which she holds a black, lacy, cup-shaped bra. “Why did I use it? Today I believe it is to attend to social conventions according to which “it doesn’t feel right” to go around without one.”
The journalist says that her bras were left in the drawer during the pandemic, and she had to think twice before going back to wearing them with her return to in-person activities. “What sense does it make to wear an item of clothing to make others think this or that about me?”, he mused. “Well, that’s someone else’s problem, not mine. People, what a release!”
The presenter spoke about the issue for the first time in an interview for the talk show “Fala Celio!”, by businessman Celio Ascar Jr. Ana Paula recalled an advertising campaign for a bra made for the brand Valisére by Washington Olivetto in 1987.
When talking about the first bra and the women’s maturation process, she said: “I wore a bra for decades in my life, today I wear a lot less. Because I got tired of the bra”, she laughed. “I’ve never found a 100% comfortable bra, and now I only wear it when it’s part of the outfit, because I want it to show up a little bit, because it has a shine, because it has a lace, because it has a color…”
“But because of the obligation to wear a bra, to look like a more or less demure person… I went overboard,” he said.
In her Instagram post, she continued: “What has changed is to release me from conventional bra use. Now I wear it for myself. I think I came late to that conclusion (I know, I know, bras have been burned as a symbol of female oppression back in the 60s!!!), but, guys, I arrived!”.
In the comments, the journalist’s followers shared their own reasons for using or not using the piece, and even insecurities related to the judgment of others.
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