A whole lot of American women can only wear European bras.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34692742

If you were not aware, there are a whole lot of women, myself included, who can pretty much only buy bras made in Europe, usually Poland or the UK. This is not because we are fancy, but because American bra companies are extremely limited in size range. Economically, shoving as many women as possible into cheaply made 34/36 Bs and Cs is a lot more profitable than carrying well-constructed bras in a wide range of sizes. So if you have a small band size and a large cup size, Victoria’s Secret will only ever hurt you.

. . . Unfortunately for me, they were down to their last two. Not just two styles, literally the last two 32GG bras in the entire store. The girl in the store told me that they weren’t going to be able to order those sizes anymore because … they all come from Europe and no one can pay the tariffs.

Shit.

Then, yesterday, I was looking at the r/ABraThatFits subreddit and saw an announcement that one popular site, AmpleBosom.com (not a porn site, sorry!), will no longer be shipping to the US. Another popular site, Understance, has also paused shipping to the US. Another site, Bravissimo, will only be selling products “unaffected by tariffs.”

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      Fwiw this is in part caused by over reliance on imported goods (also capitalism) followed by psychotic and corrupt trade policies of a dipshit.

      And it’s important to be clear, it’s not that we never had bra manufacturing in America, nor is it that labor is too expensive in America. It’s that’s the conglimerates actively killed the smaller companies with anti-competitive corruption. There exists an excess of demand, but no supply because the companies that sell the bras make more money that way. Market forces are a lie capitalists tell civilians to keep us calm and content, like the tooth fairy or an afterlife.