Op again. Thanks for all the input. I am a woman, not a man but I have not worn a bra in over 10 years. Also, dd sweats way more than I do. I should have clarified that she is hard to fit. She is a 38 with a large cup size. She currently has a ton of bras but none of them fit her well (and she has been fitted at Soma, Nordstrom etc). She also has at least 20 sports bras but they don’t fit her well either. Dd will be in a communal bathroom so she knows she will have to clean the sink first. She has lingerie bags and a drying rack so it is more feasible for her to wash with her laundry and air dry in her room. She can start with what she has and order more when she is at school.

I have 4 structured underwire bras for work outfits.
Two comfy bras for t shirts
5 sports bras

The only ones i wash every wear are the sports bras. Refreshing to see that is most posters. I would never have space for 50 bras!

I own two. Plus one sports bra. Now I feel terrible.

I own 6 underwire lace bras, 2 wireless nursing bras, and 1 wireless bra. The underwire are my favorites, and what I usually wear. I love all of them equally, and just pick the one off the top of the stack every morning, so each bra gets worn once a week. I prefer hand washing as machine washing, even in mesh laundry bags wears them out faster. I think they also get cleaner with hand washing. But sometimes I’m lazy and machine wash them in a mesh bag. During the summer when I sweat more, I can usually wear them 2, maybe 3 times before they’re smelly. In the winter, they don’t tend to ever get smelly, but I’ll wash them after 4 or 5 wears. Of you handwash your bras, it will be obvious that they’re dirty from just one wear, even if they don’t smell. So I get only wearing a bra once. If I had a larger selection of bras, I would do that. But I have limited space to store clothes in my house and I don’t have the bandwidth to handwash my bras every week, so it is what it is. I only wear the wireless bras for the day that I’m washing my bras. I don’t care about them and machine wash them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10 plus 3 sports bras

I handwash all.

34G

Same here. 32B pre kids, now a pancake shaped 34C....

For those of you who have hundreds, why?! Do you actually use them all or just never throw out old ones?

PP here that has roughly 200. I have roughly 50 that are on regular rotation, 30 that are for specific dresses/outfits, probably 30-40 that are just fun and the rest are for the bedroom. I regularly throw out old ones or ones that don’t look good anymore. I will admit that I love lingerie.

Anonymous wrote:I own a lot but there are only about 5 I wear. OP, are you a man? If you are a woman, why do you believe the store lady about how often your daughter can rewear her bras? the store lady is full of shit.

This isn’t just a lingerie thing.

Companies tell you best practices for a reason. They know no one will realistically follow that way when an issue arises they can say “you didn’t follow our instructions, the issue is on you not us.”

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I can’t imagine having over 50 bras, much less 200. I have maybe ten I use regularly and another ten fancy ones that I rarely wear. And two sports bras.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lady at the store can suck it, put them in mesh bags and wash them on cold. They’ll be fine. Also it’s none of her business how many times your daughter wears them.

This.

I’m pushing 50, and I rotate 3-5 bras. I alternate each day. I wash them in a mesh laundry bag along with my other clothes. Air dry (hang them on a door knob in my closet).

Don’t listen to the salesperson working on commission.

You can rewear them multiple times…just like jeans.

Anonymous wrote:The lady at the store can suck it, put them in mesh bags and wash them on cold. They’ll be fine. Also it’s none of her business how many times your daughter wears them.

This.

I’m pushing 50, and I rotate 3-5 bras. I alternate each day. I wash them in a mesh laundry bag along with my other clothes. Air dry (hang them on a door knob in my closet).

Don’t listen to the salesperson working on commission.

I own a lot but there are only about 5 I wear. OP, are you a man? If you are a woman, why do you believe the store lady about how often your daughter can rewear her bras? the store lady is full of shit.

One for every pair of panties I own. 40-50 I only wear once before washing--just like panties

I probably have a dozen but wear 3-4 regularly. I do not wash them every 2 wearings. And I do wash on cold in a mesh bag. She'll be fine.

^dorm not form

Is DD in a form with community bathroom? There may be no optio for hand washing in a community sink!! Yuck. In which case, you should buy a zippered lingerie bag for washing. And, you should buy a foldable drying rack. When the bras are done washing, she just has to hang them out on the drying rack.