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" Don&amp;#039;t be fooled by its pretty exterior \u2014 the T-shirt bra is one tough garment. Not only does it need to be tough enough to handle years of supporting your chest, but it must also be delicate enough that it doesn&amp;#039;t show through a T-shirt or other light top. In our hunt for the best T-shirt bras, we asked 20 women to wear the bras for at least two days, and evaluate them for their ease of use, performance and appearance. The bras also endured rigorous durability and strength testing in our Textiles Lab. An Inside Look at Bra Testing  Fit is the most important part of picking out a bra, and also the hardest to get right. After wearing the bras for two days, we asked our testers to assess how the size of the bra lined up with their expectations, how well it fit them, and how comfortable it was to wear all day. Choosing an outfit to wear in the morning is hard enough; putting on and adjusting your bra should be simple. We asked women to rate how easily they were able to put on and take off each bra, as well as adjust the straps.   Let&amp;#039;s be realistic: Though hand-washing is the ideal, who has the time to hand wash their bras every wearing? To replicate years of wear, tear, and washing, we performed a number of endurance tests to see how well each of the bras could handle the pressure. We machine washed each bra five times in lingerie bags using a mild detergent, air-dried in between each washing, and then judged how well it held up. We also stretched each bra to the max and then measured how much it had changed in size. We looked at shrinkage, and measured how much each bra had diminished after it was washed in a mesh bag in the washing machine and air-dried.   A T-shirt bra is a bit like make-up; it looks best when you don&amp;#039;t even notice it&amp;#039;s there. Other types of bras (like demi-cup or half-cup bras) are designed to be sexier and more prominent, but a T-shirt bra&amp;#039;s sole purpose is to be forgotten. So when we asked participants to rate the appearance of bras underneath a T-shirt, they we asked them to specifically judge how inconspicuous it was.  To find out how our test bras fared, check out our full reviews. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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