As a girl turn into a young lady, her parents usually advise her to wear bras when she reaches her adolescent years. That has been passed from generation to generations that girls should wear bras as they age. Though there have been no medical reasons that have required wearing bras for all women and girls. It was actually optional.

Reasons behind wearing a bra varies from tradition, culture, personal comfort, peer pressure, social norms, aesthetics to special medical causes that allows bra to create illusion or visual solution to breast disorders. Bras really do not have medical necessities.

Wearing of such undergarment is not mandatory and depends on the discretion of the woman who wants to wear it. Though there are some companies that require their employees to wear such because of the nature of their work. What bras do is just hold the breasts according to its frame. Then the shape provided by the bra would then be gone as soon as it is unworn.