With exercise, whether you’re new to movement, or a seasoned athlete, the right outfit, from your head to your toes, is going to make the experience easier, more comfortable and perhaps, give you the boost you need to keep going.
Colleen’s offers an inclusive range of bras, including first bra fittings, larger cup sizes, broader backs, petite frames, support backs, sports bras and of course front opening, post-surgical bras and prostheses.
The great news about the surge in exposure for peri/menopausal women, is that there are endless sources of information and education for those of us wondering ‘What the hell is happening to me?’
Allow me to start at the conclusion: Get fitted by a professional, it will be worth it. Take it from someone who was convinced she was a DD cup, and is actually a generous F.
Last year, I was professionally fitted for the first time and learnt that I had been wearing bras that were at least two sizes too small for far too long.
“But I’ve always been a 12B!” Probably not. Somehow this mythical size has become the go-to for women everywhere. We honestly can’t tell you the last time we fitted someone who actually was a 12B!
Women are gloriously diverse in their shapes and sizes and still, 80 per cent of us wear the wrong size bra.
Colleen's Lingerie and Swimwear, a local boutique cherished by cancer survivors, has been crowned as a winner of Australia Post’s Local Business Heroes program.
A diagnosis of breast cancer led Gillian Horton to taking over Colleen’s in 2014, a lingerie store which fitted bras for women after breast cancer surgery.
