We all know how a bad bra can easily ruin your day. The band starts to ride up, the strap is digging into your shoulder or the color is just not right and you realize you can see it through your top. You can put all the worries behind you with these companies because they do all of the tough work for you. From providing half-cup sizes, a wide range of sizes, and even nudes for every type of skin color. These 4 companies are definitely ones to know.
1. Naja
Brand: Naja
Year Founded: 2013
Founder(s): Catalina Girald and Gina Rodriguez
Price Point: $$ ( $60-$100 )
Key Features: Wide range of sizes, part of the Underwear for Hope program where 2% of the companies revenue is donated to local charities
Naja, founded by Catalina Girald and Gina Rodriguez, is a sustainable lingerie brand with a great cause. When you make a purchase at Naja you are offered a lingerie bag which is made from woman in Colombia. The program provides marginalized women the chance to work and contributes to bettering that woman’s life.
“Naja’s garment factory primarily employs single mothers of female heads of households where they are paid above market wages with healthcare benefits. We chose to aid single mothers, because many have to choose between working or caring for their children.”
Naja
2. CUUP
Brand: CUUP
Year Founded: 2017
Founder(s): Abby Morgan and Lauren Cohan
Price Point: $$ ( $18-$68 )
Key Features: Wide range of sizing, specialized fabrics
CUUP is a lingerie brand that strives to challenges the norms of standard bra sizes and they don’t take that lightly. Their bras are made from high-performance fabrics like 4-way stretch power-mesh and microfiber. They offer sizes from 30A to 38H, plus various shades of nudes.
“We spent two years making foundational revisions to a woman’s intimate expectations. The result is a collection of iconically unlined bras designed to accentuate, not alter, the female form”
CUUP
3. Nubian Skin
Brand: Nubian Skin
Year Founded: 2014
Founder(s): Ade Hassan
Price Point: $-$$ ( $20 – $100)
Key Features: Wide range of nudes and bra sizes
Introducing a lingerie brand that represents every type of nude. Nubian Skin was founded in October 2014 by Ade Hassan’s who became frustrated when “nude” was only considered one color. She realized how women of color couldn’t find lingerie and hosiery in their own nude and sought to change that. Don’t know your nude? No problem, they help find the best shade for you by aligning the shades to the foundation that you normally use.
4. Third Love
Brand: Third Love
Year Founded: 2013
Founder(s): Heidi Zak and Ra’el Cohen
Price Point: $-$$ ($40 – $80)
Key Features: Wide selection of bra sizes, like half cups, and styles. Partnered with organizations like Support the Girls, Soles4Souls, Good360, and St. Anthony’s to donate bras for women.
Third love has made it their mission to make every woman feel comfortable and confident. They provide bras for all sizes and even have double the amount of bra sizes than most other brands. Sounds too good to be true? It isn’t, they even provide a service to find the right measurement specifically for you, because there’s no one size fits all bra.
