If you’re like most women, you dream about the moment you can step through your door and liberate your boobs from their prison of underwire.
But luxury pajama site Lunya has another idea: swapping your pinchy, daytime bra for another, cozier garment. It’s called the Siro Sleep Bralette ($50) — though according to the brand’s founder, “house bralette” might be more accurate.
“We talk about the Postmates guy all the time here,” says Ashley Merrill, 34, who debuted the Los Angeles-based company in 2014. “What are you gonna wear to greet the Postmates guy?”
Well, you can wear her skimpy loungewear to open your door, but because you’re a lady, you might want to have a lightweight bra on underneath it. (Unless, of course, you like to tip in nipple sightings.)
Merrill’s clothing line for glamorous homebodies mostly consists of silky PJs. But when customers started requesting a “sleep bra” to provide additional coverage and support, she introduced the Siro bra in late 2015. The product quickly became a “top seller,” she says.
The Siro is a racerback sports bra made from soft modal instead of a heavier, more structured fabric. It comes in eight soothing color combinations, with dreamy names like “drift” and “cloud.” It’s billed on the site as “a bra to sleep in — yeah, it’s that comfortable.”
Bona fides aside, its existence raises an important question: Do you really need to sleep in a bra?
As Cosmopolitan reports, some women wear them to prevent sagging, but there’s no evidence that keeping the girls shackled at night will keep them perky.
Muscles and skin lose elasticity with age no matter what — and anyway, gravity has less of an effect when you’re lying down in bed.
Still, some busty ladies simply find sleeping in a bra more comfortable, which is why companies like Bravissimo offer a number of versions in sizes D through J.
Merrill says some customers told her as much — “they just don’t want things to feel ‘east-west’ while they’re trying to get comfortable,” she says — though it’s worth noting that the Sleep Bralette only comes in sizes A through C. (For bigger-breasted buyers, Lunya offers the $55 Siro Well-Rounded Bralatte, with wider straps and a heftier double-layer of fabric.)
The verdict: No, you don’t need to wear the Siro bra, or any bra, to sleep — unless you want to.
For Merrill, it’s about offering women some non-underwire support while they bum around the house.
“[Lunya] is what you wear when you get home from work,” says Merrill. “It might not be exactly what you sleep in, but by layering, you don’t have to change too much before you go to bed.”