The fashion trend that will cost you nothing.

By NICKY CHAMP

If you’re strapped for cash there is one way you can adopt the latest fashion trend without it costing you a cent.

Kim Kardashian’s onto it, Nicki Minaj is a fan, Rihanna and Lindsay Lohan are repeat offenders, and Lara Bingle is the latest celebrity to nip this trend in the bud overnight.

Yep, we’re talking about going braless.

Previously, this trend was mostly for the small-chested among us. Ask your friends, and the under B-cups will admit to going braless all the time (even to work) and your bigger breasted friends will shudder or wince at the thought.

For models like Kate Moss, Candice Swanpoel and Miranda Kerr, stepping out sans bra is practically their off-duty go-to uniform, but a steady stream of well-endowed celebrities, Jennifer Lawrence, Chrissy Teigen, Gisele Bunchen, and Rihanna at every event ever, choosing to go bra free has changed the game.

Whether the freed breasts are threatening to pop under a strategically cutout gown or more casually cut loose under a tank top, it’s guaranteed media attention. How celebrities maintain an air of nonchalance of their bouncing breasts is impressive. I’d want to run back home with my arms covering my boobs if I realise everyone could see my nipples.

Being well above a B-cup, this isn’t a trend for me, but I can’t be the only one who thinks it’s kind of refreshing to see largeish breasts – even lopsided and boobjob-free ones – freed of constraints.

If you regularly go without or are thinking about it, there is a definitive case for it. A recent study found that bras provide no benefits to women – and can actually be harmful over time.

“Medically, physiologically, anatomically, the breast does not benefit from being deprived of gravity,” a professor at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon said.

Overall, the study found that women who did not use bras benefited in the long term, developing more muscle tissue to provide natural support. Does anyone else feel like their whole life has been a lie?

While we’d never, ever prescribe to tell you what you should or shouldn’t do with your boobs, we’d like say that this is well, maybe going a bit too far.

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