The truly intrepid among you may proceed directly to the following link; for the rest of us, some remarks follow the link.

The Beast/Best Of All Sports Bras   

Last year at this time, the BS section of the Mudcat Café had a "Women Only" thread. You can still find it, the thread has not been deleted. The most useful information on that thread concerns the OP and the questions in that post: laundering and general care of women's lingerie.

That earlier thread was longer than necessary because of two kinds of defensive behavior.

One kind was the defensiveness of those readers/posters that the thread topic made them aware of something personally sensitive, and they responded with posts that declared that they had an itch to scratch, and proceeded to scratch said itch verbally in their posts.

The other kind was the defensiveness of those readers/posters that the thread topic made them aware of something personally sensitive, and they responded with posts that concealed the pain -- no, that's not too strong a word -- with defensiveness to the point of rage and disgust.

See what you all have in common? Two extremes of sensitivity. And if you have doubt as to how such defensiveness is conveyed verbally, just search for the inactive "Women Only" thread and read the posts yourselves.   

Whether or not you want last year's history to repeat itself this year, on this thread, is your call.