Shelf bras are erotic fun in a small package.

If you’ve ever wanted the oomph and pick up of push up bras with a little extra spice, it’s time to try shelf bras. With the same cleavage-enhancing design and fabric, shelf bras don’t separate quite as much as push up bras. Rather than having each breast in a different cup, shelf bras support both breasts with one support mechanism.

One of the more risqué pieces of common ladies underwear, shelf bras are responsible for that “pushed-together” look you may often see on TV or in the movies. You know, there’s usually a club scene with a gorgeous-but-somewhat-dim-witted blonde in a tight spandex dress and snapping her gum. She leans over, and the lead actors are amazed at what they see: two large breasts pushed together to form the ultimate cleavage cocktail. Chances are that dimwitted delight was wearing shelf bras.

While shelf bras do have two separate cups, the support doesn’t lie in the individual cups. Instead, shelf bras have a single band of elastic or spandex running beneath both cups creating a shelf. This pulls the breasts up and together, forming the infamous cleavage. Also, while push up bras tend to have full coverage throughout the cups, shelf bras tend to encourage “spilling” of the breasts. This means that shelf bras stop short of covering the entire breast and most of it is permitted to spill over the top of shelf bras. The nipple is often exposed. Hey, we told you it was risqué ladies underwear. You were warned!

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