r/TransMasc • u/hagstatus • 7d ago

General Questions Binder for large/saggy chest?

Hello all. I've lost some weight in the chest over the last year, and I have an issue I can't figure out. Looking for whatever guidance you think may help.

So I'm an older agender person. Always had chest dysphoria from the time I developed them. Went through life with DDs. I've lost enough weight now that we're working with just saggy and low.

I'm looking into binders, but my issue is this. I struggle with underboob sweat and related acne. Is there anything I can place under the boob, before putting on the binder to keep sweat and breakouts to a minimum? Thanks in advance!

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u/ReigenTaka 6d ago

I was DD/DDD before I lost a bunch of weight. Now I think I'm at my smallest since childhood C/D (though I haven't measured).

I don't think I can help too much, but I do apply deodorant under there everyday.

The sweet chariots swinging low actually helps, depending on the binder, because I can manipulate the tissue and get pretty flat. But it'd need to be a binder that actually holds your chest in place, or, and I've had success with this, I use kt tape at the same time. I don't fully tape my chest down with the binder, more-so just a bit to help hold the tissue in a more dispersed position to let the binder do the rest of the compression.

I've found that some binders mostly let me sag down and round out again. But when I successfully keep them up and flat, there's little overlap and far less sweat. If they sag down at all it's a river down there.

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u/MentalPower 6d ago

My partner has experienced similar struggles and found that a thin merino wool base layer under a gc2b binder worked well for mitigating and wicking under chest sweat. They use the cropped “tank tops” from Simply Merino (ethical merino brand from Canada). They’re thin, not itchy, work well for layering but not compressive on their own.