Yea - the same thing happens to me - if I wear looser clothes my bones maintain a nice large/extended shape but tight clothes make everything very uncomfortableThat's a good point -- the stress of fitting into the fashions of this particular society. I think many of the clothes made for women have become more formless, especially compared to 1940/50s style hourglass dresses. Its cliche but the tall skinny supermodels look great in fashionable modern clothing, but the styles don't always translate well onto other body shapes. I think in other cultures, like say India, the women wear more comfortable clothes and still manage to look very attractive.
Yeah its the bra that digs into the shoulders and messes with the skeletal system most. I only feel compelled to wear it when I'm going out or doing physically demanding chores. I'll see small chested women go bra-less but for the large chested it remains taboo.
I'm wondering if big, saggy breasts are the way they are supposed to be - female primates all have saggy breasts regardless of type of primate and cavemen sculptures of their dream girl always depict them with huge, saggy breasts - I think these cavemen females will be a lot closer to ideal than women who wore dresses because they had a lot less restricting the growth
Even before bras - the paintings/images of females in 1800's tend to wear tighter clothes in the upper body so no surprise many had smaller breasts