If your bra digs into your ribs every time you kneel at the borders, your body isn't the problem.

Standing in the kitchen, your bra feels fine. It's the garden that finds it out.

Kneel to plant out the dahlias and the wire presses up under your bust like a ruler. Bend to the compost bin and the band rolls up into a hard ridge across your back. Reach up to tie in the clematis and a strap drops down your arm, so you're gardening one-handed, hitching it back with a muddy glove.

Then you get indoors and see it in the mirror. A deep red line under your bust, two dents on your shoulders, a band of skin rubbed raw at the side. The bit of the week you love most, written in welts.

Going up a size feels like the obvious answer. It isn't. A looser band rides up even faster the moment you fold forward, and the cups gape so you spill out of the sides.

The soft non-wired ones from the high street? Comfy on the sofa. But they've got thin straps and a narrow band with hooks at the back, so when you bend, all the weight hangs off two skinny strips on your shoulders. They dig, then they slide.

Sports bras squash you flat and are a battle to get off with sore shoulders. Every one of these is built for a woman standing up straight, and you spend half your garden time on your knees. That's not you being difficult. That's the wrong bra for the job.

Here's the bit nobody at the fitting room tells you. An ordinary bra holds your whole bust up from two small places: a wire under each cup and a narrow hooked band at the back.

Stand up and those points sit flat. Fold forward to weed, and your bust swings down and away from you. The wire becomes a lever, pressed straight into your ribs. The band gets yanked up your back. The straps take the weight and slide off.

It's not your shape and it's not your age. It's all the weight hanging off a few narrow points.

The fix isn't softer. It's spreading the hold out so there's no single point left to dig in.

The ShapeChic Original Bra does away with the narrow points altogether.

No wire. The lift comes from the shaped lace cups and the fabric round them, so there's nothing to lever into your ribs when you lean in. Wide, cushioned straps spread the weight across your shoulders instead of cutting a groove. Full sides gather in the spill under your arms. And one wide, smooth back panel sits flat and stays put, so it can't roll up when you bend, and it smooths away back rolls.

No hooks, no clasps. It pulls on over your head like a vest, so there's no fiddling behind your back with stiff shoulders. Sizes S to 4XL, seven colours.

Kneel down and lean into the border. With no wire, there's nothing under your bust to press into your ribs. The lift is still there: you're held up and out, not flattened.

Reach up to the top of the trellis. The wide straps are spread across your shoulders, not perched on the edge, so they stay where you put them. No hitching with a muddy glove.

Bend right over the barrow. The back panel is one wide piece, not a thin band, so it holds flat against your back instead of riding up into a ridge. Peel your top off indoors and the red groove simply isn't there.

And under your fitted top, the full sides and smooth back mean no bulges, no spill. You look trimmer and taller, up to two dress sizes smaller.

This is what changes: you stop thinking about your bra.

You kneel to deadhead and you stay there as long as you like. You stretch for the far side of the bed without tugging anything back into place. You go from the allotment to the shops without changing, because under your fitted top you look smooth, lifted and pulled together.

You stand taller. You feel like yourself again: the woman who loves her garden, not the one counting the minutes until she can take her bra off.

And you stop coming indoors with grooves in your skin.

Think back to that border: kneeling down, the wire jabbing, the strap sliding, the red line waiting in the mirror. You don't have to accept that as the price of loving your garden.

Right now ShapeChic is running Buy 1, Get 2 FREE: three bras for the price of one. One for the garden, one in the wash, one for everything else. Free delivery, tracked to your door, and a 30-day money-back guarantee so you can kneel in it, bend in it and judge it in your own borders.

Pick your size from S to 4XL, choose from seven colours, and claim the offer while it's still running.