Originally Posted by JennyElf
That's odd. I regularly wear an underwire bra through the metal detector, I haven't managed to set one off in years. I also wear glasses, a watch, and jeans with a metal zipper. I do take off my shoes however since I regularly wear boots with metal in them.
JennyElf,
Underwire doesn't usually set off the walk-through metal detector, but many people get sent to secondary for SSSS or just because the TSA feels like it (continuous screening) even though they haven't set off the walk-through. In secondary, the hand-held wand always in my experience beeps at underwire and even the tiny metal hooks in the back of a bra, providing justification for unwelcome breast groping. IMO, screeners should keep their hands off our breasts and other private parts.
A few posters in other threads have mentioned that their underwire bras will set off the walk-through metal detector. Different sizes and strengths of bra have different amounts of metal.
(oh, and I"m one of the unfortunate 20-somethings who seems to be preferentially selected for continuous screening, particularly when certain male screeners think they're going to get away with doing my breast grope, or at least get to watch.)