You've never seen bras like these (PHOTOS)

DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — Some have owls, others have bottle caps and some even have eyes. But each bra is unique and made to support a cause.

The Chautauqua Quilters Guild has been working on Bras for a Cause for more than a year as a way to raise funds for breast cancer awareness.

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“Several people in our guild have been touched by breast cancer, so we are all very enthusiastic about this,” Gabriele Bullard said during the guild’s regular meeting recently at The Crazy Patch Quilting and Gift Shop. “Everybody’s been creating one and then another one.”

The group will put more than 30 bras up for silent auction March 20 at Freeport’s Arts and Crafts Fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Freeport Community Center. All proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society for cancer research.

“If we can have fun and raise money so we can eradicate this disease, all the better,” Bullard said. “This is a cause worthy of the work, and we’re having fun doing it.”

Bras hung throughout The Crazy Patch. Among them was one titled, “Some Bunny Loves You,” decorated to look like a bunny, with carrots and fur on each strap.

Dottie Richardson, president of the guild, said doing Bras for a Cause has been a way to make breast cancer more widely known.

As a 10-year cancer survivor, she said helping to stop the disease and to prevent other women from going through what she went through is a worthy cause.

“When you get through something as serious as cancer, you have levity,” she said. “Humor gets you through it, and that’s what we’re doing. The reactions we’ve had so far are from pure delight to shear horror. You know how it is, you give quilters an idea and they run with it.”

Cathy Butts lost her daughter two years ago to breast cancer. She said raising funds and promoting regular checkups is important to her.

Butts took the idea of a training bra to a new level by decorating the small brassiere with trains.

“I think the bras capture people’s attention since they’re kind of out there. No pun intended,” Butts said. “It’s been a lot of fun and it has worked as a release to such a serious disease.”