Dishevelled_Diva

I got this bra from another Bratabase user, and have worn it twice. The bra is beautiful, but it just doesn't fit. I am still having a hard time pinning down my shape, but I am sure that I am pendulous and splayed, and this bra fails me on both of those counts. My boobs are set fairly close together at the top (they almost touch when supported) and REALLY wide at the bottom. The gore is wide enough at the bottom for my splayed gals, but the top is just too wide. It sits on breast tissue on both sides. The fit is ... soft enough that the wires don't leave bruising on my breasts like some, but the cups are far enough apart that it makes it feel like the wires are too wide, when they are actually pretty narrow. If I pinch the gore together, the wires move out of my armpits and the fit improves. If it was great in other ways, that would be an easy fix, but there are other issues.

I am relatively short and pretty high-set, so I love the fairly low cup height - it's hard to find bras that don't stick out of the top of my shirts. But since the entire cup is soft and stretchy, it doesn't offer very much support. My boobs settle in the bottom and outside of the cups, and the top is too loose, despite its stretch. I'm guessing that this would be a problem for most people who's boobs aren't pretty self-supporting, but since mine also long for the safety of my armpits, it was a major issue for me.

The wires seem to distort with very little stretch. They don't seem especially hard, but they don't give much. This is another downside for me, since I'm beginning to think that one breast is wider than the other. More forgiving wires help make both my boobs happier.

Ah, well. The world is full of sheer black bras. Hopefully there's still one out there for me.


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Updated on May 30, 2017 Flag this

I picked up this bra on ebay and expected it to be too big in the cup and too tight in the band, since I have heard that Comexim bands run tight. But was so excited for the chance to try it that I took the chance. Yes, the band is too tight, but not by very much. I have lots of 38's that are every bit as snug. I'll probably wear an extender with it to keep it from digging in over the day, but I was surprised how well it fit.

The cup was also a better fit than I thought. It ... fit perfectly along the wire, with lots of immediate projection. In the future, I will probably go down a cup size, though, since the upper part of the bra is a bit wrinkled for most of the month. (It's a perfect fit for a week or so!) I got this at the same time as a Comexim Dottie in the same size, and I would have to go down two sizes in the cup for that one to look less ridiculous. I don't know if that's a difference between the padded and the soft cups, or if it is a shape issue, but it makes me unsure what size cup I need in Comexim bras.

The bra is prettier in person than it is in the pictures, but it is still a bra that seems to mean business. It looks like a practical bra that is a bit fancy but very sturdy. I feel like a festive peasant when I wear it.
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Updated on Apr 20, 2017 Flag this

Every time I wear this bra I hate it just a little bit more, which breaks my heart, since it is so pretty and give me a nice, subtly uplifted shape. The band is very snug for a 38 -- I have to use an extender to keep from distorting the wire, while the band on 38E panache Ava fits just fine. I was hoping that it would stretch out a bit, but it isn't showing any signs of that so far. More annoyingly, it rolls whenever I sit and I have to readjust in when I get up. On the plus ... side, this is the perfect time for me to pull it back into my IMF, which it acts like it is going to sit in when I put it on, but it is just teasing while it plans its escape. So I'm guessing that my FoB breasts are just too much for it.

The gore and sides are also quite high for my high-set breasts. The gore is okay if I am standing up, but if I sit a lot, it gets quite stabby. The wings aren't poking so much, but they are high enough that they chafe, especially when I am driving.

The cups fit nicely, though maybe a bit wide, (I'm still having a hard time figuring out root width confidently) with a slight minimizing effect. And they creak like a boat every time I put it on.

I wanted so badly for this bra to fit that I pushed the wires from the gore up the other end of the channel and put in a couple of stitches to hold them in place. This helped with the gore but made the sides fit so badly that I had marks in my armpits for days, so I took the stitches out again and considered that experiment a failure.

In short, I don't believe this bra is a good fit for me.
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Updated on Apr 20, 2017 Flag this

This bra is incredibly beautiful, and it gives me very dramatic cleavage. Since it doesn't hurt me anywhere, there is pretty much no chance I'm getting rid of this bra. That said, it doesn't actually fit. I need a lot of projection in the bottom of the cups, and this one is has thick padding right where I am most full, so my breasts push it forward -- the gore leans away from my chest at a pretty sharp angle. Luckily, the cup is structured enough that it doesn't seem to warp in any way, just angle forward, which makes a cup that would ... be too shallow for me almost okay. Not too long ago, I would have been convinced this bra fit me perfectly, simply because it doesn't stab me anywhere (woo hoo!), but the cups are really too small and the band only fits because it is soooooo stretchy, as are the wings, which makes me wonder how long the bra will last. My soft (I wouldn't say floppy, but...) breasts can shape themselves to the cups once they push them forward, though, and the effect is really pretty impressive. So, as a bra that fits, it is a no-go, but as a bra for special occasions, it is an absolute winner - the embroidery is gorgeous and the base color (a deep purplish wine) feels very sophisticated and looks great against my skin. I love this poorly-fitting bra.
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Updated on Apr 07, 2017 Flag this

According to the fit assessment here, this bra fits me pretty well. And that's true in most ways. In general, this is a fairly comfortable bra, especially for hot weather - it's very light and breathable,

That said, the wires in this bra feel very stiff to me, and the side panels seem to give me a strange, segmented shape, that puffs out a bit at the sides. I can make either cup fit at my IMF, but I can't seem to make both of them fit at the same time. It seems like that could be related to my being pretty splayed, but it isn't ... something I'm experiencing in other bras. It may be more related to the gore, which is a bit too high and a bit too wide, but not so much that it is painful. It does seem to have room for my immediate projection, and doesn't usually get pushed down over the course of the day unless I am doing something like gardening that involves constant bending over.

I still haven't nailed down all the aspects of my shape, but the top of the cup fits relatively smoothly (again, most of the month), which is not easy for me to find in a bra without stretch lace.

I like the low height on the side, but the stiff wires don't compensate well for the fact that one of my boobs in not so much bigger than the other, but wider, so the stiff wire/low height can poke a bit if I don't have it adjusted just right during peak boob times. I think a softer wire would pretty much solve this problem for me, but since it isn't a problem all of the time, and I feel pretty good wearing it, I'm okay saying this bra fits.
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Updated on Apr 22, 2017 Flag this

The band on this bra is too small for me, as I knew it would be. I had this crazy idea that if I used an extender on a smaller band, it would result in the wires moving out of my armpits. Which sort of worked, and I might try that strategy again, but this bra still isn't going to work for me.

I had hoped that Ewa's HM cut would work better for me than the SM, but I am going to have to keep looking. It is still way too open at the top for me. The straps are also set very far apart, and leave me with angry red stripes along the edge of my shoulders and a very unhappy tail of spence.

It's a beautiful bra, though. It looks like an old-fashioned mantilla. The cups are also nice and deep, especially at the bottom, and the gore is very narrow. Unfortunately for me, it's also very tall. All in all, not a bra that loves me.

Updated on Nov 04, 2017 Flag this

This is not a bra for my splayed FoB boobs, but I am experimenting on it. When I tried it on, it occurred to me that if I changed where the strap attached to the cup, moving it in a bit, it would not only make the straps narrower, it would tighten the top of the cup. So I moved the straps in an inch on each side, and now there is no gapping on top. I am still trying to figure out what to do about the sides, since they are now even wider, but since my sewing machine went on strike after I moved the straps, I have some time to develop a plan. The cups are still too shallow at the outer bottom, but for some reason they don't seem to push the bra down out of my IMF, instead pushing my boobs in towards the middle. Since I am pretty splayed, I still don't fall out, but I'm sure someone with closer placement at the bottom would escape out the middle.

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Updated on Apr 07, 2017 Flag this

I didn't size up on the band, so it fit far better than I expected it do, though it is a bit tight, but the cups are just ridiculously huge at the top for my poor pendulous breasts. There's plenty of room at the wire, so they are happy down there, but this bra just isn't for me. It's too tall, even though the gore and the wings are a nice height, and wants me to have lots of boob where I have almost none. The 85G Emily I got at the same time s only a bit roomy at the top of the cups, so it is probably more a shape issue than size. Too bad, because it is really cute and cheerful.

Updated on Apr 18, 2017 Flag this

This is one of the few bras I have ever tried that my boobs don't push down my chest over the course of the day! It's nice to have so much projection at the wire without the entire cup getting bigger. I don't have a lot of volume on top and frequently have gapping at the top, but the Bardot is pretty smooth along the upper edge, and the embroidery there is incredibly beautiful.

The fabric is surprisingly stiff, given how sheer it is, but that's okay, since it wouldn't be very supportive if it was softer, and I need it stiff to ... push my splayed breasts in a bit. Since it's so sheer, though, I can really see where the cup isn't against my breast around the bottom of the gore. I can live with that, since it doesn't actually hurt.

My biggest problem is that the apex is pretty high for me. My tissue is soft enough that I can rearrange myself and aim my nipples up into the apex of the bra, but then I get wrinkling along the seams. If I just aim straight ahead, the top of the cup collapses just a bit along the horizontal seam. This isn't a deal-breaker for me, but it does make me shake my head.

The wires seem pretty narrow to me, but I'm still trying to figure out how narrow something needs to be to be considered narrow.
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Updated on Apr 20, 2017 Flag this

Very tall cups, very open on top. My soft, splayed, mostly full on bottom breasts look like they are cowering in the bottoms of the cups. Very pretty, but definitely for someone more FOT.

Updated on Apr 29, 2017 Flag this