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Ok - someone please tell me the lace trim at the top of this bra softens up with washing. Cause if it does, it's going straight to the sink. Right now, I want to claw it off my chest. Since I practically stole it for $14, I reallllly want to make it work. The itchy though, oh the itchiness. This is why unlined bras and I haven't agreed thus far.

Back to the bra.

Pros: Nice firm band. 3 hooks - thank you Curvy Kate! So pretty, the "night" color is a stunning cobalt blue that is very flattering on my tan ... olive skin, and I can see how the nude and pale pink colors could be quite sexy. And the soft polka dots and silver trim and details are great little extras. Cups don't close in as much as the Bardot does, so there's no quadding. I feel supported and lifted, with a nice natural shape. The rest of the cup minus the lace trim isn't unbearably itchy, although I wish the whole thing was cotton lined.

Cons: My smaller boob doesn't quite fill the cup at either the top or the bottom, so there is some wrinkling on both that you'll probably notice in pictures. The lace feels like it's made of pine needles.

I like it. If I hadn't gotten it so cheap, I wouldn't have ever considered this bra. So really, it's a keeper.

UPDATE: Never softened up. So itchy. Too wide and shallow.
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Night/silver colorway

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I got this lovely bra specimen from the amazing CurvyCandy - thank you so much!

Firstly - if you'd told my 32DD-wearing-self a year ago I'd be wearing a 28G bra today, I'd have laughed you all the way to China. Secondly - what a pretty bra! Love the glacier color and the buttons and the preppy little stripes and the fact that it's not PINK like every other bra I've had lately. Thirdly - holy boobs, batman! Umm, I definitely have some boobs in this bra.

Wires - I measured 5.75" wide. *update* now, with tissue migration, they are too wide. ... But the molded cup masks that. Once I get pics up I'll probably do a fit request just because I definitely feel I am on the right track with the 28G Decos. Are there Decos that aren't *quite* so... round... on top?

Band - Good so far. Hooked nicely on the loosest hooks, could do the middle hooks. 28 bands, FTW.

Cups - so.molded. Seriously. Boob armor. They stand up on their own. I measured 9.25" depth - less than what I expected it to be. I don't quad at all, but there is a tiny bit of space between the top of my boob and the bra cup. If I reach forward, there's enough space to hide my cell phone, loose change, and take my lunch to work. They also tend to gap at the corner of the cups where the straps attach - similar to my Charlotte that tried to saw my armpits off, only less uncomfortable. But they give me such a pretty, lifted, rounded shape that it's kinda forgivable. I see what you did there, Freya. You made a bra that asks for beach ball boobs, but made it in such a way that it hides boobs that aren't beach ball shaped.
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Glacier colorway

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I sized down from my usual 28G for this since I heard Freya's padded half cups and decos run a bit smaller than their unlined offerings, and that was the correct move here. Love the white and pale orange colorway, the little polka dot bow accents are adorable. VERY snug band for Freya! Maybe they got a clue. Sub-28s would like this. I measured it at 27.5" stretched, and it doesn't feel like it'll stretch out easily.

Wires are 5.5, cup depth is good, nice immediate projection. The lace is not stretch and does close in a bit, but not too much for ... me since I'm even-to-FOB. Not a good bra for FOT's. Technically, it fits pretty well. Visually from the front it looks good. It's soft and snug and supportive. But the cup/lace trim is just a bit too tall and full coverage in the front for my taste, and there's a slight shape incompatibility at the diagonal seam where I don't quite fill it out, and it gives me a slightly pointy shape. I don't do pointy. For those reasons alone, it's going back.
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White colorway

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This is a gorgeous bra, really. And I'm sad it doesn't work for me. The cups are the shortest I've ever met, so fantastic for short roots. It fits my smaller side fine, but cuts in on my larger side just enough that it's not justifiable to keep it.

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I'm finding lately I'm a 28G or so in molded cups, and a 28FF in most unlined bras. Is it common to be a size down in unlineds? Works the same for the Freya unlined bra I tried vs their padded half cups or Decos. Anyways, I searched high and low for a 28FF swan print and couldn't find it anywhere, and since I wanted to try this bra so bad and was so in love with the swan print, I settled on a sister size and prayed the band would run tight.

Well, it's not a tight band, but I've worn worse. It's on the ... middle set of hooks. I think the swan print is a love/hate thing - either it's your thing or it's not. I think it's quirky and cute and different.

I really, really, really like this bra. Even though it's not perfect, I like it a million times better than the Lucy, because it's not mesh and not lace and doesn't itch! At all! That's huge for my sensitive skin. I like it enough I've worn it the last two days.

There's wrinkling at the top in my smaller breast and minor quadding in my bigger breast when freshly scooped. I swear that's a problem in every single bra. My right boob would be swimming in a 28G or 30FF though. The quadding goes away as my boob "settles" - someone on ABTF mentioned it could be because I have soft tissue and it's easy to over-scoop tissue into a bra that isn't really breast tissue, and since my tissue is soft it settles down quickly. It made sense.

This is the narrowest cup width I've tried to date, measuring 5.25. It's not uncomfortable, although I feel like maybe the wings and/or wire come up a bit short on my left & bigger side. I took my 5.5" wide Deco off a couple nights ago and took pictures of the wire indentation marks and they're spaced away from where I believe my root is, and also below my IMF, so I really think narrower and more projection is better for me, assuming I've correctly identified my actual root.

When I raise my arm, there's a vertical wrinkle all up the side of the cup, I have no clue why. This is the first bra I've ever owned that brings my boobs to the center and into my frame. It's crazy! It feels like a very uplifted, rounded, centered shape, and it's good enough that I might hunt around for another one.
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Swan print colorway

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I got this from Kerniss. It was supposed to have alterations, but now we aren't sure it does. I don't think it would fit me if it did. The wires are nice and narrow and the cup barely fits. After scooping & swooping, I have to kinda reverse scoop the bigger left side back into the cup. After that, the gore tacks nicely, and oddly enough it gives a very minimizing appearance. I wonder if I had this half a size up, if it would be just as minimizing. At any rate, I like this bra because it prevents boob-tent under my shirts.

Pattern is cute, bows are cute, it's a cute bra. 3 hook clasp, which I like. Typical Comexim good quality, narrow wires, and allowance for projection.

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Got this one secondhand as well, and it's a strange little bird. I've now hit all 3 of my potential sizes in Comexim, and still don't have a clear answer haha.

The cups are supposed to be reduced as well as the gore lowered. I'm not sure if having a higher gore would help with the shape issues here. It's not a terrible fit, but it's kind of a teardrop shape? I feel like there's not a lot of lift or support going on here. There is some gapping on both sides at the top of the cups, so if these are reduced cups, I wouldn't want to meet the standard ones! There is also gapping close to the gore on my smaller side and I feel like my inner fullness could be better contained than it is.

Otherwise, it's ok. Wires are good, band is good, immediate projection is good, straps are a bit wide but not uncomfortably so.

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Bought this for the 12 year old and the band runs very small. Cups are pretty shallow, and very open on top. I can't comment on fit personally, but she fits a 30D Parfait Madeline perfectly and this was both too small in the band and "just not right" as she put it lol. I would say it probably fits more like a 26DD.

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Not quite working for me. It's not as awful as some strapless bras I've tried, but unfortunately it's still quite wide and shallow. The band is too stretchy. The wires reach around to the back of my underarms. I'm constantly tugging the thing up all day. It squeaks when I move around. I only wear it when I absolutely HAVE to for a certain shirt or dress. I've gotten a lot less picky about my bra straps hanging out.

Ivory colorway

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This is my 2nd try with this bra, and will not be my last! It's too gorgeous not to find a good fit. I think I reviewed many of the aesthetics in my review of the 60HH, but if I didn't: gorgeous neutral beige shimmery cups overlayed by hunter green lace + a gore charm + lots of other little details = pure beauty and uniqueness.

Since my 60HH was a third-or-fourth-hand Poison Ivy, nobody was sure if it had alterations, but the seller didn't think it had reduced cups. Like I mentioned in my adventure, I'm now thinking it HAD to have been reduced. ... I bought this 60J new directly from Comexim and decided not to ask for any alterations, partly based on my assumption the 60HH was not reduced and that one full cup size up would yield a better fit and also partly because it was returnable to Comexim if for some reason it didn't work. Unfortunately, there's a HUGE difference in how the 60HH fit and this one fits. While I fill out the bottoms, sides, and center of the cup, there's a good inch of empty space at the tops of my new one's cups. So, I've decided the 60HH was reduced, and I'll need to order a reduced cup 60J for this particular style and probably most Comexims I pick going forward.

I am so sad, because Comexim is on vacation right now so it will be probably 6 weeks before I can have a replacement in my hands. But ladies, this is such a gorgeous bra. It really is a fantastic addition to your lingerie wardrobe. I will not give up on it until I find the right Poison Ivy for me!! The wires are wonderfully narrow and the cups are projected and the shape is just perfect for me, and I'm a huge sucker for hunter green anything.
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