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This is one of the weirdest bras I've ever worn. The padded part sticks out a whole lot, and the stretch lace attempts to rein it in (and fails). My boobs, being bags of tissue and not triangular blocks of cheese, I had a most difficult time getting along with the bra. Also the lace cuts in a lot in the center.

On the positive side, the band is slightly tighter than other Freya bands and the material is really comfortable. Also the color is pretty cool.

Storm colorway

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Updated on Nov 05, 2015 Flag this

With this bra, for the first time in my life, I had grapefruit boobs. It was kind of amazing.

Anyway, I really liked most things about this bra - the band is nice and firm, the straps are supple (though on the short side) and the cups fit just about perfectly. The fabric on the cups and band is luxurious and I keep feeling them (this is, however, a personal problem). The button detail on the gore is absolutely adorable and the gore is high and narrow just the way I like it. The wings are also higher than usual,which is really nice, and the firm, narrow wires feel ... really great against my ribcage.

I'm not a fan of moulding or padding and this bra has both, but it's something I'm willing to live with. The thing I might not be so willing to live with is the gaping at the outer edges of the cups which appear unless I shove my shoulders way back. I've heard other Maddie styles are more closed on top so I'm thinking about looking into those.

I love the feeling of having grapefruit boobs for once, it's very fun, but I prefer having a constant Apparent Boob Size on a day to day basis, so back it goes.
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Black colorway

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Compared to the Cameo version of the Dessous, the cups run really big. Either that, or my boobs changed a whooole lot, in very weird ways. Anyway, the band is loose, as per the rumours. The material isn't that soft, but it's not unpleasant, either. The colors are really nice!

Peacoat/strawberry colorway

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The lace keep sliding down my boob and wrinkling https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" />( Otherwise the fit and comfort is spot on. I appreciate how the straps are smooth and don't have those frill things (lookin' at you, Freya). Not really a fan of the pointy shape, either.

Berry colorway

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First of all, this bra is super cute. I'm not one for pink, usually, but the festive design of the whole thing was really quite charming. And oh, the bows, they're hot pink + orange which are probably my two least favorite colors, but I am so grateful for bows that are neat and straight and don't go crooked and have the tails hanging straight down, and the embedded bow design is so rad.

As expected, the band is super loose, I barely had to pull to get it around me. Also, there are only 2 rows of hooks, sadly. The Freya halfcup shape really works well with my boobs and lifts them up great, and the fact that the wires are, as usual, about an inch too wide doesn't really bother me. The longline part is not very long, but it does provide extra support and is really comfortable. The band wrinkles between my right and left ribcage, but oh well.

Multi colorway

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Bratabase says it's a sister cut to the 28D - Freya » Pollyanna Plunge Balcony Bra (5922) , but as I thought from the pictures, the lace part is massive. It has a lot more inner-projection that then Pollyanna, just like most other Freya plunges.The band is classically giant and the material is not exactly soft but not exactly unpleasant either, and feels kind of hard. The lace portion, aside from being giant, is rather stretchy and loose and slid down my breast, much like the 28D - Panache » Andorra Full Cup Bra (5675) and 28D - Panache » Andorra Plunge (5676) .

Midnight colorway

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The band is very loose (Still loose on the tightest hook) and the cups are very open. I scooped and swooped at maximum ferocity and barely filled out the cups and the edges just kinda curl out. The color is really nice even though I hate orange and I hate neon, so that was surprisingly nice. It's kinda like a muted neon orange. Also the bow is this adorable delicate orange-and-black bow, very Halloween and very cute. The cups were bent in the mail and refused to unbend which was kind of sad, and also confusing since my Thimble Halfcup has creases bu they flatten almost instantly whereas the Rapture's creases persisted even when wearing it.

Neon colorway

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This bra. is. soo. soft. I've never touched the red or blue ones so I don't know how they feel but given the shininess I see on product pages, I thought the feel would be meh at best, but wow this is ridiculously soft. The band is big, though, and the cups are really big/tall. I fill them in then I inhale and throw my shoulders back, and no other time. They were also sort of shallow, which was fine. But gosh. Why are the cups so big??

Blessedly, the band isn't quite as huge as I'd come to expect from Freya, which is nice. And, as you can tell from the bird's-eye-view picture, it gives even little-old-me some cleavage, if you can manage to see it behind the massive gaping cups. Impressive.

Ivory colorway

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This bra fits like a charm. The wires are just right, if not a touch wide, and the fishnet is actually two layers - one stretch fishnet layer, and one semistretch mesh layer, which gives for some nice support and elasticity. The cups are pretty shallow. I'd guess that this bra is probably going to work mostly for self-supporting boobs like mine, since there wasn't much in the way of support - it was more like a very cute encapsulating sports bra.

And cute it is! The velvet straps are a nice touch, they are kind of hard but there was nothing uncomfortable about them. The color pops against the black piping.

There was the occasional wrinkle in the upper section of the cup but other than that practically invisible under most shirts. The band seemed fine on the loosest hook (maybe because of the grippiness of the velvet). Overall it is very dang comfy.

Neon Pink colorway

Updated on Sep 21, 2015 Flag this

The only reason I bought this bra on Asos was because I am shamelessly fond of uselessly strappy bras and I don't own any at all, and this was on sale, so.

But! It was an unexpectedly good fit. The material of the cups is satin with stitches running across the cups all over, making for a super fun texture. As you can see, the straps didn't quite work out as I'd hoped; they kind of cross over each other in unappealing ways and the diagonal strap kept pushing down the lace edge of the cup. I ended up using that diagonal strap as a sort of seatbelt for ... my cup and that worked out fine. The fit was very good, wires slightly too wide for me but pretty comfy, and plenty of support. Because of the strap wonkiness and also the act that the edge of the cup was a seam where to layers of lace joined, there was a visible bump under most shirts. The band was not your typical tight zigzag-stitched elastic; the entire band was a supple band of elastic kind of like the kind people use for bandages. This made the bra exceptionally comfy and was still tight enough, or me, anyway. I have a very high loose-band tolerance, though.
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