It is that season again where my current bra rotation is wearing out and starting to look shabby. I am sad to see some of my favourite bras go - all the lovely well-fitting Mimi Hollidays in their smooth silks and the bright Freya florals. Sigh! But then I look through my bra stash and get a little giddy about the new patterns and shapes. The movies I will watch as I make the necessary alterations! Also, the new matching undies.... Swoon!
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After a lot of measuring and confusion, I know for sure I am very splayed and pretty soft, medium set, FoT, and inner full. I think I have maybe wide roots, a little bit conical, and shallow…
At first I thought maybe I had super tall roots but I think that I have a chunkier side chest area leading to the ... tail of Spence. It’s a little confusing because some parts of my upper breast I can feel my bones through it, but since my tissue is soft, it can easily be pushed up to cover the bones as well. It’s been super confusing to find the edge of the roots on the side!!! I am never sure what wire shape is good
I figured since I’m shallow that I should try balcony cups— so I tried the btempted foundations balconette in 32DD which is the ABFT calculator size, which fit pretty much exactly without spillage, until I started moving around and the migrated tissue/bit leading up to the tail of Spence spilled everywhere and it gapped a lot. This seemed to be the case for the t-shirt bras I tried on at Victoria’s Secret a month ago when I started the bra testing journey!!! At the time I was confused because I would get spillage in the center with the 32D thanks to inner fullness, and tried to size up to 32DD
I’m currently thinking of combatting the migrating tissue, which currently is always making contact with my arm, by trying out side support bras… maybe with a more flat/wider angled center gore for the splaying, and a balconette style open cup thing from Natori, Skarlett Blue, and B’Tempted, maybe even Satami/Mode Marie (recommended by bratabase) if I figure out my size!
Do you guys think I’m heading in the right direction? Also, does anyone have any recommendations for mesh bras, or perhaps natural fabric bras for those with sensitive skin? I think I’m floundering because there are so many things to look at and I have so many things I’m trying to keep in my brain.
I’ve ordered the skarlett blue spellbound and btempted no strings attached contour balconette— I hope they work out!!! Fingers crossed and likely will end up asking for fitting help when they arrive
PS: how many people do you usually have data on in your recommended bras? Many of mine are between 1-5 ish, and I wonder if my boobs are just weird and my recommendations are just too rare to find things despite being a very normal smaller size
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I do have some pictures from an earlier fitting— I think I’ll try to clean up those pictures and post in fitting help first then! Thanks jazzy
*Edit- I ended up returning them before measuring them so I think I’ll just have to wait
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Dear " JJ "
I am not posting fit checks on adventures. In fact, my last adventure was about purchasing bras. You're literally removing every one of my adventures saying they're against the rules when they're not even fit checks. ✌️
Now THIS , THIS IS against the rules. Not me posting about buying new bras. Buying new bras is ... an adventure, unless you were taught a different dictionary than I was?
If this gets me blocked, so be it. I'm tired of being targeted on here for doing absolutely nothing wrong so here is something wrong. Unless... since I'm posting this while on my abtf journey, this is technically an adventure since you targeting me is part of my journey so it technically can be considered an adventure. You've made it an adventure by targeting me day after day.
Sincerely - someone who has 2 years left of law school. Aka - someone who knows what can be considered an adventure both legally and morally.
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Hmmm.. spirit of the site is getting sullied. Hopefully this issue gets sorted out behind the scenes and not in such a public arena. Anger and lashing out kills a site!
Please all, post some lovely thoughts and pictures about bras and what we love about the hunt for a well-fitting bra that makes the girls look and feel great!
Yeah? I did. New bras I ordered ON THIS "ADVENTURE"
Admins ruin this site just as they do on reddit.
I did absolutely nothing that people don't do daily.
Why do I need a fit check to check the fit of bras I literally just ordered? Hmm. Doesn't make sense.
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Yasmin's tag only has a band size for each country, with a large 'FF' printed to the right of them. It's inaccurate. It says Things about the company's internal problems that they release products without accurate cup size for each system, expecting consumers to guess at it (UK FF? US 32FF??? lol STFU Panache u absolute clowns).
So anyway. Welcome ... to my review of Yasmin, one of many in the ongoing series of purchases 'This B Run Extra Deep, Deep', because that's my main priority with any/all bras, ever. Please suspend hopes/expectations of pushup-y, shallow, compressive cups because we don't do that here whenever avoidable... If this intrigues, read on brave traveler!
On first glance Yasmin appears to be a flirty/flimsy/strappy little number with no real capacity to do anything but look cute for a few hours before being flung drunkenly to the farthest shadowy corners of disappointment in a fit of angst. Nay. It's dainty, non-fused airy mesh and breezy lace layers give good structure, even if they do not allow any ease for extra spaciousness. And it's shape is stupidly projected by several sizes for a narrow, immediately projected, bottomfull friendly fit with an emphasis on inner fullness for a shorter root, topped off by a very tall wing and short armscye which help it herd things back to the center...
...But I personally don't agree with things that push my tissue anywhere, being as 2/3rds of my tissue is on the outer side of my nips, so the entire cup settled somewhat side-set, pointier than my actual shape, and the top cut into my roots above areolas weirdly which made me realize that I've seen this shit before (narrows eyes)... Somewhere.
Enter stage left, Panache Tango Plunge. Aha, it's all coming back to me, the anticipation, arrival, confusion and finally heartache of looking into the mirror at the grim distorted figure that was so right before going so terribly wrong, glaring back at me: Heeheee yes I run BIG for others, but I'm at least a size too SMALL for you /mocking voice
(I did in fact dear reader, scurry horrified back to my too-tall-gored Gorsenias that also 'Run A Size Large' but not for me, to contemplate WTF and wonder what went wrong with Tango).
Which brings us back to the present moment. Overlaying the pattern pieces from both Yasmin, and Tango, the Yasmin's runs a half inch taller and full INCH WIDER in the inner panel by gore than Tango's do, while Yasmine's side panel is only .5" bigger along the upper seam, and otherwise stays the same shape throughout the cup as Tango's. But Yasmin's side panel also has a slick modification of making it's armscye shorter between the wing and upper band that the straps attach to, than Tango's outer panel which extends more vertically from the outer wire/wing. Yasmin's wing is a folded over duoplex flap that exists inside of the double-bagged powernet band, but it's just floating in there uselessly, so underwire's ability to spring is zero, therefore side control/side stability isn't there, and the only forward direction of the breasts is contingent on Yasmin's cup shaping alone.
Back at the gore, the base between Yasmin's wires is 1.5" apart just at the band, then it terminates to .8" wide where the wires end above... it would have been even better if they'd been overlapped as polish brands tend to do, but oh well not this time.
Someone's out there on a mission to give shorter projected breasts a fighting chance at centerfull support with style. I can respect that.
Now the cup's upper band. There's no stretch here whatsoever, so also no room for error in fit. It's a LOT better than the gougey one on the original Tango, but it's pretty similar in shape and same length, so it still cuts in if one's roots aren't quite short or shallow enough. Yasmin's upper band is much narrower vertically near the gore, then it widens out to the same shape and width just above cup apex where both panels join, and then widens taller toward the straps.
On one hand Yasmin has 1/2" more apex projection than Tango but on the other, the upper band still tilts inward and closes off INTO the breast if one's not short enough, which I regrettably have discovered is the case with me (curse of short projected boobs + useless as hell tall root -FML).
Where do we go from here. Ah yes, Fixtures. Straps are fully detachable 3/8" slinky elastic with about 50% stretch- there's no adjustable slider for them so either they stretch to fit or are taken off. Meh. The closure is only 3 pairs of hooks which sucks, but they're set in an amazing silky nonstretch pillow that is divinely comfortable. All the O rings, j hooks and sliders are cast black enameled metal free of sharp edges and sounds.Sorry everyone who loves a haunted creaking bridge theme and squeaky mice, you'll have to look elsewhere. Underwires are J shaped, 10.5"long with the outer side sitting at 4+" tall and the gore end almost 2" high. One can measure the width inside their arms one of 2 ways: diagonally which gives a cross-cup measurement width of 6", or the more accurate way of directly horizontal across the lower arm to the opposite side which gives us a mere 5.25" width, which is SUPER IMPORTANT to think about in combination with the fact that there's virtually nothing but immediate depth out from the wires for a good inch and a half here. Then Yasmin's cup simply projects forward 4.5" of that lower 5'5 cup height, and this extends outward from the wires at such a low zone. I feel this part is especially important to take note of because it's basically the opposite of Andorra that compresses and squishes wider rooted breasts into the chest wall. Maybe there's a crossover size somewhere in the full range where these opposites are less opposed in features, but that's hard for me to imagine where it might happen (44D? who knows).
Ultimately for myself having the lowest apexed breasts in the history of all breasts, that are also doubly thick & obnoxiously stiff, this is kind of a wildly cool style to have been able to have on hand through my ultrashort boob HH/J/12" deep shitfit issues, but it's functionality is limited to something closer to the Ewa BM cut (close set, longer than wide/tall, muzzle-like containment) than the way Freya plunges fit (generally short/wide/upperfull-friendly, flexible lift). Yasmin & I's time together has become more and more limited, but the journey continues.
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New Comexim bras
I'm eyeing Misaki...
Our new products
https://comexim.pl/en/new-products
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This is the 1st non-padded Comexim bra I’ve tried. I'm pleasantly surprised by the initial impression. It was a final sale and I got it for just over $27, including shipping. I requested the straps be moved in by 2 cm. Joanna sent a note indicating they would try to accommodate this request, but couldn't promise as it was a ... discontinued style. Compared to several Comexim bras without this adjustment, it appears they were able to do it.
For the 1st time, I don't need to shorten the strap on my smaller side, and I don't have an overt quad-boob effect on my larger side. However, I’ve only had it on for a few hours after measuring it. Time will tell.
The gore tacks, the band is secure but comfortably stretchy. The wires, as usual for Comexim, are perfect for me. I read another review mentioning the cups being scratchy. I'm not finding this. So far it’s very comfortable & provides a rounded shape under clothes.
I’ll return after a few washes and wears in case things change. For now, I’m still loving ❤️ everything Comexim! Including Comexim customer service 💕
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I think I just added the model that has the most stock photos on the site, this was endless!!
Grand total of 244 stock photos for this bralette!!
Stock photos ofParade Triangle Bralette Silky Mesh Eightball
https://www.bratabase.com/browse/parade/triangle-bralette-silky-mesh-eightbal...
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And I do really like it but it makes my boobs look 2 cup sizes bigger.
I always feel so weird. I mean I love their bras but I almost feel bad wearing them especially after having worn bralettes/ unpadded bras for a few days. I like my "smaller" size as it works better with clothes.
The bra is very comfortable ... way more than my Elomis. I am.not sure if I would size up next time. I think I should because it's a little small. But I think I caught a case of Letter phobia. I refuse for now it still fits...
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Hi all, can anyone recommend soft material bralettes (no scratchy nylon type fabric) that have at least medium support for small band + medium bust sizes?
So far I like the Parfait Dalis, but it does show seam lines across the chest through clothing. But its modal fabric is soft, and it is supportive.
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I really like Evelyn and Bobbie. Also, warners underarm smoothing bra. I get the warners for $16 at Walmart whereas Evelyn and Bobbie is $100
This is my new Favourite bra. it is my first fantasie Bra in Wildflower. so pretty I had to try it and wow! what a fit I have the 36HH on the loosest Hook. I am only 5ft and very projected. I often find baggy cups at the top or wires and apex's that are far to high. This one is perfection for me. I am a convert to Fantasie and will be buying more.
Updated on Jul 22, 2024 Flag this
SOunds like you may want to consider doing a "fitting help" with measurements and good quality photos. It is hard to give advice just based on words as I find that folks staring out on their bra journey aren't always fully aware of what their body looks like and what a good fitting bra looks and feels like. It is a challenge for sure!