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• I'm a big fan of wearing the loosest band that still offers support. My comfortable underbust is around 27-28" but I actually really hate bras that tight and crave a nice 29" band, so I buy Ewa's 70s. Sometimes they run small and I can wear them on the loosest hook, sometimes they're more TTS and I need to wear them on the second to tightest. In my personal experience, Ewa's bands don't really break in for me and I tend to stay on whichever hook I start on.

  If you're still supported in the 65s, and they are more comfortable for you, then stick with those. An awesome technical fit means nothing if it isn't comfortable on your body.

• The 60s might last longer though. As the 65s stretch out you’d only have one more hook set before having to toss it or use a Rixie clip.

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EM S in 4 Sizes

I took some photos of the 60J-60KK S bras I have. They are not the same bra, but I wanted to illustrate how the cup height grows and the strap placement gets set further out. These bras are: 60J - Ewa Michalak » S Syrena (790), 60JJ - Ewa Michalak » S Zielony Pieprzyk (796), ... href="/bra/diqn6/" class="mentioned-item">60K - Ewa Michalak » S Jagody (1194), and 60KK - Ewa Michalak » S Porto (1401). The only bra that actually fits my shape 60J, as my breasts do not expand upwards when compressed. The bras are really shallow on bottom until you get to the 60KK where there is a double vertical seam and there is a lot of immediate projection. The 60J's straps are too wide but bearable, the 60KK's straps are set so far apart that the bow is past my armpit and somewhere on the side of my torso. This pushes the top of the cups off of my body and makes the top gaping a lot worse. I thought the photos would be interesting to share for folks thinking about getting the S cut in the larger cup sizes (don't do it).
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EM S in 4 Sizes

60J, 60JJ, 60K, 60KK

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• And at the point that you need above the 60KK, you realize it doesn't have the projection you need but in order to get that projection you have to size up until the top can't possibly be filled......it's a never ending issue, right? I am debating trying the 60LL but fear the top won't fit even if the bottom works.

• If she would move the straps in to the 60J position and reduce the cup height, it might be fine.

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• Wish I could help but there doesn't seem to be much info about this bra at all.

  From my experience with Fantasie, cups have a lot of apex projection, not enough at the wire for me. Cups also seemed to be closed on top causing quad boob in just about any I tried. If I bought one now, I'd size up in cup.
  Wires are average width.

• Aw thanks for the reply! (Also happy holidays to you!) I have one fantasie that the cups are too shallow, but it also won’t sit right at the top of my breast. The other fantasie I have is a plunge, has good projection and fits great(also closed on top is great for me)! I went ahead and ordered the Aimee in my size and a size up to be cautious. It’s sooooo pretty I hope one of them fits 🤞 I can’t wait to measure it and leave a review. I can’t believe there’s no info on it here.

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• You can request the deeper cup option, this person wrote how they did it: https://www.bratabase.com/bra/dinqw/

• Sovavosi Amazing! This was exactly what I was looking for :)

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• Do you think you could order a D from a store in the US/CA? And then return if it's too large? Imho it's so much easier dealing with a bra that is too large than one that is too small. For large you have cookies, you can take them in etc, small are just small and there's not much you can do about it.

• What I'm saying is ideally you wanna try both, but I personally would start with a D cause it's just easier sizing down than sizing up.

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• It really would be dependent on the style you are looking at in Kris Line, and how the CHP fits your breasts currently.

  For me, I size down in CHP for a more rounded mound (28:15) and because she won't make the style in a 28:16 haha. Yet I wear a 28:16-28:17 in Ewa's other styles.

  In Kris Line I wear a 28:18 though, but it's the only style they make in my size and not really comparable to Ewa's CHP style.

  I see you have one CHP, but tried a second that didn't fit in the same size. What were the fit issues in that 2nd one and how did it differ from the first? Do you have any other bras that fit that could help us guide you?

  Also, which style/model of Kris Line were you looking at getting?

• Yikes -- thanks for reminding me that I never finished documenting that @Magnolia! It is actually the best-fitting bra I own now... my other much-beloved EM is getting pretty worn out.

  I found a Brilliant soft cup on ebay at a good price... it is technically a nursing bra, but it is really pretty and I thought I might give it a try.

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Help!

Everyone, I need help picking a size! I have been IN LOVE with this Swan Lake Maxi Bra from Mimi Holliday for a long time now, but it was going for 70+$ when it was available in "my size" range. But now it is on sale for something I'm OK spending with my 15% discount and free shipping ... worldwide with orders of 50 pounds (cause I NEED another 28DD shoulder bra don'tcha know...) I have obsessed over MH for a long time and so far I have good fits with the brand. BUT, these are the two sizes available for me 28F and 30DD.
I have a 28DD in their Bissou Purple Shoulder Bra and a 30D in their Reverie Comfort bra...
but what makes me think I could go for these sizes which are like HUGE in comparison to my others is the model. They normally shove that poor model into a 34B in every bra except the Maxi Bra. Here they have her in a 32F which is a full FOUR cup sizes larger than the normal 34B we see her in. Most of the other maxi bras we see her in she is wearing a 32E, so this one obviously runs fairly small. So that means for me that the 28F is 2 cups sizes larger and the 30DD is 1 cup size larger....and that's without factoring in that this bra runs small.
Help please! I gotta get it before it runs out again. I almost wish I had gotten it for the seventy some odd dollars when it was available in the 28E!
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White Lace & Swan Big, Large Cup Maxi Bra - Swan Lake

This bra is true to its name - maximum support, maximum comfort and maximum sedu

https://www.mimiholliday.com/collections/all-lingerie/products/swan-lake-maxi...

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• The bra and panties are gorgeous and so unique! WIsh they had my size!

• Understandable dilemma! I am going to venture another potential query for you though. Are you sure the model didn't get new boob growth? If the photo session is later on this one than the others, it is possible her breasts just changed.

  Such a bummer we don't have any Maxi bras added in those sizes to help shed light on this one, or any of this model added at all that I could find......

  I would suggest giving customer service a call and asking if this one runs larger in the cup (& smaller in the band if they dropped her band on this one.)

  But, if calling isn't an option, & you're confident the model didn't go through a size change, I'd say go for the 28F, as it sounds like the band runs big as well as the cups small. :-)

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• No cookies, just the pockets.

• Bummer. Do EM cookies fit in them?

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• May be a rib articulation problem or a strain of the small muscles in between or abdominal musculature attachments. Can be from an event a while ago or more recent. Might need some sleuthing to figure out what it is and what to do about it! Good luck in figuring it out.
  

• I agree with jazzypants , this sounds more like a doctor related problem and wearing the bra just makes the strain more noticeable than without. Hope a doctor is helpful!

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• That would greatly depend on what size you are (both band and cup), how much of a difference you have between your breasts(estimated such as a full cup difference, half a cup, or more than a cup), plus if you prefer padded vs unpadded bras (as thr bras ability to mask the pads under clothing will vary based on that). If you could provide that information, we would be better suited to give you an appropriate answer.

• Oh, and what climate you live in matters, hot humid areas are not as silicone insert friendly for example.

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• If you look at the breakdown you will see this is a comparison of apples and oranges, because they aren't measurements of the same bras in different sizes... They're different bras, in different cuts, that vary dramatically in depth, and are represented differently in each size category. Large depth variations between different cup styles and designs at the same size point are normal--if you look at my current size, a very unremarkable 30F/32E, you'll already see cup depths ranging between 8" and 9.5" (and that's just for the data recorded by users who measure accurately!) If you can have variation of 1.5" in depth for cups of that size, imagine the variation that can occur for cups that are roughly 1 and a half times bigger.

  Now for the details: the 60KK EM entries are almost exclusively the work of one user and the BM cut she apparently buys, that is stretchy and presumably runs deeper at the apex than all other cuts, is WAY overrepresented compared to other sizes (where there are more entries by more users who therefore enter more cuts of EM bras). Likewise there are really not very many actual measured entries in 75KK,and they are the work of just a handful of users who (unlike our 60KK user) favored the smaller/shallower/nonstretch low-cut cups. Most of those bra designs are a lot older than the 60KKs (and virtually no BMs). Does that make sense?

  Finally, averages don't indicate a typical size. Look at the spread of the measurements. 60KK has a ton of 15-16 inch cups, and a whole slew of 12-13 depths which aren't even real measurements--they're just assumed depth based on data from users who measured other sizes, some of which might be kinda far away from this square on the bra size table. In contrast, 75KK has almost EVERYTHING tightly clustered around the 14.5 inch depth (again--for the smaller non-BM bras).

• wendybien I get that they are different cuts, but basically what I saw is that the Fb line could be the the next step after 60KK, even though the smallest size is a couple cups larger.
  I also looked up the measurements for Sf in 60KK, and they all measured around 14.8 inches. Since Sf is a sister cut, if you’re at the end of the range, you Fb could theoretically work for you.

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• Check out the EM Style Guide on reddit:
  https://www.reddit.com/r/ABraThatFits/comments/7899nn/projectguideewa_michalak_style_guide/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=user&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=frontpage

• I asked for a 65D in BM or SF and they pretty much told me BM starts at 65E and SF at 65F and they cannot make 65D in either. So if you're in that range you might be out of luck. Never hurts to ask, though!

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• That's horrible, but all too common everywhere. They are all about the sales instead of the service. :-/

• The acronym I’ve seen on Reddit is SWAT. Sell what’s available today. They’re not going to tell you it doesn’t fit if they can make a commission on a sale now.

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Fun Bra-Fitting Seminar

I found this and had a really good time watching. The lady is quite a good bra-fitter and was quite fun to watch. I thought you all would get a kick out of it!

The Bra Fitting Seminar - Esteem Lingerie

The complete bra fitting seminar - all the things that they didn't teach women i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuDeZHTjPt8&t=629s

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• @Sovavosi Your epiphany is mentioned in here!! :-)

  Okay so she states Underwire and bridge are 75% of your support, with 20% coming from the band......I honestly don't think any of my bras do this.... :-/
  But I can see that IF this was a reality for most women then Ewa's band logic would work. But seriously, more immediate projection in most cups would be needed for me to be convinced.

  I love the theory, & the link is awesome @LeProfessor, sadly I don't think most manufacturers follow this within their designs.

• I'm at work so I can't watch it now, but I'm looking forward to coming back to it later.

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• @Sovavosi, it might be worth emailing Kaska photos of the two bands stretched next to a measuring tape. I would use a rigid metal measuring tape. Your bras could well be errors. I was once shipped an order of three bras, two of which were the wrong size. Each of the two was a different wrong size. Ewa said to ship them back and she would send out the correct bras and credit me the return shipping cost. She did.

• @Sovavosi as you move into the larger cups of Ewa's 60 bands, unfortunately you'll find this is common. When I complained to Kaska earlier this year (late last year?) she told me that in order for me to get them smaller I would have to go to Poland and have Ewa measure me personally.
  I sent photos including bra on ones but Ewa wouldn't budge with it in this cup range.
  "They need enough band to support and not displace the wires" is the theory I was given. Complain too much and she will stop making the range, for the same readons she won't do the 55 bands in the larger cups, as in her mind they "won't work.".... . :-/

  My order should be here next week so we'll see how my bands are in comparison. It will include the same two bras you ordered in 60KK plus PL Dark Magenta 60L and BM Scarlet in 60KK.

  Out of curiousity, how long are they unstretched? How does La Gloria compare to Crazy both stretched and unstretched since it's the same material? Are the wires the same width?

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• @Sovavosi, I learn new things constantly, too!

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Fun video on Ewa's site

I was just browsing on Ewa Michalak's site the other day, taking a look at some bras I may be interested in, and I happened to spot this cute video at the bottom of the SMN Fetysz Czarny page. It's Ewa showing us how to adjust the multiple straps on the SMN Fetysz Czarny, and the lovely Ulla (Ula?) is ... translating into English. I just thought it was really cute, and it's also where I learned that "Fetysz" is pronounced just like "Fetish" in English! Who would've thought 😆 Make sure to watch to the end for the bloopers!

https://www.ewa-michalak.pl/product-eng-1331-SMN-Bra-Fetysz-czarny.html
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SMN Bra Fetysz czarny

https://www.ewa-michalak.pl/product-eng-1331-SMN-Bra-Fetysz-czarny.html

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• I didnt finish it, but it is cute!

• They are funny! I felt at moments like I was watching a safety presentation by airline attendants, except about bras :)

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• fwiw, my 3-hook extenders are not a perfect fit, but they are elastic and they do ok. maybe if you can find elastic 2-hooks that are close, it'll work
  

• Rixie clips can also double as extenders, do you have one of those to try?

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