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Andorra Bra

Well,about 4 days ago I got my Panache Andorra bra in the mail,the one that had been recommended to me by several people and I had high hopes for.There are some things I like about it,but I think it's mostly a fail.It does seem like the wrong size and I'm not sure if a different size would help..I got a ... 36HH and think a 36J,38J or 38HH would have been better.
I do like lace bras,but I don't really like the shape they give me.Also,I didn't notice how tall that gore is!Omg...so painful,especially when I try to bend over.I tried bending the wires,moving it up,or down,it didn't help much.I did realize they have a plunge version which may work for me.
I did wear the bra sometimes while camping cause the other one I brought,the band was way too loose.The Andorra does work well when jumping up and down and running,funnily enough,I guess cause it doesn't move much. XD
I'll probably give it a few more tries,but I think I shall sell it.
I should have just bought the EM bra I want from a user here instead. *sigh* That is next on the list.
As well as Marks and Spencers memory foam bras..I seem to really like memory foam bras.
Rather discouraging as money is pretty tight,though I do have a few watchers on some of my bras on ebay.
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• I've seen the memory foam bras on websites, but I don't really get the idea of why memory foam would be good in a bra. Why do you like them so much?

• Myrabella ,it's soft and squishy and molds to your shape pretty well.I find it very comfortable.
  Also it's warm in winter!lol

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• Good for you!:) That's wonderful ! Congratulations!

• Haha wow! That is wonderful!

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• If you get a chance, you may want to try Freya Taylor (4971). Deco gaped a lot on top on me, too, but Taylor doesn't. It is pretty much the same as Deco except more closed on the top.

• Thanks, that is very helpful! I'll check with the store, because I believe I saw the Taylor on their website.

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• Pro-tip, fit issues are always more obvious in a padded bra.

  Is the Frankie closed on top like the Lucy?

  EDIT: If you feel comfortable, can you post pictures or link to your bra profile? I've been looking at this bra and I want to see if it will be a good match for me.

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• What sizes do you have in Comexim and Avocado? please :)

• I have a brown @Avocado Nina in 70H, and an @Esmeralda Comexim in 75f. The Nina is too large the Comexim too small.

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I'm going to the debenhams sale tomorrow...

... they seemed to have a lot of Freya (and their own brand, amongst others) for £10 and under, does anyone want me to look for anything in particular for them?

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• Freya Ivy and/or Piper longlines in 30F? :"D

• Anything in a 28G that is like the deco. Pretty please

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• Could be anything. As this article states, could be hormonal. I've heard from docs that sometimes we just get weird pain and then it goes away.
  http://www.smmcnj.org/cdbc_BreastPain.html

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• It's really a question of what's comfortable and supportive for you. My youngest sister is considerably slimmer than I am with a 23" waist & 25" loose underbust, but she happily wears 28 bands, including Freya Deco which is like a 31 band, on the snuggest hook and they're stable and she's comfortable in them.

  I measure 25.5" inches around if you really really haul on the tape and I push all the air out of my lungs, but I find 28 bands are too loose for me.

  The difference between us? Her breasts are somewhat shallow and basically self-supporting, and mine are definitely not, and I'm very squashy, and she isn't. I'm petite, but I'd definitely identify as being plush/chubby/plump. I think both of these factors play in our preference when it comes to bra bands.

  I don't think it's worth settling for any size just because of convenience, especially as band alteration is relatively easy, however women find that they require different levels of support for comfort. So, if you find that a 30 band is stable and supportive, there's no reason to size down. However, if a 30 band isn't sufficiently supportive, I don't think that the increased difficulty of obtaining a 28 band should deter you from trying to wear them for your maximum comfort and long-term breast health.

  My philosophy is that a band needs to be as firm as is necessary to be supportive, whether that's +4, +0, -4 or whatever other fit ideals you're working from. If it's not bruising you, and it's not riding up, anything in between is about personal preference.

• if 28s physically hurt you, then get 30s!

  I actually found that with weight loss (read fat loss, more bony ribs) some of my 30s were less comfy than they had been. I find that i have to have narrow wires now, or otherwise my ribs get crushed by the too wide wires.

  If it feels comfy, and you feel supported, i.e not tugging your band / straps all day, then go for what feels best!

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I think I've found the one.

I just wanna gush about my new bra, my boyfriend is sick of hearing it so here you go

I've never had a bra that's just worked for me without any alterations. I love my Rheas... after moving the straps in, I love my decos but they irritate my under arms, etc.

Well yesterday I got ... on the asos sale (They still have some big name bras, go looks!) and I bought a gossard egoboost because I wanted a cleavagey push up bra, and I bought a Claudette Dessous in Peony Limeade because it looked so good on PetitePlentiful but I was basically going to review it and send it back, because unpadded and 3 part cup are 2 aspects of a bra that have never, ever worked for me.

Imagine my surprise this morning when the gossard bra was an absolute trainwreck on me, so I try on the claudette and I swear I heard angels singing. It is just amazing, I've bought another already. I went shopping today and I took every opportunity to look down my own top and admire my bra.

I can't believe that deco-obsessed me has found love in an unpadded balcony-plunge whatever bra.

Any suggestions of anything similar?
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• You might like the unpadded miss mandalay styles like paris or paige!

• No suggestions, but hooray for angels singing bras :D

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• Use the cramped look for special occasions and make do with the larger on other occasions :) Oh and I think I've inherited most of your fit issues. Again :D

  I'm always between sizes :D

• What I do is buy a bunch of new bras in the old size, wear them once and realize they still suck, and then become stuck with them. I don't recommend that :(

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• Yep, I was super nervous about it! I thought i had been doing pretty well, but then i realised that i had tons of armpit fat. So i tried to measure properly, but the letter scared me!

  You need to pick your best fitting bra i think - if you go for the same measurements as an ok one, then the new one will only be ok too. Look at why the bra is only ok and not good for you... Wire width, Gore height / width , cup structure, shallow boobs, Full on bottom/ top?

• The "ok" bra fits better then any other bras that I have. But I think its a size to small. Its a 32C pushup from VS which I seem to be getting squished (due to soft tissue) and also have some gapping about halfway through the day. But I found a bra on here in a 30DD which I'm hoping will fit better. All my other bras are either to big band wise, the straps don't adjust enough, or they have mega padding which really squishes me. And I think I'm a bit on the shallow side...

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• my 29 underbust and my 36 overbust should have been in a 28/30 F and i was in a 34B because i thought 29 + 5 (if you have an uneven number you should add 5! obvs) then i did the 2 inch difference to get a B cup - whoops!

• @cbear Yeah...since I have a 26 underbust, maybe 27 if I'm bloated (even with that method I'd fit into a 30 which isn't sold in most stores) obsolete bra calculators put me at a 32A or 32B. I mean, I'm not trying to be ridiculous here but if you look at my pic I'm obviously not a 32A or 32B. A VS store person even measured me as a 32B. I don't know how she got that even WITH the +4 method.

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• Nope, only down to 30. I think some store managers will order smaller bands if you ask but it's definitely not the norm. Even their website doesn't list them. There is a petition though.

• Nope. And with the exception of South Coast Plaza, just about every Nordstrom lingerie SA I've met has looked at me like I was an escaped mental patient when I mentioned size 30 Bands.

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• I was just asking myself the same.

  http://www.thefullfiguredchest.com/2013/08/full-bust-bra-review-charlotte-set-by-parfait-by-affinitas/

  Holly says bad for full on top and size up. Erica confirms it's bad for full on top and also says it's narrow and shallow.

  To me it looks as if it might have more bottom room than the showgirl range? On Erica it looks that way at least? Wishful thinking lol.

• Yeah, i was reading that..... Erica seems the most like myself, Full all over and around the same size. It looks nice on her i think. Although, i think it looks pretty good on Holly too; it is such a good looking bra it would be hard for it to look bad i think! hehe

  On Erica it looks a touch like she might be about the quad-boob, and there does look like a little Orange in the Glass. However, Erica has confirmed that whilst it looks like that in some of her other photos, it is the angle of the camera and the shadowing, not actual Orange in Glass...

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• No, I don't think so. You should let the elastic rest in between wears, but wears should be as long as you're comfortable in it.

• So glad it fits! :-)
  I am really impressed with the quality and talent behind these bras. I just hope I can find one that actually fits me!

  Also - forgot to add - I've read that it's not good to wear the same bra two days in a row because too much wear keeps the elastic from having a chance to tighten back to its original size. Since I started putting this into practice, I definitely see a difference with my bras.

  Also, I wash my bras almost always after one day of wear. Perspiration, skin oils, movement, etc. are detrimental to fabric and band elasticity, so keeping the fabric as clean as possible helps keep the bands firm. Probably a lot of this has to do with the wearer, though. I live in a hot climate, so, frankly, I sweat a lot, and I've always had oily skin.

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• I got an Ewa package today as well! (Pl Black) It's always a good day when mail from Poland arrives. :)

• Aaaa I can't believe it, I know all the songs from that movie by heart and have known them since the age of four and sing them quite regularly (especially how do you solve a problem like maria :D) and I never made the connection :D
  Anyway, loling forward to your review :)
  

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• This post from Braless in Brazil helped me a lot (although I don't think it has so much to do with torso length as the position of your breasts). http://www.bralessinbrasil.com/2012/07/torso-length-height-underarm-fit-and.html

• I think that there's a few different reasons why you may have 'short boobs'. I have both the issue that my breasts are set very high up on my torso, and also, the fact that I have more projection than height (or width for that matter). If I get a cup which is large enough to accommodate my projection, it ends up with the top of the cup up in my armpit and *space* everywhere except for the top centre near the gore.

  So, I'd say that breasts which are very wide for their height, breasts which are very high-set, and breasts which are very projected for their height can all act as 'short boobs'. Also consider that this is relative to how bras are constructed in your size range as well as basic ratios. My breast root overall is 'average' based on the dimensions experiment we did, but compared to bras in my size range this acts as super narrow.

  I may have even missed a reason why your breasts could be short. There's a series of reasons which all end up with the same result- your bras have heaps of space in the top in an otherwise okay size.

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• Try Comexim?

  I have super close, narrow rooted boobs and I LOVE my Comexims. The bra bands which have embroidery on (Juliette, Carmen, Midnight Blue) run tighter than those which are printed (Paradise, Nadine, Esperanza) by about half a size - so size up in those. I am 29 underbust and wear 60 in plain bands or 65 in embroidered bands.

• Fantasie? Bravissimo unpadded balconettes?

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