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• when did you place your order??

• cbear I placed and paid for my order on April 16th. Anna says it shipped on the 25th. I'm not sure how long it will take to get from the East Coast to Arizona, which is where I am. I haven't gotten any new tracking notifications yet (I set it up on USPS so that I get email notifications when there's new tracking information)

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• Haha! I've definitely accidently pulled up a folder full of bra pictures for my blog in the middle of my classes before. And I'm an engineering student so my classes are 80% male. . .

  I got my Black Belt 5 years ago so I always think it's exciting when people mention Tae Kwon Do :). (Thankfully I did TKD from age 9-13 and I was a late bloomer so I didn't have to worry about my 30HH's getting in the way of my poomse, sparring etc! Idk how I would even wear those chest protectors now)

• Have done similar myself in front of family! lol.. Searching for my pics and up pops my bra ones.. Actually in front of a friend too who laughed and asked me was I that attached to my bra, I had to take a picture for keeps.. ;P

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• The Curvy Kate Tease Me [showgirl Collection] (SG2001) is famous for being extra shallow in the cup.

  Fleurty, not so much. So going up one cup in the Tease me will not have the same effect as the Curvy Kate Fleurty (SG1301) .

  Here you can see how the cup depths vary.
  http://www.bratabase.com/compare/dhnnb/

  Check the other measurements as well since going to 30HH will also make the cup wider.

• I have the Tease me and the Thrill me in the same size. The Thrill me gives me quadboob whilst the Tease me gaps!
  If you're worried about the sizing, you should probably go for the cup up and then you can sew the ribbon tighter on the top to prevent gaping.

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• I check wire width too, though to be honest I haven't had a lot of luck finding bras just from measurements. Other bratabasers have been much more helpful.

  I also like to look at pictures of the bra in my size to see who else it fits, and if their boobs look like mine. I have very tall, wide, and shallow breasts, and I can sometimes get an idea if a cup will have too much projection or not enough width for me.

• I often look at things like wing height, along with wire width and depth. If wings are too high, the bra will stab me as I have high-set breasts and I'm fairly petite.

  Unfortunately for me, I'm usually the first one to put in an entry on a bra in my size so I have to look at similar sizes and make a guess. The system in place now is reasonably good at extrapolating bra measurements as well, which can be handy.

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Braologie replacement fits!!!!!!

Okay, this is a totally perv thing to do, but The package was waiting for me at my desk, I ran to the toilette to try it out but forgot to bring my phone with me! So I got back to sit at my desk and while my colleague looked away, I lifted my shirt and took a shot XD

The ... bra is awsome, I got the prettiest one ^^ and they changed the interior of the cup to something even softer and smoother (i think the pads are memory foam now). Oh, and the y improved the profile too! It.is.round.

And did I mention it fits???
I'm even using two rows of complimentary extender because even though the band is spot on this time, I do not *need* it so tight because it's really comfy and wide.


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• IT LOOKS AWESOME! I'm so happy for you!

  And hell, I feel like a perv looking at this angle of you as it just seems so..naughty because it's..y'know? lol

• Wow :)) It looks great <3 I had doubts about braologie but... this looks like a perfect fit :))

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• The Showgirl serious runs about two or three cups smaller than their unpadded cups.

  Congrats on the weight loss, but -hugs- on unable to find the propwer size. What you need is bras more shaped for bottom heavy breasts. Are you saying that while the cups are too deep, the wires are too small? Have you tried the Panache Andorra? I heard that has wide wires.

• This is funny. I just was looking up the CK "desire" bra and saw your review, deciding against that bra since your issues with it sounded similar to what I would dislike about it. So I came back to bratabase and saw your e-mail and realized you were the same person. :P It was gravatar or something. That was you, right? You were wearing a white bra in you sig pic. What is that? I was wondering. It looked nice.

  I haven't tried the andorra but have looked at it before. I'm scared to order new bras because it costs so much to keep buying bras and not sending them back (the shipping costs as much as the bras half the time..it's not worth sending back.) I just keep ordering the curvy kates. I also tried some other brands like elomi but the bands don't go small enough anymore. I tried a panache back when my band was a 36 and that was a bust.. bra was super itchy and uncomfortable so I haven't gone back since. I don't have a store where I can try on bras here so I have to go straight off my measurements which are 1) hard to take accurately because I have so much extra skin. 2) My boobs are really empty and saggy and wide so nothing seems to work. The wrong bra will even make them look wrinkly. :( I'm 23.... this is a nightmare. I have spent well over a thousand bucks in the last year alone trying to find a bra and none have fit properly... Either because it's wrong for my shape or the size is way off. And/or the size changes again .. Luckily, my size won't change too much anymore.

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Freya Deco line UNextended?!?

Did Freya just UN-extend their newly extended Freya Deco size range to exclude 28GG ?!?!?

I was super pumped when I discovered that contrary to what my local boutique believed, Freya had recently extended their Freya Deco line to include 28GG. I was even more excited, when reading MissUnderpinning's blog, I was led to believe that the Freya Shape offerings ... would be available in 28GG.

However, having gotten my hands on a copy of the Freya catalogue (via the aforementioned local boutique) I discovered that Freya shape is not available in 28GG, so no multiway or longline for me. This was dissapointing, but I figured I would just wait for the Deco Honey Jade to come out, and then alter it into a multiway myself. However, going through Freya's website, it looks like they've gone back to excluding 28GG from ALL the Decos, including the basic line. WTF, Freya, whhhyyyy?

Please, someone tell me this is just a silly oversight on the website. The Jade will be available in 28GG, right?
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Deco Nude Moulded Plunge Bra from Freya

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• NOOOOO! I was so excited about them adding a 28GG because I need a 30H in the deco (The 32GG Deco cups fit me well) and figured that adding a 28GG was progress in the right direction. I had a dream that one day I could have a 30H deco and 30HH longlines. This is such bad news for everyone GG+! :'( I'm so disappointed in Freya. They would make so much money if they made the Deco, Longlines, Halfcups and Swimwear up to a J or even K cup! I don't understand why they don't. . .

• I wonder if the site/catalogue is incorrect. Just I happened to be looking on the Freya website and they only had the Gem half cup as going up to a F cup.. Oh wait, hang on, does the half cup in this only go to a F?? I'm confused now. Anyway, hope they don't go back on increasing their half cup size range. :(

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• Libra-rian

  Hugs. Many of those waif-like people wish they had curves. Just because you can't wear shapeless clothes and look great doesn't mean you can't look great in clothing with some shape! Which is, you know, why different styles exist.

  I'm over 50 and _I'm_ too young to have saggy boobs, but I've had them ever since I was a pup, so there ya go. Back in my day we didn't have well-fitting bras (we use coconut shells and watched hand-crank television too). Find a great bra and a great fitted top and people will be wishing they looked like you.

• I get the most lift in my Freya Decos, although they don't really make my boobs look smaller. I feel insecure and saggy in any other bra (even though I'm 19 and not saggy, it's just a body image issue). Have you tried any Polish bras? They make your boobs up front and minimized from the side. Cleo also gives great lift and a round shape. I haven't tried these bras, but judging from how they look on other people you might want to try the Cleo Alexa or Panache Jasmine. It's frustrating when bras don't work well with your shape or size, but I promise that they are out there and you will find them and be very happy when you do!

  I can totally relate to the tent-like thing. Many current trends just aren't bust-friendly. Flowy tops without waist definition are pretty much a no-no for busty girls. They will make you look 5-10 pounds heavier. When you find out what works on your shape though, you feel soooo great! I'm not sure what your body shape is, but busty shapes in general look best in form-fitting clothes. Now I know we can't all afford a tailor or even BiuBiu and Urkye which aren't THAT expensive, but I'm a broke college kid so having a wardrobe full of those clothes is out of my personal budget. Anyways, on a limited budget that's forced to shop at say Ross, TJ Maxx and Thrift stores; Jersey and stretchy fabrics look the best on busty bodies because they can fit the bust and the waist in generic sizes. It might be tempting to jump on the latest fashion band wagon, but buying clothes that really flatter YOUR body is the first step towards not only accepting, but loving your body.

  And yes, I totally get those wishing I had a different body feelings sometimes. But then I usually remind myself how much I love my body and how good I look in certain clothes :).
  I feel like I'm totally rambling, but I hope I'm helping in some way :)
  

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• Yes! I've also read about your issues with the sports bra, and I'm really sorry you can't find one that works.
  Now I rarely work out honestly, but the past few weeks I've started again. Previously, I did a lot of sports, but my boobs were really firm and I just wore an elastic sports "bra" (I was a 30DD) and had no problem.
  Being a 32-30H now, I really needed a sports bra, but it wasn't until today I actually tried my panache sports for working out - what a huge difference! I absolutely and definitely feel more motivated to go to the gym, now that I have a proper sports bra.
  (The reason why I hadn't used it for sports yet, is that I use it as my everyday bra, but I've bought a new panache sport + other bras that fit, so I've now retired my old one to an actual sports bra!)

• I'm so jealous... I love football and I'm playing in the local football team so I really need a good sports bra.

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• Life's too short to hold onto clothes that don't fit and won't ever fit. Round 'em up and list 'em. I say.

  Having said that, I have one shirt that is 20 years old and doesn't fit but it has intricate mola (Panamanian folkart) panels and looks pretty just hanging in the closet.

• If I really wanted them or they are hard to buy (old series) then I may have problem with letting them go. Also now I'm more cautious with selling bras I no longer fit in, because I noticed that my bust size changes after all, so it's cheaper to keep slightly too small in the cup and slightly too big in the cup ones. If they are way too small, way too large or the band is wrong I just try to get rid of them.

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• On which end did it pop? Inside or outside of the cup?

• Left cup inside, where the gore is!

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• Seriously compared to your body your boobs doesn't look small so it's absurd you should need that small sizes? Have your boobs shrunk so much since before pregnancy or am I looking on only breast feeding pics on fb? :O

  I think in general in high street stores bras are either made for small breasts that they think are self supportive or for larger breasts that they think are on fat people. I really think that's the general idea about boobs and how the brands cater. Also I've never find Chantelle to be a good brand but that I seem to be alone to think :D For me Triumph was better really.

  I don't think we will ever find a perfect fit, we will just learn how to settle or sew.

  An even crazier suggestion; could you learn breathing with your stomach instead of your chest to maybe handle tighter bands on special occasions? (And "cross hook" them of course). I can now wear tighter bands again sometimes so I wear it when I can as much as I can handle them.

• For fun I tried on two of my old pre-preggo bras -- they're so much too small it's laughable: hello HEXABOOB! One of them is a stretchy, completely sheer, purely decorative, 'designer' thingy that always was slightly too big and the other a strapless, horridly padded Maidenform in 32B that I wore only once, but that was, as far as I recall, one of my more decent fits (surprisingly so as I had always thought I was a 32A).

  So yes, my breasts are definitely bigger than they were before I got pregnant and even though they did get a bit smaller during the past couple of weeks/months they didn't shrink THAT much. They definitely got more conical, but their measurements didn't really change all that much (the perimeter of my larger right breast has been 19cm for many weeks now).

  I don't understand it either, but this is exactly the same problem I had before I got pregnant: I would just go down and down in size in an attempt to find a cup that didn't gap or flap about aimlessly like a bird with a lame wing, but then the wires would invariably become too narrow and the whole thing would just be torture. And now I seem to be having the same problem: all cups seem invariably too big/deep/voluminous/whatever, but I cannot really go down further in size either. I've already sized out of the full-bust brands and I've never had much luck with 'main street' brands.

  As to wearing smaller bands: as long as they don't ride up I really don't see why I should go for a smaller band. And considering my current fibro-or-whatever-flare-up -- really, even touching my skin is nigh unbearable -- I don't consider it an option I would voluntarily pursue.

  But here's another crazy thing: whatever this bra does to my shape, it does at least something. Without bra my full-bust measurement is 86cm. Wearing this bra my full-bust measurement is a 'whopping' 91cm. Go figure! (Just for reference: my underbust at the moment is 71cm.)

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• I'm guilty. I was sure till yesterday that I won't spend any more for another month and then bang comes Cleo for only $15 on Ebay. I had to get it lol. Today I almost bought some CK...but there is an excuse - most of my bras are tiny bit too small in the cups - I managed to put few kilos on, call it "winter fat":)))
  

• hehe, i don't actually buy all that many bras - i have 8 good ones in rotation atm. However, i do look for potential bargains nearly every day! often i will have various things in my shopping baskets from figleaves / amazon / brastop and then take a big breath and think do i actually NEED this?!
  Most of the time it's a 'no' but i do fantasize about bra buying almost every day! atm it is comexim bras, they look so gorgeous!

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• Wanna trade the Freya 36G longline for a Freya Tara in 34H? :P

  (I didn't take pics of it yet because I was trying to figure out if I could alter it to fit me. I got it like new off ebay and I just handwashed it today to get ready to sell it.)

• drownedsalad I checked it out but I cannot do it. It looks military inspired in the same way as Cleo Natasha and I simply cannot stand military prints for some reason, maybe political I don't know :D I wish it had been Eloise instead, that bra is gorgeous :D

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• *hugs*

• Not irrational at all, I really hope you find a good bra and start to feel happier, you are amazing :)

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• :( ... Of course you should be happy to have a bra that fits you, but you definitely shouldn't feel like that's all you should get! You deserve better! You deserve to have the same options that smaller-busted women do! :( Such a shame that there's such a slim selection in the 30JJ-30K territory... I'm really hoping someone steps forward and helps you, because I'm not too good in "that" field =/

• :( I know how it feels. What I've came to realise is that there is no bra that fits anyone perfectly apart from the fit model. Every other bra on every other person has it's quirks and issues. Before starting a bra fitting journey we think that is how a bra is supposed to fit. Then we get releaved when we get to hear that bras are not supposed to hurt and that there is that perfect bra out there for us. And we find bras that are so so much better. But the more we learn the more we realise that these weren't perfect either...

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• I feel so bad for you! :( I know how much of a hard time you've had finding bras :( I reaaaally hope someone can help you out! Have you considered altering your bras? If you get the right cup volume and a band in your liking (many hooks and high wings) maybe you can save the horrible fit by altering it?

• :(
  *hugs

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So, just read something about the extra charges for custom EM bras...

Can anybody explain to me exactly how much the charges are, and what for?

By this, I mean do they charge you for each customization (for ordering a different cut in a certain color that isn't listed on the site, a size they don't have listed, extra hooks etc)

Or do they just charge you a flat 20 zloty more for a ... custom bra? That's how I understood it :/

Any other info concerning this would be nice, since I've decided to make my first EM bra a KM (I've got months to save up XD) but as of now, the only colorways(term?) they have in those styles are Biszkopty and Onyks, and I'd have to custom order a smaller band anyhow.

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• You can custom make other colours/fabrics in KM but from what I last heard they will charge you even more than the extra 20 zl.

• Oh noes D:

  So is it for every customization?

  Like, if I got a bra in a 26 band, wanted the KM in a different fabric, and possibly more hooks, will they charge me +blahzl for each or will they just charge that one fee in addition to the original cost?

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