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May 11, 2013
Ladies with wide roots and shallow breasts, I need your help!
Until a few months ago I was wearing a 34B/32C and spending a lot of time hauling at my uncomfortable bras. After a friend finally persuaded me that I wasn't too flat chested for Bravissimo, I emerged with a Cleo Meg in 30DD and a Juna in a 28E and started reading up online (which is how I came across Bratabase). I also bought a few more unpadded balconettes in a 30DD.
The more I read, the more I realised that perhaps my new bras didn't fit me as well as they could. The cups generally fitted ok depth-wise, but the wires ended on breast tissue under my armpits and the side wings were too low (I'm only 5'5 but have very low set breasts). I also get quad-boob if I throw my shoulders back.
I measure 29 under bust (28 tight) and 35.5 overbust, so I thought I'd give a couple of 30Es a go. The Cleos I've tried in a 30E (Meg, Melissa, Lucy and Bella) fit beautifully in terms of wire width, but are all too deep in the top of the cup; no matter how much I swoop and scoop, the lace gapes). I don't seem to get on with Freya at all (even padded - both the Lauren and Patsy padded half cup gape even in a 30DD, though the wire width seems ok - the unpadded ones are a complete disaster as others have suggested), and I have the same issues in the Panache Jasmine as the Cleos. Cleo Marcie is a disaster on me in both sizes - wires cut in painfully in the DD, in the E cup the wire goes too far back and flattens me.
I love the pulled-in, up-front shape I get from the unpadded Cleo balconettes, but I'd like to find a bra which doesn't gape in the top section. I know the padded half-cups tend to fit shallow breasts better, but I'm not so keen on wearing them all the time, and the Juna does actually fit me pretty well already.
Can anyone recommend unpadded balconettes or half cups that might be worth me trying? I'll be eternally grateful!
Thanks in advance!
Sarah
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For non-padded half cups at that size there is the Freya Gem Half Cup (1363) and the Bravissimo Paradiso Plume Bra (LN141) (and other Bravissimo non-padded half cups. Simone Perele also has several half cups in a 30E.
I'm having the same problem as you I think, I just haven't been able to try that many bras on yet. I'll keep an eye on this post myself.
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