What's the deal with most freya bras....! And soft vs. firm boobs!
Urgh, freya unpadded bras just annoy the crap out of me sometimes! (Sorry)
I really like the fabrics they choose sometimes and the designs but the shape....! I don't understand! I know a lot of women make them work, but my boobs will under no circumstance conform to the cup shape! It's super annoying, and in pictures it looks round, but on me it just looks so wrong! (Stupid boobs)
They always cut in at the top, and no matter how much I size up, the top edge cuts in. They seem to fit nicely at the bottom, but the apex is too deep. And the cup is too short. It's trying to curve into my boob way before my boob ends. And I feel like its either because my boobs are too soft or too firm! It's so confusing, that I don't even know if its because they are too firm or too soft...! I mean, how can I not know that!
But part of me thinks that they are too firm to "fall" into the cups/get squeezed in to cups. Another part of me feels like, that they are too soft, and if they were firmer/harder they would force/push the cup more open - cause I can push it open with my fingers, it just doesn't stay like that sadly.
Those of you who have similar issues, what's the reason for these issues??
I really can't find a way to confirm if my boobs are soft or firm. I think they might be sort of firm, but with a very soft layer of fat covering them. So they act firm, but they have some fat/loose skin which acts super soft ("falling out" (just the skin, not the boob) even in cups which seem too big). I've been told to try the "steak test", like people do on their face, but my face does not work for this (confirmed by several people) as my face is too hard/bony. If that makes sense. And then I've tried figuring out if they act like water in a bag, But they don't, but the skin covering my boobs does ever so slightly. I honestly don't think they are that soft, yet I have soft boob issues - what is it that I'm not getting??
Hmmmm.
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Freya's unpadded bras do exactly the same thing to me, cutting in on top, wrinkly apex and all! I'm relieved I'm not the only one who finds them so frustrating. The crappy shape and the huge bands have made me pretty much give up on Freya as a brand. I haven't bought anything from them for a while now.
I think your "boobs too firm" theory sounds right. Softer boobs may be able to squish themselves into the apex instead of bulging out over the top. Are you full on top? I suspect full-on-the-bottom boobs would be a better match for that particular cup shape. Instead of causing top bulging, though, the cups would probably turn full-on-the-bottom boobs into duck's beak shapes. Kind of a lose-lose situation there.
Honestly, my opinion is that someone at Freya isn't taking the time to make sure their bras are actually shaped like boobs. It's like they cut arbitrary shapes out of some pretty fabric, sew them together, put a random size label on the result and call it done.
Freyas unpadded bras are known to be a tricky fit, and having the top cut in and wrinkling at the apex (even if you size up 3 cup sizes) is actually very common. There is something called the "Freya wrinkle", right at the apex...
I get it quite often, and for me it's definitly "too firm " that's the problem. My feeling about Freya is that you need to have quite a bit of depth, and a lot of fullness in the upper part of the breast, but at the same time that fullness needs to end immediatly where the cup ends, as it is so closed of along the edge. And that is a shape few women have...
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