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Jul 20, 2013 Polish Bras
I am from the US and all of my bras have been bought in the US.(Olga, Bali, Vanity Fair,Maiden Form and Wacoal)( and my 3 Chantelles from Paris) I've heard that bras from the UK and Europe are much better in quality and I assume, more expensive. Recently I've been reading how Polish bras are the best. I know Ewa Michalek is a pretty popular bra here at Bratabase. But now I'm reading about bras by Nipplex,Comexium, Ewa Bein. Mardo, and Boccara which I believe, are all Polish brands too. Are these bras and Polish bras in general the best in fit and/or quality that there is? I'm just curious what any of you think.
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If you have bony ribs like me and constantly experience wire pain, then you'll really like Polish bras. In the wire department, you'll really appreciate the construction.
I only have padded cups from EM. I really like how their bands sit a little bit lower than average so they're definitely the comfiest bras in my collection. If you like the green shape, you'll love EM and Polish bras in general.
As for quality of the materials, don't expect top of the line quality but they are definitely not cheap to say the least! The soft cotton inside the cups is really nice though. Definitely an improvement from US (and even UK) brands. The construction is definitely very good, better than any brands I've tried.
No type of bra is superior for all types of breasts. There is no magic country that makes bras that are amazing. US, UK, and Polish bras are roughly the same quality as long as they're within the same price point. That's the whole point of pricing things. They're worth the same. Remember that.
Polish bras work on some types of breasts and they are epic fails on others. But there's several brands. Some cannot do EM, but Dalia or Comexim works wonders. There are several UK brands and they all work differently on different types of breasts.
The reason why you hear so much about UK and Polish brands here on Bratabase is because they actually make a wide range of sizes, unlike any US brand except for Parfait. Because US brands don't make a wide range of sizes, they're constructed to hide bad fit in larger size, so they often have a weird shape on people who actually fit into the unicorn sizes that they do make.
Most of our expertise lies with UK and Polish brands, so those are the bras we tend to recommend, since we know which shape they'll work on. Shape is as important to fit as sizing is.
It's really hard to tell your shape from the pictures I can find of you in various bras, but it looks like you have shallower breasts, and thus Polish brands likely won't work so well (since they have narrower wires and deeper cups) on you. Instead, Cleo, Panache, and Curvy Kate might be better places to start with, just based off of the pictures I can see (by the way, for a better angle on fit, I recommend taking pictures with your arms akimbo as well as adding a 45 degree angle shot).
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