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You are all so wonderfully helpful, so I'm back again for more advice. As I mentioned in my last post, for reference, my usual Comexim size is a 60HH 3HC with overlapping gore, straps moved in, and added depth above the wire as alterations. What UK bras I have are either 28F or 30E.

I have very soft tissue after weightloss; pendulous with narrow roots (but not super narrow, as the 60H wires I custom ordered in my 60HH plunges from Comexim were too narrow). I used to be FoT before weightloss. Now I lack a lot of upper fullness most of the time. If I gain weight or retain water, then I look a little more even.

In a well-fitting half cup, you can see some more upper fullness/cakes on a plate, but in a balcony bra, my boobs just kind of sink down. I get a lot of wrinkling and empty space at the top. I have functionally short roots because they get shallow pretty quickly, making the upper roots of little consequence to my fit. If a cup is too tall and closed on top, it will cut in on my chest while still having empty space on top and lots of strap-gap. So short cups help.

I always needed the reduced cup alteration in Comexim plunges when I was a 60J/65HH, but since losing weight, Comexim plunges no longer work for me, with the apex being too deep and the bottom of the cup being too shallow, plus strap gap. Based on this info, would the Ewa Michalak S cut be a better fit for my shape?

My understanding is the SM is basically an unlined S, so the second question: would the SM cut like Ewa Michalak Sm Czarna Mgiełka (481) also work for my shape, or would I get the inevitable wrinkling/empty space at the top? The worst culprits of this for me are bras like Cleo Marcie and CK Ellis, which are supposedly ideal for my shape and indeed the right cup height, but wrinkle so much on top.

The worst part is that my soft tissue spills over the seam that connects the lace/top panel to the base of the cup, so I get a lot of in-cup quadding as well. Even my Cleo Lily does this. I have checked other users' fit pics of the Czarna Mgielka and it doesn't seem like anyone gets that in-cup quadding/spilling over the seam, but my boobs very soft/deflated, so I'm wary. Maybe SM bras have seams that just don't cause that, which would be great.

I don't do any bras with stretch lace because they just don't have enough support at the seams to stop the in-cup quadding unless I size way down, and then they are too shallow and cut in.

I've already put in an order for an unlined 3HC from Comexim, which I am more hopeful about, but that EM is tempting me from afar. It feels easier to risk and S than SM due to my issues with unlined balconies, but I would much prefer something unlined for summer. Thank you all again!

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