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Creme Bralee
Cute, super-affordable lingerie that goes up to a G-cup? (We're talking $32-38 USD, *after* the $2 "big boob" tax on the DDD and G izes. 32-46 bands, C, D, DD, DDD, G cups.) Color me interested!
Unfortunately, Creme Bralee isn't for me. Their G is far too small for me. (I'm more of a UK G anyway, so it was a long shot!) But I did add two more bras to the database.
This new brand has styling that runs a pretty comfortable gamut; you've got a basic t-shirt bra, and lots of pretty lace -- half-cups, partially-padded cups, and soft cups -- plus a couple of styles that *really* speak to my personal desire for a padded half-cup style with lots of oomph. (They're not quite half-cup, though, and all angled a bit more like a plunge.)
The 32G - Creme Bralee » Amanda Clamshell (12336X) was gorgeous with a very comfortable if stretchy band. Someone it actually fit would probably get a lovely rounded shape out of it and lots of uplift; check those vertical seams.
Shop for the Amanda Clamshell - http://www.qtbras.com/index.php/creme-bralee/amanda-clamshell-bra.html
I was more bewildered by the 32G - Creme Bralee » Bettina (12313X), which was... an odd fit. Though both have similarly-sized cups and the Amanda Clamshell actually has a slightly smaller band, I almost couldn't get the Bettina closed -- the Amanda's slightly deeper cups gave me somewhere to go, I guess. (Literally I struggled to get all three hooks shut, and finally took pictures with just two of them done up.)
Shop for the Bettina - http://www.qtbras.com/index.php/creme-bralee/bettina-bra.html
On to the fit: I didn't have them on long enough to really get an opinion on the strap positioning, but they were a good width, not too wide or too narrow. As much as I could tell, the bands were okay. The cups were obviously too small, but they're lined with a soft fabric (cotton?) and were comfortable in spite of all the quad-boob. The gores WOULD have tacked and been a comfortable width on me, had there not been so much quad boob in the way; I did some experimenting pushing my breast tissue around to be sure.
If you can see my pictures, pleased forgive the iPhone headphones.
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