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strapless bras :(
I have never, ever had a strapless bra fit correctly, and I was so hopeful after finding out that smaller bands exist that I would finally be able to find one. I got a white Panache Confetti strapless in 30F off braswap (no measurements on here except mine for that size, so it was kinda a shot in the dark) and oh my, it is so pretty!
I love that it's unpadded and the lace is grogeous, the band is comfortable and stays put... but the cups just do not fit. They seem like they are too deep and they don't offer any support or shaping. They just make my boobs look sad. What's weird is that I fill them out/ it looks like they would fit if I had straps to put on it (when I pull up on where the straps would connect)... but that was the whole point of getting this bra. No straps.
It's such a pretty bra, I really want to just alter it to fit, but I have no clue how to do it. If I do the alteration I did to my Jasmine, the top of the cup becomes too closed off and cuts in. None of my other attempts to pinch/ fold/ pin it to the right shape have been successful, and they distort the pattern of the lace. I wonder if a 30E would fit or be too narrow? Or where I'd even find one in my budget... seems like way too big of a 'maybe' to pay full price.
Ugh.
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I am even to slightly fot with narrow roots and have the same problem. I am trying to get 3 strapless bras in smaller cup sizes than normal, 30D and 30DD when I'm firmly 28F. When I've tried bras in the past looking for strapless I've found that I need the straps to keep the girls up, it always seems like there is no support. The go-to bras are too fob and/or too wide in the cup.
I've finally just accepted that I need to make a strapless bra work even if it doesn't fit perfectly.
It's not you, or rather it's not just you. I've never found a strapless that fit me, and I've been a LOT of different sizes in my adult life (30E/32DD when I was a wee slip of a thing and 32GG right after babies, and I've been through every size in between).
I basically quit worrying about strapless bras, because the way I see it, I can find several cute tops and dresses that can conceal bra straps roughly 1000x faster and with less angst than I can find one single strapless bra that is kinda wearable despite not actually fitting well. I've lived in very warm climates, North Carolina, Washington DC, southern California, etc. and have found this to hold true even having to fill a wardrobe with 70% summery stuff.