Me: Narrow roots, narrow shoulders, evenly round, lots of immediate projection, very soft tissue, slightly FoB, slightly centre full, splayed, never met a gore I didn't like, left-heavey by more than a cup size, 31" underbust, but prefer tight band with extender. Panache, Freya size 30GG

Empreinte for cheap! (ie. under 100 CAD - which means I get the styles and colours that happen to come up)

Oddly, it fits my larger side perfectly, but I need to put both my full cup cookies in my smaller side and I still get gaping at the top! I guess the projection at the appex and inner fullness just can't be compensated for by push-up or appex cookies. *Edit: This is because of the shape issue I noticed after I got my Jasmine.*

Good immediate projection, unfortunately, narrow wires are softer and distort a bit to feel a touch wide. *Edit: I used an extender and it solved this problem.* Shape is French and pointier, but really, really round for a French maker.

Standard Empreinte band - feels and measures looser than it actually functions. Excellently broad straps and three hooks, side boning, and super narrow tall centre gore. Plus, very narrow set straps.

For those unfamiliar with Empreinte sizing, they use three cm increments so their 30F has an average cup depth of 26cm and 30G averages 29cm - which equates roughly to 30:10 in UK and US brands (2.5 cm increments) and 65:11/12 in Polish brands (2 cm increments - 11 unlined, 12 padded). In my experience anyway.

Edit: I put a dart in the outside of the cup just inside the wire to correct the shape issue I understood when I tried my Jasmine which has a more extreme case of the same issue. I have tried twice now, making the dart smaller, and the straps are only just wearably wide now. I might take it all out and try again because they are still a bit too wide, but I wonder if a smaller dart would even make the shape correction.

I have taken out about two cm so new depth measurement is 29.4 cm. I may try once more to make it a little smaller.

Updated on Jan 18, 2017 Flag this

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