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

Wires seem overly eager to distort. They measure 14.5cm but they fit more like 15.5 or 16 -even with a full extender added. I don't need the extender to fasten the band, but this band is different material than my other Empreintes. Instead of the shiny, elastic synthetic band, this has a layer of lace on top. Possibly this shortens the stretch?

Otherwise, side boning, three hooks, thick straps, very narrow and tall centre gore, lots of room for my centre fullness, straps are set narrow enough and are ribbed for no-slip.

Ivory white fabric and details. Faint peach embroidery lining the white embroidery (see photo). Beautiful! Single lay of no-stretch mesh on whole cup. Funny ruffled lace on the inside of the front of the strap. Definitely impedes strap shortening, especially as strap is line with foam for the length of the lace.

The only odd thing is the shape. It is slightly pointed (green shape) and very front and centre and would be perfect, except I get an odd flattening on the outside plain directly beneath the strap attachment. This prompts a bulge on the side just instide the wire. I have put in a photo from underneath as it seems the best way to capture it. I also took an identical photo with me holding a dart in the elastic between the strap and the outside of the underwire. It seems to fix the problem. I think this is what the correct shape would look like if the wires were actually narrow enough for me. I will experiment with a dart there and other things. I think it is because of my relative centre fullness. the shape from the top is also fixed if I push my tissue in from the bottom centre and it compensates by pushing out the flat part in the cup. Another soft tissue issue. sigh. This is the same alteration I am using on my Comexim half cups with the straps moved in. I might be better with a sister size up in the band and replacing the wires with narrower firmer ones - but that is not an experiment I want to try with a brand new, and expensive, bra.


Edit:

So, I fixed the shape problem! In doing so, I moved the straps wider and made it murder on my armpits 🙁. I tried what I call a "full alteration" first which totally corrected the shape issue - too much room in the side of the cup that my centre full soft tissue does not fill thus not enough width tension and the strap pulls flat from the outside of my nipple to the strap attachment. This brough the straps a great deal wider and they dug into my armpits (see photos labelled full alteraton). So I took it out and did what I have called a "half alteraton" instead. This seems to the be widest I can pull the straps and still be wearable and yet so the alteration for shape correction. It is more like a 2/3 or 3/4 alteration, but "half" is an easier label. So, I can either have comfortable strap placement and flattened weird shape, or a nicer shape with slightly uncomfortable straps. I am going to try with my Ornella too as it has similar issues, but not on the same scale.

I took out 3 cm in the end so the new cup depth is 28.5 cm - wow these really are huge cups!

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Updated on Jan 18, 2017 Flag this

• Thanks for the lower gore measurement: narrow. Yeah!

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