I got this bra from another Bratabase user, and have worn it twice. The bra is beautiful, but it just doesn't fit. I am still having a hard time pinning down my shape, but I am sure that I am pendulous and splayed, and this bra fails me on both of those counts. My boobs are set fairly close together at the top (they almost touch when supported) and REALLY wide at the bottom. The gore is wide enough at the bottom for my splayed gals, but the top is just too wide. It sits on breast tissue on both sides. The fit is soft enough that the wires don't leave bruising on my breasts like some, but the cups are far enough apart that it makes it feel like the wires are too wide, when they are actually pretty narrow. If I pinch the gore together, the wires move out of my armpits and the fit improves. If it was great in other ways, that would be an easy fix, but there are other issues.

I am relatively short and pretty high-set, so I love the fairly low cup height - it's hard to find bras that don't stick out of the top of my shirts. But since the entire cup is soft and stretchy, it doesn't offer very much support. My boobs settle in the bottom and outside of the cups, and the top is too loose, despite its stretch. I'm guessing that this would be a problem for most people who's boobs aren't pretty self-supporting, but since mine also long for the safety of my armpits, it was a major issue for me.

The wires seem to distort with very little stretch. They don't seem especially hard, but they don't give much. This is another downside for me, since I'm beginning to think that one breast is wider than the other. More forgiving wires help make both my boobs happier.

Ah, well. The world is full of sheer black bras. Hopefully there's still one out there for me.

Updated on May 30, 2017 Flag this

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  The cobalt blue straps are so beautiful with the sheer black. 3D printing bras--it's coming :-) This bra could fit both of us if only the design was flexble and printed on demand. Someday :-)

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  3D printing would be fantastic! But would we have to be scanned underwater to get accurate measurements?

  And, yes, the straps are incredibly gorgeous. Really, they are set too wide for me, but they looked so great sticking out of the sides of my top that I didn't mind at all.

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  I had to lol at "be scanned underwater".

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  And that is a seriously beautiful bra! I'm sorry it didn't fit. I'm shaped like you, touching at the top and splayed at the base, only mine do go to my armpits. Getting a good fit is challenging.

• Pit boobs. Mine are almost there. If they get any more pendulous (which they certainly will), that's where they'll live, for sure. It is a major fit issue.
  

• Too bad about the fit! About the wires at the gore being closer together at the top but wider at the bottom, have you tried Curvy Kate? It looks like it has this wire shape, as well as Elomi. But Elomi also has wider gores overall, and softer wires (veery easily distorted).

• I have had some success with Curvy Kate. Bardot is one of my best fitting bras, and Princess and Ellace are pretty good, too. Elomi was a bit of a disaster for me. If they fit in the wires and at the bottom of the cup, there was too much projection right in the center. They all made me look like my boobs were shriveling up at the tips.

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