*UPDATE: After wearing through a 10 hour shift at work.*
It is quite evident that my body is not used to wearing such a firm band as I felt a bit sore after wearing the bra all night. After sitting in this bra for my hour long drive to work it became very apparent where the bra was in fact sitting on my breast tissue. The wires in this bra a VERY firm and started to feel like they were digging into me while I was sitting, but while i was standing I did not feel it much, if at all. When I took the bra off I had clear as day red marks on my breasts in the shape of the cup all the way up to where the cup connects to the straps. I could also feel my tissue hanging over the cup on the armpit side. I have NEVER worn a bra where my breasts actually stayed in the same spot all night, that they certainly did in this bra! It stopped all movement better than a sports bra (or at least any sports bra that I've worn) . Even though there is no space between the wire channels at the Gore, the wire was still sitting on my breast, only slightly uncomfortable and I am hoping this uncomfortable feeling would go away with a correct size cup. I do wish the bras under wires came up hire at the side than in the middle, I think the Gore may be too high for me...It started to become uncomfortable after about 6 hours and I found myself pulling it away from chest every now and again, giving it a little scratch. The wires do not fill the wire channels so perhaps I could push the wires to the outside from the inside? Put a stitch or two in place to keep it from moving? I do not have much experience with bras, but if the bra does not "soften up" with wear I may sew a soft, plush fabric along the under wires and band seems. They are not itchy or abrasive, they're just not super plush and soft.
*Original Review*
I was REALLY looking forward to getting this bra. I wasn't quite ready to get an unlined bra, so I ordered this. The pictures on Amazon and here deceived me into thinking it had a fabric lining underneath the mesh cup. The dual layered mesh does a good job at holding breasts and not being too sheer. It's really quite comfortable. This band is much smaller than Freya's, it's even smaller than my Lascivious bra. I stretched it to 26", I did not feel comfortable stretching it any further. This is my second 28D bra I bought, post-BtB size. The mesh of this bra is not stretchy at all. Which made measuring the depth fairly easy for me. It feels like the wires are too narrow, but not uncomfortable. The Gore is pretty much nonexistent, with the cups wire channels directly next to one another. The fit of this bra depends on how I tighten the straps. If I have them tightened fully, the top and side of the cup pushes into my breasts causing quading on both sides of cups. Medium tightened is how I have it in the pictures, I have a bit of quad going on. Slightly loosened straps gets rid of quading but causes some oddly placed wrinkles on the cup. I'm not a huge fan of the shape this bra gives me... in a tight cami it is a natural-ish shape with a bit of point and with a loose shirt it is all pointy shape. I have posted pictures. I know I have pointy (maybe conical) boobs, which is one of the main reasons why I have always run away from non-padded bras. I am trying to open my mind to them. I don't think this bra does much for me....no apparent shaping or intense lift.....I definitely count this as a win, and may sew a thicker, stiffer fabric inside the cup for more shaping.

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Updated on Nov 15, 2017 Flag this

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  When you're first trying new bras, you might find you're swooping a lot, but this is simply due to ill fitting bras mooshing the breast tissue flat and towards the underarms (migrated tissue - not scientifically proven, but WAY too many cases to say it doesn't exist) and it all needs to be gathered toward the front again, but if the tissue is trying to escape all the time, then you'll want to start with wider wired bras. Of course, you may just have wide roots, but whether it's migrated tissue or wide roots, you definitely don't want underwires sitting on breast tissue, comfortable or not, to prevent more breast tissue damage. Tutti Rouge has wide wires. I know there's a chart for brands from widest to narrowest wires across the same size, if I find I'll link it to you! :)
  The cups are definitely too closed for your tall roots. And a good tip is to have the straps as loose as possible, but tight as necessary. So shouldn't dig in, but shouldn't sag and fall off too. Most of the support (80% or more) should be in the band. If the straps make that much of a difference, I would write the bra off as not the best design since it's so reliant on the straps to shape them.
  And there are definitely unlined bras that make rounded shapes; Ewa Michalak and Panache make tons. You can look at my Panache Marcie photos; I am very upside-down 7 shaped and the Marcie makes me very rounded, just as 1 example.
  Hopefully some of that made sense and was helpful haha I'm kind of ranting after a tiring day of work. :P

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  It did indeed make sense Slava-Zone! I updated this review after wearing the bra for a ten hour shift at work. This bra, THIS BRA, (lol) definitely kept my tissue from moving around. I definitely need a larger cup in this bra. I loosened the straps more for my shift and the shape didn't change much, I'm thinking that the fabric was just very stiff when I first got the bra. I am hoping that it is mostly migrated tissue and my roots become more narrow with time, because I really love many polish bra's (comexim, Kris Line, both ewa's...and the list goes on) and I want to be able to wear their bras!

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