From bottom of wires up: ~13 cm sides, 9 cm gore.

Wearing this longline really cemented why I (and probably others) can’t wear longlines. At least not longlines with no elastic at the wire.

First, to contextualize, I have a short waist and either an A or straight | | shape. That means that my narrowest point is right under my breasts. In order to anchor the band to my body, I need my bra to grip right there: if it’s gripping lower or higher, it’s not holding the wires to my body.

What happens with these bras is, the band is narrower further down and wider at my usual band line. The band therefore doesn’t pull the wires against my body, allowing the weight of my breasts to pull the whole thing out and down. I experienced the same thing with my 44K - Wellfitting » Liftsational Longline Plunge. What’s interesting is, it can make it look like the cups are too shallow at the bottom and that’s why they are falling- but that can’t be the case because the exact same bra cut in a regular band is not shallow at the bottom at all. In reality, it’s the longline band not allowing the wires to be sprung against the body.

I could therefore not judge the fit of this bra.

Appearance-wise it was very pretty. The quality of fabric and finishing was not as good as the 40JJ - Curvy Kate » Charm Babydoll (SG5207).

This is a padded plunge, with Curvy Kate’s standard padded plunge cups.

Black/blush colorway

This bra is not owned any more

Updated on Jul 17, 2018 Flag this

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• 1

  Great verbal description! Really helps to understand the issues so much better than photos alone can do.

• That is an interesting pattern. Your description of the fit issues also is really helpful. I've never tried a longline, but have always wanted to and I also have an A shaped torso.

• I thought it was roses, though I could be mistaken?

• 2

  What you describe is the exact problem I had with any Comexim (therefore wellfitting) longline. It’s a construction error & I believe the reason Comexims longlines were all widely reviewed to run shallow.

• 4

  Yeah, it always cracks me up that they describe that you can attach your bra below the breast line where you are smaller, and turn it around, and then move it up to your ribcage - no, cant, my natural waist is at my IMF. tall, thinner women, or women who carry their weight in the rear, actually do have that waistline that comes in. the hourglass. but if you have no waistline . . .
  

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  lcl0706 yes, and in fact when I shortened the band of my longline it fixed the “shallowness” issue. So it’s not that Comexim longlines are shallower, just that they will probably only work on women with a V shaped torso, and probably then only if they don’t have much fluff.

• 2

  The pattern is really sed and it’s really lovely! I wish I could get the bra version of this but it’s sold out in my size.

• 2

  Pattern is *roses

• 1

  Love the roses. This looks amazing on you!!

• 2

  Pretty! This is a great description. This is the problem I have as well, I am a straight line from my rib cage to my hips, so the longlines I try are cute for short term wears, but do funny things including trying to work their way back to my IMF over time, lol.

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