I try to avoid Victoria's Secret now that I know better, but I needed a strapless bra for an event, and a trip to two different Nordstrom's failed to turn up anything that worked for me. I have shallow breasts with a wide root and it seems strapless bras are just not made for the way I'm shaped. Most of them try to enclose too much tissue on the top and the top edge of the cup cuts into my chest and creates a quad-boob, even when there's unfilled space in the cup. I observed that problem with the Freya Deco Shape Moulded Strapless Longline Bra (1462) , the Wacoal Red Carpet Convertible (854119) , and the Chantelle Sublime Invisible Strapless Bra (3954) . I also tried on every strapless bra at Victoria's Secret, and this was the only one that even came close to being open enough on the top.

The smallest band available for this bra is 32, so that's what I went with, even though I really need a 30. Even for the first wearing, I had to put it on the tightest hook to keep it from moving around. There's a lot of padding in the cups, which makes them smaller than they "should" be. I also would have gone up a cup size, but DD was the largest that they made, so I went with it because it was still the best fit I'd found.

Anyone trying on this bra might be tempted to go with a smaller cup size to get more of a pushup effect and more cleavage, but I would caution against that. My too-small cups started out ok, but as the evening wore on, the cups were overpowered by my boobs and buckled in the center, causing the top 50% of the cup to spill outward, and I don't even have heavy boobs. Fortunately, my dress had ruching across the top, so nobody could see my weirdly folded bra. I think if I put the straps on this, that would help hold the top of the cup up and keep that from happening, but if I were wearing something where I could wear a bra with straps, I wouldn't be wearing this bra.

As for appearance, this is a fairly attractive bra for a strapless. They put some little pleats on the cups where they meet the center gore, which makes them a little less plain than your standard featureless strapless, but they don't extend out far enough to cause lumps under clothing.

Updated on Dec 15, 2013 Flag this

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