Well, this is a bra that broke my heart.

It's gorgeous - I love the black and pale dusky purple (I love bright colors, but I'm also a sucker for muted shades). I like the lace and the cute little cameo charm on the gore. The band fits nicely and fits me well; if anything it was slightly too stretchy, but I normally wear 36s and 85 is basically a 38, so I expected that.

But it doesn't work on me, which is genuinely frustrating as I was so sure that the S cut would work with my boobs.

I had the guess at the size - there is literally no info on EM's S cuts in this size (until now!), and it's slightly too small in the cup - the gore doesn't *quite* tack and my boobs feel a bit smooshed in the cups. So I probably would have those issues go away with an 85J.

The bigger problem, which makes it unwearable for me, is that the top of the cups are just too tall and too open. I apparently have really short breasts. Almost all of my bras have some extra space or gaping lace at the top, especially where the cup meets the strap (I also apparently are more center-full). I had hoped this would not be the case for this bra, but unfortunately, it is. There's so much extra fabric and padding sticking straight up from the top. Putting the inserts in helps a little bit, but not enough to make it work. The gaping is most prominent towards the outside of the cup, but it's incredibly obvious all over.

On the plus side, the narrow wires aren't too narrow for me, so that's good to know.

This bra is not owned any more

Updated on Mar 15, 2015 Flag this

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• So strange! The cups actually look much too big, not width but projection and height. Sorry it didn't work for you.

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  It is entirely the height that is the problem. The cups themselves are definitely not too big or too projected - just way too tall and open on top. :(

• I'm glad that I was not the only one that found it slightly too small. It is very open on top - not overly so for me, but close.

• To my (still newbie) eye this looks like a short root problem? Its too bad they dont offer this fabric in an 'H' style. But it looks like the CHP style cant be ordered larger than an 80H? What about custom shorter cups?

• and yes, so sad!!

• Yeah, I have short roots. Apparently they are incredibly short.

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  As a fellow short rooted gal: the versions that are unlined (ex: HM/BM) or the ones with lined cups and removable pads give more wiggle room on finding a right heighted fit. I agree- if the fabric is stiiff, any gaping along the top edge is super dramatic. I tend to do better in the ewa CH type cuts on the whole. But short roots also give you less overall volume than someone with taller roots and the same peremiter. So it's easy to overestimate size in some bras. I know a lot of folk size up in some ewa bras, but I actually wear the same to one cupsize down in the S and PL.

• How tight or loose did you have the straps?
  

• I think that the reason why the gore doesn't tack and your boobs feel smooshed in the center while there's such massive gaping, is because this cup size is way larger than what you need - which results in much higher gore than your boobs can handle. So basically the center portion of the bra, which is unproportional and only supposed to support the middle crease of much larger volume, ends up handling all your boob tissue so that's the stress. Trying 2-3 cup sizes down (so 85G/GG) should really fix all this.

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