Elan Luxe is a true plunge, not especially projected or short one but at least it's not lying about what it should fit like in that regard. Sadly this bondagy-strappy style isn't a true multiway, and one must struggle through a network of random ribbony bits & armholes pulled on over one's head and fuss with it awhile to get the cups down, straps smoothed out, and... uh well we haven't really figured out the 'making it fit' part out except on accident a few times now. Getting the straps in the right place and tensioned properly is not a do-it-yourself, routine. To those who can manage it for regular wear, bravo, you are our hero.

Typical too tall wide shallow cup designed for a totally different body size than a 30 band suggests, attached to nice short wires. Wires that aren't made of rebar, and don't dig into the petite kid this was bought for, or myself when I attempted to try it on for size. The sides of the cup totally saw into the tiny kid's armpit and shoulder, because why of course they do. On my massively wide upper chest they press against my shoulder in a firm way but I didn't get terribly uncomfortable... just wish it wasn't designed as piss poor as it is. I can't speak to the what the cup shaping is meant for, it's sort of flattening overall except for the very front and center region of the cup. Muzzle? Minimizer? in a Plunge?
On one hand Elan Luxe Plunge affords some roundness for fullness (wahoo), but it's still basically focused around the apex which is not pointy or conical this time... on the other the most likely shape this would suit will need to be rather shallow on the outer side. I'm impressed that this does have a little more room to spare in the lower center next to gore but it doesn't feel like a true inner full design by any stretch of the imagination, just that they forgot to take away space there too. The flimsy, strappy decoration along cup edge is not attached to the cup, but runs from the gore to strap. Sadly there's no distance between this decorative detail and the actual cup edge so it becomes lost appearing to be part of the cup edge, or falls inside the cups. The O rings where straps attach to the cups, creak quietly as grinding teeth, though it's plotting something ominous, or is merely haunted as the occasional abandoned ship at sea is.
Unsurprisingly, we only get 2 piddling hooks for this size which seems stingy of Panache to do, but who knows what criteria they're using to determine what merits a 3rd hook.

It's not wildly uncomfortable which I chalk up to using some basic soft stretch satin and barely stretch satin straps. Comexim tends to do better. This is a decent quality bra which I state only as the quality of many easily accessible brands is terribly low. Elan Luxe is not an especially high quality style and I wouldn't expect this to last more than 6 months of constant wear without pilling, developing runs, band streching out, the size and material information being worn off among other odd ends falling off.

Updated on Feb 01, 2024 Flag this

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