Fabric contents: 74% Polymide, 20% Polyester, 6% Elastane

Stretched band: 28 (On very last hook- with shortest hook will be 26")
Band length: 20.5
Cup width: 5.5
Cup depth: 10.25
Cup height: 7.5
Wire length: 9
Cup separation: .6
Center gore height: 2.8
Wing height: 4.5
Strap width: .6
Number of hooks per column: 2

This couldn't have arrived at a better time, my older comexim plunges' have been comfy but absolutely incapable of good support & collapsing in under the weight of whatever is going on (holiday pound, singular?). So enter the recent binging purchases for various sizes (bratabase advises almost everything from 28FF through 30G), which fit for about a week before further growth renders ... the new purchases skimpy. Given this has been in effect for the last 3 months continually, going to assume it's not hormonal or likely to stop anytime soon.

The Sabine is a peculiar bird, in that the 3" tall #40 slightly plunge U wires are comparatively narrow & short for this size range (most wires are oversized around 28H- near 6.5" with arms about 4.5" high). Sabine's depth is more than I bargained on, for better and worse, & am most pleased with this little extra spare room at the wire and horizontally, however her height has me at a disadvantage so will carefully tack it down a bit where & as needed. Taking down the spare height at the wire removed my precious immediate depth by about half and inch (increases sides caving down), while pinching out the height from apex to inner cup is difficult but manageable compromise for overall fullness. The latter still impedes on the 10.5" depth I prefer to have at perimeter but minimizing across bustline isn't an issue personally, it doesn't result in the cup overflowing, pushing down or otherwise crumpling,so it stays. Baroque boobage, here we go.

Sabine's cup construction is of supersoft, very fine knit lining over thin foam with sturdy slightly stretchy lace over the facing side- reminds me of old-school fishnets, not exactly wiry but probably will gather mohair and cashmere from sweaters as winter drudges on here. The support and comfort I've had from this brand continues on here, with the added benefit of luxurious beauty- certainly nicer than Effuniak's Cappuccino. The overall effect is sleek and conforming, wouldn't expect the lace detail to bind in or distort cup shape.

The wing is very narrow, possibly the barest sliver of a side support I've had from off the rack, and luckily contains no stupid bendy stabby bones. This connects to an incredibly short, wide pair of bands which are 4" long on each side, made from cush matte microfiber spandex, overlaid with the fine netting lace & bound on all sides with elastic, stretchy for the top and bottom of band, with much sturdier stuff running from the hooks to strap.
Strap has a lovely detailed curlicue design on either side of it, and runs nigh 16" long. It will give possibly 4" or more when pulled taut, this is pleasing for my stronk farmer shoulders which must needs a goodly length of harness to holster anything up from

Will be attempting to knock off a patterns from this design, with modifications to enlarge the outer panels curves & shorten the cup at the inner near gore, not exactly CHP style but just to match height & width needs seamlessly. One of the greater enduring mysteries about how my side full shape contorts bras, and itself to endless vexation, has been satisfied with purchasing & wearing this style- while not as big as others I've bought, and nothing near as padded or 'oomph inducing, it presents what I have in a lovely subtle manner without attempting to scream and brag about it.
At this stage it's clear to me that anything in a pattern remotely resembling 'push up' in any style can only achieve great flattening at the lower cup, evacuated volume widens my size needs from 3 to 6 sizes so the cup pulls away hard from the ribs to compensate, then forces all the displaced central depth into an ironicaly downward and very V position from apex creating a 'witch tit' of wildly humorous proportions. Usually a tsunami of 'armpit fat rolls' appear, the inner at wire overflows like a cracked dam releasing a hideous display of loose skin & odd horizontal bulging, and the 10 plagues which were the scourge of Egypt in Moses time, return along with gnashing off teeth, pulling of hair & beating of chests from onlookers all across the land.
Nothing remotely like a classic cleavage is created by those prevalent design methods. It's so perplexing to have this gross distortion occur so consistently across brands and sizes, when I'm far more even & rounded which most bras seem built to cater to!

Meanwhile, Sabine humbly and simply seeks to embrace and support my strangely wide rounded tissue and avoids the entire mess. She welcomes me with surprisingly capable textiles, sits down and listens quietly, efficiently doing her duty without complaint or objection. Even when the side boob rears it's ugly head, she just sits there and tried to soothe the feral beast with the soft cuddly blanket of her cups. All while appearing every inch the regal nobility that she is.
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matte red with microfishnet lace overlay colorway

This bra's measurements have been altered

pinched out some height at center of cup

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