This bra is a major disappointment for me. I am in love with the teal colour and its rose gold finish. I also really like the super soft fabric on the cups. It is with great regret I have concluded that this bra simply does not fit. I've seen a lot of reviews on Bravissimo's website saying that they had issue with the fastener to make it into a racerback style*, but I personally did not have difficulty with it.
I was fitted by a Bravissimo sales assistant. I normally wear a 30FF but I don't think my breasts seemed to fill the tops of the cups in the ... FF well so they put me in an F cup and said it was a good fit. And it did feel comfortable and look okay at first so I bought it.
I've now worn it for longer periods of time and my issues are:
1) it became clear that the wires in the bra were not wide enough and that it was sitting on my breast tissue and would hurt after a few hours. I think this is simply due to it being an F cup instead of FF.
2) the fastener presses uncomfortably on my neck unless I have the straps at their loosest, so there's no tension on the straps at all. It actually really aches after a while if I have them snugly tightened how I normally would with a bra. The height of the actual fastener relative to the band is not adjustable, so you can't have it not sitting on your neck. This seems to be a common complaint. I opted to leave it undone when wearing but the ruins shaping effect it's supposed to have by kinda pulling them in.
3) When I have properly swooped and scooped the cups wrinkle at the bottom. Over the course of a day I find the wire ends up being pushed downwards. I both of these things are due to a shape misfit, but I also found it was difficult to pull it up into my IMF due to the wires being too narrow. I do not think the wrinkles are caused by the cups being too big, if anything they might be slightly too small in the F, since I seem to spill out in the middle after adjustment. I think I err on being a bit full on bottom and projected and the bra is just not suited for my shape.
* ironically they apparently changed this from a magnetic clasp to a j-hook style to make it easier to do up
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