Lucy is shallow with wide cups. As I've lost some weight and Marcie, Meg, Alexa and other Cleos are big now, Lucy fits better then before when it slightly cut into my breasts
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Lucy Balconnet Bra (5851)
AW2010 - SS2017 - Unpadded balconette with a partial band and floral embroidery
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This is typically a FoB bra and I think my shape is pretty even but this still works great for me. The lace cuts into my tissue ever so slightly on my larger breast but that barely noticeable and might be because I'm thinking I have tallish roots. Like with every bra I've tried so far, the wires are a little bit wide for me. Otherwise this bra is amazing for me!
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Updated on Aug 24, 2014 Flag this
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I love how cute this bra is. The colour is fantastic. It's a cup size too small, but only barely (the FF is also slightly too big). Aside from that, it is comfortable and I like the rounded shape (I don't like the pointy shape). I don't have any significant complaints about this bra, only sad that I don't have the purple in a larger size.
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Updated on Aug 20, 2014 Flag this
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The Cleo Lucy in a 28FF only stretches to about 28" (not 29" like bratabase data suggests, some of the data is probably from older, well-loved bras). Sounds typical for Panache, so I should have payed attention before I bought this!
The purple colorway is gorgeous, and the little details on the bra are very pretty. I've found that some of the embroidery on the cups shows through a thin t-shirt just enough to annoy me, but that's not a big deal most of the time. The cups lift and round quite well; the fabric is stiff and very secure. I'm a fan of the up front and rounded ... look that this gives.
The gore is my only real complaint about this bra. It is too wide for me, but it also folds over on itself because it is so unstable! I don't think this would be a problem for someone with more separate boobs than mine; also, the instability of the gore means that alterations should be super simple.
Those who want to use an extender, be warned: the hooks are closer together on this (and the other 28 band Panache bras I've tried) than on the average bra.
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Updated on Aug 18, 2014 Flag this
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White colourway:
One of my first "well-fitting" bras, and I'm not sure I would purchase it again, knowing my shape requirements better now than I did then.
I require immediate projection at the base of the cup, which Lucy has because it's a FOB-friendly bra; however I also need immediate projection at the gore, to cope with inner fullness, and Lucy's cup is quite shallow in this region. It also has far too wide a gore for me; it ends up twisting up double on itself to try and make room. By the end of the day, the shallowness near the gore and the wide gore have lost the battle ... with my inner fullness and the cups get pushed down in the centre and so outwards at their lower outer corner, particularly on the side of my smaller breast, resulting in the underwire digging and chafing at my ribs.
Wires are wide. Band runs the loosest of my unpadded Cleos -- Marcie and Lily run tighter by approximately 1 set of hooks. (I'm a between-bander in unpadded Cleo. In the Lucy I use one extra set of hooks care of an extender. For Marcie and Lily I use two extra sets of hooks.) Gives the uplifted, rounded shape Cleo is famous for.
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White colorway
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Updated on Aug 16, 2014 Flag this
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I purchased this bra in white from a local bra store.
I really like the soft cup bras, the lace is so pretty! The embroidery and seams might show on a thinner shirt, but it's not terribly noticeable.
Overall I think the shape is good for me- it's nicely rounded and doesn't seem to be trying to change my shape.
The mesh on the top is not stretchy, so it looks like slight quadboob when I push my shoulders back, but I feel like that's normal.
The straps are a little wider than I'm used to, but I like it.
I sometimes have trouble filling in the bottom of the cup ... of other bras, which seems to push the wires down lower on my chest, but this bra fills the bottom nicely and seems to sit where it's supposed to.
I am in between band sizes, generally measuring myself at around 33 or 32.5 inches, so I'm unsure about the 34 band size. The band feels pretty stretchy to me, and I can comfortably wear it on any of the hooks. I suspect the store owner did not have this bra in a 32 band in a cup that would fit me in stock, so she may have fit me into the closest one, rather than recommend something she didn't have. It's also possible she tends to give people a looser fit anyway, as she originally recommended a 36 band last year when I was fitted. I think I'm concerned that this band will become too loose as it breaks in. I'll have to read some other reviews to see how it does over time.
Anyway, I wonder if I would prefer a 32 band in this bra, since it feels pretty stretchy. I think I'll probably purchase other colors of this bra in the near future.
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Updated on Aug 14, 2014 Flag this
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I got the white colorway first and loved it. I'd never been a fan of unlined bras but the Lucy is great. The pink is even more beautiful but the cups are too big.
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Updated on Aug 13, 2014 Flag this
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I have the white colorway and the cups on the pink seem bigger.
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Updated on Aug 13, 2014 Flag this
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I was wrong about my shape (thought I was FOB), and so I kept trying to get this bra to work for me. It didn't. I am FOT/Even.
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Updated on Aug 12, 2014 Flag this
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I don't think the wires are wide enough and are distorted from my tissue pulling them back. This is causing the cups to be pulled back and not have enough projection in the bottom of the cups which created a line. The band feels snug, but not too tight.
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Updated on Aug 12, 2014 Flag this