If you have close set breasts, the wires may bother you as they bother me. The first Kali I ordered was a 32DD and it felt like my breasts were being forced into my ribs. After putting my bra on backward and upside down, I learned I did not require a 32" band, and the cups were significantly small. Before wearing this 30F backward and upside down, I thought its band was too small. Just the cups were too small. These cups just don't cover enough of my breast. Although I have short roots, I have quite a large pillow of tissue exuding from the top. I have been thoroughly spoiled by Comexim, Anna Pardal, and Ewa Michalak: Cleo is not remotely comfortable, to me, compared to the aforementioned brands. I will wait for the made to order Comexim/Anna Pardal bras. Sigh.
This is a yellow Marcie. It fits like my other 30F Marcies (pink/orange and candy pink). Meaning, it fits https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" />
Band is nice and snug on me, I usually wear 28 band but Cleo bands tend to be tight. Cups are ok for my wide + shallow boobs. This bra is open enough so there is no quadboob. Straps fully adjustable.
The only complain I have about marcies, in general, is that the wires are sometimes painful, they dig into the sternum, but this has been easily fixed by bending the wires a bit.
This is a pink Marcie with orange spots / lace. It fits like my other 30F Marcies (yellow and candy pink). Meaning, it fits https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" />
Band is nice and snug on me, I usually wear 28 band but Cleo bands tend to be tight. Cups are ok for my wide + shallow boobs. This bra is open enough so there is no quadboob. Straps fully adjustable.
The only complain I have about marcies, in general, is that the wires are sometimes painful, they dig into the sternum, but this has been easily fixed by bending the wires a bit.
The Neve Plunge T-shirt Bra is a well fitting bra for me, yet it's not one of my favorites. That's for two reasons: 1. The cupline is visible under clothes, which it shouldn't being a T-shirt bra and 2. it doesn't really follow the body's movements, when I bow over the cups tend to seperate half a centimetre from my bust, especially near the gore. 3. The straps start very close to my armpits, they keep on sliding of my shoulders towards the neck, where they pull the bra to the center :/ Yet, the bra has a kind of push-up effect on me, which shows nicely wearing u-shaped ...shirts over it, where the neckline of the shirt runs along the cupline of the bra to cover it up a little. The band size is fine with me, it could be a little tighter, but that's my personal preference. I must have been wearing this bra about 30 times since I got it and the band is still very elastic and firm, even though I've been wearing it on the tightest hook since day 1. Read more 75 more words
I bought this together with the 30E to compare, but this one didn’t fit. In my opinion, the sizing for both is pretty close, but after trying on this size for 10 minutes, I could tell that the cups are just too big since my shape would change as I moved around. This bra has been returned.
With this bra, I have confirmation that my breasts are narrow. This is the first bra I've worn that allows enough immediate projection that I don't find boob squished into my armpit and out the top of the cup. I could use a bit more immediate projection and narrower wires: a dramatic change from Natori Feathers! However, I will never wear this bra. As a minimalist, I want a few comfortable, concealing, supportive bras in my arsenal. The lovely polka dots, seams, and my nipples are visible. Most offensive are the wires; comfort is paramount. Goodbye 30F, Lucy. EDIT: The 30FF is much more comfortable! Thankfully, I ordered both the 30F and 30FF or I would have NEVER revisited Lucy. Oh, the importance of a well-fitting bra!! https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" />
Well heeeelllllloooo cleavage! Without quadboob! What witchcraft is this?
Despite being a little shallow at the bottom (the wires don't quite fit in my inframammary fold), this bra doesn't gape at all (unlike the deco, which is also too shallow but gapes like crazy). I've also got some sexy cleavage going on, but there is no quadboob. Furthermore, comparing side profile images of this bra to my passionata plunge and my deco delight, this bra molds best to my projection and does not flatten out my boobs. Did I also mention it's comfortable?
...If only I wore it!
Neve is a great bra. It's got a firm band, a flexible ...cup (works for both projected and shallow -I had a friend with shallow boobs try it on and she loved it, she just didn't get the cleavage that I did), good support and is smooth under a shirt. The problem is, I really really really dislike the pattern. I think its gaudy. If I had the Neve in a basic color, I'd wear the crap out of it. As is, I never wear it. Under light colored shirts you can see the pattern. Under sexy cleavage baring shirts, I feel like I'm wearing a 12 year old's bra. I'm tempted to try and dye it black just so I feel comfortable wearing it. Read more 114 more words
The underwire digs into my ribs uncomfortably. They need more padding. The straps barely adjust long enough. Band seems true to size, on the tight side. Cups can gap at certain shoulder angles. The cups are strongly padded (so that they gap rather than wrinkle)
Not the best bra for full on top breasts because the upper edge tends to cut in. For the right person, though, this bra would be very cute and comfortable.
What an odd fit. What an odd bra. The big polka-dot look combined with the feminine, rose-patterned lace section is a little confusing to the eye, but it goes together surprisingly well.
Unfortunately I cannot say the same for the fit. This bra is too small for me, I get some slight quadding out the top and the band is very tight. Even with an extender to keep the wires from being stretched, the cup is too small. Despite this, I get massive wrinkling in the lace section. I don't know if my boobs are too firm, or the top of my breast is too shallow/not projected enough to ...fill it out. But I get the quad/wrinkle effect. The Zia may be a Marcie sister cut, but it does not have stretch lace, so the top is much more closed off. It has a normal apex (not like the high apex of the Meg, which is also closed off on top, but fits me much better. Go figure). I thought it would work well because I have short, projected boobs, but I guess I don't have projection in the right areas, or else my boobs aren't soft enough to conform to Zia's expectations.
tl:dr Tight band, Closed off on top Read more 100 more words
I am in love with this bra. It is gloriously neon green, and it fits my boobs fantastically. The wire width is perfect, there's no gapping, no quadboob, no puckering, no wrinkles, just smooth, uplifted, rounded neon goodness. I have short, projected, center heavy boobs and this bra accommodates all of that perfectly. I love this bra. I want to keep this bra and give it compliments and buy it flowers. I want to buy other bras like it because I love the way it fits my boobs like a glove.
Except that murderous gore.
The bottom of the gore on the Kali falls directly on the end ...of my sternum where my ribs begin to separate (pressing on the xiphoid process, for anyone who remembers their anatomy class). The pressure/digging in is not noticeable immediately, but becomes excruciating within a couple hours. I've tried putting a layer of moleskin along the gore which diminishes the digging-in, but cannot eliminate it completely. From my frantic googling, this appears to be because I am fairly low set (equivalent to long torso issues). If you are high set, or even just average so that the gore falls on your ribs and not on your xiphoid process, you will probably be just fine.
tl;dr version: Fits short, projected boobs perfectly, awe-inducing neon color, but individual issues caused by the lack of band below the bra. If the Cleo Lucy works for you, than this bra will too. Read more 137 more words
Unfortunately I must accept that this is just too large for me. It really is so cute, though. I think this would work very well if you're pale as a "nude", as I find the color disappears under clothing.
This is the shallowest bra I've ever seen. It fits me fairly well. The sides dig because the wing height is pretty high, or at least it's higher than what I have on my other bras.
When I tried this on yesterday I really thought it didn't fit anywhere near decently. I decided to try on my bras again and this seems to fit better than I initially thought. The cup part fits decently, but the lace part does gap, although it isn't visible under shirts. If I keep this I may try to alter the lace somehow maybe sew it into the gore a bit.
This actually fits you really well. It's a Juna-clone, and Juna's well known major design flaw is the gapping lace. If the lace lays flat, the bra is too small. So this is your correct size in the bra, but that lace flappin-in-the-breeze would drive me nuts too.
This bra is a really strange fit, the cups are tall and wide, even with an extender they seem to come back too far. It doesn't create any cleavage really and when I scoop and swoop I get some digging/ slight quad boob on the little bit of cleavage I can get. I think it's is really separated and doesn't lift or push anything in. All around the bra is just a bad fit.
The Lily is my dream-fit bra. I sized up to a 32E in the aqua/pink colour way, since that was so tight in the band; this colour way appears to be looser in the band (and is pre-loved) so it's pretty much perfect on the loosest set of hooks straight away.
Gives the most glorious rounded, front-and-centre shape, and even rounds out my smaller breast despite the large discrepancy in cup size between the two. Much as I never really warmed to Lily's colour ways, I'm devastated that this one has been discontinued. The only thing that could possibly make it more perfect for me is if the wires overlapped down the length of the gore; other than that I don't have a single quibble.
This actually fits you really well. It's a Juna-clone, and Juna's well known major design flaw is the gapping lace. If the lace lays flat, the bra is too small. So this is your correct size in the bra, but that lace flappin-in-the-breeze would drive me nuts too.