This is the most comfortable moulded cup I have ever worn. Another review said it was an odd shaped cup. Not for me. Smooth and round here. The wires and low under my arms. No wire pokes, The cups are low like a half cup, the fabric is smooth under my clothing. The straps adjust fully and the band is firm. The button between the cups is so cute. The only thing I dislike is that the bra has a 2 hook closure. I prefer 3.
I am just starting to find my correct bra size and this is probably my best fitting bra so far. Based on my measurements I am around a 30FF to 30G. This bra is not a bad fit for me but does not feel quite right either. Something about it causes it to become uncomfortable by the end of the day, likely the under wires digging in a bit. I have some slight quad boob, not at the top of the cups, which if anything gap slightly, but at the horizontal seam where the upper lace/mesh section meets the cup. It is not happening all the time but ...comes and goes probably based on how I am standing. A 30F was much too small and 30G was way too big. I may just be on between sizes or this bra is not good for my shape. I would say I'm probably even to slightly fuller on bottom from what I can tell. This bra is okay for thicker tops but I cannot wear it with thin tops due to nipple show through and the fit issues. I will keep it but I'm still looking for a better more comfortable fit. Read more 93 more words
If your principal fit issue is those "quadboobing" where upper lace and mesh section meets, I would sugest trying to carefully stretch the seam while wet. It worked wonders on my Cleo Marcie Balconnet Bra (6831) :)
Thank you for the suggestion, I just bought it so I haven't washed it yet, but I will definitely try that!
This might be my favorite bra. Wires are the right width, shape is fabulous and it's comfortable to wear all day. Offers room for center fullness, which I need. The band has stayed very firm and I haven't had to go to a smaller hook in the five months I've had it. Sometimes a little small on those big boob days, but that's why I need to find one in 30G as well!
The cups and straps are very comfortable, but the band runs a little high under my armpits. It rubs a little bit. However, I'm going to keep it because hopefully, through tissue migration and stretching, this rubbing won't last.
The bra fits great until I wear it for more than four hours. Then the gore starts to stab my sternum. It literally feels like someone is stabbing me in the chest! I love the way it looks and feels except for the center gore. Perhaps I'll investigate altering that part...
I think that this bra is so good on me and so comfortable that it is hard to say much more than that. Wearing this bra I can forget about boobs that makes the bra subject uneventful https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" />
I gave this bra to my friend only because I don't like pink. The fit was pretty good but I just don't like the color. I kept my Turquoise one that I love.
The top part of the cup just wrinkles a tiny bit for me. It is good enough to wear and does not show.
I got this on my regular 30:8 size, the cups are just like my other Cleo bras I've tried. The cups fit me just fine regarding width and depth https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" />
The band of this bra is pretty good, I feel that if I got this bra in a 28 it would be uncomfortably tight.
I really like how perky and round this bra makes my boobs look!
I cut the inner lining of this bra because I wanted to make it sheer! I find that it did not affect the fit of this bra.
Me:FoT, narrow and tall root, average projection, splayed.
This was the first bra I've tried on that is open enough on top for my FoT, tall root breasts. Bra is comfortable and true to size but I believe it is a bit too wide and shallow for me. My breasts keep pushing the wires out of my inframammary fold. If it weren't too shallow it'd be a great t-shirt bra.
I have finally found the size and styles that seem to work for me. When I first got this bra, it was very snug in the band (like the other Cleos I have). An extender helped the first few weeks, as did washing it.
However, even though it was almost right, it was very loose on the upper cup (but the projection and depth were spot on, if that makes sense). I read some comments on fit issues with the Meg/Lily, where it was recommended to push the wires down in the channels so that they are pushed away from the center and more ...towards the outside. Genius! Gapping is gone! My breasts are very close together as well as full and soft in the center, so I'm guessing that getting those wires out of the way lets them settle into place. I went a step further when tacking down the wires and tacked together the top of the gore. On the Meg, I actually folded it in two so that the cups are practically touching at the top. It stiffened the channel where there are no wires and let my breasts settle more into place. It looks a little odd if the bra is just laying there, but really can't be seen when it is being worn (since my breast are so close together). I do believe my breasts would be happiest if the wires overlapped, but this works. With the outside wires up higher, it also helps keep the tissue from sliding out into the arm pit and stay more forward.
I am very happy with the way this bra fits now. Almost like it was made for me. Plus, it is supportive and practically disappears under clothes.
An added bonus of Cleo is that the colors and styles are fun. I have spent most of my life with very limited options. I didn't realize, either, how much my husband hated nude bras until I got my first Cleo!! Read more 243 more words
This is my second aqua/pink Lily, and I nabbed it on sale because the first time I tried the Lily I fell in love with the fit: http://www.bratabase.com/bra/dlh3m/
Needless to say, this one fits identically to my other aqua Lily.
Worth mentioning though, is that the band on the aqua Lily runs firmer than other colourways. I wear both my aqua colourways using the full length of an extender; I wear my other colourways using only 1 extra set of hooks (I'm a between-bander in unpadded Cleo).
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. Read more 101 more words
Beautiful bra. Love all the lace detailing. Probably the prettiest bra i own. The good... Gore is close together which is best for breasts with a small gap. Lace on the top is stretchy which helps prevent quad boob. Pulls the breast out in a lovely rounded shape. The bad... Band runs a little tighter than my usual 30 band bras. Limited to colors of pink yellow and aqua this season.
Having never been madly in love with the aesthetic of the Lily, I didn't bother trying it for the longest time, despite knowing I had an even shape and it was supposed to be the best of Cleo's 3 famed unpadded balconnet bras for an even shape. I had Marcie, which works for an even shape, and the gore got a bit stabby at the end of the day, but not enough to be overly worried by it. Then I spotted a Lily on sale and since my size never goes on sale, I figured I'd give it a try.
The wires are ...perfection. In my size range, I'd describe them as the narrow side of average. The cup allows for immediate projection at the base but also at the gore, which accommodates my inner fullness in a way no other bra save my 65G - Avocado » Camelia (S174F) ever has. (Marcie comes close, but it's not quite the same.) This inner projection means the gore doesn't get shifted and shoved down during the course of the day, a process which inevitably results in the underwires shifting so that, come the end of the day, the outer lower corners of the cups dig into my ribs. I'd been going crazy trying to figure out what was causing it (too tight a band? too loose a band? the consequence of fitting to the larger breast and thus wearing too large a cup size on the smaller breast?) -- Lily made me realise it was simply a lack of adequate inner projection.
The band runs firm. I wear a 30 comfortably in Freya, and I usually find I like to wear my Cleos in a 30 with one extra set of hooks care of an extender, sometimes two sets if the bra runs firm (eg the pink Marcie). The Lily I'm wearing with the full length of an extender, so I'd estimate I could happily wear the 32F and it runs almost a full band size tighter than, by comparison, the Lucy.
Gore is too wide for me, but it is in fact admirably narrow. Read more 254 more words
The cup size is perfection, and unlike the Lucy I don't get wrinkling in the lace even on my smaller breast.
The gore is quite narrow, but it still buckles between my close-set breasts, so that one wire is sitting on its side on my sternum and the other is sitting perpendicular to it; but it's not uncomfortable and honestly, it's the best I've experienced in a gore of this height.
The band definitely runs tight, even for Cleo: I can fasten it, but it's too tight and warps the wires. However, with an extender giving me two extra columns of hooks, the bra fits so perfectly I forget I'm wearing it almost immediately.
** Note: This review is based on trying it on once **
The 30F was a close fit except for some quad-boob, so I tried the 30FF. Unfortunately, this fit is worse for me--the cups are too wide, giving my boobs a weird, flattened look, and I've still got quad-boob in the middle/top. Time to give up on the Neve, I think.
Material: 50% polyamide, 37% polyester, 13% elastene. Very slick and plasticky. Oddly, the hot pink out of the box had a strong industrial odor (not present in the coral 30F I tried earlier).
Such a pretty bra! I'm not going to lie, this is a full on top bra. I couldn't fill the lacey red bit, but, I still wore it! In fact I have a 34FF in the mail right now, because even though I've outgrown this one, I still loved it so much! It's just so fun https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" /> I'm usually a 32 band in Cleo, but for the Zia, and Melissa, I find the bands have been tighter, or firmer. It might just be me though!
If your principal fit issue is those "quadboobing" where upper lace and mesh section meets, I would sugest trying to carefully stretch the seam while wet. It worked wonders on my Cleo Marcie Balconnet Bra (6831) :)