First of all, this is a truly beautiful and (as far as I can tell from my limited time with it) well-constructed bra. I desperately wanted it to work for me!

Unfortunately, it's wrong in just about every way. I normally wear a 36J in Elomi and a 36HH-J in Panache, so I took the Breakout Bras advice and ordered this in 36JJ. It's massive all over, especially at the top of the cups. The gore doesn't tack, there's no support due to the size/shape, there's massive amounts of room all over the top and even a bit in the bottom of the cup, the straps are incredibly wide ... to the point of falling off my shoulder, the wires are a little narrow (and I'm definitely on the narrow side—I almost never find wires too narrow!)... It's almost comical how "off" this fits me.

On the plus side, it does fit right in my IMF for once. The band feels about right in length—a reasonably stretchy 36. The gore is *almost* skinny enough for me. I'd love to try it in a smaller cup size, but then the cups will probably be too narrow for me, so... maybe not. Argh.

tl;dr: if you're full on bottom, get your usual size. If you're full on bottom AND sort of between two cup sizes (especially if it's due to extreme projection), probably just get your usual smaller size. I'm still not positive this bra would work for my shape in a smaller cup size, but I have a feeling it would be a lot closer/easier to tell what the problem is if I'd gotten it in 36J.

My shape:
FOB, close set (1 finger width), slightly inner-full, average to narrow root width, extremely projected/need a lot of immediate projection (8 inch difference between standing and leaning), slightly pendulous, average(?) root height.
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