I got this bra from another Bratabase user, and have worn it twice. The bra is beautiful, but it just doesn't fit. I am still having a hard time pinning down my shape, but I am sure that I am pendulous and splayed, and this bra fails me on both of those counts. My boobs are set fairly close together at the top (they almost touch when supported) and REALLY wide at the bottom. The gore is wide enough at the bottom for my splayed gals, but the top is just too wide. It sits on breast tissue on both sides. The fit is ... soft enough that the wires don't leave bruising on my breasts like some, but the cups are far enough apart that it makes it feel like the wires are too wide, when they are actually pretty narrow. If I pinch the gore together, the wires move out of my armpits and the fit improves. If it was great in other ways, that would be an easy fix, but there are other issues.
I am relatively short and pretty high-set, so I love the fairly low cup height - it's hard to find bras that don't stick out of the top of my shirts. But since the entire cup is soft and stretchy, it doesn't offer very much support. My boobs settle in the bottom and outside of the cups, and the top is too loose, despite its stretch. I'm guessing that this would be a problem for most people who's boobs aren't pretty self-supporting, but since mine also long for the safety of my armpits, it was a major issue for me.
The wires seem to distort with very little stretch. They don't seem especially hard, but they don't give much. This is another downside for me, since I'm beginning to think that one breast is wider than the other. More forgiving wires help make both my boobs happier.
Ah, well. The world is full of sheer black bras. Hopefully there's still one out there for me.
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Updated on May 30, 2017 Flag this
The cobalt blue straps are so beautiful with the sheer black. 3D printing bras--it's coming :-) This bra could fit both of us if only the design was flexble and printed on demand. Someday :-)