BUTTONS! The detail on this is BUTTONS and I love it! Not too feminine for me, nice and narrow, lifts!
This review is for the Ewa Michalak SF Czarny Gładzioch in 70G EU (32G UK), color Black. My ABTF size is 34FF/32G UK.
Band:
* Very tight. This fits like a 30. Has 3 hooks by 4 columns.
Wires:
* Very narrow at 5.5 inches wide in the 70G.
Cups:
* 4 part cup, with 2 vertical seams. The bottom is standard knitwear. The top is elastic tulle.
Straps:
* The straps are fully adjustable and have a nice embroidery pattern on them in black on black.
Fabric:
* The fabric is very comfortable, ... no chafing at all.
Hardware:
* The hardware is matching black and it has button details.
About me: very close set (breasts touch), very narrow roots, very projected at the wire, full on bottom, short roots, soft tissue, significant rib flares, narrow shoulders.
FIT
* The band is VERY small. I had to wear an extender. I think this 70 fits like a 30 (the stretched length is 31).
* The wires are wonderfully narrow at this size.
* The gore tacks hard for me due to being the wrong band size for me. I can wear it but it's never going to let me forget it's there. (SOLVED by wearing 2 extenders.) The wires are as narrow as could be at .75 inches. I really need to overlap the wires but I can't bear to wreck the button detail!
* The cups are GREAT for my short roots, full on bottom. I do have some wrinkling at the wire, but I can't blame it on projection since this is a Ewa. I do have "flatt-ish" roots so I think the wire is just too much of a capital U shape for me. I need to look into swapping the wires for an Emerald Erin in Carmen if I can get the right height.
* The straps are plenty long enough and fully adjustable.
* The sides are a comfortable height for me.
OVERALL IMPRESSION
* I'm counting this as a win! I'll try to get it in a 75FF or 80F/80FF for an even better fit, but with extenders this is a keeper for me. And my first 'bra that fits.'
P.S. I totally lied on the "set a fit" because I need to show this as "it fits." The truth is the issues are: band too small, gore too wide, can't fill bottom of cups.
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Updated on Apr 23, 2021 Flag this
Great review! FYI, on the fit screen you can check off all the issues you had with the bra and then go on to 'personal assessment' and click that none of the issues you described are a problem for you to mark the bra as fitting.