The fabric is too stretchy and the underwires too flexible. When you put the bra on, the wires stretch out and collapse so that the gore can't sit flat on the sternum and the wires poke into the breast tissue. It seemed like the cup volume would be appropriate were it not for the cups stretching out oddly and flattening in the center, creating quad-boob on top and excess space on the sides.

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Updated on Jan 29, 2013 Flag this

This is a very well made bra that is gorgeous, but $60 retail (when not on closeout for $20) is steep. You get your money's worth and this bra appears to be holding up well to gentle washing in a front-loader machine (in a delicates bag usually) for about three months now.

This bra fits round high breasts pretty well with one exception: the wires come up high despite being a "balconette" bra. I have high set boobs, so I constantly am fighting to find bras that don't assault my armpits--this one is not bad, but still pokes some. Also the straps are not ultra wide set like ... the Freya Deco, but are not quite narrow enough for me. The attachment points do not cut into me, but the straps really try to fall off my shoulders if I don't have them set pretty tight. It seems that the straps are the closest I have come to the straps not wanting to cut the front of my armpit in all my bras. (Fair warning: I use forearm crutches often, so the chafing REALLY gets to me when it is bad)

Like other Fantasie bras, the wires are very solid and rounded so that they don't cut as much as others. The band is rather stretchy and in one day of use stretched from 31" ultra-stretched to 32.5". It is about 33.5 after three months of off-and-on use. The straps are strong, yet comfortably soft and cushy enough for the length setting to stay put. As usual for Fantasie: metal hardware that means it.

The shape is rounded, with a slight oval shape that forces the boobs a little out to the side (may be just the way mine expand to fill the space provided). I have quite a bit of high breast tissue, so the line at the top of bras can often be a problem, but this one is great. The top is reinforced, but has just enough give to gently rest on the tissue instead of cutting in or gaping.

Overall a good bra, though I have grown quite a bit (to the tune of 20 lbs) and now need to get a larger band size as this one fits, but a little too snug for my comfort even stretched out by use.
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