It fits! The center gore is about an inch away from my sternum, but that's not a deal breaker. I was worried that the cups would be too wide, but it's totally fine, and nothing is stabbing me under the arm. This thing is incredibly supportive and well-made. Nothing is pinching or pulling or bruising or chafing. There's a lot of raised decorative stuff on the straps and the tops of the cups, but it doesn't show through a t-shirt and neither do the seams. It's squishing my boobs down a little and pushing them to the sides a bit (almost into my arms) rather than to the ...front, a little more than they'd like to be squished, but not enough to hurt, so even though a little more projection and a little less width would be nice, this is honestly perfectly fine. (They do hurt a bit when I take it off, but not while I'm wearing it.) I'd like it if the gore tacked, but I'm shocked at how much coverage I'm getting with this bra. I'd sort of resigned myself to buying full coverage bras that only covered half of my boobs. But nope. This is secure, sturdy, and pretty comfortable. And I'm not popping out anywhere! The straps slip a little bit because my shoulders and neck started to hurt when I tightened them, but that's fine. And my nipples don't show through this fabric. The band under the wire is comfortable and not digging in or chafing. The lace on the cups themselves is slightly itchy, but I mostly don't notice it and I think it'll soften with use. Hopefully the creaking and squeaking will ease with use, too.
Overall, I'm very happy. I think this is a good option for top-full, projected, pendulous breasts, even close-set, narrower breasts. Might work for east-west breasts, though, considering how it seems to want to go out toward the sides. Read more 214 more words
This is a beautiful, sturdy bra, but I really had to wrestle it on. It was clear more or less from the beginning that it wouldn't work out, but I wanted to try the 34HH cups to see if that was a closer fit for me than the 34GG - Fantasie ยป Belle Full Cup Bra (6001) from before. But it's a clear shape mismatch. It gave a really nice rounded, almost minimizing effect, without pushing them down or under my arms, and it didn't hike them up uncomfortably high on my chest (like balcony bras tend to). Honestly, this is listed as a full coverage ...bra, but it fit me almost like I imagine a balcony bra is supposed to fit. There was significant jiggle (and quad-boob) up top, but no real bounce, and they absolutely stayed put when I bent over. I didn't come anywhere close to falling out of this bra even with the spillage. So that was really nice. But a massive amount of boob was showing on top, so much so that I forgot this wasn't supposed to be a balcony bra and instead was supposed to encompass much more as a full coverage bra. But the depth was the problem. The cups were way too shallow, so there was nowhere for my boobs to go, and because the cups were especially shallow at the wire, I can't be sure, but I suspect I might not have been totally filling the bottom of the cup. It looked fine and I couldn't necessarily see any extra fabric or detect any when I tried to feel around, but I strongly suspect that there was a bit of room underneath, considering just how little projection there is at the bottom.
The very hard underwires dug in and hurt my ribs, and they wanted to keep migrating down my rib cage past my IMF. The band ran pretty small and inflexible. The straps felt okay, but I loosened them all the way before I put it on and I didn't even try to adjust them because I realized that the fit was all wrong.
You can see in the pictures that most of the room in the cup is all lower, and how little there is up top. That's why my boobs just wanted to hang out up top balcony-style in this thing. They're very full on top, with a lot of projection. It was never going to work with such a shallow bra with so much lower room. So the center gore was about an inch away from my chest and the underwire surrounding it was pushed away, too. Just too shallow. The gore might have been too wide for my close-set boobs, too.
I actually really liked the shape I got in this, and the uplift was good but not so high that it was overwhelming, so I'm sad that it didn't fit. It was interesting that there was so much jiggle up top but my breasts were at no point in danger of escaping, even when I leaned over at 90 degrees and really tested it. I'd really like to achieve this same shape, but with more breast tissue enclosed up top. For diagnostic purposes, I put on a bra extender and tried it on a bunch of different hooks, since it was so uncomfortably tight. Any looser and the band lost all support. However, it did become clear that the cups were a little too wide for me and, yes, too shallow, as with the band slightly looser, the cups gapped slightly at the sides and the top still didn't fit.
But the quality seems good and the band is nice and stiff. I really think someone with bottom full, wider breasts would be very comfortable and secure in this bra. It's a beautiful shape--just not mine. Read more 535 more words
This bra stretched out very quickly (to 36 inches after 4 wears) and the wires are not very supportive as well. Its very pretty and very comfortable, but should be bought a band size or two smaller, and would be better for women whose breasts don't need as much support due to the wires.
The band fits well (could possibly be a little tighter). The cups are too wide for me. The wonky wires mean that this bra does not sit flat against my sternum (typical of Freya/Fantasie for larger cup sizes). Slight quadboob yet empty at the bottom of the cup. Sizing up to 34J improved the quadboob a bit, but had no improvement on other issues or made them worse.
