This red polka dotted bra is my favourite in the looks department even though barely anything about it originally fit as I am more of a 28C-D. It helped that this is an old Mimi Holliday style and fits smaller than the newer ones. I did alterations on the band length, inserted cups from an old bra, and added darts to make this beauty fit much better. The cup width is still a bit wide for me and gets a bit uncomfortable if I wear it for more than 12 hours or two days in a row. Washing must be separately by hand as it dyes other clothes.
Finale
This bra is now at the end of its life, but I have cut out the cups and sewed them into a red polka dot bra to go with.
This is officially the smallest 32C I've tried. Ever. Granted the quadding is partly due to the cups being more closed than I'd like. The bra quickly shifts down out of my IMF. The gore floats as well, though there's no discomfort there.
The dip of the horizontal seam is pretty noticeable under tight clothing, and coupled with the single hook columns I'm not liking the construction of this bra even discounting the heavy quadding I get.
On the plus side, the straps feel nice. The material felt smooth on my shoulders. The print is as cute as it is in the pictures, too. Not nearly enough to justify the cons though :/
