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My first underwire bra in like 10 years! I don't even know what a comfortable bra should feel like, which is why I'm calling this an adventure. I almost love this bra so much. The bottom of the cups fit beautifully but the wire comes up over the IMF toward the inside of my breasts and the cups are too separated, consequently the gore is quite painful. The lace on top scooches down and wrinkles, when I pull it up and toward the center of my chest it looks like I fill the whole cup but it doesn't stay that way, it sort of ... collapses back down. The band is quite secure, tight but comfortable, and the bottom half of the cups feel very supportive. I would love the overall look and shape if the lace on top stayed up. I wish they made a 30C, I don't know if the cups are maybe too small? If so, it'll be a great period bra. But I feel like the volume of the cup is okay if only the top didn't slump down. I have tall shallow (?) roots (or bigger pecs, Idk but either way tops of cups tend to cut in and give quad boob even when cups are too big), which is why I thought stretch lace on top would be good but I guess not. It's almost right, but a few things about it are slightly off, and the cups being too separated is definitely not good.

-edit-it's been about a week, the band has stretched and I'm on the smallest hook now. However, with my PMS boobs filling out the cups more I'd say this bra is close enough to say it fits. Lace mostly stays up with just a little wrinkling around the nipples, and the wire stays in my IMF. I may still try to narrow the gore.
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Cups too separated, top of cups scooching down

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Envy Balconnet Bra (7285)

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Updated on May 24, 2024 Flag this

Normally wear a 30DD, sometimes even an E. Not sure what inspired me to try a size down, but I thought the 30DD seemed too full coverage and/or made me look pointy. This was a good bit too small on me in the 30D. The lack of depth pushed my chest towards the wires, and the wires being both too narrow and incredibly firm made the bra...hurt me pretty bad. I also got quadding on the top, which I should've forseen.

It seems like 30DD was the right volume, but a little too projected and just cut taller than I need. I do NOT recommend sizing down in ... the envy if you think it's just too projected but not actually too big in volume - a bra with wires this firm and a band that runs as tight as the envy will HURT if it is too narrow, much more than a too small-cup-but-huge-band bra will. Some shapes can get away with sizing up in a too shallow bra. However, sizing down in a a bra more projected than you doesn't work because the wires are just too narrow.
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Updated on Oct 01, 2024 Flag this

Band seemed to fit OK, but the cups were too deep. The wires were a little bit too U shaped/narrow. The fabric seemed really stiff/starchy, but maybe that would go away after washing.

Updated on Jun 06, 2023 Flag this

Envy is truly a lace bra made for comfort. I am so disappointed that this doesn't come in a 28DD, because the main problem with this bra on me is the band size. This is probably the most comfortable lace bra I have tried, and if it came in the right size for me, I think I would be wearing this all the time!

I've found that Panache bands in general tend to run a bit large, and certainly much larger than the Cleo counterparts. While in Cleo I usually wear a 30D, this size is hit or miss for me in Panache. The band, ... while supportive and well-constructed with a wide bottom elastic, is too large, and the double layer stretch mesh construction means it is on the stretchy side. Fantastic for comfort, but not ideal if the band doesn't come in your size!

The cradle shares the same construction as Andorra, where the bottom elastic crisscrosses at the gore to provide better stability. I love this detail as it really makes the bra feel more secure and stable at the gore. The cup construction is a 3 piece with side panel (technically 4 piece as the bottom cup is 2 pieces), and is the same block as Jasmine. The exterior cup is stretch houndstooth lace, while the interior cup is lined with supportive powermesh. The top cup is soft, stretchy lace with no binding, so it is fairly flexible for different shapes. I found that this fabrication works much better on me than Jasmine, which was too lightweight and ended up wrinkling a lot in the cups (also because the band was too big). Now, the cups wrinkle on me a fair bit because I can't get the band tight enough (or tighten the straps further, since it just makes the band ride up), but overall the size and shape of the cups works pretty well for me. They give a nice rounded shape and seem to be a balance fit (not FOB or FOT leaning). The straps are also nicely textured to help with grip.

My only real gripe other than the size range for this bra is that I don't love the visual appearance of the houndstooth lace juxtaposed with the floral lace used in the upper cup. I much prefer the floral lace, but I think the combination looks really weird together. I'd love to see Panache bring this fit to a wider size range and use a floral lace like the Andorra.

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28E Revised Comments: Due to an increase in cup size measurement, the cups now fit perfectly. The band is definitely a size too big, but it stays in place when worn on the tightest hook.
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Updated on Feb 01, 2020 Flag this

I was able to try this shop in a local store in the region where I spend my holidays. My breasts are FOB, rather high set and neither wide nor narrow I guess.
This bra was the biggest surprise. I always thought this bra would fit like a nightmare on all persons with smaller breasts. It is still no perfect fit, there is some wrinkling on the top of the cup (I guess it would't be better one size down, its more a shape mismatch) but it is wearable. If I had been on the beginning of my journey to fitting bras I might have liked this bra but at the moment I look for different types of bras.

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Updated on Oct 07, 2017 Flag this

Envy in a smaller size, experiment #2.

As the 30DD Envy I tried was still too big for me (even though until recently I had a good fit in the 30E) I went down to the smallest size Panache makes this bra in: the 30D. It fits pretty well, and it's comfortable. The lace is slightly stretched on my larger side, but it lays flat, and I have to take a massive breath to make it show any hint of quadding - and even then it doesn't show under a T-shirt.

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