Panache Harmony Balconette 30KK nude:

This is the worst bra I've ever tried. Terrible shape incompatibility. Harmony has very wide wires that are also extremely tall on the sides. I need rather tall cups / wires but they were just overkill on me. The cup depth I measured is even bigger than I need but the whole bra ended up being shallow dues cups just being very tall / wide. This bra is just sizing gone overboard. I cannot imagine it fit anyone that actually is in the 30K-30KK-32K size range properly.
I got some empty space on top and bottom. The wire channels were hardly padded and cut in like crazy. I never wore a bra that was more uncomfortable. After 1 hour I had to rip that instrument of torture from my body.
The band is quite snug and has not much stretch in it.
The only good thing: the cup fabric is rather smooth, I don't mind that kind of fabric.

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Updated on Mar 17, 2014 Flag this

This bra was transferred from another user to me for testing.

What is going on with this bra?

The wires are so massively wide that my boob sits in the middle of the cup, well supported...but the bottom has several inches of empty space that causes the cups to act as part of the band and thus a lot of cup and depth get wasted.

The band is a bit too tight for my liking but this may be due to the hard underwires acting as a large part of the band.

The bra feels kind of soft and silky and that's nice. The gore isn't too bad as ... it isn't too high and only sits about 1.5 cm away from the center but it is way too wide for close-set breasts.

But what the hell Panache? Do you really even test these bras on more than one woman? Do you test them at all? I can't see this fitting mostly anyone well besides perhaps someone with very bottom heavy breasts that are wide apart with a wide root. And even then, I doubt she'd be comfortable.

The bra feels fine for about 5 minutes before becoming one of Panache's famous torture devices. Panache needs to go back to the drawing board on this poor attempt at cashing in on larger sizes.
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I'm really not quite sure what I can say about this bra. I guess I can start off with some facts about it. Harmony is a 3-piece balconnet with the two lower sections made of opaque material and the top section made of a sheer fabric with embroidered decoration. The straps are partially adjustable and its fastening has 3 rows of 3 columns of hooks. The bra is unbanded- the band doesn't continue through the gore.

I got this from another bratabaser, and it's a size larger than I would usually get in bras, but I feel like I can comment on some of the unusual features of the ... fit. This is a big bra. I feel like it's larger than I would expect, comparing it to the fit of other bras I have tried around the 30K and 32K mark. The wires are very, very wide. So wide that they wrap around to the flat of my back. I measure at 64.5cm as tight as possible, and like bands to be at about 68cm (27" ) stretched length to be comfortable, so I am a little smaller than the bra has been made for, but I feel like even with a 30" ribcage, the wires would be inappropriately wide.

The base of the cups is very shallow, and the curve of the wires is also shallow, meaning that I have a lot of empty space in the bottom of the cups. The straps are very wide-set, so they don't stay on my shoulders unless I angle them in, and they don't adjust to be short enough for my high-set breasts and small frame. Somehow, there's still not quite enough room in the top centre of the bra for my breasts, and I spill out a little there, or at least feel very ill contained.

I could in theory try a size down, but I feel like this bra is pretty much the reverse of what I need. I need very deep, narrow, short cups with straps which are close-set and allow me to wear the bra high on my chest. Harmony has very shallow, wide, tall cups with wide-set straps.

The material is lovely and soft, and I feel like in sizes where pattern scaling is not so much of an issue, this bra could be quite wearable. The straps also are thick and comfortable on my shoulders- they don't twist up or cut in.

If for some reason, you have a very wide root, with shallow, tall breasts which aren't too high on your chest and wide shoulders, Harmony in 30KK could be good for you. If you don't have this combination of features, the bra in this size may be worth a miss.
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So, this is the comically large bra which has been floating around on here for quite some time. I figured I would give it a try for kicks and giggles. It's actually not bad. I love the nylon mixed into the fabric making it feel so very nice and soft. The wrinkling everywhere is not noticeable under the top I wore today, and the wire jabs mid armpit instead of at the front, making it slightly more comfortable in that regard. Call me crazy, but I'm going to put it in my rotation for now. I think I'll keep my eye out for one of these in a 34J/JJ or so.

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Panache Harmony Balconette 30KK White:

This is the worst bra I've ever tried. Terrible shape incompatibility. Harmony has very wide wires that are also extremely tall on the sides. I need rather tall cups / wires but they were just overkill on me. The cup depth I measured is even bigger than I need but the whole bra ended up being shallow dues cups just being very tall / wide. This bra is just sizing gone overboard. I cannot imagine it fit anyone that actually is in the 30K-30KK-32K size range properly.
I got some empty space on top and bottom. The wire channels were hardly padded and cut in like crazy. I never wore a bra that was more uncomfortable. After 1 hour I had to rip that instrument of torture from my body.
The band is quite snug and has not much stretch in it.
The only good thing: the cup fabric is rather smooth, I don't mind that kind of fabric.

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