Fits ribcage 27-29
B. perimeter 9.5-12 (many test subjects here)
Stretched Band 28.5 up to 30.7 (when the cups can crush your boobs to bits and give the band slightly more length)
Band Length 23.5
Stretch ratio 1.3
Cup width 7.0 at bottom of cup near band
Cup depth 8- 8.5ish (from side seam to gore, slight give due to upper stretch lace at gore)
Depth ratio 1.2
Wire length (none, but there SHOULD be)
Cup height 9
-Side seam height 5.5"
-center seam height in middle of cup 6" tall
-inner seam height near gore 2" long
-upper lace panel 3" ... high
Cup separation 0.0
Gore height 4.2
Wing height 4.0
Strap width 0.6
Strap length 10" at shortest to 15" fully extended
Hooks 3

Tested over last 2 months on several short & evenly full breast types, short upper bodies (extreme petite & smaller framed, to generally petite), with various shoulder widths. It's non-compatible with many body types or any need for immediate projection on average width shapes... I can only surmise this wireless style is meant for a very low set, super soft/loose skinned, very narrow rooted, semi-shallow evenish shape that is centered very close to the sternum & doesn't extend anywhere near the side of one's body or arms at all, under any circumstances.
Despite having a much taller cup than other styles in this same size range it's not a fullcup, has no side control (unless we're counting it's arm sawing features), and cannot tolerate any tissue extending diagonally to the neckline. Even though the side panels are infinitely TALLER than the inner where breasts should rest next to one another, Imogen Wireless is also nothing like a plunge. Despite the nice soft stretchy lace upper panel, Imogen Wireless' tiny elastic on the same stretch panel cuts in sharply toward the body at the top for no clear reason which has caused endless ugly wrinkling for those who it was tested on... even if that narrow elastic was not there the upper lace is made to cut backwards into the breast rather than allow for even or upper fullness.
What this style does have is a very pretty retro shape when draped and supported in a bowl, which quickly wrinkles, collapses and digs typically looking like hot trash on humans and dress forms and mannequins because all involved in this experiment are too rounded below and full for it's pattern. Heartbreaking!


What Imogen Wireless does offer are gorgeous fabric and aesthetics. Sleek and sturdy and for the most part good quality (with exception of the endless loose threads hidden with weird channeling over open seams). It's glamourous & looks high end on the whole. Reminiscent of vintage bullet bras, but make it natural & much less conical.
Panache tried something here. Better than average wireless cup shape, there's some slight effort at curving the panels along the outer bottom panel, center seam and lower inner along what might be considered a gore. We get something like a pushup plunge meets sports bra, but it's still their classic 7 cup shape meets vertically oval compression vest. The shape this creates, ironically allows very little volume below apex & barely any above, and like almost all panaches which love to pretend bottom fullness doesn't exist, we lose a LOT of lower cup depth to the fake 'lift' built into the pattern there... when the bra is worn this cup flattens the bust horizontally in a terrible way dragging tissue outwards to the pits to cause bustline to look something like the classic Duckbill effect, or VV when seen from the front, which is probably pretty impressive if actually one rips the stupid lace panel entirely off the top.
Everything about the rest of this bra is merely another flatening ornate lace tube without any of the built-in stretch/give that makes other wireless bras wearable, or fullness patterned in for anyone who requires depth for curvature. This creates an ULTIMATE AGONY BINDER, but now with the barest MEAGER SLIVER OF CLEAVAGE. Horizontally. On top. So this muffining 'cleavage' bisects any and all breasts into a bottom pair of breasts and an upper pair. The tall of root the short rooted and average alike https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_surprised.gif" alt=":o" /> It hates us all. Why then must these bizarrely placed straps eagerly saw into this quadded compressed tortured tissue like a pair of rabid wolves. Nobody has appreciated this so far.

The back of the band and frame is fantastic for an absolutely madhouse tiny body, placing the straps a scant 4.5 to 5" apart, straps resting naturally about 6" apart from one another when allowed to rest naturally when laid flat. This is one of the better things I've ever had the pleasure of purchasing in the bra world, I'd LOVE to see it happen more often!
Meanwhile the straps and where the cup attach require both a massively wide and tall upper torso with relatively NO boobs on it except at the sternum. A wide upper bust gets cut into and the lovely severe quadding. When laid flat it would appear that this is supposed to fit only 8" apart where straps attaches to the top of the cups, but that's IF the upper cup panel can actually fit diagonally like a V in the front which it hasn't & cannot fit like on any tiny shouldered, tiny ribbed teens who've tried it. Realistically the straps rest about 12.5" apart which is more suitable on my own 18.5" wide shoulders.
It neither works for the insanely tiny body (my teen whose size this is), nor myself at the other extreme with my gigantic shoulders & larger breasts that can take pretty much any and all side set straps... Imogen seems to be made for only a tiny narrow back, extremely LARGE or possibly quite wide chest plate with a bird-breasted protruding ribcage like a boat prow, arms which then extend diagonally backwards from one's side toward the rear of their body and of course... very narrow roots set together in very front with quite squishy tissue that can be cajoled into 2 shallow 00 's with the tops cut off. But you know the cups REQUIRE resistant tough tissue to hold the entire mess in place (because we've done away with the underwires that would have held the cups in correct position), and it hurts horribly on everyone with tougher titties.

God. Why. The. Hell.

I honestly can't begin with the conflicting design concepts happening in this one.

Panache.

Just put the gd wires back ON this one. It's clearly a nice bra WITH the correct support to hold the structure where it belongs. And while we're at it, stop with the shitty massively tall cup side extending from the wing to strap killing our arm nerves. Everyone on earth hates this shit. Do better ffs.

There's more to this but I'm so freaking tired of trying to make it work out. Might update in comments in the future if it can be frankensteined into.. idk what, anything better than what this is.
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