I labelled this band as stretched to 30", it can stretch to probably about 33". Though doing so results in significant distortion of the wires.
The cup depth can stretch to about 11.5".
I believe this bra has been discontinued as I can no longer find it on Amazon nor Parfaits other retailers or their own website. Parfait seems to do this quite a bit. They put out many bras and most are discontinued rather quickly. They seem to excel the most in the padded/molded bra category. Providing the publix with decently projected padded bras.
The gore is confusing to me. And it seems this is a hit or miss with ... many of their bras. All of their bras start out with quite a nicely narrow gore. But then they either stay fairly narrow (as with most their padded bras) or they get super wide at the bottom of the gore. THIS bra gets SUPER wide towards the middle and bottom of the gore.
Alas, the material feels really nice. The cups are great. I think most women could get down with this style of cup. There is an outer layer of matte satin with a stretchy tulle lining. Top third is fishnet style mesh lined with the same tulle. The band is kind of strange. The gore and cup wings are made of a fishnet style mesh back with a stretchy tulle. Which I believe is what causes the ridiculous width/stretchiness of the gore. There is plastic boning in the wing seams and then the rest of the band is made of the same fishnet style mesh but instead of being backed with the tulle, it is backed with power mesh. Then there is about half inch of elastic sewn to the bottom making this a fully banded bra. There is also an interesting strip of plastic/rubber/silicone zig-zag stitched sewn to the outer edge of the cup. I imagine this is supposed to help the edge of the cup stay tacked down to prevent gaping without using a strip of elastic which would generally cause digging/quading.
The construction quality is great. I think taking a piece of non-stretch fabric and sewing it to the gore would do absolute wonders for this bra.
See my review here: http://bra.pe/X3lY/
for the story of me bravangalizing a friend and why I have bras in this size.
Besides the gore issue, it seems to fit her pretty damn well. Her favorite of the three I got her so far is the Cleo Hettie ,also in 30GG. I imagine she will eventually end up in more of a 28HH/30H or even 28J/30HH as she has about a 13" h.perimeter and obviously prefers a firmer band.
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