Very comfortable bra with good lift, the center gore is narrow and the underwires sit very close together in the middle so it does bring you more front and center versus off to the side. I tend to have comfort issues with underwires poking either up too high into my armpits or sitting on breast tissue but this does not seem to be an issue so far with this bra and Anita bras in general. The shape is a little pointy on me but it may just be my shape because the bra does nor appear this way in the stock photos. Will try to add pictures ... soon. The only complaint I have is I truly need a 30 band (65 in European sizing) rather than a 32 which means I cannot start on the looset hook, but I am on the the middle hook with this bra rather than the tightest and it seems to be snug enough so far. Anita seems to only start at a 65 band in a few models, most start at a 70 band unfortunately. The straps are also a little wide but very comfortable, although I could do without the intricate embroidery on the straps and top of the cup as well as it looks a little overdone for my taste. I just started wearing Anita bras and I feel the quality of the materials and fit seem to be very high. I think the shape of their bras fit my body type well, and it has been a lot of work to find a brand that fits me well because I think I am very picky and I have had a lot of issues because I think I was measuring myself as larger than I really am initially. In any case, very good fit so far after a few weeks of wear and would recommend trying this brand.
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Hibiscus colorway

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Updated on Oct 29, 2014 Flag this

This is my second Rosa Faia, passed along the first due to projection mismatch . Bought this style as a root width depth tester, as I struggle horribly with finding bras with cups that don't strain against my shallow lower tissue, or sit over and smash my full-on-side roots. I'm not full on bottom by a long shot. Just very small ribbed with wide roots, so everything in my size is invariably flat-cupped with nowhere for breasts to go. Not even counting the wires being wildly too narrow.

As it turns out, this design is a perfect match for my immediate projection needs and when I ... pin out the 1" height difference, would have worked well for my short, wide, shallow breasts. The Scarlett would be amazing for someone with more central projection who needs a little more depth than usual, maybe not superb design for full on top, but wouldn't say that this style is adverse to mild upper fullness. Scarlett surprisingly didn't cut into my upper root as most cups do. It performs lovely as a basic support structure cradling one's chest, rather than engineered to push up, around, or otherwise bully breasts into some sort of upper-to-inner apex overflow (again, would expect for a fuller or even projected person this bra would fit truer to size than some brands which seem to run small).

As for the materials, the band is of woven powernet weight spandex, very stable and joins to a wing & cup made from a single layer of a poly woven material of the same weight. There is not jabby boning in the seam that connects them, what a blessing. Inside is a double layered duoplex sling which extends from the strap down past the central seam, toward the inner cup. I want to rave about this design as again, it isn't performing poorly on my immediate projection by smashing or pishing lower breast tissue sideways & outward at an icky angle, as many cups so. Instead, I get a lovely light & sturdy guide for my FOS tissue reminding it to stray away from my armpits.
The lace upper is incredibly detailed embroidery on fine albeit heavy duty powernet, stretching up to 25%. Nice balance between fitted, and built for ease. The gore is more or less what I'd call 'floating' aka a strip of reinforced satin between the wires which stops short of their end by about half an inch. Straps are mainly of a soft, felted strip with lace ribbon sewn atop, there is a slight give to this so it may be elastic but I doubt that. The rest of the strap is satiny heavy duty elastic which may be considered hard or sharp along edges for anyone whose reached the end of the adjustment allotment.
Trimming and 3 part zig-zag stitch are small and perfectly placed, easy to forget about these details while wearing, but like the lace trim and band. they stand out when handling or observing Scarlett.

Likely as not I'll now simply baste in the difference in Scarletts cup height to match my own apex, & wear her as any other bra in my wardrobe.
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Black colorway

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Updated on Feb 11, 2022 Flag this