Though I'm a dedicated Ewa Michalak/Comexim fangirl, I've been interested to try more readily available brands/styles known to have good projection (e.g., Masquerade Rhea, Antoinette, or Delphi). The Delphi was my least preferred style to try but I found such a great deal I figured it was worth a try, for diagnostic purposes if nothing else. The projection is better than I expected but I could have still used more, however the main issue, as I anticipated, was this size being large on me, and I was really right - it's at least a cup size or two off. In person it's also a little mature in style for my taste as I thought it might be, but the satiny straps that widen from 0.5" at the cup attachment to 1.125" at the widest point are a beautiful feature. Not for me but it'll be listed soon for someone else who's interested!

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Its hard to tell in the pix, but this bra is charcoal satin, a nice switch from black. The dramatic lace overlay is highlighted with subtle royal purple along the top edge. The straps are unique - they are non-stretch satin, and widen out up to the shoulders. Its a vintage look, Masquerade's studied aesthetic. Delightful narrow wires with half-cup height on sides and gore, deep cotton-lined 3 part cups almost horizontal and open on top: here comes lift lift lift for a stunning Renaissance cleavage and round apples from the side. Gold metal fixtures add another touch of class. Band is very firm, the whole bra is pretty firm in fact, you're not slouching around here you are showing what ya got! I feel slightly naughty in this bra...

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I nabbed this off Zulily in my sister size of 32F because I adore the look of this bra in the Sepia colourway, but alas, my hopes are in vain and it simply won't fit.

The band is too loose: I need to hook it to the tightest hooks straight out of the bag. I've read that Panache run tight in the band and it helps to size up, but I just find the 32 band Panaches don't feel right. I do need to use an extender on some of their 30 bands, sometimes only one extra row and sometimes all three, but I far prefer that to starting ... out a bra on the tightest hooks.

The cups are too large, but I'd have to try both the 30FF and the 30F to know which would fit better, because some of the gaping is due to the straps attaching too far to the sides on the cup for me -- but a shorter band would hopefully sort that out at least a little. Experimenting with tightening the band so that the gore tacks better resulted in the cup accommodating my inner fullness and almost filling the cup, so perhaps the 30FF would suit me.

The cups looked quite pointy when they arrived, having only a single vertical seam, but when I put them on (and experimented with the band tightness so I could approximately fill them), they looked like they'd give a lovely round shape.

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