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I normally wear closer to a 28DD but have trouble finding bras that have enough projection at the wire. Curvy Kate's selection in 28 bands is limited. Since their 30 bands allegedly are quite firm, I decided to give 30D a shot.
About the bra itself: The bra is an unpadded plunge style with one vertical and one horizontal seam per cup. The wings are made out of the same mesh. Along the cup edge is a an elastic picot trim. It is barely visible but a nice touch in my opinion. The bra closes with three rows of two hooks each.
I really like the aesthetics of this bra, ... but unfortunately it does not quite fit me. The main problem are the cups. My breasts are FOB and quite projected but only at the bottom which makes it challenging to find bras. In this particular one, I do not fill out the tops of the cups completely and the fabric moves over my skin when I walk. Because the fabric is mesh, this leads to nipple chafing. The bottom of the cup seems also a little bit too shallow as witnessed by some cup wrinkling. The band is definitely firm in itself but also a bit loose on me. This would not be an issue if the cups fit better. In combination though the bra has a tendency to move down my chest in the front. The straps are also on the short side for my low boobs and almost too wide set for me.
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Updated on Jul 01, 2021 Flag this

I normally wear a 28DD and this triangle-style bralette in a darker shade of red is quite obviously too small in the cups and too big in the band for me. It is recommended for 30 bands and the company only makes bras in cup sizes A-D at the moment. I still love the look and wear it on the tightest hook even though I get a bit of quadboob. I am FOB, so if you are FOT or even fullness you might get more quadboob. My guess is that it would fit for someone wearing around a 30B or maybe 30C.
The band is made out of a ... firm fabric with almost no give, with an elastic band added to the back portion, and the centimeters on the back around the hooks are two elastic bands covered in the same material as the rest of the band. The cups are made of lace with a geometric pattern and have a single dart each. The lace material itself is not stretchy but due to the pattern it does have a bit of give. The wings have two strips of boning each: One where the straps attach and the other about halfway between the straps and the cup (boning channel is only visible on the inside). The straps are half-adjustable. All visible hardware is golden.
When I wear this bralette on the loosest hook, the front will move up onto my breasts. I still get that a bit of that when I close it on the tightest hook but I believe this is rather due to missing cup depth. As I said, I get quadboob as the cups are both too small and too shallow. The straps are a bit too short for my taste but then I need quite long straps. The bralette still serves a decorative function and I do get enough compression from it to prevent bouncing.
Unfortunately, the fabric between the hooks was already fraying after a couple of wears. It looks like that part is covered in some fabric as opposed to the plain ones I have seen in other bras, and I'm afraid I caught the fabric with a hook early on. The quality of the finish seems good to my untrained eye and I really like this "clean" lace look, but I'm not sure I would spend that much money on a bralette again if it does not fit better.
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Updated on Jul 03, 2021 Flag this

My breasts are FOB and projected, and I normally wear a 28DD, and this bra sadly does not fit in several aspects. This bra is a padded half cup with two vertical seams. The cups are covered in a patterned mesh fabric and a lace trim is sewn to the top edge of the cup. The lace sits on the padded cup itself. The wings are made of two layers of some very stretchy mesh fabric. The band size is ok for me but very stretchy, so it does not feel too supportive. The cups are very shallow at the bottom - too shallow for my breasts. ... This bra gives me great cleavage, but unfortunately that comes at the cost of comfort: Due to the shallowness, my tissue is pushed out of the cups at the top but since I am FOB, I don't get overspill yet. The bra might work better in a bigger cup size though. The wires are narrow and a good width for me at the bottom. I need narrow wires at the bottom of my breasts, but these wires reach unfortunately so high on the sides that they poke into my tail of Spence. I generally need rather long straps and these adjust long enough for me, I even get a couple of extra centimeters.
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Updated on Jul 03, 2021 Flag this