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Aesthetics: this bra is so ridiculously pretty, pale blue satin fabric with bronze embroidery. The charm on the gore is a little plastic silver heart with a rhinestone in the middle. I love the zig-zag seams. The embroidery along the top of the cups and the bottom of the band is raised and is visible under tight clothing. The band is comfortably firm but not the tightest 28 band I've ever tried. The uplift is amazing and I love the open cups.

Fitting: one size down would be better. I waited until I was retaining water to re-evaluate the fit. My larger breast almost fills the cup normally and ... does fill the cup when I am retaining water, however, my smaller breast is drowning. Obviously the gaping is less obvious when my boobs are fuller. The gaping doesn't show under t-shirts. My major problem is wire width; when I take it off, I can see that there is almost an inch of empty space on the outside of the cups! I really want to try this in 28E because of the open cups. Quadboob is a perpetual problem that I think the Rhea can handle very well, if only the wires weren't so wide.
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Aesthetics: padded seamed cups, beige fabric base, overlaid with a sheer pattern and vertical black embroidery resembling columns of butterflies. There are also two black satin ribbons on each cup over the seams and black lace along the tops of the cups and along the bottom of the band. There is a beige satin and black lace ribbon bow at the top of the center gore. There is a triangle of satiny fabric topped with another beige satin and black lace ribbon bow extending about 3 inches up the strap, covering where the strap is attached to the cup (facing outward). I like it, but it does peek ... out of strappy/sheer tops.

Fit: I love it. Usually. The cups are shallow and the wires are very tall, suiting my tall boobs very well. I have low-set boobs and always have boob/armpit fat escaping from the cups, so this bra supports and lifts very well. I can definitely see it poking/rubbing someone with short/high-set boobs in the armpits, though. The band is stretchy, so I wish I could order down, but I'll just alter it when it starts to annoy me.

When I'm retaining water, I get the weird smashed boob "shelf" that projected shapes get, where my boobs are pushed up and spill out of the top in the weirdest way.
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The material is sheer but also quite stiff, so I wouldn't worry about wearing it under a thin shirt unless it were white. It's an older model so the hooks are rounded instead of squared like newer Cleos, and I like that it's unique in my collection. The embroidery is very intricate along the top of the cups and the middle of the band. I'm not a fan of the flowery embellishments along the band, but they were easily removed without leaving a hole or anything. The band is quite firm, comparable to the band of the Cleo Marcie (6831) (28E, I'm not sure how comparable ... they are in bigger bands). It produces a round, lifted shape. It's made for projected shapes, so on my tall/shallow boobs, it cuts in at the top and wrinkles along the diagonal seam, producing the notorious "George fold."

I made it fit by sewing down the fold to make the cups more open on top. This reduced the depth at the top of the cup. The rest fits great. I would recommend this alteration to any shallow ladies out there. It reshapes the cups to fit like Cleo Juna (6461).
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This is my first unlined bra that fit. It's made of a stretchy mesh material that is conforms to the shape of my boobs very well. It's a little closed on top for me certain times of the month, but the wires are too wide and the cup wrinkles in 28F. The band is one of the tightest I've tried, and my ribcage is 26-28 inches around. The lift is amazing, but I've recently decided that I don't like the shape very much. Marcie makes my boobs look pointy instead of round because of the 3-parts and the soft fabric. It would be perfect if the fabric were stiffer, wings were higher, and the cups were more open, but then it wouldn't fit as many people.

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Very pretty! It arrived with some of the red stitching around the red mesh panel unraveling (ugh). My boobs do not have the projected shaped necessary to fill out this bra. The wires and the bottom of the wire were great, but the top cut in and wrinkled. The band is firm, but less so than Cleo Marcie (6831) or Cleo George (5131) in 28E. This bra is awful for shallow shapes, but the shape is quite rounded and lifted under thick clothing. The fabric is stiff enough to not reveal how I feel about the ambient temperature.

How I made it fit:

Since I didn't ... want to deal with return shipping (or if the vendor refused the return because of the unraveled stitching), I sewed down the "George" fold, basically turning this 3-part balconette into a 2-part vertical seamed balconette and hiding the unraveling stitching. Depth- and shape-wise, it fits very similarly to my Cleo Juna (6461) in 28E. I would recommend this bra and alteration combo to any shallow ladies out there who have difficulty finding an unlined bra that fits.I definitely prefer the stiff fabric of this bra to the stretchy mesh of the Marcie. The alteration can make this bra a little more open on top than the Marcie (i.e. sometimes I quad in Marcie but not in my altered Meg), depending on how you do it. Also, it's been a couple of months and the band is still firm.
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I am shallow-shaped and have yet to find a plunge that fits, in part because my boobs are fuller in the middle and always quad along the inner edge of the cup. Although the underwires are very short, the tall sides help to encompass softer sideboob. The low gore is actually quite comfortable, but I would've preferred a snugger band and larger cup, perhaps a 28F. I can definitely see this bra working great for someone with wide-set boobs.

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This is my first well fitting bra. The band is stretchy but doesn't ride up (yippee!), though it is not tight enough to really enhance (i.e. lift) my dense, low-set shallow boobs. However, it is a nice everyday bra when I don't want a little extra oomph.

When I first got it, I had to push the underwires at the center gore towards the armpit end of the channel and bend the underwires away from my body there because it dug into my sternum, but the underwires no longer bother me. After a few wears, the underwires became comfortable centered in the channel. My main complaints are visibility ... under clothing because the top edge of the padding below the lace is so thick and the underwire length/shape. This bra would fit even better for me if the underwires came up higher and more vertically under the armpits to contain my tall side boobage instead of flaring out.

I have mixed feelings about the looser band: on one hand, I do not worry about reverse letterphobia, warped underwires, warped hooks/eyes, or quad boob as much; on the other hand, a tighter band would provide better support (i.e. actually lift..). Anyway, Juna is really versatile and I would recommend it to anyone who is shallow or fuller on top unless they have a very narrow root.
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The band is nice and snug (26-28 inch ribcage). The material is at least as thick as the padded cups of the Juna, and there is a vertical seam bisecting each cup. The colors are vibrant and I love the shape of the bandeau. The enclosure is a plastic clasp that "snaps" into place easily. The style of the straps are classic multi-way, with 4 loops in the usual places on the bandeau.

Aesthetics aside, the cups are shaped for short (maybe average?) breasts, so I'm immediately slammed with orange-in-a-glass because of my low-set, tall (and therefore shallow) shape. I quad and can't fill the apex of the cup. I had such high hopes from reading "tall cups" in reviews, but they were probably from women with higher roots since I found it way too closed on top. From my various fitting issues, I can tell that this top will not stay on me very long in the water, so it's not a keeper for me.

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The tightness of the band is okay, but the gore doesn't tack for me because the cups are too far apart at the bottom, so they rest on breast tissue. The wires are super wide so I have about an inch of empty fabric on the outsides of the cup. Bending the wires to curve with my ribcage helped it fit better. I don't fill out the top of the cup usually, though it's much worse on my smaller boob. When I'm retaining water, I fill out the cup pretty well on my larger side but still not very well on my smaller side. I would be able to fill the cups if I converted the straps into a racerback, but the wires are still an issue.

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Aesthetically, this bra is gorgeous. The fabric is satiny white with a black mesh overlay, so it's almost silvery in person. It feels quite luxurious. I really hoped it would work because it's difficult to find cups that are open enough for me on top. Unfortunately I don't have the volume for it and the band is way too loose on me. I even waited for that third of the month when I retain water in hopes that the fit would improve. It helped, but the band is still too loose and it kind of gapes at the top. I think the fit would be better if the band were tighter and the cups were closer together. However, if I press the cups/wires against my sternum and press up, I get really awesome antoinette cleavage. If I can't find a nice home for it, I'll shorten the band and maybe the gore so I can wear something pretty during shark week.

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