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OVERALL RATING: 5/10
DESERVING PRICE: £10-20
BEST FOR: Moderately wide roots; teenagers and young girls with developing breasts; potentially trans women; moderately shallow breasts; projected breasts (size up); everyday wear; fuller-breasted or FoT people who want tavern cleavage.

Freya Patsy is an underwired, lightly padded half-cup bra that comes in lots of colours and patterns, but this one is black and a sort of dusky pink-beige. The lace is a few shades lighter than the polka dots, which are almost beige-brown. The ribbon on the gore matches the lace colour rather than the dots. It doesn't suffer from any manufacture issues, but the fabric feels a little cheap in an ... 'organza'-like way. It's a low-to-mid range, and I'd expect to pay somewhere in the range of £10-£20 in a boutique for this bra.

PROS:

LOOKS: Comes in a bazillion styles, you'll find one you like. Very pretty and dainty. Extremely flexible cups due to very light padding. Beautiful bra for teens and younger girls. Excellent quality sewing and manufacture.

COMFORT AND FIT: Comfy inner lining. Comfy gore, quite long - so not good for girls with short nip-to-neck lengths. Band runs tighter than Freya usually does, but quite flexible. The straps on this bra are a good distance apart, so they will not poke into your armpits or scratch your skin.

CLEAVAGE: This bra will give fierce cleavage for fuller, rounder breasts, and good cleavage for shallow breasts too. Close-set, projected, full breasts will get true ‘tavern Wench’-style cleavage from this bra. Projected breasts will look better in this bra, but shallower breasts will be comfier (due to the shape of the cups).

CONS:

QUALITY ISSUES
FABRIC: the outer fabric of this bra is awful. I personally find it scratchy and cheap-feeling. It feels like a softer organza. The lace on the upper section of the cups sometimes scratches the cleavage uncomfortably - it is not soft, and therefore not good for girls with skin sensitivity issues or eczema.

FIT ISSUES
STRAPS: The straps on this bra are a good and wide. Unfortuantely, because they are so wide and because of the scratchy fabric, they can feel a little scritchy when you lean forward or stretch. The inside of the strap has a running stitch to secure the fabric, and this can be a little scratchy too. They are a good length, and so the cup does not tend to gap dramatically when you move.

CUPS: This is a half-cup bra, but the cut seems more like a balconette to me. The cups are open at the top, which will inevitably lead to gaping issues for girls who aren't Full on Top. I can't comment on cleavage in this bra, because I found that even when swoop and scooped, whilst not minimising, it doesn't seem to give good cleavage at all. Fuller breasted girls may find that they love this bra for cleavage, but shallower girls will find it extremely hit-and-miss. I think this bra would make an excellent everyday bra for girls with more projected breasts.

WIRE: The wire is moderately wide, but because the cup is only light padded, it doesn't seem to give much support by way of wide roots. It isn't the best for girls with wide roots, and will give you armpit muffin (damn you, armpit muffin) in tandem with its average-sized band. Girls with normal roots might find some empty space at the sides. The cup-strap join is not too high, so if you're looking for something to wear with low-cut scoop necks, this might work for you.

FABRIC/PATTERN: The lace sticks up a little haphazardly, and does show through and deform tight and light-coloured shirts when I wear it.
GORE: This bra has a relatively high degree of cup separation (distance between the cups), which could be a problem for girls with close-set breasts, and may cause the gore to dig into your breast tissue painfully.

ABOUT ME
MY BREASTS: wide roots, moderately full on top, moderately shallow; 30G-32FF



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Beautiful Bra; *Not* the Best Quality

OVERALL RATING: 6.5/10
DESERVING PRICE: £20-£25
BEST FOR: Wide roots; moderately projected breasts; back fat and armpit fat issues; moderately shallow breasts in large sizes; everyday wear; fibromyalgia suffers or people who need soft, comfortable bras.

Parfait Casey is an underwired, padded plunge bra with a flowery pattern and a lace accent. Overall, the bra is beautiful, but it suffers from some serious quality issues in the fabric and the sewing. It fits well for certain types of breasts, but could easily look strange on some breasts. I paid £27 for this bra with an RRP of £58, and I would say that the quality ... isn’t up to scratch compared to bras in the same price range. I would not want to pay more than £25 for this bra.

PROS:
LOOKS: This bra ‘looks’ expensive from a distance or at first glance. The fabric is very soft and shiny, without looking tacky. The beautiful lace detailing on the edges of the cups is also very soft, flexible, and thin, so it won’t snag or scratch. The cups are a unique shape, which creates excellent cleavage for both fuller and shallower girls, although if you are very shallow this bra may not be for you.
COMFORT AND FIT: The entire inner-side of the bra is lined with a soft, comfy mesh-type material. The bra has a wide band with spaced-out hooks, which helps to smooth any unwanted back fat or armpit muffin problems. It has very wide wires, which are good for girls with wide roots or migrated breast tissue (breast fat underneath your armpits – creates a ‘muffin top’ effect). The gore is short. It’s wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and very comfortable. It does feature a ribbon detail, which may be uncomfortable for some girls. The band is very comfortable. It’s true to size and firm, but not inflexible like the bands on bras like the Cleo Kali, for example. Although this bra is padded, the padding is not thick. It’s very flexible, so it will form around tight dresses and tops.
CLEAVAGE: This bra will give fierce cleavage for fuller, rounder breasts, and good cleavage for shallow breasts too. Close-set, projected, full breasts will get true ‘tavern Wench’-style cleavage from this bra. Projected breasts will look better in this bra, but shallower breasts will be comfier (due to the shape of the cups).

CONS:
QUALITY ISSUES
FABRIC: the fabric is a MAGNET for hairs and lint. Mine arrived covered in hairs. The fabric is also prone to snagging, and will arrive with some snags already.
SEWING AND THREAD: The vertical seam on the bottom section of the cups is over-sewn, so there is frayed thread in the middle-top of the cups. There is also some fraying on the edge of the gore, but it is mostly obscured by the ribbon. The sewing on the bra as a whole is not great – there are many loose threads all over the bra.
FIT ISSUES
STRAPS: The straps are too far apart – they create friction burns against your armpits when you lean forward. The straps are also very badly sewn on (it almost looks as though they are hot-glued), so there is a strange ‘lumpiness’.
CUPS: The cups are very open at the top, meaning lots of gaping issues when you move. This will suit girls with very full breasts and people who are Full on Top, but shallower girls with need to swoop and scoop breast tissue often. Because of the shape of the cups, depending on the shape of your breasts, this bra can give you simultaneous gapping (near the straps) and quadboob (near the gore). You may find, if you are a shallower girl, that this bra gives you a strange type of cleavage. Cups can be very minimising and make your breasts look small, too, for the same reason (minimised cleavage). The cups are relatively shallow, so girls with full, projected boobies will want to SIZE UP, unless you’re looking for a bra to create really nice cleavage. For girls with projected breasts, this bra might not be a good everyday choice.
WIRE: The wire is very wide, so girls with normal roots will probably find a lot of empty space at the sides. The cup is very high, too, so if you have a short nip-to-neck distance, you’ll probably find that the wire pokes you in the armpits.
FABRIC/PATTERN: The lace MAY show through and deform tight and light-coloured shirts, but I have not noticed this yet.
GORE: This bra has a relatively high degree of cup separation (distance between the cups), which could be a problem for girls with close-set breasts, and may cause the gore to dig into your breast tissue painfully.

ABOUT ME
I NEED BRAS TO FIT: wide roots, moderately full on top, moderately shallow; 30G-32FF

DISCLAIMER: I'm just at the beginning of my bra journey, so take everything I say with a note of caution!
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Updated on Feb 10, 2017 Flag this

It's beautiful and comfortable, but the wide wires are going to be a Marmite issue for most ladies. They really are very wide.

Rouge colorway

Updated on Aug 24, 2017 Flag this

I am 95% certain that this bra doesn't fit anybody on Earth, which is a shame because it's SO cute. It's truly lovely.

However, it's both too shallow and too projected, too wide and too narrow, an incredibly weird pointy.. vintage? shape. What an odd bra!

Candy colorway

Updated on Aug 24, 2017 Flag this