Bra fitting help » Underwires turning away from body?
Fauve » India Balcony Bra (0072) » 36GG 36:10
Issue resolved
I realized that the shape of this bra is not for me. I will shop half-cups from now on.
Original problem
I'm truly confused with this bra. I wear Freya bras in same size, and they fit me. With this bra, I fill the cups fine after scooping and jiggling, but when I move my arms, the problems start.
The bra has soft cups and I don't get enough support from them, more like my breasts just 'slope' into the cups. I tried one cup size smaller on this model but in that size the upper edge of the cup cut into the breast tissue, "cutting" the breast tissue in two.
The underwires come a bit too high in the front, but aren't really painful. The problem is that the underwires are being "pushed" away from my body (you can see it on one of the pictures) - the cup's fabric is resting on the breast crease underneath my brests, not the underwire itself. There seems to be some wrinkling on the bottom of the cup. When I lift my arms, even the top of the cup is wrinkled.
Otherwise I would think this bra has too big cup size, but I already tried one cup size down and it gave me the quadboob. I had similar problem with 36G Freya Lyla, which I had to give away. This bra's measurements aren't that much different compared to the Freya bras that fit me, yet this one doesn't.
The band feels snug and comfortable. The underwires seem to come bit too short on the sides, and some of the breast tissue is able to migrate from the cup back to the armpits.
My own guess is that I need longer underwires and shallower cups. What do you think?
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helpfulI have similar problems with Freya, Fantasie and non-padded Fauve bras.
Part of the problem is that the wires of these bras are too soft and unstable to support larger breasts. The size line where this problem appears is roughly 32HH/34H/36GG/38G. On breasts that are larger than those sizes the wires just give in under the weight of the breast tissue. It becomes more pronounced when the bra is simply a bad fit.
From looking at the pictures in of you in the Fauve I think you could give the Goddess Keira and the Elomi Caitlyn a try. Alternatively the Panache Tango II Balc. or the Panache Andorra might be worth a shot. All those are bras that work very well in very large sizes, plus I think they might suit your breast shape.
Updated on July 26, 2012 Flag this
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@Branarchist – thanks for that link! It addresses pretty much all of my common fit problems (I'm 5'10").
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squirrelpower: :D Cool :D
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branarchist
I just read the bralessinbrasil post and was a little confused. In her drawings she shows her underband situated several inches below what I would call her underbust. Having read enough advice on this site, I wonder if she is wearing her band far too low in her example. I know I was doing that for the longest time until I learned here to put the band much higher.
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I think that entry is completely wrong. For example, she says that because the Tango is a "bandless" design, the breasts will sit below the underbust, which is not true if the bra is fitted properly. The back band, rather, will sit above the underbust line. The underbust is the area right under the bust, and the wires on that Tango plunge should go under the breasts.
ALso where on your body your bra fits has to do with where on your torso your breasts are positioned, not the length of your torso. If I had a long torso but breasts positioned high on it, I would need to position my bra high. I happen to have a short torso with high breasts, but there are people who have short torsos with low-set breasts, etc.
I don't think that post actually made any sense at all. Also the weird focus on "underarm fat" is gross. Some people have underarm fat. The bra does not make it happen. It is not "tissue leaking out of the cups", it is just your underarm area. A higher side on a bra camoflages it, it doesn't make it go away.
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helpfulI've gotten some help from bending the underwires as shown in this article http://brasihate.blogspot.fi/2012/01/what-to-do-with-those-pesky-wide.html but it's not completely fixed the problem...
Updated on July 25, 2012 Flag this
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helpfulI have actually just figured something out that might relate to your problem, see my lengthy reply to this bra adventure: http://www.bratabase.com/profile/353/adventures/270/
The 'short' version:
What you're describing sounds like wires that try to wrap around your body, but fail in doing so. Instead, they TILT in an attempt to follow the curve of your ribcage. Softer, more flexible wires will distort even more and kind of 'flatten out' into a twisted S-shape. The result of all this is that the bottom edge of the wires veer away from the body and 'swallow up' some of the volume in the bottom of the cups, making it impossible for your breasts to properly settle into them. It also makes the wires come up lower and under a shallower angle under your arms.
This is something that seems to affect people that need REALLY wide wires (i.e. wires that reach really far back under their arms) and with people that have a very curved ribcage. Bras are simply not really designed to 'go around corners' so to speak ... again, softer, more flexible wires likely exacerbate the problem.
Anyway, you can indeed try to bend the wires so that they follow the curve of your ribcage without tilting and flattening out and see if that helps -- if it does, it should also 'free up' some of the 'lost' volume in the cups, although the cup shape may still not be ideal. Cups for a very wide breast root or very curved ribcage shape should be designed rather differently to not end up totally East-West ...
Updated on November 24, 2012 Flag this
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helpfulThis bra just isn't a good fit for you. The cup is too big, but if a cup smaller gives you quad-boob, then the bra is shaped wrong for you. Fantasie balconettes tend not to work for breasts that are full on top.
I love Fantasie side support bras, but the underwires on them are. I agree, too weak to support my breasts completely. So even though a bra fits otherwise, the center gore is often pulled away from my chest by the weight of my breasts. I wear them anyway, but I get less support from them than I should.
The Panache Andorra is one of my favorite bras, and its underwires are much stronger and more stiff.
Updated on February 19, 2013 Flag this
I second trying Panache Andorra instead.
Also, take a look at this post. http://www.bralessinbrasil.com/2012/07/torso-length-height-underarm-fit-and.html and see if any of it apply to you.
The problems you describe is actually what happens to me in my too small bras. It looks as if the boobs are too small to fill the cups but actually they are too big. Really confusing :)