Bra fitting help » Help with cup shape?
Panache » Tango Luxe (6721) » 44FF 44:8
Yet another bra that is technically my size but doesn't fit at all. I'll start by saying that when I put this bra on backwards to judge the band size I nearly had a panic attack it was so tight. I think I am going to start looking at sister sizes with a 46 band because I have a lot of soft tissue around my ribcage and 44 band sizes can sometimes dig really uncomfortably. The underwire on this bra seems too u-shaped...like it's too tall and narrow for my boobs to fit into it. Any other fit-type things I should be looking at?
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The cup looks slightly too big despite the measurements. Seeing a lot of this recently!
I see the empty space at the bottom - which sounds like you are saying is 'orange in a glass' because the wires are too narrow. Newer panache do run narrow.
Idk, i guess I'd say elomi again? I think they run wider? Older curvy kate ran wider but i think too shallow for you. and newer curvy kates have gotten narrower
Hopefully someone else will have some good ideas
Updated on February 27, 2016 Flag this
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helpfulDid you swoop and scoop your breast tissue into the bra? A cup size down may be better. Soft cups are not as forgiving as padded bras.
Updated on February 27, 2016 Flag this
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You've said that there is both empty fabric at the sides yet also that the cup is too narrow? My instinct is that the underwire is too narrow not too wide and you're suffering lack of projection. I'm more familiar with the measurements used on www.reddit.com/r/abrathatfits so can't work from measurements, but you look wide and short rooted and very projected. Tango is a tricky fit at best and tend to work better in bigger cup sizes. Have you tried anything more projected such as Panache Envy or Jasmine? Or Polish?
Updated on March 16, 2016 Flag this
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The cups are actually to small. If you look at your V perimeter, and your laying thats the fullness of your breast tissue, if you take the two numbers and then average them out, (17+14, then /2 you get 15.5). So your cup depth of 13 is very much to small. What happens with a small cup is it takes up the band lenght and creates a miss shape.
Another thing you might try is adjusting where your nipples are in the cup, I know it sounds dumb, but I have a couple bras that only fit when my nipples are pointing down, or up depending on the bra. For this one it looks like if you adjust your boobs in the cup so your nipples are pointing up then you may very well end up with quad boob, I have no clue why this works but its like when my nipples point down I kinda tuck the tissue back into my body so the cup seems less full and it makes the band seem tight.
The reason I think it's an adjustment issue is because you have gaping between your armpit and the strap. The strap should lay flat on your body with no gap. This gap happens when the tissue is pushing the bra away from the body. So try grabbing the girls and lifting them so your nipples are sitting higher in the cup and the bottom part of your breasts are resting on the bottom part of the cup not against your body.
Try a plunge Elomi, such as the lexi, if your boobs are closer often times a plunge works better because the gore isn't pushing your breasts apart and out of shape. I actually just ordered a Elomi on ebay for under $30 including shipping.Updated on March 27, 2016 Flag this
joanna1970 I actually follow ABTF too! I'm just getting into sizing bras for myself and I simply haven't looked at many. In ABTF terms I am, in fact, short and wide rooted and extremely projected, pretty full on bottom and damn near flat on top. I don't live near any stores that carry my size and I'm a student with very little disposable income to spend on ordering and returning things, so I'm trying on what I can find and hoping to go from there.