Took a gamble on my size and lost. Still not convinced the SM gore will work on me, even in the correct size. This one goes back up for sale/exchange.
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Updated on Sep 08, 2014 Flag this
Took a gamble on my size and lost. Still not convinced the SM gore will work on me, even in the correct size. This one goes back up for sale/exchange.
This bra is not owned any more
Updated on Sep 08, 2014 Flag this
This bra leaves me puzzled. I know what's wrong (the fabric, mainly), but I'm wondering where to go.
The band is perfectly comfortable--snug, but more "extender for aesthetics" snug than "size up" snug.
The cup fit is about a half-cup smaller than my 32FF Jasmine--currently my best-fitting bra. The wire width and consequently the strap placement is perfect, an improvement on the too-wide Jasmine. It's quite friendly to center projection (although, like the Lily and like ALL THE BRAS, the gore is too tall for me.) However, the all-over stretch lace is giving me some significant in-cup quadboob. There's just not enough tension to smooth me out. The Jasmine ... at least has the stiff lower cup, so the slight in-cup quadding from the stretch upper portion is barely noticeable. Also, the stretchier material is just not supportive enough overall.
But the shape of the cup is dead on, which points me in the direction of Marcie...
But do I go by wire width and go 32FF, or do I try a 32G and hope it doesn't saw my arms off? Or do I try a 34FF or even a 34F and compromise band longevity in search of the perfect wire?
Damn you, Nordstrom, for dumping the Marcie. Doing this in store would be a hell of a lot easier than waiting on Amazon.
Yes, I realize that's a first-world problem.
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Updated on Sep 24, 2016 Flag this
This was my favorite bra for a very long time. It's a touch to shallow at the wire, and my close-set breasts caused the top button to break in half, but it was never uncomfortable and only slightly quaddy.
It's no longer the right size, and I'm more discriminating about fit now, but for a non-Polish half-cup, this was fantastic.
Plus, those colors! How can you not smile?
Updated on Jun 04, 2016 Flag this
This bra confuses me. The band is itchy-tight, yet the band on the 32FF is super loose. I get the faintest hint of the shadow of quad boob, too--nothing you can see under clothing, but it's there. It's a nice, functional basic bra, though, and very supportive. I know many people say it's usable as a t-shirt bra and basically invisible under medium-weight knits. That is NOT the case for me. Seams and texture very visible under everything but heavy sweaters for me. Still, nice, comfy, supportive. Going to add an extender until the band eases up.
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Updated on Mar 02, 2013 Flag this
I DID IT! I HAVE CONQUERED MOUNT MICHALAK!
This bra's cups fit me perfectly without the asymmetry pads and give me the teeniest bit of (pretty appealing) overspill with them in place. Wire width is good, gore height and width work, and--MIRACLE OF MIRACLES--the straps aren't cutting my arms off!
How? How, you may ask, did I achieve this nigh-impossible feat?
By ordering a band size too small and wearing an extender.
BAM! Take that, stupid straps.
But seriously, I have tried the SM in a 70G before and it was a hot mess. Why an S in 65GG with an extender works not just better but infinitely better is beyond me. And since I'm at the top of my weight fluctuations and the bra is brand new, I should be able to ditch the extender soon, and this little beauty and I will live happily, perkily ever after.
Updated on Oct 10, 2014 Flag this
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous but tooooooo smallllll in the cup.
Absolutely stunning to look at. I feel like I'm in sepia tone when I'm wearing it.
Definitely shallower overall than the equivalent sized Ewa S, but softer and lighter,, with more flexible wires.
I've been trying to figure out my Comexim size for years, and this is not it, but I'm getting closer. Looks like I'm going to land at 70H, 70HH reduced cup, 75H reduced cup, or maaaybe 75G.
Onward!
Updated on May 22, 2016 Flag this
A pretty good choice for my nearly-omega-shaped boobs. Good projection at the wire, lots of projection at the apex, reasonably narrow wires.
My complaints are very me-specific and are:
1) The stretch lace is both good and bad. Good because it eliminates upper quadding, bad because there's a touch of in-cup quad where my apex projection is a little greater than the bra's.
2) Slightly too-wide wires means too-wide straps, which means they're uncomfortable while I'm driving or typing, i.e., the majority of my waking hours.
I wonder if a 30G + extender would help with both of these....or if the strap drop would get worse because they'd be to ... far apart in the back.
All that whining aside, at the moment, this is my best-fitting bra and the one I reach for the most.
I also really like that this pink is a nude on my vampire-pale skin. It would be cool if the straps matched the lace--in fact, I think Panache should do a set of Jasmines with a range of skin-toned lace and straps but coordinating patterend cups and bands as alterna-nude bras. It would be a really cool effect.
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Updated on Sep 24, 2016 Flag this
Best fit I've gotten from this bra so far, but still not perfect. Feels equally comfortable on the tightest and loosest hooks, and definitely more secure in the cross-back strap position.
The fact is, it's just NOT short-person friendly, and the gore is way too wide for me. This may be the best I can do in this bra.
I'll have to take it for a test workout before I decide whether or not to keep it.
Updated on May 22, 2016 Flag this
Band a little too tight, cups a little too wide and deep on bottom, but still quadding at center despite the narrowed gore.
Fabric is very scratchy, though I like the color and sheer appearance.
Seems I'm doomed to never find an unlined bra.
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Updated on Oct 04, 2014 Flag this
My second Charlotte. Love the look, but the shape just doesn't work, no matter how much I want it to.
Updated on Oct 04, 2014 Flag this