This bra is a little over-the-top with the decorative details, but it is gorgeous. Yay.

I got a 30 band, and weirdly when it is stretched it is pretty comparable, length wise, to a bra that was way too tight on me. Yet, this isn't too tight at all. I think I listed that it's just right because it feels fine, though I can yank it away from my back enough to fit a hand in the space there. Then again when I do that, the cups pull taught and it's horrifying. I don't think I could size down and have it be comfortable.

The cups seem to fit okay. I have at least a one cup difference between my left and right sides, so in general my right boob is eternally overwhelmed by the cup while the left is comfortably snug. In this particular bra, there is gapping on both sides (more significantly on the right side of course) but I can't entirely tell if it's because the cup size is too big or if the thick lace on the top is just making it appear larger than it is. Depending on how I move my body around, the left side can get slightly quad-booby, I have found.

I have what I consider to be extremely wide-set breasts, and the gore on this one is just about perfect! It lies completely flat and I don't have any random extra space in the cups near the middle like I do in most bras. Hooray.

Unfortunately, the gore is also the biggest problem for me. I wore this bra all day today, and the entire time the wires were jabbing my sternum. And I really mean, jabbing into my bone. It felt like my bra was bruising me (it didn't, from what I can tell) and all day I dreamed about taking it off. No other part of the bra felt too tight.

I am really confused about this, because I feel like the fit of this bra looks and feels ok otherwise. Am I missing something obvious? I think the cups are a little big on this (but not enough to size down, I think?) but other than that I really can't find any noticeable problems with the fit. Do the underwires come up too high? They come up the perfect height to fully enclose my breasts, but maybe that's wrong for this bra style? Or maybe it's my sternum that is the problem? The wires seem to be laying flat but I could be wrong. I really don't know, but this bra really hurts and I don't know if I can wear it again unless I figure out how to tweak the wires a little. Which is a shame, because a) it's beautiful, and b) I bought it on sale and probably can't return it.

I tried to put this in Fitting Help but Bratabase wouldn't let me since in most of the categories I noted that the bra fits fine.

Alas!

Updated on Nov 07, 2012 Flag this

• The wires pressing into your ribcage is in general not about the bra being the wrong size or style, but because the ribcage not being flat but the bra wires are. Try to bend the tip of the wires outwards to match the curve of your ribcage better. That should relieve the pressure and make the bra a lot more comfortable.

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