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Cleo » Juna Balconnet Bra (6461) » 30E 30:6

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  I think it fits well. It fits a lot better than all other bras you have in your list so far. So yeah, please keep it, if it is comfortable and does not pinch or rub you in any way. You should be able to wear this all day without being bothered by it. (On the third picture, the wire seems to pinch you a bit? Does it rub when you move?)

  For your asymetry, yes, I would recommend adding a cutlet.

  However, I think it is not 100% perfect. Maybe 90% to 95%. The best fitting bras usually make your asymetry almost dissappear. So I would like you to encourage to keep searching.

  The gaping you have when you lift your arms is normal with padded bras, as long as they lie flat when you are in a neutral position it is ok.

  EDIT: Wait, is this a quadboob hiding under the lace on your bigger, left breast? o_o

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  • Possibly. I got that impression momentarily as it was on, but then it disappeared, so maybe it has something to do with the position of my arm? I feel like going up a cup size would be way too big. (And make my asymmetry like one and a half cups, which freaks me out, so maybe I do have quad boob and am just refusing to see it.) I wonder if I Ewa would do a custom bra with 2 different cup sizes...

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    The lace of this bra hides quadboob quite well, it is usually only visible under a tight fitting t-shirt in a light colour. It is the t-shirt picture from the side that convinces me that you indeed have quadboob there. Can you lengthen the strap on the bigger side and shorten it on the smaller side? And try it again with a tight t-shirt? Fiddling with the straps usally fixes most asymetry problems up to one cupsize difference.

    If this doesn't help, Ewa has a bra with removeable pads that is supposed to fix asymetry. IRRC this was the Onyx.

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    I'd suggest trying with a smooth, tight t-shirt so that the texture of the shirt doesn't interfere with seeing the fit of the bra. If you have something with a higher neckline even better. I know, at least for me, if the v-neck doesn't hit just right it can make my boobs look weird.

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    Id put this to 80-85% fitwise - the side shot kind of worries me. There is a lot of misplaced tissue even though I can see you have been scooping. I think there will be a lot of remigration going on, so in the future Id try something with a tad wider wires and/or more coverage on the side. You can keep this one and I generally this could be your "usual size"
    Id say wait with custom bras for two months, until you see how the shape and size fluctuates.

  • As t_maia requested, I've added photos of the bra under a tight white t-shirt, with the strap on the smaller side adjusted as tight as possible. I loosened the other side some, but not too much, because I felt that making it any longer would have placed the underwire well bellow my breast tissue. Also, I tried tucking the lace into the cup, and once I did that there was definite quad boob.

    With that and the likelihood of migration, should I just exchange it for an F?
    

  • See my comment below. :)

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  I would suggest wearing the Juna around the house before taking off the tags. I thought the one I bought was a good fit and wore it to work, only to find by lunch that it -

  -hurt on the sides where it cut into tissue (and I agree with the poster who said it looks like you may not be fully enclosed)

  -I came over the top as the day went on.

  I talked to a fitter at BreakoutBras, who confirmed that Juna runs a bit more narrow in the underwire than a lot of other Cleo bras, as well as a bit small in the cup for those with any amount of fullness on the top.

  I ordered a cup size up, and I'm much happier with the fit.

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  Like everyone else I think this fits but is maybe not spot on. Definitely appears to be some quadding on the left side but if you can fix that by adjusting the straps and you are otherwise happy with it then probably safe to keep.

  I seem to remember you were getting a Darcy with this order as well, perhaps you could open a fit advice thread for that one as well? Having something else for comparison might help in making the final decision.

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  • They stopped carrying the Darcy, but I'd that would have been a smaller size, anyway.

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  I might go up a cup size actually because it looks like some of your migrated breast tissue isn't enclosed on the side.

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  • I'm sort of confused on remigration. Since it's so far on the side, will it ever be enclosed that far over? Will it move into it's natural position on it's own or do I have to do something to it??

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    You need to scoop and swoop your breast tissue into the bra: http://www.thinandcurvy.com/2010/11/how-to-put-bra-on-correctly-its.html

    A bra that has an underwire wide enough for your breast tissue will enclose your breast tissue. Wearing a bigger cup and brands with wider underwires will certainly help. Cleo already has pretty wide underwires, so going up in cup size is what I would recommend for this bra. Curvy Kate and Panache both have pretty wide wires.

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    Freya halfcups have slightly wider underwires than the Cleo Martha/Sadie/Juna/Darcy cut.

    My rec would be to try the Cleo Juna one cup up and also experiment with the padded halfcups by Freya, especially the those that share the same cut as the Summer/Monet/Teagan Padded Halfcup.

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    Vintage; I do think we have a somewhat similar shape of our rib cages. We have a longer distance between our boobs and our backs so scoping for us is much harder, simply because we have to scope about the double of the distance from most other girls.

    If we put wires on all of the tissue on the sides we end up with gaping on the top. If we don't we end up having migrated tissue on our backs and sides. That is my conclusion about this all. I do think the way too big cups helped me getting some of my tissue to the sides, but to make it end on my boobs I now need smaller cups again.

    So I must say I'm not sure if migration works the same way for us. Our tissue simply has so much more chances to spread. I do try to massage the tissue back on top of my boobs.

    All this is just my own theories about it all, the only thing I can see is that our body shape looks similar with a rounder side and more narrow front. You can search for pictures of Bettie Page to see if you recognise her rib cage build.

  • That makes a lot of sense, actually!

  • We will see how everything goes. For me switching for smaller cups has been helpful.

  • And yes, I do recognize that rib cage very well!

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