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I need recommendations! Please!
I have an order from Bravissimo with lots of bras that didn't fit (non fit) and I'm going to send it back for an exchange. I'd love to get some recommendations for what I could try exchanging for.
My order consisted of these bras:
Bravissimo Moulin rouge, size 30HH and 32GG. 32GG has a too big band and too small cups. 30HH fits okay, but it's too shallow at the cups near the gore so it pushes my boobs apart. Gore can't sit flat. Feels very unsupportive. No double boob. Wire width is fine. Slides down in front.
Miss Mandalay Vava, 30HH, very weird cups shape. The size seems okay, but it's sort of pointy and I can't fill the apex which is very east-west. I thought this was a half cup but it doesn't feel like one.
Masquerade Rhea, 32H, band is big, straps are so far apart they almost don't sit on my shoulders. Also feels unsupportive, and the cup volume is wrong. Same issue as with the moulin rouge, too shallow in the cup near the centre gore, too much room at the sides. Wire width is fine.
Cleo Marcie, 30HH. I had this in a 32GG and it fit great in the cups, except for the wire being slightly low in my right side. However the band was really loose and big very fast and it rode up. Bravissimo told me is was mislabeled so I exchanged it for a 30HH (the only size available) as I feared a 32 band (correctly labeled) might still be too big. The band in the 30HH feels okay, but very thin. The cups are probably 1/2 cup too big. The wire is somewhat okay, but a bit narrow. The straps are very far apart and painful. Shape is also weird and sort of square. (The 32GG was perfectly round). Very uncomfortable and painful.
Bravissimo Budoir Beau, 32H, cup seems too big, but the wire was very low and extremely painful with poking into my "roll" under my arms. This roll seems to be tissue trying to migrate back into my boobs. Strap placement seemed to be quite good actually, so it's a shame with the wire. I expect a cup down would still poke/be even lower??
Bravissimo Lucine, 30H. Band feels really big for a 30 band, but I'm quite surprised that the shape actually seems okay. It's really comfortable and even though the band is too big, it doesn't feel like it matters. The cup is however too small. The cups should also be closer together, but the volume of the cup is distributed more to my shape. The straps seem okay and the wire is perfect. I'm exchanging this for a 30J and a 28J (only sizes in stock) so hopefully they might work - I just fear that the straps might be too far apart.
Sadly it doesn't seem that bravissimo makes more plunges based on this shape, only on their other plunge shape, which is wrong for me.
Other than these, I have recently tried these bras:
Bravissimo Darling Heart and Betsy Bow - these cut at the armpit, too pointy, cup volume is distributed wrong. Too closed cups.
Bravissimo satine - no no no, far too little volume near the gore. Cups cut at armpit (too tall cups at the sides)
Cleo Meg - wrong shape, cup and straps cut so much at my arm/armpit, that the muscles at the armpit/front arm hurt for several hours...
Ewa PL onyx - very nice band, but far too narrow wires (only covered 2/3 of my root) cup too big/too deep. Straps fall off my shoulders.
I also have unpadded curvy Kates which are too pointy/east-west look and cups cuts into my armpit, straps too far apart. They sort of just sit on my boobs with no lift or shaping. Also highly uncomfy...
The Deco would maybe be okay if I had the correct size (32GG, I would need a 30HH probably), but in a bigger cup the straps would probably be too far apart as they almost are now. The band also digs at the bottom elastic, but is definitely too big. And of course it only goes to GG so I can't test another size really. I hope that when I lose weight, I can have a deco that fits...
Generally cups are too far apart, or the cup volume is too far apart. Also often sits too low on the chest. Cups cut into my armpit (does that mean its too wide? Cause the wire is not) or the wire is too narrow. Cups are too deep or cups are too closed on top. Straps are always too far apart and they cut me/slice me almost.
My boobs are high on chest, with the volume in the top and "middle" (by middle I mean at the middle of my chest, not the middle of one boob. Makes sense?) I don't really have much space between my boobs and a very wide root and not much projection.
I measure 30.5-31" on my underbrush, so I don't understand why some 30 bands feel loose. I can pull tightly to 30" and the loosest is 34". Maybe my body takes the volume from the cups, since the wire distorts because my root is so wide? I've tried 32" bands but they ride up like crazy regardless if the cup is too big. I get massive shoulder pains as soon as my band is just a little too lose.
I don't know what to try next - maybe the other plunge-style from bravissimo? (The new Dixie and midnight in Paris) but I've tried this style in June and it was very wrong (cup volume too far apart/apex too far apart) but maybe also too small.
I would really love some recommendations for what I could try this time, as I feel like I've tried anything! What should I exchange my bravissimo order for??
I would really appreciate any kind if help.
Why does it have to be so difficult? I never had these issues when I was a 30-32 F in change bras (except for back pains - but never all these shape issues!!!)
