Love the elastics in the band-perfection. Love the fabrics covering this bra, and in the lining. Love the breathable semi flexible foam cups. Love the super smooth semi stretchy strap choice. Love the delicate dainty youthful details. LOVE the funkly bitty gold ring & black satin ribbon pull tab decor on the gore. Love this simple sleek gorgeous piece of work enough to buy it for my petite busty teen.
For something that otherwise passes my standards for construction, materials, and has so many great things going for it this must be said:

THERE'S NOTHING DEMI OR PLUNGE ABOUT THIS BRA, BASED ON HUNDREDS OF OTHER DEMI & PLUNGE BRA MEASUREMENTS.
PETITES & SHORT ROOTED AVOID THIS HOT TRASH CITY. FREYA GAVE US A HALFASSERY AND SCALED IT FOR A LEGIT GIANT WTF WTF WT ACTUAL F

We've had enough time with this one in kid's rotation to say:

-The only band in the history of this company that just barely stretches to advertised size, beautiful wonderful supportive band
-Shortest band ever only covers 6" of back at full stretch, the rest is ALL CUPS BABY
-Massive wide wires
-Outer side of cup digs like hell into a petite body's armpit
-Straps are idiotically wide set
-Straps are idiotically wide set on even me
-Straps are of massive length (almost half a yard!) and only can be shortened to 9.5"
-Gore is average height
-Gore is average width
-This is a molded balconette, not a plunge in ANY sense of the term
-The cups HAVE DEPTH!
-Depth is ONLY AT APEX (facepalm)
-Cups therefore can only accommodate a breast shaped like 7, because
-Bottom of cups are so shallow it begs the question whether the design team that dreamed this up have ever seen a single breast in their entire lives
-Cups are full height approaching fullcup sizing

This didn't fit well on 4 different people of very similar sizing. That tells me more about what fly by night cash grab this style is than an actual clothing item designed to serve any functional purpose.

ONE STAR: CUP SHAPE ISN'T COMPLETELY DISASTROUS, JUST THE MORON THAT DECIDED IT ATTACHED TO A COMPLETELY UNWEARABLE FRAME.

FREYA. SIT DOWN, WE NEED TO TALK.

HEAR ME OUT... WHAT IF... HUSH WAIT.... ***WHAT IF***... WE... PUT... THE... CUPS... ON THE FRONT

OH YES NO I UNDERSTAND IT'S SCARY, PLEASE LET ME FINISH I PROMISE I'M ALMOST THERE...

THE CUPS DEAR... ON THE FRONT OF PEOPLE'S BODIES... YOU KNOW... WHERE THEIR BREASTS ARE?

I UNDERSTAND IT"S NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE, BUT SO HAD WALKING ON THE MOON AND LOOK WHERE HUMANITY IS NOW

OK. YES I SEE, NOT THE BEST ANALOGY. BUT THINK IT OVER, WILL YOU???

So now I have no idea if I must take out height from the top, pinch it out from the bottom, narrow the gore, bring the straps at least 1" in toward the gore, OR carve out and reshape the armpit area. I don't know what Expression Dummy wants from me to make it work for a perfectly normal, evenly breast shaped little person, but I refuse to utter a single syllable from this day forward honoring the baldfaced lie which depicts it as anything more useful than the average pathetic molded tee shirt nippleshield.

Good Day, Sir.

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 Flag this

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  Hmm, I had quite an adventure with this one and have reviewed it in 32E + 34D +34DD. My advice is to make alterations to a J-hook bra. I have begun the process on the 34DD but not finished yet. Part of the outer cup between armpit and shoulder strap has been cut off to make it more of a center pull fit.

  Anyone interested in this bra should know it's a mix of the Deco and the Idol (runs big!). I owned the Deco vibe in 32E for a while but it was too stiff and shallow so the Expression fits better. I agree with you regarding the name. Where is the plunge?

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  Freya in general I have been very disappointed with, though my preference in for European bras (aka, Polish bras, German bras like Ulla, French bras like Empreinte are all beautiful and comfy), not what is marketed as "UK bras" (made in China bras - they're sold in the UK but there's nothing UK about them anymore, lol. Made in China & their company headquarters are in Japan!) Such a weird marketing, you know? Everyone knows the best bras are European (at least for full-bust sizes), made in Europe/designed in Europe.

  I recently bought an Elomi bra, the Matilda. The shape is wrong, but I'm not wild about the fabrics either. It's like this weird mesh that I've never worn before, in 92 other bras (actually, more than that. I've not documented them all) that I've tried in recent years.

  Thanks for voicing your opinion, Holly_by_Golly, we need more honest reviews of the Freya brand: they used to be stellar years ago, but the last 10+ years is steady decline, yet the prices go up despite the declining quality. It's all the online shills promoting the brand, they're all over reddit.

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  Lmaoo thank you for voicing what my heart wanted to say. I am also quite frustrated with Freya, along with many UK brands, that do not scale their cup width in proportion to their band sizes. Literally why I went Polish for bras lol. I super duper appreciate your reviews, they are always so entertaining to read!!

• Sorry for being checked out everyone. Mabra- I was so hopeful the Idol's influence on a Deco base would solve some on my kid's recent growth causing her decos to fit too shallow. I can see something was done that the cup has more apex fullness but that doesn't make up for lying about the demi plunge part. I'm pissed but almost done salvaging this lie, panache elan luxe & imogen wireless (carving up the armpit, moving in straps cut out some height as too tall cup forces top to curl in and cut into her, adding j hooks). She's borrowed some of my ewa's (smaller ch and chp for now with their own petite-unfriendly fit issues).

  BraOddysey- They really do have a Specific Shape in mind don't they... Tango-adjacent? full on bottom no tolerance for upper full at same time. So give it a really tall cup to avoid the upper muffin maybe. I've seen Elomi do good fabrics & pretty bras; they fly off the shelves within hours when that happens (never to be restocked until following year). But several plunges in & agree why are they are all made from rough stiff strange industrial textiles not meant for lingerie. Their sibling Fantasie is made for larger fuller breasts and wouldn't dream of touching backpack materials so why on earth does Elomi price similarly and expect the same. I had no idea there's been plants hyping up the brand but it makes sense, social media marketing has gone through a few iterations and I've been so used to seeing the tiktok 'it's not an advert, advertising' to remember whole accounts mimic ordinary people just to drown out actual customers voices & experiences.

  Tatatititutu- I'm so happy that polish are working out for you, I'm in a similar place just can't find a frame small enough in polish brands for my teen with cups deep and short enough... tale as old as time. Lingerie brands are terrified to touch this screaming need for personal garments meant to fit small bodied adults with a 20 foot pole. And I'm so happy someone gets it enough to be rolling over laughing how unbelievable this is... At the end of the day all they talk about in each brand is how to get our money, so yeah decoupling the 'larger cups HAVE TO belong on a huge body' mentality is holding them back... can you imagine if humans actually grew taller with every cups size increase and shrank shorter with volume loss... but that's what they truly believe with all their hearts and souls, so... I'm trying so hard to be objective, measure 14 times, and think these things over for weeks before I go fine you know what. Let the people know, the cards gonna fall where they may now. I'm always just sitting out here with the most dumbfounded shellshocked lost expression in these lingerie aisles, hand over my face... embarrassed & disgusted might not be the right words? We The People have had a functional calculator system available to let us buy our correct sizes for something like 15 or 20 years now, but these brands gaslight us the way they limit and deny the very thing that is shown time and again in cold hard data the real size trends are, and the real body shape changes that accompany them! Like how are they SO self assured while being upset the matrix sizes they over produce aren't selling like hotcakes. As my teen's taking to saying deadpan in these situations: "I Don't Get It, Explain.'
  Well back to being excited about THE BIGGEST AUBADE EVER arriving this week. All rubbing my hands like a madman *yissss* because if I didn't I'd be rubbing the aching sides of my boobs, that have been squashed by the fullest known cups still being too small. And yeah we all know that's not a look.

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