I don't like this bra too much. My biggest complaint is that the cup is too shallow and the wires don't come in contact with my IFM or anywhere on my ribcage, for that matter. As a result, the band curls under. I'm thinking of removing the wire and using this as a lounging bra. I was thinking of giving it away, but I'm not even sure how to reference the fit or sizing as this (and all other early phase Braologie bras) are custom sized.

Updated on Nov 21, 2014 Flag this

Before my discovery and forage into the world of UK sized bras, I was buying my bras from a Hong Kong and Toronto based bra manufacturer called My Heart Lingerie (now known as BodiBra). The concept of their bras was to promote posture correction and the elimination of tissue migration. Their bras had 3 wide hook closures that allowed for a sturdy wide wing, there was side support boning and sling-style bands running along the bottom of the cup. Sizes range from 30-40 AA-J (Chinese sizing). But alas, with my student bra budget of La Senza sale quantities, I gave up on these bras which were $120 a ... pop.

Enter Braologie. It was actually a search on this bra company that brought me here to Bratabase. So we go way back. A quick word on the company itself; they are located in Hong Kong, I believe and only sell bras online. It can be tricky figuring out the sizing on your own, so generally, if you let them figure out your size for you, it usually works out nicely. Their customer service staff is polite and helpful. However, you need to have a thick skin when discussing your body with other people outside North America (generally speaking). What you may consider to be a rude comment might actually be quite normal and polite enough in other cultures.

With that out of the way, let's move on to the bra! The bra being reviewed is actually the second one I received from them. The first one I received was too big in the cup and the straps were spaced too far apart on my back to the point they sat to the outsides of my shoulder blades. In this bra, they got the strap spacing right, but the cups turned up getting too shallow at the bottom. As a result, the bra does not sit on the front of my ribcage but instead, it sits on my boobs and is pushed away from my chest wall. This causes the bottom of the band to fold and be pushed downwards and trying to escape into my inframammary fold. Very annoying. Another thing I dislike is the fact that the shoulder straps are not very wide and also very thin. This causes it to cut little slits into my shoulders no matter how tight/loose, close/far I adjust them.

The one saving grace about this bra is the band and wings. I'm a huge fan of hooks and this one does not disappoint with 4 hooks. The construction of the band is very sturdy and it does not shift around much (this could also be partly caused by the fact it's sitting on my boobs and being pushed out more than it should be). However, the band is comfortable and the wings cover my back and under my arms brilliantly. The cup construction also deserves a nod, as does the general construction quality of the bra itself.

But the rolling under band issue is bad one. Bad enough for me to not enjoy wearing it. I could just need a larger cup that's a bit less shallow. Although I've heard of many cases where this bra has worked out for people, I'm sadly not one of them.
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Updated on May 27, 2014 Flag this

This bra gave reasonably good cleavage and very good lift. However, it was very wide and shallow and gave me quadboob. Also, the band was too tight without the extender but perfect with it.

Updated on Dec 24, 2013 Flag this

I really should've checked this bra's measurements against those of my well fitting bras, because this lovely black lace bra is far too big in the band and cups for me. I can't say anything more useful than that.

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Updated on Oct 01, 2013 Flag this

THANK YOU MilkAndHoney - this bra is a "life changer".

This bra has a design that functions similarly to that of the Soma Sensuous Sides bras. The reason I like this Braologie bra is, like Soma's, it has 4" sides that won't let breast tissue roll out and over the cups. Braologie's tall band goes all around the back, and fastens with 4 rather than 2 hooks. The wide band provides extra support and smoothing under clothing. This bra is soft, cushy, and comfy, though heavy for hot weather. Also, unlike Soma's Sensuous Sides, Braologie gives me a lifted, rounded shaping that makes my ... saggy tissue look downright perky. Braologie's thick straps are much more forgiving to shoulder tissue than the thin straps of the Soma. While my Soma Sensuous Sides Lace bras are way prettier than Braologie's Casual model, I believe the Braologie is more effective in containing migrated tissue. Plus, the lifted, founded shaping it provides is very flattering.

Braologie bras come with push-up pads, but I don't use them. Instead of giving me cleavage, they push away from my squishy tissue and leave openings at the tops of the cups. The cups are snug and smooth without the pads.
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Updated on Aug 17, 2013 Flag this

If think if you fit well in half-cups and balconettes, Braologie may fit as well. It seems to lift from the bottom of the cups in the way that half-cups and balconettes do. The best part of the fit for me is the tall sides, because it's very, very hard to find such tall sides in a bra for my small breasts! The cups have 3 part seams, they are lightly padded, and the bottoms are lined with sleeves for push up pads. The bra has a leotard back, which is ideal for rounded shoulders. The band is made of stretch mesh and elastic, with 4" tall sides ... seams, and soft boning. The cups have a "platform" that connects them to the straps, which works to keep underarm tissue inside the cups. Unlike other "side support" bras I have, Braologie has wide back wings as well as tall side wings. This element in the design gives tissue nowhere to go but forward into the bra's cups.

When I first saw pictures of Braologie bras, I thought they looked like padded push-ups designed specifically for exaggerated cleavage, and to make breasts look larger. Braologie claims this is not the case - they really want to design functional, comfortable bras. I was concerned that the center gore would sit on my breasts, too, but Tallia, my Braologie fitter, told me the designs intend for the center gore to touch the breastbone. Apparently on some wearers, the center gore can "float" but Braologie intends for that to be temporary. Braologie's philosophy is based on "reshaping" breasts that have been deformed due to wearing badly fitted bras. In addition, Braologie aims to eliminate underarm rolls. The bra itself does this, because the cups are designed to fit breasts that are full on the bottoms and sides. In addition to covering armpit rolls with the sides and cups, Braologie claims that wearing their bras can eventually lead to armpit tissue "remigrating" back to the main parts of the breasts, causing the wearer perhaps to need a larger cup size. The "floating gore" is supposed to accommodate this transition period.

This design seems ideal for those of us who project sideways instead of forward. The key is that there is enough room in the bottoms of the cups not to cause my breasts to be squished together or to fall out of the cups over the gore. With this design it is imperative that the cups are big enough for all the tissue, otherwise there would be cutting, plunging, and squishing everywhere. The cups come with padding in them, but I removed the pads right away. They feel bulky to me, especially because this design has a lot of "push up" to begin with. Perhaps the cups aren't so bulky with larger breasts, but I prefer enough room in the cup for all my breast tissue.

Other things I've noted so far: The band is definitely the tightest on any bra I've worn. I hook it on the loosest hooks, and it is snug. For the first time in my life, I may use the included extender with this bra for awhile. The "Beige" color is a very good match for me. The Beige color in the Lacie is a completely different color from my Beige Casual; darker and more tan than yellow tones. For such a high functioning, everyday type bra, it is very pretty.
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Updated on Aug 16, 2013 Flag this

Bra is at least 2 cups too sall for me so I can't say much about the fit of them.
Band is too big.
Biggest con - lovely wide band with 4 rows of hooks.
I do believe this bra couls be great and comfy in correct size.

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Updated on Aug 07, 2013 Flag this

This bra is super comfortable and looks GREAT under t-shirts. I love the support! It looks good and feels good.

I do have shallow boobs, however, which is not great for plunge styles. There ends up being a lot of gaping at the top of the cup when I bend over or move around, but it still looks great under a shirt and I'm still fully supported.

This is my go-to bra when I don't want to see lines under a shirt. I think it needs to be tighter in order to remigrate tissue, and I have to set it on the middle hook, but the quality is amazing. It looks like a "granny" bra when it's not on, but looks great on.

The only con that I can think of is that since it is higher up on the side, it may show through a tank top, but most well-fitted bras do so for me.

Updated on Aug 05, 2013 Flag this

I may be the only customer in the world Braologie has refused to work with after her initial bra did not fit, and I am deeply saddened by this.

Because I have some spine and shoulder injuries, I was really looking forward to my Lacie and hoped, once we got the fit of one bra right, to buy more and add the mini-vests. I had read lots of reviews and fit stories, and I was prepared for some back and forth to get the right fit.

However, when my bra finally arrived yesterday (May 4), two months after I ordered it, I was shocked by how little could be done ... to help me.

First the good things about the bra and the fit:

The band, without the extender, seemed just about right. Although loose by my usual standards (I could easily get it closed on the tightest hook), it seemed secure in the loosest hook and didn't move when I moved. I figured it had the appropriate longevity and gave me a nice, smooth look with minimal indenting.

I have pretty wide roots, and the wire width seemed good-to-slightly-wide.

The materials were sofffffffft on the inside and pretty on the outside.

Now, the less good:

The cups were obviously too tall for someone my height (5' or 152 cm). Let's be clear: I'm not talking about too big (though that may have been a factor). Too tall. With the straps tightened to their utmost, I could fit my entire fist in the top of the cup; alternatively, I could pull the strap about an inch and a half above my shoulder. In this position, the cup began to fold outward and onto my arm.

Many people have complained about the height of the wings. The wings touched the top of my armpits. Now, I didn't find this uncomfortable in and of itself. But due to the wide and tall cup design, this is why the cup fabric flopped onto my arm when pulled up and left that fist-sized gap when let go.

In theory, the gore is supposed to float on this bra. It lay flat on me. My cleavage was separated and spread wide. It didn't match the ideal fit profile of this bra.

So I emailed Tallia immediately.

The resulting exchange went on for 12 hours (with a break in the middle for Hong Kong to sleep, obviously) and was very confusing and ultimately disappointing.

I was told I was "wearing the bra too high" and that this could be corrected with the mini-vest.

It took four emails back and forth to figure out what she meant. I even thought she meant the underwires shouldn't be in my inframammary fold and demonstrated to her what happened when I pulled the bra down till the strap touched my shoulder (2 cm of empty cup at the bottom).

Ultimately I realized she meant I was shortening the straps too much in an attempt to flatten out the top of the cup and she realized that yes, the cups were too tall for someone my height.

I spent another hour asking her if that was maybe because my wings were 15 cm high (between 1 and 4 cm taller than anyone else's on Bratabase that I've found). I asked her about shortening the sides, and she outright refused. Twice. Six emails went back and forth in which she said (a) the only thing they could do for me was offer me a mini-vest; (b) this was absolutely the right size, and they would not alter or change this bra in any way; and (c) if I placed an order for a different bra (the Advanced Lacie, which was what I thought I ordered in the first place, plus a vest), there would be no refunds and they would charge me shipping both ways if it didn't fit.

My customer service experience with Braologie has been so startlingly different from everyone else's that I simply don't know what to think. As of right now, 26 hours (plus 2 months) after this ordeal started, I am still contemplating taking them up on the "try the vest" offer, because I want this bra to work, even though they seem to have given up on me.

**A note on the size. I chose this based off the dimensions of the basic Freya Deco. The band is a very close match, and the cup width and depth are each about 1 cm larger than the 30GG. This was the closest bra in style to the Lacie that I owned for comparison.
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Updated on May 05, 2013 Flag this

As with any Braologie bra, the fact that the center gore doesn't tack should not be interpreted as a poor fit. The size is also my estimate, as the bra is unlabeled.

As I already described the first Braologie Full Coverage bra I tried in some detail, I will simply note what's different about the second one. This time I was given some removable pads and an extender, and a larger size. Unfortunately this is much too large for me (as can be seen by my estimate). There is a lot of spare room in the cups. This bra is so large on me ... that I don't feel that the pictures of me wearing it do it any justice (I've only added them to compare against the previous Braologie bra I added). I look like anyone would look when wearing a bra that is far too large.

The construction of the bra seems much better than the last one, which had a manufacturing fault. The side boning is fine. The pads are a bit tricky to position as there is only one correct way to do it: the seams should be closer together near the underwire and further apart toward the top of the cup, and the longer side of the pad should point toward the armpit. Braologie sent me a picture showing how to position the pads, and it's a good thing they did. Perhaps I'm a little spoiled with Ewa Michalak's removable padding, but I found that the open pouch didn't hold them in place very well as I was hoisting the bra into position.

Once again, I cannot fault Braologie's customer service. After seeing how the bra fit, they also recognized that this was not what they were aiming for, and they suggested that I return the bra for a full refund. As this is not the recommended model (they strongly suggest that you try the Lacie bra instead if you are able), my failure to fit a Braologie bra doesn't say anything about the primary model they support.
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Updated on Apr 09, 2013 Flag this

This is a strange new bra and I don't want to jump to any conclusions about it without giving it a chance to impress me.

A full review is on my blog but to summarise;
The side wings feel too high at the moment, and the straps won't adjust short enough for me to pull the bra up to where the wires should sit under my breasts, so I have space in the bottom of the cups.

However, the bra is gorgeous, the band feels amazing and does a great job of smoothing with a good shape. There is fantastic cleavage, and I did not expect it to but the gore sits flat on my chest comfortably.

My Braologie came yesterday, earlier than expected, and no customs charges attached (I know some people were concerned about this). I have very mixed feelings on this bra, and have been discussing ...

http://fussybusty.com/2013/03/26/braologie-review-part-i/

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Updated on Mar 26, 2013 Flag this

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Due to the custom sizing of the bra, 28DD is just an estimate based on my usual size (28E) and the fit of this bra.

Although the posture-countour lacie bra fit me decently, this bra was much too small in the cup, despite having no padding. I was suffering from some serious quad-boobing, and that was even wearing the included band extender (which I didn't include in my measurements).

Updated on Mar 21, 2013 Flag this

This size is just an estimate based on my usual size and the fit of this bra. With a lot of scooping and a little wiggling, I can manage a bit of cleavage with the pads in, which is just short of a miracle for me! Initially I was concerned that the cups were too large, but after adjusting the straps down and a lot of scooping, they seem decent.

Updated on Mar 21, 2013 Flag this

By looking at some of my old bras, I'm guessing that this is somewhere between a 28FF and 28G in size. It was much too small, even after taking out the remove-able padding in the cups. I'm usually around a 28GG, sometimes larger.

Even then, I really like this bra and the way that it's cut. The wires are a good size and shape for me, but there just wasn't enough depth there. I also like the wider band because it gives a much better line under clothing. I'm 5'1", so the straps had to be tightened as far as they could go, but the bra didn't poke ... under my armpit at all. I agree that it has a way of pushing any and all breast tissue forwards. I've never been able to see my silhouette so clearly without my breasts getting in the way.

Another thing that I noticed after looking at other reviews was that there wasn't as much boning as the one that Vee received. There wasn't any boning in the remove-able padding and can't feel any boning in the cups either. The side wings had vertical boning, but not the additional horizontal boning that she pictured. There wasn't a side support panel, but it did a good job of push everything forward without it. I emailed to ask about these things and I was told that the differences between the two bras is that Vee's was a custom order, and not the standard Lacie bra. In my correct size, they felt I wouldn't need those extras.

I have to say, though, that the customer service is excellent. Tallia, the person I've been in contact with, has been really amazing so far in terms of fitting and advice about their products. Overall, I like this brand and am exchanging this for a better size...

As an aside, Braologie asked for several measurements before making the bra, but after receiving it and seeing how small this was in the cups, I re-measured myself. I realized that I had messed up on measuring my breast perimeter, so this may have been a reason why it was so far off in cup sizing.
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This bra is very different from all the others I've tried so far. It was transferred to me from curlewgirl (thanks so much!) and comes from braologie. I am doing the review with the included pads inside the bra, but not using the included extender.

The pros: This bra looks really nice on. I like the lace and I love that I get cleavage! This is the only bra I've tried that has given me any so far, but all my other bras are balconettes, which may make the difference-- this one is more of a plunge-type. The wide band feels very secure around ... the sides and on the back, without squeezing me too much. Even though the band is too large for me, it does not slide around with movement and is quite comfortable. It seems very well-made and gives a great shape under clothes.

The cons: This is just a lot of bra. The underwires come up too high in the armpits, and the wings come all the way up into the fold of my armpit when I wear it. It's a bit stabby there and is the main factor in me not wanting to keep the bra. The cups also come up pretty high on my torso, and show underneath a normal tank. I have to adjust the straps almost to their fullest to get them to sit right, which causes the little adjusters to sit right on top of my shoulders. The band stretches to two full inches larger than the 28" it is supposed to be. It seems as though braologie prefers a wider but looser band to give support. I think all of the cons (except the last) are caused by the fact that this bra was made to fit someone else's measurements. curlewgirl's breasts might just sit lower on her torso than mine, which if they do, would be the reason for all my gripes with the fit. I imagine one made for my body would fit me better.

The bottom line: I think this is a nice and well-made bra. It is comfortable, gives a wonderful shape and makes my boobs look good. However, it does not quite work for me, so I'll be passing it on to someone else in the community. Overall I am impressed with the bra and am considering ordering my own based on my measurements.
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Updated on Mar 09, 2013 Flag this

This bra is the same size and fit as the other 28E Braologie bras I've listed.

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Updated on Feb 26, 2013 Flag this

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This bra is the same size and fit as the other 28E Braologie bras I've listed.

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