*Size*: Band runs a little bit small so sister size up one band. I had to go from my normal 28E to a 30DD in this bra, because the band is a bit smaller and less stretchy than most I have encountered, though the cups are true to size.
*Fit*: Great for shallow/FOB or equal/pointy/far apart/narrow shoulder boobs. Probably bad for FOT/narrow/close together/saggy boobs. Though I get a *TINY TINY TINY* quadboob on top, it is entirely unoticeable unless I run my hand along the area very carefully and it actually helps the upper edge to stick and stay invisible under shirts. The gore tacks perfectly to my sternum, though be ...prepared for this bra to sit a bit low since it has about a 1/2 inch of stiff material that extends below the underwire. This feature is actually helpful since it keeps the cups from folding over and getting caught in your fat rolls when you lean over, and it preserves the smooth line of the cup and provides a place to anchor strong elastic. The sides of the cups and the straps are PERFECT for my narrow shoulders, but the sides come up far enough to contain my wide boobs. The push up is great for someone like me, but would not be great for someone who has boobs that are heavy on the top or nipples that stick out frontwards or upwards when bare. My nipples always want to point out to the sides, and as it is the push up padding in this bra bring them right front and center.
*Comfort*: Very comfortable Probably my most comfy one yet. It doesn't shift, it doesn't itch or irritate, it doesn't stab me, and it doesn't make me feel like I'm walking around with boob-shields (a common problem I run into with push-ups). I could see this becoming my everyday bra. However, I still hate that padded bras are so freaking hot.
*Quality*: Three tiny steps away from perfect. Overall, it is a beautifully made bra. The fabric is bonded to the cups and the rest of the bra, which creates a very smooth, high-quality appearance. The cups hold their shape very well and the hooks and latches are well-sewn. All the elastic is high-quality and thick, will definitely last. The push up padding is thoughtfully placed and not stupid, and the tops of the cups feel secure despite having no seams. The foam is REALLY good quality, will never break down. BUT: 1) Instead of a tag it has wording printed on the inside of the band. Many might enough this feature for comfort, I find this annoying because it eventually wears away and one is left with an orphan bra. 2) Plastic underwires. GAH. They may be more flexible and comfy, but that means they are more flexible, more breakable, less bendable, and less long-lasting. 3) Detachable straps have crappy hooks/are incredibly difficult to detach and reattach. So, not only are the hooks badly designed and made of a flimsy-feeling plastic, they're pretty much useless because they are so tightly anchored in the little loops.
*Appearance*: Pretty good for a casual bra Compared to its sisters like Cleo bras, this bra is pretty boring. But considering its incredible smoothness and the pretty colors and nice details like the scalloped edge, its a pretty dang good looking bra.
*Stretch*: Moderate stretch Stretches enough, but not much because of the very stiff no-show fabric. I am okay with this. Thats why I went a band up.
*Wear*: Will update.
*Bottom Line*: Great bra, definitely my favorite ever-day for tshirts, tanks, cotton dresses, and the like. Read more 487 more words
I love this bra! I think it is much prettier than it looked online and so flattering on me (which is extremely unusual)! I'm dealing with wide-set, average to wide short roots, upper deflation with some lower projection, very soft. I think this bra is actually the best fit I have found, so far and it is definitely my current favorite! YAY!!!
The flexible, soft cups seem to be somewhat uniquely shaped and it works well for me (but I can see why it wouldn't work for everyone.) I think I generally fit more like a 28DD/30D, but in this model, the 30DD is where it's at. It's ...slightly big, as I have a tiny bit of gaping at the top edge of the cup, but it honestly quite minimal and the lace trim helps hide it. It still looks and feels beautiful.
I want to say the cups run somewhat small, except they are kind of stretchy and I think that it would actually fit true to size if it is the right shape for you. It is not quite as shallow as I thought from the pictures. It actually gives me more forward projection than I expected and a nice lifted, rounded shape. The wings are tall enough to give me the side support I need and the lightly padded cups provide shaping without being too rigid. The band feels true to size. Although a little bit squeaky, the cups and band are so comfortable!
The thin double straps are pretty and feel OK on me, but I can see how they might not be comfortable for people with heavier breasts. (I don't know if they are wider on larger sizes). They don't have any stretch so they do dig in to my shoulders a little. They are also unusually short. While they fit my 5'1 frame, I have to make them almost as long as they can go. The gore is on the wider side (around 1 inch width), so it's going to better fit people with some space between their boobs.
It is worth noting that the 30D, which I also tried in the same colorway, seems like almost a different bra. Something about it seems disproportionate to me. I need short cups, but those were way too short. The cups were definitely too small and gave me serious quad boob, so while I think the DD might be true to size, I think the D runs small. Which is odd. The wings weren't high enough. If I had tried the 30D first, I never would have tried a different size, because it really was that different and I didn't like it at all, even before I put it on. In contrast, I fell in love with the 30DD as soon as I opened the package! Read more 360 more words
I love the color! It looks great!! I had some weird issue with the sizing too- I tried on a 30C in red and got major quadboob, so I went to a 30D in black and it was much too large for me. I wonder if a 30D in red would fit me better? I love this bra - it's so pretty. I really hope that I can find a size that fits. Maybe I need a 28D?
I'm a 28e, somewhat shallow, with tall roots, and wide rooted. This bra is great for my shape. The band is actually tight enough in a 30dd. I love that the cups are a one piece foam, instead of cut and sew, whose seams I sometimes find irritating. The lace and color are very pretty. However, my boobs are extremely close together, and the gore is a tiny bit too wide. Not so much the bras fault, as this is an issue for me in nearly all non plunge bras. I'd still say this is a keeper
Looks a tad small on your bigger side? I try to fit my bigger side, but i'm super soft and floppy, so i'll fall out on my bigger side, otherwise lol
This and the Freya Eden I happened to see just below both look like kind of a tight squeeze. I would size up!
Yeah I think it's a little small for Lefty 😄
My lefty is also the bigger one lol. I think it's common, maybe because there are more right-handed ppl than left-handed??
Wait, how does handedness affect boobs? 😯
I don't know if handedness has anything to do with it, but I always assumed that because most people's hearts are bigger on the left side (i.e. you can feel the beat easier on the left), maybe there was more blood flow or something over there. Whatever the reason we've totally made up in our heads, I think more women have a larger left breast than right?
I think it's handedness too. One of my girlfriends was left-handed and had a larger right boob.
Pros: -On this bra the hooks are on the side which makes it easier to close: I know some ladies here find it difficult when there are many hooks in the back -This bra is less boring because of the lace -The band is tight and more a 28 band than a 30 (I mostly wear 28E bras). The bra stays put throughout the day without bothering me
Cons: -There are many hooks (5) and only two rows -The lace can be visible though a tight shirt and maybe I will try the Freya Deco Strapless Bra soon in 28E for a smoother look -The size range is not wide enough (no 30DDD in this model but thankfully the 30DD was a nice fit) Read more 158 more words
I'm so happy this fit and very happy to see we have some native French people here! I know how bra sizing is in france as I am obsessed with several french brands but they practically scoff at the idea of a small band big cup. The few times I find 30/75 bands through french brands they only offer A and B cups. It's quite sad. But if you do decide to get the Deco Strapless make sure you get the 28F! I typically wear a 28D and the 28DD fits well on me, if not a bit small. It tends to run small in the cup.
Thank you for your comment LeProfessor ! In France bra fitters put me in 85B bras (32B) because they judge I have too small breasts to be a 80D/E (30D/DD) and also to try to sell me something. Some French brands (Etam , Aubade , Lejaby ...) stock 80/30 bands with cups like D/E (or even F for Lejaby) but they are only available online. Too bad! I agree most French fitters consider it is impossible to have a small band with big cups. In store it is really hard to even find 85E/F (32DD/E). They point out that if you outgrow your 85D then you buy a 90D and not a 85E! The most popular band here are 90/95 (34/36 UK) even on small ladies but I think it is the same in the US, isn't it? They also think the 75 band (28 in UK sizing) doesn't even exist or is for anorexic! When I say I wear 28E bras in UK sizing, French fitters just laugh at me! It's such a shame!
That's so crazy, like my boobs are too big for the 85D, not my rib cage! Makes you want to scream at the fitters "Would you like to see my bra tag! This 85B you want to give me soo badly smooshes my breast tissue under my arms, do you not like my breast tissue being on front of my chest!??!?!" And yes, a 90/95 is the most popular band here in the US as well, as I am sure it is over most the world. Though women with very small rib cages like I are fast to discover 85 bands. One girl I know has a smaller rib cage than I and she is wearing a 85D and completely spilling over top of it. Poor girl. I tried to tell her about real sizing. Can you imagine the size she would actually be wearing her real band size of 65/70? She'd probably be like 65H/HH or a 70GG/H. Has all sorts of back problems. I'm a bit surprised that they don't fit you into a 90B instead of 85B, I could only imagine how you would be falling out of 85B. I was wearing a 85B most of my adult life, but then again, I get sized into anything from 85A/AA to a 90A depending on where I go. So perhaps I shouldn't be surprised! If only those brands weren't SO EXPENSIVE. I LOVE YSE LINGERIE! It's a french brand made for smaller busts, and they just introduced D cups, but ONLY in 85+ band sizes, and I have literally been begging them for anything but an A or B cup in a 80 band. BEGGING! XD
Of course the 85B is way too small ! Even the 85C is too small ! Now I simply avoid bra fitters: they tend to measure my underbust loosely and squeeze my breast tissue with the measuring tape! One or my friends wears 90E (34DD) but her band is riding up, the cups are floating over her breasts and she is also spilling over the cups a lot. She was wearing 95D (36D) for a while but recently she convinced herself to try the sister size down. I guess she is more a 32FF/G or even a 30G/GG. Like the girl you are talking about she has had serious back ache. She is considering getting a reduction when a better bra may solve her problem. I should tell her about real sizing but I don't know if she will listen to me. I hope your friend will listen to you and try some 28G/GG to begin with. Maybe ordering custom sizes from Ewa Michalak or @Comexim is for later and a bit tricky. When I was a 28DD I ordered the 3D Satine in 26F and it was too small both in the cups and the band. I couldn't return it so I give it to a friend of mine. On Monday I will receive Aubade bras on sale. (I can't afford to pay full price!) I hope some of them will fit me.
I have a better idea of what shape my breasts are now. I've been told they're set close together, so this bra digs into my sternum and the edges of my root. I fill out the bottom of the cup, my breasts are slightly pointy, so I can't completely fill the depth of the cup and there a gap along the top, even when I scoop and swoop.
This is a lovely bra with 3 part seamed cups. It seems to work ok for average projection and the band is true to size. However, the gore is wide at 1.2". I think it works okay on me, mostly becoming itchy toward the end of the day. Otherwise it's very comfortable and soft.
I almost bought a 30DDD but then saw this 30DD on clearance in Dillards and liked the fit. The cup depth is a bit smaller than I usually wear, but it stays in my IMF all day without quadding. I will still try a 30DDD if I come across it. The shape is nice and it's more seamless under clothes than expected
Wow, that gore is wide. I wish marketing photos would better depict how wide and tall the gores are. Pretty bra, though! Thanks for your review and pics!
This is the second B. Wow'd bra I've owned. After about a year of pretty regular use, my first began to fall apart. Some elastic came off and the bra became loose and unwearable. So the quality sucks .. might have better results if you make sure to give the bra's elastic rest by rotating bras daily. However, I did make sure to handwash it. I probably didn't wash it enough, actually, so I don't think my washing habits added to the bra falling apart.
Quality aside, I ended up with this bra again. The retail price is a bit high for only a year of use, but ...it is pretty easy to find on sale for ~$20 at my local Dillards and sometimes online. I've spotted it in TJ Maxx and Ross, although sizes vary widely. It's a good push-up that cures my desire for those old ill-fitting VS push-ups I used to wear. I should probably spring for a Deco or another popular push-up bra but I think this is a cheap compromise and I already know it fits! Read more 73 more words
I was really curious to try this bra on, but it was a catastrophe on me. The top of the cups has an elastic band with silicone attached and this cut into my breast tissue while the top of the cups wasn't filled either. Despite the silicone this band didn't stay in place on me at all, but it slipped down as soon as I moved. This silicone strip continues along the upper edge of the band. There is no silicone at the bottom of the band, but the band stayed in place for the short time I wore it. The bra is unpadded and very see-through. The cups are made of a fairly soft, stretchy material.
I tried this bra on in black, beige, and the taupe-ish color in a Dillards. All the bras were the newer colorways with the "Animal" lining. I found them all to run true to size in band! Tighter than other colors before. Maybe Wacoal is responding to criticisms? However I found the cups to fit smaller in all colorways as well. Or did I used to wear such an illfitting bra?? Maybe a combination of both haha. It doesn't help that the cups always seem difficult to measure. All my measurements submitted for these bras are pretty similar despite what I'm writing.
I really wish this bra worked for me, but it's just a bit small in the cup. A 30DDD would be perfect, but B.tempt'd doesn't make that size for this model.. Sigh. A few other Wacoal 30DD bras have fit me better, but this cup is less forgiving to top fullness or maybe fits a touch small?
I've become a bit addicted to spacer bras recently, so I'd rank this somewhere between Fantasie and Simone Perele. I like the cut better than the Fantasie Rebecca. The lower gore on this bra helps it to be more flattering and less full coverage on me. The material seems a bit softer. ...Meanwhile, I think Simone Perele is softest and most attractive, but the bands run loose - this band fits pretty true to size. I rank the appearance as okay because while I like the cut, the gore bow detail is infuriatingly childish to me - what is this, a bra for preteens? I mean, I guess that's okay, just not for me. Of course, if the bra fit better, I would just snip it off. Read more 75 more words
This bra seems to fit but I wish the underwires went up higher on the sides because it gives me a lot of armpit fat. I get some quadboobing after swooping and scooping but after they settle it looks like it fits. When sitting down, it is weird...I get quadboobing on the bottom and gaps on the top. I think if the underwire was higher it would be a lot better because all my top boobs escape out to the sides. The band is surprisingly stretchy for a 30. I got this used so maybe that's why it's stretched but I have to wear it on the last hook. I like that this bra gives my boobs a nice shape and is smooth and seamless under clothes.
Ok so I just had breast reduction surgery 2 months ago. I'm still swelling a bit but am sick of wearing bandini bras with no shape. Dr said I am free to now wear underwires. So I bought this bra because it was only $20 and that's good because it may not fit in a couple months. I bought the 30dd based on the cup depth and my measurements. (I need about an 8 inch depth) But it is at least a cup size too small!! Whoever measured this bra and got even close to a 8 inch cup depth must have a magic measuring tape. There is no way this cup is deeper than a 7!
So I ordered a 32dd since there is no 30ddd. I will be sending this one back. The band was a little tight anyway on my insicions. Just need it to fit me for a couple months until I am fully healed and can invest in full bra wardrobe when o know my final size.
30dd fits my 29" ribcage perfectly, cup depth and wore width are perfect, I did have to move the wires outwards to make sure my breast tissue was fully encased in the cup, gore tacks, doesn't dig in. I did notice my right boob is slightly smaller then my left , so I'll be adding a tiny bit of extra padding. Over all great lift almost rounds my boobs out up top the way no other bra could. Shallow up top with slight bottom fullness and slight protection, also I have slight inner fullness, seriously loves how it rounds my upper portion out and evens the overall roundness it's great
High rise , gray lace over bright pink padding colorway
Band seems to run small; I think it stretched the underwires somewhat which made the cup stretch at the top and thus cut into the top of my breasts. Some wrinkling/folding at the bottom of cup where I think it is too shallow. Underwires dig in a little bit and are uncomfortable. Low plunge with little coverage.
I got this bra due to the design of the band--I thought it would be simple to alter (which would be necessary as a front-closure bra only has one "set of hooks." However, it does seem to run about a band size tight.
I like this bra. Has a nice amount of push-up padding, doesn't show under t-shirts. I think it looks pretty cute on too, even though I thought it looked pretty ugly in photos. The band runs pretty true to size. Not a super tight 30 band like some.
Update: After ~1 year of wear in rotation with my other bras, the elastic band on the bottom of the bra started to come off. It seemed to have only been glued there. This made the bra way too loose and unwearable. The quality is disappointing but I would probably still buy it again. I found a similar fitting push-up bra is the Aerie Emma in 32D.
Go up sevvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveral cup sizes. This is more for shallow breasts, so if you have projection the need to size up is imminent to create more projection, or just avoid this all together. Pros: Cute color, love the fact it's cute and a racerback that looks good. Cons: shallow cups, quadboob
My first (almost) well fitting bra! This one encloses my breasts perfectly and there's almost no gaping on top, so absolutely perfect for me shallow, FoB, wide root breasts. Only small complaint on the fit is that the straps fall every now and then (though not nearly as bad as with the 32C, so I'm happy!).
As for the bra itself, I love how soft and comfortable it is. It is also very pretty in the black, red and golden color.
Similar to the Express Yourself Coutour, but with unlined lace cups. Only a little bit see-through in the natural color. Fit is great except the cups are slightly loose on the top...especially on one side, since the cups don't stretch much to allow for asymmetrical breasts. Nice thick band that probably won't cut into the skin too much.
the cups are low coverage, which makes me question the fit, but all other fit indicators seem to say it fits well. cups are slightly smaller than my Calvin Klein 30DD bra. I will be keeping this one.
For reference, I am petite (5'1"), with some asymmetry due to mildly tuberous breasts, east-west, and somewhat shallow breast tissue.
I got this particular color bra as my "nude" color. I have very cool, rosy pink undertones and I find that even nude colored bras made for Caucasian women always have a warm undertone to them. This pale pink color does not show through under any light or pastel colored outfits that I wear.
But oh wow, this bra makes me so pointy looking. I wear this bra with looser fitting outfits vs. a bodycon dress.
Looks great, love the color!