Well, this bra is really comfortable, except for the gore. It's really wide or something because it doesn't lay flat on me. I've never had this problem before, my boobs are I guess wider set maybe I think ? So that's not something that usually happens. I've been trying to find an unpadded bra I can actually wear without worrying about show-through and this is not it. I guess I'll just stick to molded :/
First specialty shop purchase from a pro bra fitter. Fits well, comfortable to wear, chafes a bit around the armpit / strap attachment but might break in a bit. Overall a quality bra, but a bit matronly looking. I could learn to love it.
Happy bra, happy bra ^.^ I love it. Band is a bit stretched out from wear, but it fits so lovely otherwise that it doesn't even matter. I could wear this thing constantly.
This is such a well-made bra I just wished it fit me. Even with two bra extenders it's still too small in the band and I have to struggle to even hook it up. The cups are my sister size to my 40D/38DD normal sizing and fit my boobs but I don't really care for the fit. So this bra I'll give to my friend and see if she can get some use out of it.Don't let my review influence you . It's not the bra, it's me. Let me say again that this bra is full quality and very well-made!
I like that I can wear it under low-cut tops. The ribbed straps were a little itchy at first but softened up after a few wears and watches. My softer breasts to fall out a bit in the center a bit, which is my standard issue with plunges, but is not too bad, thanks to the bit of elastic in the lace along the top of the cup. The band does seem pretty stretchy.
This is probably my most versatile bra right now, in terms of what I can wear it under, as it is really comfortable, provides surprisingly good nipple coverage for an unmolded bra and does not show through most shirts.
May cut in at top. Very soft cups and they feel nice. Good shape under clothes. Band rides up just a tiny bit. Wing height may be a bit high, not the wire itself but the outside of the cup is in my armpit sometimes. Runs a size small due to French sizing. Not a true 30F UK.
After I sent back the 70G, I knew I just had to order it in the smaller size. It's so worth it. This is a really great, comfortable, cute looking bra.
Much like in my review for the larger size, I love the detailing and thought put into this bra, and also the high quality of the materials. The solid fabric that makes up the cup feels like butter, and the lace is very soft as well. I feel like Chantelle really knows how to make a good product, and I'm glad I finally found the size that fits. In this bra in particular, the wires are nice and narrow and I have no threat of the cups cutting into my armpits. The shape it gives is really natural - not perfectly round, but slightly pointed much in the way that my boobs ARE slightly pointed. It's basically a perfect match to my torpedo shape, but it's supportive.
My experiments in Chantelle have been interesting and enlightening. I find that I am somewhere in between their F and E cups right now (some day my weight will stop fluctuating, but today is not that day.)
In the C chic style, I could maybe go down to the E, due to the fact that there is some empty space on the sides of the cup and there is a little bit of an armpit-cutoff going on (very minor, enough to note but not enough to ruin my experience with the bra) However, having tried on the plunge in an E on a fuller day, I noted ...that it can cause some mild quad-boobing. Maybe I ought to have one of each depending on what sort of day my boobs are having. I really like the shape that this bra gives, it's nicely rounded from the side.
Style-wise, this is a pretty straight-forward quality bra. It has the same subtle embroidered pattern as the other C chic bras, sexy mesh at the top of the cups, and a little jeweled detail on the center gore. It seems good for day-to-day use, although I wish I'd nabbed it in a different color since I already have a black mesh bra which fulfills this niche (my beloved Claudette Paramour Underwire Bra (101015008) ) but I suppose it's good to have multiples. I kind of wish the gore were a little higher? I just feel like it doesn't need to be that low, but I guess "plunging" is serious business. I generally don't care about gores one way or another because I have wide-set boobs and never have any issues with them. I guess I would just feel more secure. Read more 189 more words
This band is not forgiving compared to the other Chantelle models I've worn. It's the least stretchy of the three other 36Ds that I have, and it feels tighter than is comfortable.
The lace pattern on the bra is quite pretty (as least in navy), and it currently fits me better than I expect considering I now know that the cup size is too small in a universe where I scoop and swoop. The thing that makes this one unwearable for me is that the wire in the center gore feel high and scratches something awful!
If I'd bought this bra in an E or F cup, I think that I would be quite happy with it. The straps are very comfortable and more interesting than I usually get from a t-shirt bra, and the gore tacks very well for me.
The band is too big for me. That's the simple part. What's happening in the cup is strange. I don't spill out the front of the cup, which makes it seem like it fits, but the cup is definitely too small. There is a gap in the sides and the bottom of the cup and I think the wire needs to come up higher, like I have side boob turning into side fat near the top. The gore doesn't sit flat at all. Just wrong.
This bra model is one of my (few) long-lusted-after loves, although I held off getting myself one for many many months. I STILL absolutely adore it and I am therefore slightly gutted that it doesn't seem to work all that well for my shape. The 70D I tried before clearly seemed to large so here's the 70C I ordered in response. I'm not sure it got all that much better though ...
Bra description:
This is actually one of the more interesting bras I've encountered so far. The combination of the lovely and soft, partly floral lace, the 'pinstripe' centre gore bow and double straps just speaks to me: it's ...super feminine but with a business-like, tomboy sort of nod, if that makes any sense. Oh, and it is a half cup -- what is not to love?! https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" />
Anyway, the cups and band are all made of the soft, floral lace. The cups are of the two-part, vertically seamed kind. The outer parts of the cups are backed with a fine, rigid, very sheer black mesh. The inner parts of the cups are not backed and therefore have a little 'give'. A narrow band of elastic very lightly 'gathers' the cup edge to make sure it stays flush with the skin. The band consists of a single layer of the same lace and is not backed by anything, but the result is less stretchy than it would seem. The closure is of the standard two hook, three position kind. The centre gore does not come up as high as the wires and cups, which gives it a somewhat 'lighter' appearance. A satin ribbon bow decorated along either edge with a running stitch in contrasting thread adorn the centre gore. The straps are not fully adjustable: a double strap consisting of two narrower bands of elastic adorned in a similar way as the centre gore bow, i.e. with a running stitch in contrasting thread, connects to the cups. The adjustable part in the back consists of a single width of plain black strap elastic. The straps of the 70C are clearly narrower than the straps of the 70D. The wires of the 70C are also more flexible than the wires of the 70D. All findings on this bra, including the hooks and eyes, are silver-coloured metal. A silver-coloured metal tag with the brandname 'Chantelle' is sewed next to the closure.
Bra fit:
This bra is not the best fit on me. I'm not sure whether it's simply still too big, or whether there's some sort of shape mismatch going on. It seems that the cups are simply made for breasts that are 'taller' and more spherical than mine. Anyway, I'd say this bra runs generous in both the cups and band, compared, for example, to the @70D - Chantelle » Rive Gauche T-back Spacer Bra (3282) . Although it's better than the 70D, I still don't entirely fill out the cups and they still come up quite a bit higher on my chest than I expected. The wires are reasonably good on me -- they are much more flexible than the wires in the 70D, so even if they are a smidgen narrower they still fit -- but the cup depth and height just doesn't seem to match my breasts very well. As to the cup depth, my measurements confirm there really is very little difference between the 70C and 70D: only 0.5cm!
The band fits reasonably well at the middle set of hooks, but I feel it begins to ride up when fastened on the loosest hooks. It feels very slightly tighter than the band of the 70D, but compared to the T-back that fits me very well band-wise, this band still runs at least half a size larger larger. Part of the reason for that may be that unlike the T-back the lace in this Demi isn't backed with anything, part that the band is really very narrow. I'm not too bothered by it as it does fit me well enough on the middle set of hooks (I don't like my bands tight) and it's an easy fix to shorten the band once it stretches, but still. Sizing inconsistency of any kind is just plain annoying.
Having said all that, I must say that this bra DOES deliver shape-wise: Without bra my full-bust measurement is 86cm, wearing this bra it is a 'whopping' 91cm! And even though the cups are too roomy, the shape I get is reasonably round. Not as centred and projected as what I get, for example, in the @65DD - Ewa Michalak » Hm Gold (267) (which under my current measurement actually is about equally roomy in the cups), but therefore maybe more comfortable for me. It's the reason why I did decide to keep this bra: it's fairly comfortable and it looks okay under clothing. And who knows, my size my fluctuate upwards again, at some point https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" />
Conclusion:
I decided to keep this bra, probably against my better judgement: it isn't nearly as good a fit as I would have hoped, but it's a lovely, comfortable, reasonably flattering, unpadded half cup and I don't really have many of those at the moment, so there you have it https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" /> Combined with the matching 'shorts' (which run generous, by the way) it's a really sexy set. Read more 794 more words
