Very nice bra. Got this from another Bratabase user. Has been worn a fair bit, but still has some stretch left.

black w/ magenta colorway

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Updated on Jul 18, 2020 Flag this

Ouch this one was a mess.

I have wide roots, tall thin roots and need immediate projection at the wire. I have even vertical fullness and am full on the outside. Very soft squishy tissue as well.

This was a major shape mismatch for me. I tried it because someone mentioned is was good for full on the outside breasts. And it might be for someone else.

Issues I had:

1. Wrinkling in the bottom of the cup. I think this bra was just too shallow for me. I couldn't get it to stay in my IMF .

2. Wires- my tissue is squishy so I don't normally get alot of ... pain from wires sitting on tissue or issues with wires poking my armpit. Not so with this bra. I think the wires were too tall and narrow. At the very least they didn't fit my shape.

3. Quadboob. I think this goes back to the bra being too shallow. I felt like it was compressing my breasts and because my tissue is soft, it escaped out of the edges.

4. Gaping at the top. Soft tissue issues again. Too tall of cups for my soft tissue that likes to pool at the bottom.

5. Shape. I looked very flattened out from the side and the front.
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Updated on Sep 29, 2019 Flag this

I was disappointed it didn't fit. Huge quad boob but orange-in-a-glass style. I still don't quite know how to describe my shape. Straps were short and even loosened down to the ring they were still short. Also hurt my back, I remember this style giving me migraines once upon a time. The gore is so delicate and lovely the overall shape on me was minimizing, almost flat. Returning!

Nude/Pink colorway

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Updated on Aug 16, 2019 Flag this

This didn't work for me. I hoped that, because it is a wide and shallow bra, it would, but I get a major quad boob at the center of the cups. This would work great for ladies with not too much center fullness.

Nude pink colorway

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Updated on Aug 03, 2017 Flag this

Cups aren't wide enough for my wide roots. Straps are too wide.

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Updated on Feb 18, 2017 Flag this

Having previously been disappointed by another bra, my 34FF - Cleo » Jude (5846) , which failed to match up to another Panache-range bra I loved, my 34FF - » Ardour Sweetheart Moulded Bra (7181) Masquerade , I don't know why I purchased this style again. . . Actually, yes, I do - it was cheap! This bra, like its predecessor, was similarly OK in fit & comfort, but still seemed to require constant readjustments throughout the day, & it was always heaven to remove it at the end of the day. The quality just doesn't live up to the Masquerade one, which isn't surprising really, given the different price-points.

Updated on Nov 27, 2016 Flag this

Despite purchasing around the same time as I purchased 34FF - Masquerade » Ardour Sweetheart Moulded Bra (7181) , in the exact same size, the fit was totally different. This bra was always a bit snugger, & the quality was nowhere near as good as the Masquerade one. It was an OK everyday bra but seemed to require more adjusting throughout the day, & usually left me quite relieved to remove it at the end of the day.

Black with pink band. colorway

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Updated on Nov 27, 2016 Flag this

A 30D felt like a longshot to me for fit, but I ordered it because AMZ was having a huge sale and offering free returns on the 30D, but not the 28D. Also, reviewers' consensus was that the fit was a bit small. Well, the bra does fit, with the exception of there being a small gap in the top of the cup on my smaller side-- fixable with a cookie and besides, this bra is like a bulletproof thing that stands up by itself so it's entirely unnoticeable. Also, the wires are wider than they need to be in that they go about 1/2" ... around the outside of my roots under the arm. This is actually comfortable and not at all a problem-- the cup is so shallow that there is really no gap in between cup and skin there. Lastly, I only could get the band to stretch out to 28.5 inches (maybe I don't pull hard enough on these things?) and am super glad I did not order the 28D, because this bra on the middle hook on my 27" ribcage is actually painful. (It's fine on the loosest hook, just as it should be.)

Looks like this model is being discontinued, but between now and then, these should be able to be obtained pretty cheaply on AMZ. This one (black with pink) was $14 US. My first impression of the bra was that it was clumsy, hard, and likely to give a bad shape under clothing. But after messing around with it and realizing I was wearing it too low, causing spillage on top (even with my shallow top) and a gap in the bottom of the cup, I simply moved the bra up and it fit fine. I think after a little breaking in I might like this one. This is my first Cleo so I don't know how the sizing compares to other Cleos, but both the cups and band seem to me to run small on this bra. Generally speaking the cup is shallow, good for wide roots and also good for shallow on top girls.

Update: I've had this bra about a week now. After writing the review and entering the measurements, Admin wrote me to ask me to double-check the cup width; at 5.2 it seemed too wide. I remeasured and got 5.2 again, but realized that the wire on the bra might be stretched out, because the fit I was getting was wide (going past my roots, as noted above) and shallow. So, I squished the underwires together a little so they would not be so wide and the cup would be a bit deeper, and --voila! the bra went from something I'd decided to return because of an unflattering (flat) fit to a bra I needed to quickly order another of, because it fit perfectly. I have adjusted the "new" cup width to 5.0. Since this bra has been further reduced to $10, ordering a second one was an easy decision-- I now very much like the fit on me. It looks great under most tee shirts, unfortunately the bright magenta trim shows on thinner ones but other than that the bra is great. The second one arrives day after tomorrow, so it will be interesting to see if it measures the same.

More stuff: since commenting that I though the bra would be good for shallow-on-top ladies, I visited the abrathatfits website and looked at breast shapes and decided that far and away mine resembled the center pic --2/5-- so maybe I am not actually shallow on top after all but even. So please take that with a grain of salt.

Also: this might be a little overkill since the bra is about to be discontinued, but differences were noted in the reviews on the website between bras made in China and those made in Thailand (those being made in China tending to run smaller in the cups). This bra was made in Thailand.

The 30DD is only $9, so I sent my baby sis-- an augmented 28/33 cup size up from my natural 27/32-- an email telling her to GET ONE, though as she is probably more of a half globe now (I haven't actually seen her nekkid), this bra might not work on her. I also have yet to convince her to move down to 30 bands, even after giving her a 32D b'tempted balcony and her raving about the fit. Maybe these things take time? She is still freaking out that her "new C's" are actually D's or DD's. Hopefully she'll get over the sticker shock soon.

09/28-- second bra arrived. It measures exactly the same as the first one after I messed with the wires, save the band is 1/2" shorter unstretched. It also arrived in an obviously new bag with actual balled up paper in the cups (why don't they do this all the time?). So I think the first bra had already been tried on by someone and they somehow managed to distort the wires. These two match so exactly I cannot tell them apart.


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Black/Magenta colorway

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Updated on Aug 28, 2016 Flag this

This is quite pretty for a nude bra. I think it's the wrong shape for me because although the cups are deep enough, they're too wide and possibly made for shallower breasts (I have projected, centre-heavy FOB boobs). I can't fill them on the bottom and sides even though I'm quadding slightly in the centre.
I bought a cup size bigger than usual (and also a band size because it was on sale and there where no 28s) based on the measurements here on Bratabase and I'm really thankful for it because a 30FF would have created A LOT of quadding in the centre.
The empty space or the quadding ... don't show while wearing clothes.
The bra gives me a nice rounded shape and it's not uncomfortable. I worried that, since tha cups are also quite tall, they would chafe near the armpits, but thankfully it's not an issue.
I'd prefer it to be completely in nude colour because the white details show quite a bit under thin clothes.
I'm going to keep it because my old nude bra is literally falling apart, but I'm sure I could do a lot better than this!
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30:9 30G

Cups too wide and tall, bottom empty

Cleo

Jude (5846)

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Nude/white details colorway

Updated on Jul 29, 2016 Flag this

Cup is shaped for center full breasts, and top edge of cup curves inward, also cup runs small. I think you'd need to be a very specific shape for this bra to fit well. Quality wise, the light foam shows through the outer material of the cups- in the light seafoam/rose pink trim.

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Updated on Jul 14, 2016 Flag this