This is my second aqua/pink Lily, and I nabbed it on sale because the first time I tried the Lily I fell in love with the fit: http://www.bratabase.com/bra/dlh3m/

Needless to say, this one fits identically to my other aqua Lily.

Worth mentioning though, is that the band on the aqua Lily runs firmer than other colourways. I wear both my aqua colourways using the full length of an extender; I wear my other colourways using only 1 extra set of hooks (I'm a between-bander in unpadded Cleo).

Aqua/pink colorway

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Aqua/pink colourway:

This bra redefined well-fitting for me.

Having never been madly in love with the aesthetic of the Lily, I didn't bother trying it for the longest time, despite knowing I had an even shape and it was supposed to be the best of Cleo's 3 famed unpadded balconnet bras for an even shape. I had Marcie, which works for an even shape, and the gore got a bit stabby at the end of the day, but not enough to be overly worried by it. Then I spotted a Lily on sale and since my size never goes on sale, I figured I'd give it a try.

The wires are ... perfection. In my size range, I'd describe them as the narrow side of average. The cup allows for immediate projection at the base but also at the gore, which accommodates my inner fullness in a way no other bra save my 65G - Avocado » Camelia (S174F) ever has. (Marcie comes close, but it's not quite the same.) This inner projection means the gore doesn't get shifted and shoved down during the course of the day, a process which inevitably results in the underwires shifting so that, come the end of the day, the outer lower corners of the cups dig into my ribs. I'd been going crazy trying to figure out what was causing it (too tight a band? too loose a band? the consequence of fitting to the larger breast and thus wearing too large a cup size on the smaller breast?) -- Lily made me realise it was simply a lack of adequate inner projection.

The band runs firm. I wear a 30 comfortably in Freya, and I usually find I like to wear my Cleos in a 30 with one extra set of hooks care of an extender, sometimes two sets if the bra runs firm (eg the pink Marcie). The Lily I'm wearing with the full length of an extender, so I'd estimate I could happily wear the 32F and it runs almost a full band size tighter than, by comparison, the Lucy.

Gore is too wide for me, but it is in fact admirably narrow.
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Aqua/pink colorway

Updated on Jul 31, 2014 Flag this

The 30FF Cleo Lily Bra in Parrot Print fits very much like my red Cleo Marcie when I first got it. The profile is round. The gore is 3" high, about 1.5" too high for my very close set boobs. The cups are filled at the bottom and top. There is a little looseness in the mesh where it meets the bottom fabric. It took a few wears of the red Cleo Marcie for the cups to mold to my shape perfectly.

Unfortunately I can't wear gore higher than 1.5" and be comfortable for longer than an hour. The fabric of this bra, because it's meeting such a high gore, also covers an amazing amount of my upper body. I could only wear this with crew necks because I'm petite.

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Pink/Orange colorway

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Swan colorway

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Parrot colorway

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