The second Marcie of my collection, now in 28FF, as I've heard the "nude" colorway tended to be smaller in the cups than the other versions. It turned out, nevertheless, to be quite deep anyway, but my even boobs worked that out!

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  Wow! I'm shocked at how it looks with a top, it being unlined and all. Definitely need to get my hands on a Marcie!

• skinnycolbs Cleo's unlined bras shape is stellar, yes!

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Long overdue review of a bra I've had for more than 3 months. Loved this colorway since it first came out and it's very classy in person! Shape is great, the Cleo-basketballs. Top section of the lace is empty and flopping in the wind, and it's only gotten worse since I took these pictures back in May. Oh well. Its band is slightly loose on me as it's more TTS than my 28-band yellow one, but because Cleo's elastics are so thin and high-tension yet the band's mesh fabric is... well, mesh... that 28-posing-as-a-26 yellow band is really uncomfortable. I still wear this bra to death despite very likely being able to size down to a 28F/30E at this point.

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• This color on your skin is gorgeous!! If you hadn't pulled the lace up, I wouldn't have known it was unfilled. Impressive. I'm accustomed to wrinkles there ;-)

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I think the black color way runs SLIGHTLY tight in the band, as the band on this feels too firm and I need an extender. However, the Marcie remains a classic for me (since I keep buying it...) and it gives a great shape. The only thing I would caution you on is the gore, which invariably hurts me.

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  I just had to say THANK YOU for your review of the Marcie! It's a beautiful bra and I so wanted to try it, but after also reading on your blog about your shape.... I am very glad I didn't spend the money. We are basically opposites :(

  Anyhow thanks again for your awesome reviews! I plan to check out more of them to see if I can find anything that did NOT work for you lol

• LOL well if you ever want to see other Marcie reviews, I have had approximately 30,000 Marcies! If you need some bras that I will tell you did NOT work for me, I would definitely suggest checking out the Claudette Dessous, which I want so badly but just never works on my shape!

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  Oh, dear - how frustrating about the craigslist issue!

  I would definitely try bending the wire. I kept looking at the picture and feeling like the gore is higher on me - it is! The 32HH has an inch-taller gore! I wonder if thats part of the problem, that its too low? and so doenst rest quite right? How frustrating

  My marcie is probably my most comfortable bra right now, but (in raspberry and slightly tight on the cups) it does really bad in-cup quad where the seam is separating the top and bottom fabrics - so my breast tissue bulges above and below the seam. I'm ok wearing it under bulky sweaters.

  I do think its a great bra, I hope bending helps some

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  I can't wear Cleo for this reason. Even after bending the wires they are unwearable. Extremely uncomfortable bras.

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  littlechichend, what did you try with the bending? Bending them out and away from the body? I'm not even sure how to bend it...out away from me? In toward the center? I was tempted to try but wasn't exactly sure what to do and was kind of afraid to screw up a perfectly good brand new bra. Granted if I can't wear it and that's the only reason it's pretty screwed up already, lol.

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  Actually, I wanted to edit my comment to littlechichend but don't see a way to. So I'd just add that I don't know if I can even bend in any way other than just away from my body because the wires are so close together. I don't know if you can tell in the pics or not, but you might be able to see it in the close ups looking up from the gore, it looks like it is digging into my breast especially on my one side, but that's not even where I'm feeling the pain. It's not the breast that hurts, just the actual breast bone.

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  I bent the wires outward using the edge of my dining room table (pressed down and pulled), if that makes sense.

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  You know Cleo runs really tight. I can see you doing well in a 28 band that runs average, but a tight-running 28 may be borderline too snug especially on your torso which looks to be almost without padding. Have you tried this with an extender? I don't normally have any sensitivity in the gore area but when a bra is just that bit too tight and the gore is kinda tall, sometimes it bears down painfully on my sternum (not boobs) until I pop on an extender.

  An extra inch or two from the extender may also reveal that the cup is large on you and that only the supersnug band was pulling it taut over you. In this case (cup too big) that will immediately explain the sternum pain. When the boob isn't filling the cup completely it doesn't "push back" against the gore enough and you can often feel pain from it.

  The photos of the slight bagginess in the cup reminded me of something I wanted to tell you after a post you made a month ago, about lace that similarly would not lie flat on one of the bras you got from that high end boutique? I have observed that sometimes a slightly too-large cup presents this appearance on people with super firm breasts (this includes the recently augmented crowd but also teens, breastfeeding moms in the first few months, and transwomen who just experienced tissue growth from hormone therapy). Softer boobs would just kind of puddle down into the cup more and the cup would gape at the top, but when you are super firm, sometimes it doesn't do that and you have to pay attention to the surface of the cup instead to see if there is volume there that your boobs are not using.

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  Ok. :) Since it's a Marcie Cleo, I think you should a band extender. I had to with the 28 band and my comfortable measurement 26" usually.
  I think band extenders are 1.75". I agree with wendybien . Also I really like Marcie because you can move the wires in the wire channels. Try that and see if it help with the pain. If it doesn't I would bend the wires so that they contour to you body. You can cut a panty-liner or mini pad into 1/3 and stick it on the part of the wire that is hurting you ribcage.

• your not you. :)

• Pink runs smaller but eventually it stretches out.

• ㅓ@nayanya are you sure pink runs smaller???

• Yeah but, the band stretches out and the cups will stretch if the bra is too small for you.
  It's a really stretchy bra once you break it in. :)

• Red Marcies run big in the cups.

• Then I must get red!

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  I can't find any red Marcies anywhere!!! The one I had was used. I know a new red one would fit me better. The cups were so stretched out, it fit like a 28FF, even though it was a 28F.

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  Not red, raspberry. The raspberry is big in cups and loose in band.

  I also noticed that the wires looked like maybe they wer being pulled out a bit? stretched by the band? But i'm not experienced enough with this to know if that was actually what I was seeing

• I had a 28F red Marcie. I could tell that whoever I bought it from stretched out the cups, but the band was tighter than the other Marcies

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  Ahhh!!! I had typed up a whole reply and it just disappeared, lol. I'll shorten it and just say, wendybien I have augmented boobs, and they used to be hard and do exactly like you described before I had to have them re-done. They are actually a little "too soft" now so my doctor made me stop doing breast massage for good. They make you do it to keep them from firming up on you and forming scar tissue capsules but he said my skin is so elastic I don't know if it's genetics or from nursing 4 kids or what but he was afraid they would soften up too much and be saggy. :/ So I don't "think" that's what it is, but it very well could be. Thankfully they feel pretty darn close to "normal" boobs after I had the saline taken out.

  And whoever said that I could use a pantyliner to cushion where the wire is hurting me, that made me laugh out loud for real because that is what I looked like when I had a little piece of soft cloth folded up there.

  I'll feel really stupid if I put this on the looser hook or get an extender and it doesn't hurt anymore. The wires look pretty wide even when not on, but maybe it is stretching them out. I know it sounds dumb but that didn't even occur to me. I carry all my body fat in my thighs, so especially on my rib cage I don't really have any fat there to cushion it so maybe I need to wear it looser than the measurements would indicate?

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  O MY GOSH! tkolady77 about the reply, that happens to me, that's why I'm laughing.
  If you had the saline taken out, then what was filling your boobs or chest?? I saw a video about cutting a panty liner in 2 pieces to help with wire pain if you are a busty gal. I can find the link if you want to watch it. It's funny, but I thought that was a good idea! You get a 28 band if you are 26"-28" comfortably tight. With Marcie though you should always wear an extender so that the band isn't too tight which causes the wires to stretch and the ribcage to hurt. :)

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  Isn't saline better than silicone? I know a lot of women who got boob job or breast implants. I'm not meaning to offend when I say boob jobs. I'm just so used to being around that. :D

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  Not offensive at all, Nayanya . Saline used to be the safer option to the more liquid/oily silicone implants of like 15 years or so I guess. I had the option to use the silicone gel (they call them gummy bear like implants) when I had mine done 12 years ago in Germany. We were living there for the Army so I was able to have a German surgeon. But the U.S. FDA had not approved them yet so I was a chicken. A couple years later they were approved and I was stuck with saline. :) Saline basically feels in the breast like you have a plastic shell filled with water. So when you squeeze it, you feel like a bubble at times. Well I didn't the whole time but after several years I did. So it is hard to describe but if you poked your finger into the edge of my breast before where you saw the implant under the skin and pulled your finger back you kind of saw and felt it pop back. Just a weird kind of feeling. And definitely not very natural looking or feeling. They do much better on women who naturally have more breast tissue and more body fat to cover the implant. So in those women you feel their breast tissue and it just happens to be pushed out from their chest more and you feel breast tissue and see larger boobs. The implant isn't seen or felt. Going behind the pectoral muscle can help to camouflage that, but if you are very thin skinned like I am or have little to no existing breast tissue, then even the muscle doesn't hide it enough. For women like me, for the most part, when you feel my breast all you will feel is the implant under the skin, covered by the muscles of the chest wall. Silicone is less likely to have ripples on the edges, although if you are very thin you can't prevent them completely.

  I just noticed your first comment lol, I had the saline implants removed and silicone ones put in their place at the same time. :) I had to go much larger this time because I thought I was finished having children before I had them done the first time and then I remarried and had and nursed 2 more babies. I had the implants (350cc) in so when my milk came in and I nursed them, I really had a lot of stretching going on, so there was more space to fill. Not sure if that makes sense. So I had to have those replaced with 550cc to be able to fill the existing pocket. You can ask me any questions, I'm not shy or embarrassed. Just feel stupid that I don't know how to fit a bra lol. :D

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  So did you try loosening the band or wearing an extender? How does the cup fit and does the gore still hurt?

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  I'm home today studying so I haven't put a bra on at all yet. I don't have an extender so I'll have to just try it on the loosest strap and then buy an extender when I go out next time. :)

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  I measure 25" super tight, 26" comfortable and 27.5" loose. I find the 30 band Marcie is more comfortable than the 28 band. I could even wear a 32 band in Marcie and the band probably wouldn't ride up from being too big.

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