I love the lacey fabric. It's understated and simple, yet girly enough to make me feel attractive. The color complements m pale skin well. Padding is very structured and thick, and the seams are quite visible under cotton shirts.

I like the support this bra gives me, but as with many bras, the straps are a little wide and fabric comes up a little too high around my underarm, so I get some irritation along my pectoral muscles/underarm as I move around.

Although I hear how snug Ewa bands are all the time, the 30FF band stretches from 23 to 30.5 inches. My underbust is around 27.5'' but I wear 30s in some brands because they run tight and 28s are harder to find. In this bra, I am much more comfortable on the second or third hook, which doesn't say a lot about the useful lifespan of the bra for me. This is not a bra you want to size up in.

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This is a sturdy bra. It's out of my first EM order and I can't get over how impressed I am. Nothing flimsy or cut-rate about it. The wings are so well reinforced and the overall construction is really very good. The fabric on the Kobalt, which I ordered in a 30FF and 30G, is extremely stiff out of the box. I'm curious how much it will relax after wearing and washing. Hopefully it will relax a little, since I'd like it to conform just a tiny bit more to my shape. Still, this is definitely a keeper. The greyish blue color and the pattern of the fabric ... are really lovely. The shape is a little odd currently, with the way it shoves my breasts forward through the center, like it's trying to pour them out of a spout, though I think that's more to do with the way the bra was folded for shipping. Pretty sure about that. Still, it looks wonderful and I have been completely won over by all the EM bras in my order.

Size-wise, I wasn't sure what to do for my purchase. I heard that the PL bras run small in the cup, but I thought that the HPs, HMs, and maybe CHPs would work better for me, so those are the bras I tried. I can't compare PL sizing to the non-PL bras that I bought, but I can say that I fit the HP and CHP in the smaller of my two "normal" sizes and went down one cup size from there for the HM (though I will be trying the HM in my regular size. The one I bought is a bit small in the cups). Personally, I thought that the HP Kobalt ran fairly true to size in the cup. The 30 (65) band was nice and snug for my 27" rib cage. It could have been a little tighter, but I don't know that I'd want to go down to a smaller band since I'm afraid that that might be uncomfortable on my ribs.
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