I've had the Winona for a couple of years and barely worn it, sadly, although I love the style and wish all my bras were this cool-looking. Lonely is definitely my aesthetic - minimal, solid colors, light, edgy, subtly sexy. But at around a 28F, with soft tissue and somewhat "swaying" (my preferred alternative to "saggy") breasts, I can't really do bras with no support. (Except around the house, which is 85% of the time.) The Winona offers some potential support via the underwire and wide (velvet!) cross straps. It's mesh and there's one diagonal seam, so not a lot of lift. There's considerable space between the cups ... and nothing to pull the breasts center-ward, so I get a pronounced E/W splay. This is probably exacerbated because at a 30, the band is too big, and everything too far apart on me. The wire is too high on the outsides and digs into my armpits. The cups aren't deep but they would probably work for more projected breasts, since the mesh is stretchy. Some people have complained it's hard to get on--not a big deal, but I could see avoiding it if I'm feeling impatient. But the major dealbreaker is the the top cutting in and wrinkling if the straps are tightened appropriately. When I put it on with the straps tightened, it looks OK at first, but then after a few seconds of settling there's the ol' quadding/wrinkling. In these pics I've loosened the straps excessively to smooth out that effect, at the expense of my breasts hanging lower. This takes the support from a 2-3 to a 0 on a scale of 1-10, in other words, this is what I look like without a bra. I can imagine women with less sway would get a better effect...
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