This bra has trumped my 38HH Cleo Lucy as my best fitting bra. Thanks to the recommendation of an active bratabase/abtf user I went to Nordstrom to try this bra today. It fit like a dream and there was no way I was leaving the store without it! I think I have a mental aversion to the words "full cup" but this still manages to look super cute, even in a simple color like "Pearl". If you have a wide breast root, definitely try this bra. The band rolls up a bit on me under the cups, but that doesn't effect the fit really. It just can't be helped because of all my weird squishy fat from my 90 pound (and still going) weightloss in the last year and a half. Happy boobs!
What is great about this bra is the soft lace, the soft lining in the cups and the soft material of the wings. This is one of the most comfortable bras that I have held in my hands, very nice to the touch.
It doesn't quite fit me right though because the cup shape is completely wrong for me. I am very bottom heavy without a lot of volume on top with very soft breasts. In many bras I got a sort of a ski jump shape on top of my breasts. The Panache Emily however is made for women who are full on top and have firm breasts. ...
In the Panache Emily I cannot fill out the top, thus my breasts droop downward and the cup feels very unstable. I can skip rope in the Tango II Balconette, in the Panache Emily I have to be careful about moving at all. At the same time the wires are too narrow for me, they cut into the side and I cannot push them far upward enough for them to sit into the fold of my breasts.
Another problem I have with this bra are the straps. These are very narrow and very stretchy for a bra in this size. The stretchy straps contribute to the feeling that the bra is unstable, plus they cut into the flesh. When I shorten the straps to get lence bounce the seam between the cup and the Side Support panel starts cutting into my breasts, giving me in-cup quadboob. The in-cup quadboob issue might be less of a problem for somebody with firm breasts though.
The band on this bra was very tight. Normally I can close Freya bras and the Tango in a 38 band. It feels too tight, but I can close it. In the Emily I had to use several extenders to try this bra on.
I think the cup of the bra might be cut a bit deeper than the average Panache bra. Aside from that the bra that is IMO very similar to the Panache Emily is the Panache Ariza in terms of general shape it gives and breast shapes it is suited for. Read more 257 more words
I'm not quire sure how to describe my problem but it's like it doesn't support the bottom of my breasts enough? The cup might be too wide because even with "scooping" twice it wasn't filling out at the top and I felt like my breasts were heavy at the bottom and the underwire dug into them there. Not the right shape for me.
Bought this bra after finally figuring out my correct bra size! It's SO comfortable and supportive. I never thought I'd like an un-lined bra but this one just checks all the boxes. It gives me a smooth and natural shape, honestly I don't feel like I'm wearing a bra most of the time. I bought it in black but the band doesn't seem tighter than normal like some black-dyed bras.
I remember it feeling great in store, maybe even for the first few wears, but it got unbearably uncomfortable soon after. The fabric seems too stretchy and as a result your breast tissue stops being supported and shifts within the cups - while I can comfortably fill the cup when getting dressed I'm soon faced with quad boob and empty space at the bottom of the cup. Then there's the underwires... within a few hours wear they're grinding against my ribcage and poke my armpit on the side of my smaller breast to the point I can't bear to wear it anymore.
I'm giving this bra 4 stars instead of 5 because the gore and the lace come up a bit high for my tastes. It's a great bra for most tops and dresses but with some v-cuts and wider necks you may see the gore or the lace peek out. Otherwise great bra! Very supportive and comfortable.
Well, this bra doesn't fit me, but I wanted to put the measurements in while I have it, to help fill out this size bracket. The lace is more structured than stretch lace, so it helps keep things where they should be. It's tough to find unlined bras that have structure in this size range. The color is really pretty. It's definitely a sapphire blue. "Blue Jewel" is a funny name for it, but ok, I guess it works. The band isn't double bagged. It only has 2 hooks, which feels so incredibly odd for this size. I'm a big fan of 3 hooks at this size. If Panache made this bra in a 40J, I'd try that, but they don't, so I miss out on this one. Maybe if my size changes in the future, it would be a good bra to remember.
Fabric feels different than any others I've tried and I like it, it's oddly soft. Not a good fit for me and I have to say the honey (nude) color is not cute but in a different color I think it has potential. feels like good quality and construction.
You know how some bras can be wrong but you can wear them for a while without them hurting, this was not one of those for me. painful in almost every aspect of the bra, feels tighter than the one I tried on that is a cup size smaller. All the extra lace and frills are irritating to me (they are on most bras that have them). Feels like pretty high quality and construction and is cute looking.
When I put this bra on yesterday I thought I had found it, it was just about perfect only a teensy tiny barely visible bit of extra boob at the top. It felt perfect in every other aspect. I put it on today all excited and sadly the magic is gone, it suddenly seems to have all the problems but only a tiny bit off in every measurement. very cute, I'll probably order it in a bigger cup size but unfortunately I don't think that's going to fix much. I'm also going to keep wearing it for another hour or so and see if it gets better or worse with a bit of time.
Very cute but the lace on thhe edges is scratchy. Very much not the right shape for me. Kind of funny that when I tried on the 38H(uk) version just a minute before I was popping out everywhere but with the 38HH there is so much extra space at the bottom, slight wrinkle in the side, and a small overflow out the top.
Really beautiful bra, but I think I ordered the wrong size and the shape doesn't match my body. https://d28qt14g3opchh.cloudfront.net/smileys/icon_sad.gif" alt=":-(" />
Pros: — soft fabric, and lace on the top — nice feeling of being "lifted", beautiful shape
Cons: — wires are a little too wide for me and don't stay in my inframammary fold, so the bra hurts after a few hours — the part of the straps around the armpit rub a bit
I really wanted this to work, but alas, it's way too shallow at the wire. I don't think sizing up or sister sizing would fix it, so I'm returning it. It's so beautiful, though!
I really like this bra! It is one of the best fitting ones I've found in terms of shape. My one complaint is that the center gore is a bit higher than I would like and is uncomfortable, especially when leaning over.
As I learn more about breast shape, and my own in particular, I've come to understand why some things I thought worked in the past "worked," and what actually works better.
About me: Full on bottom, relatively firm, very projected, very narrow root. I used to think I needed very wide wires, since "standard" width wires would poke me so much, and at least the wide ones would go behind my arm and not cause pain. (And finding narrow cups with enough immediate projection to avoid "orange in a glass" syndrome is its own special hell, as you all know.) I'm saying this now as a sort ...of disclaimer on any possible review history I may have on this site. Don't trust past me!
Moving on.
I bought the Panache Andorra and Envy, both in 38HH, black, the same day.
Notes:
The wires on the envy are almost exactly 5 mm narrower than the same size in the Andorra. Also, at the gore, where the Andorra's wire channels are basically stitched together, making the gore as narrow as absolutely possible, there's a roughly 6mm gap between the wire channels on the Envy, making the gore as a whole a bit wider. (This doesn't account for the difference in wire-width, either, I double-checked.) Envy also offers slightly more immediate projection; I get some wrinkling in the bottom of the cups of the Andorra. The Envy uses the same stretch-lace concept that Panache started with the Andorra and then spun off into the Jasmine and now the Envy (I don't have a Jasmine, so I can't compare there), but the fabrics used for the Envy feel slightly firmer and give just slightly less. (On me, this results in the gore on the Envy not tacking by just a smidgen, even though the bra fits inarguably better.) The Andorra's side-slings are a separate piece of fabric sewn into the cups, while Envy's side-support comes from the hounds-tooth fabric used in the bottom panels being extended up the side. (So the stretch-lace is only the inner 2/3 of the top-half of the cup) This DOES give less push to center, so if you have any east-west tendencies and don't like that, Envy probably won't offer enough "correction" back to center for you.
So if you're looking for a narrower, more projected cup than the Andorra, and don't mind a slightly wider gore, or less side-support, Envy might work really well for you. It has a very firm band, with the same X going across the bottom of the gore to give stability.
For what it's worth, I really didn't enjoy having to take it off to take the measurements to put it in the database. Envy is really comfortable, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for more colorways soon!
But now that I see the black runs smaller than the beige, I'm wondering how the purple will fit. I think in retrospect my black might be small. I'm probably going to buy one in beige and see if it fits better, and wondering if I need to go up a cup - mine is a 32J
Once again, ordered the wrong size too big in band and slightly large in the cup. The gore was high and kept tilting directly into my sternum stabbing me. The wires were way to wide and long poking my under arms. I think the issues I had with this bra are mostly fit related, not the quality or design of the bra. I ordered black, it seems like a firm not super stretchy bra. The construction appears to be good.
Did you see its in purple now?