I got this on sale at 60% off at Zovo Lingerie in Seattle, which is why I ended up outside of my usual size. I was very pleasantly surprised that the Deauville fit me in the cup, as I am normally best off in a 32G instead of 30. In fact, it's a really good fit. The wires arguably fit me better on this one than on my Prima Donna Tamise Full Cup Bra (bigger Sizes) (016-2431) while the depth is perfect. (ETA: I later read on a specialty retailer's website that the Deauville is traditionally Prima Donna's deepest fitting ...bra--good to know!)
If you are like me and have a lot of immediate projection, here's a tip for this or other higher-end bras that use very heavy duty fabrics in full cup bras with no vertical seam for shaping: look for the little wrinkles right at the base of the cup, put your hand inside the cup and smooth the wrinkles out from the inside, as you scoop and swoop the breast tissue simultaneously. Voila! A rounder profile instead of the somewhat pointy one that can occur with this full cup shape.
This band is too tight for me brand new--it is just barely 29" fully stretched out. I can wear it comfortably enough and can fit 2-3 fingers underneath without any difficulty, but bands tend to ride down on my V shaped torso when very snug so I'm going to wear an extender to add about 1in. to the band length for the first couple months of the life of the bra, or until it has stretched to 30" or so.
I love the blue color and am very pleased to have found one, since it's a discontinued colorway! And it's great to know the Deauville is a good fit on me. Read more 204 more words
I got this bra years ago; according to an old forum post of mine, it was my very first underwired bra, and I bought it in July 2011 while on a trip in Portland. I loved this bra. It was super comfortable and worked really well underneath most of my clothes. I cut off the floof on the shoulder straps, because I didn't like it. This made the straps fully adjustable and basically perfect. At some point I also cut off the tag, so I guess I'm guessing on the exact model of the bra. I was so sad when I outgrew this bra, and it doesn't fit now, either. I keep holding onto it, even though after daily wearing for a long time and it being years old, it's unlikely to do well even if my boobs shrink more in the future. But at the time, this was a great bra.
The Prima Donna Couture Three Part Cup Underwire is a seriously comfortable bra, made of soft, stretchy lace without a hint of itchiness. The full cup style gives excellent coverage and the outer upper quadrant of the cup is stretchy and very forgiving for those with armpit/strap boobs embarking on the Great Migration Home. For those sensitive to seams, this cup is lined with a very soft, featherweight tricot. The tall gore and sides fully encapsulate without seeming intrusive, even on my 5'2", 29" underbust frame. The band and wires are fairly stretchy (more Freya than Panache) without side seam boning, but it feels secure. The very, ...very minimal underband is just 3/8" and cuts away up to the bottom of the gore, allowing it to not press on short-lady tummies. The straps are fully adjustable, supersoft felt-like elastic with a tiny pleated ribbon running up the center and no irritating lace or tricot along the edges to itch or rub.
After trying on the 65F (the smallest size), which felt too small, the saleswoman at the bra boutique pushed me to go with the 65G despite the bit of wrinkling in the upper lace of both cups. Once I got it home and tried it driving and sitting for a while, I realized there is about a finger width of gap in the outer bottom of the cups above the wire.
Overall, this is a great bra and could even work as a sleep bra or the go-to refuge for PMS week. Read more 144 more words
After going up a cup size this sadly doesn't quite work for me anymore. I don't get on well with full cup shapes as my bust is too firm and FoT when in a bra, so I now get significant quadding along the neckline.
Unpretending lightly padded T-shirt bra with a flower rank stitched to the straps and a little teardrop pendant on the gore. The cups feel very soft and adjust smoothly to my body even if I don't fill them out entirely in the upper part. The straps are fairly wide set and adjustable only in the back because of the embellishment on the front. It wears very comfortable and makes a smooth rounded shape.
Unfortunately the cups are slightly to big and to wide set for me so the pendant tends to disappear between the wires. As the Love me Tender from Prima Donna Twist I tried in store fitted like I glove I thought 65G would be my size to go. Probably 65F would have been a better fit in this bra.
Comfortable and gives a lovely shape - and a surprising amount of lift for a non-padded bra. Satin functions kind of as a minimizer, so that lovely shape may appear a bit squished to some. One of the first properly fitted bras I ever owned was onw of these. A few years and a bunch of weight loss after, I went ahead and bought another one - though now at 65/30 G it kind of fits me just barely.
While the cups and stitching hold up very well (Prima Donna IS pricy as f - and Satin is, I think, the most affordable model they have), the band is pretty stretchy and will lose elasticity with time. If you're planning to order, you should consider going down in band size.
