As far as non wired options go, this is one of the best. It fit me perfectly when I was wearing H cups, but now I’m HH/J and it’s a little too snug. It’s still wearable, though! It’s actually one of the only 36H bras I can still comfortably wear.
The support and shape are very nice for a soft cup bra. I have found most soft cup bras are painful in the band and straps and create a very pointed east-west shape that makes my breasts easily bumped into by my arms (the bruising on the outside of my breasts is awful!). By contrast, the Doreen provides ... a slightly rounder, more front-facing silhouette with a good amount of lift. (Still definitely a pointed shape, but less egregious than most others in this category.) It’s nicely supportive, and it distributes weight comfortably between the band, the cups, the straps, and the “gore” area. The center doesn’t tack, since it’s a soft cup, but it almost does. This bra does a darn good job overall. I get a bit of starburst wrinkling near the nipple now, but I didn’t when it fit me correctly. The cups are just flexible enough I can mostly squish my breasts into the right shape inside them.
The Doreen has held up nicely over the past 2.5 years, despite being machine washed, and it seems to resist staining a lot better than all my other pink and nude bras. I might try to find another in my current size. It’s also surprisingly pretty for what it is. It’s not sexy exactly, but it’s a nice everyday kind of bra if you can’t do wires or want something you can throw in the washing machine. I do hang it dry, though.
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Updated on Jan 19, 2021 Flag this
Please note that Triumph manufactures its bras in European cupsizes. Theoretically a EU-K-cup equals a UK-GG-cup.
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I'm thus not surprised that you found the cups too small.