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Comexim » Mia Half Cup (567) » 55F 26:6

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  Unfortunately Comexim gets to be inconsistent when customizations are done. I would recommend sending the owner, Anna, an email with photos and ask her about the fit. Since all 3 are the same style and size, there shouldn't be sure variations!

  Provide her with the measurements and photos , kindly let her know you are confused with the variation in sizing and fit, and I'm sure you can get it worked out. Be patient as there is a language barrier, but Anna is super sweet. She needs to be made aware of such issues so they can be rectified, otherwise future orders can be just as wonky as this one.

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    Ardea is small in the cup according to other reviews also.

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    Thanks!
    Yeah, I had read they were more consistent than Ewa (tried a bunch of her 60Ds in a store and they were all over the show) but I guess its always going to be difficult to get super consistent when you only make the size once in a blue moon.
    Definitely will be contacting them though. I'm happy to keep buying from them, I just need to know they're all going to be a similar size!

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    Unfortunately from my experience Comexim hasn't been consistent or reliable. I have had much greater luck with Ewa personally. I think I can safely say the same for Sovavosi as well. We are both 60 bands as well, but could use 55 bands which are not an option in our cup range though for either brand.

    I love Comexim patterns but can't get an ideal fit, while with Ewa it's close to perfect every time. The key is to figure out the band materials to know if it will run big or not. Lace lined and double tulle lined bands run tighter while the single tulle tends to over stretch.

    I have gone back and forth with Anna several times with a few orders, and she is really nice and caring. Unfortunately the seamstresses don't honor customization requests regularly, whether that be due to them being overlooked, miscommunication, or because they decided it wouldn't work, I don't know.

    I've requested lower gore and received raised instead, requested reduced cup height and recieved raised again, as well as the requests that were omitted such as wire width. (Some ignored on purpose per Anna while others overlooked.) Anna needs to know about it though so the issue can be addressed and hopefully resolved. The more people who bring it to her attention, the better it is for us all with future orders.

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  When you get reduced height cups with Comexim, as far as I've been able to tell from reading dozens if not hundreds of reviews and seeing measurements and photos, you are actually effectively getting a smaller and above all SHALLOWER cup overall. They aren't just lopping half an inch off the top of the cup, they are scaling everything down and this means the apex of the cup is lower, the depth is smaller, the cup edge is more closed in and apt to cut in on the inner half of your breast, etc. You do not have a shallow shape for your size range in any way, much to the contrary, so asking for this customization is going to confuse the issue of sizing a great deal if you're starting your research by looking at measurements and reviews for other users' bras that do NOT have reduced height.

  If for any particular reason you need to continue to request reduced height you will therefore need to size up in the cup probably at least 1 cup volume beyond what you'd otherwise wear. If you want reduced cup height AND you are buying one of Comexim's shallowest styles e.g. one of their really shallow half cups you will probably not be able to get a good fit because center full, projected boobs and shallow cups made shallower by customization are just very unlikely to yield a perfect match. When you reach a certain level of shape mismatch you will get quadding in cup volume V yet gaping in size V+1.

  Anyway, all this to say:
  - if you do want one of their half cups, go to that bra's Measurements table and in the drop down menu select Depth Ratio. This will help you see if it is deeper than average/compared to the bras you've tried (good, in your case) or shallower than average (bad, avoid). Then, if you want a reduced cup, go up 2 cups from the sort of fit you are getting in this one (where your boobs are basically eating the bra for breakfast!) or if you are moving to non-reduced, going up 1 cup should do the trick.
  - the Paola plunge looks like a fairly good fit so, yes, it is quite possible that in general their plunges will be better for you.

  Random additional footnote--looking at some of your bra reviews and photos, it seems that you've had at least one bra where here the cup's excessive narrowness meant it was unable to keep all the tissue in the cup and therefore appeared to be big enough/too big when in reality it was just too narrow. When the wire is too narrow it's often just not possible to assess cup volume independently of that. So unfortunately, any bras you've had in a single size that was too narrow are not going to be useful in figuring out optimal cup volume. Finally last installment in my Dickensian bra novel: in relation to this underwire width issue, since you are so distinctly center-full, I would suggest that an optimal fit will be obtained much more easily if you use the conventional approach of just aiming to fit the larger boob, because if you're compromising between bigger and smaller volume, you're always going to be skating quite close to the too-narrow-wire zone, which again falsifies the whole picture.

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    Actually, that's not the case. I have ordered both standard and reduced cup height in the same size and model to compare and it does not effect depth or make it shallower.

    Reduced cup height simply does take it off the top, more so near the straps and less towards the gore, so 1cm for example will have less than 1/2cm taken off near the gore and maybe 1.25cm off near the straps, cup size effecting actual differences obviously.

    Ordering "Deeper at the wire" effects depth and projection, as does requesting wider or narrower wires. Moving the straps in can also make the cup appear shallower as the straps are no longer getting resistance from the armpit, though the construction of the cup itself is again not alter with this option.

    Comexim has dozens of customization options.

    This is all under the assumption that requested customizations actually get done, which does not always occur.

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    My Roma also (theoretically) had the reduced cup height, yet definitely was not shallow. I was recommended it as I'm quite short in the body and have a pretty short root.
    I'm going to contact Anna, but if it comes back that these were true-to-size, I will try your suggestion for one up and no alteration.

    Also, what was the bra you picked up on that was too narrow? I've never been totally sure about my width and I find it difficult to tell if the outer wires are sitting on tissue as I have so little of it on the outsides.

  • It will not measure shallower because people take the measurements at the deepest part of the cup, but for many years Comexim was simply reducing the overall height which meant the apex was lower than the wearer's and the deepest part of their breast was higher up where there was less depth. If they've got that figured out, that's great... but this result here makes me question it. Ditto with the cup edge--if the design is altered so that it is lower on the breast, where the breast is fuller, it will usually need to be more open, but from what I saw for many years this was often not the case, especially in the smaller cup sizes or proportionally smaller cup volumes (so might be a high "letter" but not that many inches cup height in total) where a breast can be dramatically more projected just 1/2 inch lower down. So "true to size" is not a black or white issue. puddle44 I will need to look again as it's been a day or two!

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