I haven't owned a 't-shirt bra'/molded cup bra in about a decade. Not since I was sized properly and started wearing 36GG (UK) since there are so many beautiful and supportive cut-and-sew bras. Molded cups are so rigid compared to fabric and stretch lace. If your body isn't close enough to the mold they use to make the foam cup, there is no possible way for it to fit everywhere. I gave up on them, until now! These cups are thin and shape to your body more like a fabric because they're cut-and-sewn foam or whatever it is. It is a vertical 3 part cup balconette with a lace overlay (rigid lace on the cup and stretch lace that extends about an inch beyond the cup itself.) I wish the stretch lace was firmer or slightly more substantial. It allows for a lot of jiggle and I prefer a bit more control, I also feel like the elastic sort of gets a bit sad by the end of the day. Luckily, it's not doing any heavy lifting since it's just basically there to look pretty and to hold the edges of the cup down and taper down to the skin with the lace to make it pretty undetectable under clothes. It's honestly really cool, I'd given up on not having bra seams show, even with really well fitting and made bras. This isn't a "locked and loaded" firm structural support, reducing visible jiggle as much as possible kind of bra. This is the kind of bra Id wear at home on purpose, but then also wear to work in dresses for 9 hours. I didn't know that WAS a kind of bra. The stretch is definitely more forgiving of the different sizes we all are at different times of the month and on each side, and with small weight gain or loss. It baffles me that so many great bra companies don't use stretch lace like Panache Envy or Panache Cleo on the top part of the cup. NO MORE QUADBOOB! The Brianna is not quadboob-proof, again because of the thin, kinda wimpy lace but it is SO much better than any remotely padded or foam cup I've ever tried. Again, why are they not all doing this? Elomi, Panache, please keep making bras like this! Please make beautiful jewel tones! Most of all, please don't discontinue Brianna like you did Cleo and Marcy. RIP. I'm here to buy my 3rd and I don't wear any other bras lately and I'm cutting back on wearing shaping tanks under clothes. I very rarely do now, because I have the little extra coverage and stability I used to wear them for. Or to get a little more push-up but now I just need to use the j-hook in 2 seconds flat and the racerback pulls everything into slightly higher gear. It's no nice to not wear a spandex tanki all year round under everything. Which is what shape tanks feel like to me, plus pulling it up all the time. No more! The comfort, by the way! It's the most comfortable bra I've ever worn. I have some excellent bras, but this is the only one I've ever forgotten I'm wearing. It's such a bizarre feeling to need to check to see if you can feel your bra- normally my most comfy bras still have pressure spots or something that rubs after a while. I'm 34, my red underwire marks and small shoulder dents are here to stay, but this one doesn't give me any uncomfortable pressure or rubbing points, even after a very long day. Oh, and it's sexy too! The boosting from the 3-part cup (which isn't too shallow! I can't usually wear vertical cut cups), rounded, forward projected shape, pretty low gore at this size range for a balconette by far! I can actually wear it with low cut things without the center gore and whatever little bow or charm they put there. Yeah I love this bra if that's not painfully obvious. The only things I'd change are the straps and band being on the stretchy side , which does let the bottom back elastic roll up a teeny bit. Nothing visible through clothes. I'd also make the lace a bit more substantial. Because of the stretchiness and the lace, I can't see this lasting as long as my usual bras, but I don't care because it could last 6 months and I'd still pine for it even if I couldn't afford it. Teeny nitpick- I hate the shiny silver hardware showing if my strap potentially shows a tad under a black dress or tank. It goes BING! I'M A BRA! with it's random shiny chrome sticking out near my armpit. Unfortunately, they're structural and attach the cups to the front straps, or I'd have just cut them off. It's bra straps, let me pick my own jewelry. Again, nit-pick if I could build my dream bra. This is SUPER CLOSE for me-- I'm already dreading the day it gets discontinued! Fit notes: I sized down in the band. I needed the same cup volume so I ordered a 36GG (UK) instead of my original 38G (UK) to get the same cup size. I am also used to Panache, which definitely runs firmer than Elomi and firmer than US shoppers are used to sometimes. My best fitting bras otherwise are Panache Clara (former favorite, don't tell her), Envy, and Jasmine acceptable but not as good as the others. Jasmine gets a bit pointy on me and also has wimpy lace. I know this length review makes me look insane. I also know how much a well fitting bra can change your self esteem, physical comfort, personal style and expression, relationship with your body, and on and on. So if one person also finds their close-to-dream-bra or even a substantial-improvement-bra or best-so-far-bra then it's not time wasted. Crossing my fingers for you each of you bra-searching people.
