Bra advice please!! Petite rib age, narrow shoulders, high placed HH boobs, which bra? Any recommendations?

[LaJoconde]

Please help, I’m short, so not much rib cage from top to bottom, or around, with large heavy boobs, narrow shoulders

every underwire bra I’ve tried jabs me in the underarm, falls off my shoulders, or I feel like I’m being suffocated.

ive done the measuring thing and am a 34 HH

but my boobs have lost volume on top, and now they hang down looking rather sad. They seem to have shifted outwards as well, and I think the ligaments have stretched beyond their elastic limit.
they’re huge and heavy and need support, but I have narrow shoulders so most bras just keep falling down. Sports bras just crush the boobs together in a sweaty uniboob shelf, which is very unflattering, and hot.

am I asking for the holy grail, or has any heavily endowed shorthouse like me found a bra that’s comfy?

Have you tried the Freya Deco?

How about bras with racer backs? I like bravissimo alexa. It feels as if the underwire comes quite far round under the armpit, which is good if you've got boobs that are wider than your ribcage.

Try getting in touch with the team at Curvy Kate, I did an online assessment with one of their fitters.

I swear on my life I thought she was mad, she took me down a band size, up 4 cup sizes and I’ve never had such well fitting bras in my life.

The online fitting is free, I did a follow up one too, I’ve just ordered my second batch from them.

Oh wow, thanks for the replies.

Fantastic ideas and recommendations
i think a racer back might be a good solution as I’ve such narrow shoulders, and it will pull the straps back.

ill see if bravissimo can help, it’s good to know they do online consulting

and thanks for the ‘plunge’ style recommendation, though I hope they don’t just tumble out 😂
the full cup industrial style bras jack my boobs up very close to my face, and I look like I’m just boob from collarbone to navel. The do sit round the sides as well - even more so now they’ve succumbed to gravity.

thanks again!

The Jenna bra from bravissimo.

it’s amazing. You can wear as a racer back or just normal.

www.bravissimo.com/products/jenna-bra-ln729/#blush-pink-ln729blp

I'm almost exactly the same as you. I’ve found Feya to be very good and always balcony bras, as they tend to lift my boobs up rather than squash them together.

Katherine Hamilton- very expensive but comfortable and beautiful. If I had discovered bras like these when I was young I would have felt completely different about my body (32GG)

Another second for bravissimo Jenna & Alexa
I have both. Love them. Game changer. Baby bird shoulders also

Polish brands. No wires in the armpit, everything up front.
Ewa Michalak, Comexim, Avocado.
Nothing else fits me as well as Polish bras. (28J/30HH) .

Another vote for Freya and believe it or Ann Summers do a bra called sexy lace bra (it's not itchy) that it is very comfortable & gives great shape. Lots of colours too.

I got one after someone of here recommended and ended up getting more.

Curvy Kate is my go to at 30JJ. They go up to a K cup.

Elomi Matilda. Normal straps but with a clip to make it into a racer back.

Thanks for all the recommendations Oh Wise MNetters

@SirVixofVixHall do you buy from amazon or the polish site? Haven’t a clue what a zloty will get you these days 🤓
tell you what though, those large cup Ewa ladies look saucy, and made me giggle - it’s so easy to feel a bit frumpy and negative about massive boobs, and especially in the heat

love the babybird shoulders comment @beachcitygirl that’s it exactly, and it means that upper arms press in to the side boob squashing them further 😳

I’ll get busy looking these holy grail bras up now, thanks again everyone

I would purchase with caution from Katherine Hamilton at the moment, lots of people are waiting for refunds from late last year to more recent times.

Thanks @Isabelle70 good to know.

so I popped into my local Marks yesterday and tried some flexfit non wired, and they don’t suit at all (another big boob thread recommendation) as I’ve lost volume on the top, so all the weight and volume is on the bottom half.

The non wired bras give me a low encapsulated slightly diverging uniboob but like like I’ve wrapped them where they are on my tummy in a man’s hanky.
I think they’re better for a more perky type.

i tried a plunge style, and thought the underwire length was ok for my small rib cage, and they didn’t jab under my arms, but with no volume on the top, I look flat chested somehow, with lots of boob swimming around in the bra below, and leaning out to the side.
Are the sizes sort of weird in Marks, I was in band 36 in there.

thanks everyone

Not such a well known brand but I swear by Flirtelle. I've close set boobs and the wires lay flat between them unlike any other brand. I also like Curvy Kate everyday

Fantasie Illusion might be worth a try.

If you have no volume on top, try half cup bras. I like Fantasie ones but Freya and Bravissimo own brand have some good options too,

I would book a consultation at Bravissimo.
I have just bought plunge style Satine,Ana and Alana,love em all!
I too have very narrow shoulders and these are all great.

I might be tall and not petite but Freya Deco do well for my Gs and I have less volume on top than I did some years ago

M&S most likely put you in a larger band and smaller cup size so you could fit in their stock. They skip some of the double letters so a HH if they had any would be smaller.
Are you around a dress size 14 or 16?
I like the Panache Envy, then Jasmine and Ana. They are only a lace cup and stretch to you so not so much gaping at the top. I also only wear side support to get them at the front now!

I'm a 32FF, and I really like Freya Idol for my 'lost top volume' norks. It keeps them nicely in the centre and not too hoiked (though hoiked is OK for me as I'm taller).
Bravissimo Alexa is a racer back style you might like.

Are you sure you are a 34 underband? Is that the actual measurement you get? I used to have terrible trouble with straps falling off my shoulders (which slope) and since I was measured properly and in the right band size they don't fall off anymore

I wear a size 14 as I’m 44 inches round my boobs, 34 band. If I buy 10-12 to fit my waist and shoulders, the clothes don’t close, as I’m literally bustin out all over 👀

Yes, i think they did put me in the wrong band size in Marks. The cups were small, flapping wide and not supportive- more like some kind of modesty coverings which had no lift. The minimiser style was a real squasher and very uncomfortable.

im not really looking for stratospheric lift, as I’m short, and they’d be up around my chin if they’re hoiked, and might take someone’s eye out if I turned suddenly, but would like to feel supported.

i had a curvy Kate bra once and it was lovely when I had volume up top. Now it’s straining at the seam below, boobs are making a break for the armpit, and wrinkly further up. Oh the menopause, what fun.

ill look into the Bravissimo Alexa, thanks again!

The Bravissimo Millie bra is worth a try too.

I haven’t read the whole thread yet, so don’t know if this has already been suggested, I have very similar issues to you and never found a correctly fitting bra until I tried Katherine Hamilton.
Unfortunately they are very expensive, but they last well and it’s better than what I did before which was to buy bras that didn’t quite fit and then try others when I got fed up with them.

The company was started by a women with a narrow rib cage and large cup size who was fed up with all the other brands being designed for larger rib cages.

The Sofia is now my default basic bra that I always wear and for the first time in my life I have wires that sit flat against my rib cage and don’t jab me in the armpits.

katherinehamilton.com/sophia-black-lace-bra/