A lot of people have written asking if I will ever update again, and I don’t want to leave you hanging.
The answer is that I am not sure where this blog is going. When I began this blog I was still working out what bras fit me and worked best for my shape. I was also several cup sizes smaller than I am now.
My breasts have grown a lot since I began this blog. When I started here, I was approximately a smallish 34GG in UK sizes. I was trying all sorts of bras and brands: Fantasie, Freya, Panache, Ewa Michalak, Empreinte, Curvy Kate, Kris Line, Cleo, etc. I was excited about new bra collections from most brands.
These days my boobs are much larger and the only UK brand which reliably fits me is Panache. I don’t get excited about new collections from other brands anymore, because I know they won’t fit me. Why bother? Fantasie of England was once my absolute favorite brand in terms of design aesthetic, but their fit is terrible for someone with a full on top bust, so I don’t even look at their new offerings anymore.
On top of that, Panache made some changes to my formerly-favorite bra, the Andorra. Starting in 2013 they changed the fabric and cut of the bra slightly, and as a result it is no longer a great fit for me. I’ve seen some indications that they have reverted to the old cut in fall 2014 bras, but it’s still really depressing to have your most reliable bra suddenly stop fitting.
I don’t love Panache bras, because I think their materials and especially straps do not justify their price point. Although they are slowly improving, they are weak on prints and fabrics in general. I wear Panache bras because (with a lot of tweaking) they are the best fit for me at this time. (I might possibly be able to wear Cleo bras, but I do not buy them because I hate their narrow bands and flimsy straps.)
So, I am just not sure I will be writing many more bra reviews. (I might write one more, a capsule review of a brand, not of a bra.) I don’t feel excited about them anymore. I have tried on SO MANY bras and more of them haven’t fit me than have. (It is when I realized this trend that my reviews started to fall off, because who wants a blog full of almost only negative reviews? I don’t know if people want to read that, but I find the idea of writing it depressing.) Now I just buy the same 3-4 bras when they come out in new colorways I like, and hope for the best.
As my breasts have grown, it has become more and more difficult for me to find a good fit. I have a relatively small torso and my breasts basically cover it from armpit to armpit and from collarbone almost to elbow. My boobs are very deep, and my tissue is more toward the top than the bottom of the breast. This just isn’t the boob that most bra makers are designing for. At this point in my life there is no bra available to me that really fits me well and is what I like (I’m not willing or able to spend the money and time figuring out if Comexim bras will fit me, especially since most of their bras are padded.)
Al of my old reviews are for bras that aren’t being made anymore, so I might actually take them down. Or maybe I will find the time and passion to finish the series on bra construction and engineering that has been in my queue, as that’s much more interesting to my nerdy brain than are bra reviews.
I just, in general, lack the commitment and sustained interest in being a regular, every-day or even every-week blogger. So we will see where this goes.
