Buying Bras Online...
Having originally bought this bra in a store, I figured buying a second identical one online would be more convienient and cheaper. The store-bought Olga bra was wonderfully comfortable; this one is very tight-fitting, making it very uncomfortable. Same bra size, same #35040, but... I'm tired of getting burned buying bras online. Like bathing suits, they definitely need to be tried on first. I have a hunch these two bras were NOT made in the same factory, which seems to have a big impact on sizing nowadays.
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Olga Women's Signature Support Full Figure Seamless Tailored Underwire Bra #35040I did not expect to like this one so much. It gives great lift and great side support. It rivals any of the pricer bras I have tried, really. Bonus, this one feels great to wear too, very comfortable, no wire jabs in weird spots for me. I feel held in, but still comfortable, and this seems to feel true with all day into the evening wear. For reference, It has been one month since I have been wearing this bra, rotating everyday between 2 of these and a third differnt brand I tend to leave out of rotation more often because I like these so much. I really like the shape this bra gives, it looks good under clothing, including t shirts and sweaters. For those who have a hard time find a bra that works for larger size, I hope this one will work for you. If you need more information keep reading, other wise I suggest quit reading here and order the bra. Definitely order more than one.
For those that need more info and as a service to my fellow "endowed" sisters in search of a decent bra without breaking the bank...I type my story:
It was time to replace my bra's. I am a little larger breasted (36DD, but I don't look weird or like I'm trying to hard for attention, and I'm not large all over, I'm just me.) I have found I really need to replace my bra's more often than ladies I'll hear who have been wearing the same bra for years, and I mean the actual same individual bra, not same brand of bra. How would that be? Anyway, having been blessed with more bounty above, means more surface area for gravity to take hold of, and more product shifting. This makes it really important to have a bra that fits really good, and really performs well.
Over the years I have found it really difficult to find a great one that supported great and had no weird shape that becomes instantly apparent in the D-DD sizes. Hi cones or torpedo's, no thank you. Some minimizers were good, but not really great, and many bra's look and feel like they have just reached fatigue by the late afternoon.
Finally after giving birth to children it became apparent to me that what "used to" was "not going to" anymore. I felt like I needed a bra of steel, (so not fair). So a few years ago I decided I'd go try on those "holy grail" bra's a certain celebrity had rec"O"mended. She had been right before, so it was worth the try and if I truly liked any of the bra's and could notice a difference I would spend the $$$. I doubted I 'd be able to tell with just the fitting, but I went. True it was fabulous, and it had opened my eyes to the true value of the more expensive bra's and being professionally fitted by someone who knows what they are doing, not just wearing the name tag. Worth every penny, and those bra's performed great. Like the other's though they also needed to be rotated and given time to go back into shape. I stuck with this formula for the next few years, why change it was working, and for the first time in my life working really well. I couldn't have been offered free bra's to change.
Well this time around buying bra's I really hoped to be able to save money. Especially since I didn't have any extra to spend, funny how that works. I was hoping the more affordable bra's had gotten better, hopefully technology had blessed the inexpensive bra's too. I was noticing it was becoming quite the trend or more like an epidemic for women to "upgrade" to a larger size. I figured there has had to have been a huge demand in better performing bra's these days, because most everyone I see looks so big now.
I happened to have an Amazon gift certificate to use and I did not want to come out of pocket with extra funds. If I were to purchase the same brand of bra I was replacing, I would have had to drop a lot more money or just buy one. Which wearing the same bra day in, day out, it was sure to be spent and stretched out within a few weeks.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, I decided I'd take a chance on trying to find a good inexpensive bra. Since I was using a gift certificate, it felt like less risk, like I wouldn't be as disappointed if I was just throwing the money away. Still I desperately wanted this option to work. I tried to enlarge every picture, payed attention to every angle, imagined how it would look on me. I read every stinking review on several bra's, searching every word hoping to find something that sounded like my situation. Finally narrowing it down to a few. I wasn't totally confident, but I decided on ordering two of these bra's, and a 3rd bra, different brand. Three bra's for less money than I had paid for 1 of my "best" bras, could this really work?..... It has been great so far. I am very happy with this purchase and will purchase again in the future. I have been so pleased, and so thrilled with the savings! Yeah! Hopefully this helps someone like me, and I hope the bra works for you too.
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