Review on Underwire Minimizer Lace Bra For Women With Full Coverage - Plus Size Delimira by Beth Smith

First.I am going to be honest and over share here. If anything less that perfect breasts offends whomever is going to read this review, look away. Look away now.I do not have perfect breasts. I have the less than perfect. I have .long breasts (are long). The flap jacks. The flappies. The flippy floppies. The, "I am probably going to bruise my knees when I hit 80," kind. I can crack jokes about them now, because I am old and I have lost the Fs I used to have. When I was younger, however, I was absolutely ashamed about the size and shape of these. Not only were they too big to EVER fit into a bra I could just pop on down to wally world/target/standard clothing store to buy something in my size, my choices were ALWAYS brown. Beige. White.On top of that a lot of the choices made my chest look like 90's madonna/1950's rocket chests. ON TOP ON TOP of that, sizes were absolutely confusing and never consistent. 44 DD? No, you're a 48 DDD. No you're a 2.34.54.3 GFHZ.I have to tell you I saw this bra elsewhere on a website (was it buzzfeed? It might be.) And I noted it, but I did not buy it. I wanted to see if, to quote a tired quote, "the hype was real." So I waited. I waited a long time, watching the reviews and seeing how they came in. The overwhelming positive made me bite the bullet this week and get out the measuring tape.So I measured with my husbands help: my ribs, right under my breasts and the circumference, holding the tape as even as I could--both numbers for Inhaling and exhaled.Then I measured my breasts at their "highest" point. (Let me eye roll here. As long flappies don't really have them.) and that is around your .I don't know if this review will get canned for saying breasts so many times. So I will just say areola area? Wrote that number down.Now, some measuring instructions for bras will tell you to then measure the highest point of your chest, with the tape right under your arm pits. I did not do that.I took my numbers and went off to 3 different well trusted bra size calculator sites.And got a different number for each one. BUT. That number was *almost* the same. So I averaged it out and behold--I apparently am NOT a 44DDD, but am now roughly a 44 G. All right. So. I took a deep breath, came back to the listing of this bra, and ordered it in pink. My FIRST non white, brown, black bra and to say I was excited and hopeful would be a little bit like saying water is wet.This bra arrived thanks to Prime within two days. It arrived in an undamaged plastic bag, and removing it from the bag I saw no strings, pulls, or tears. I immediately went and hand washed the bra and hung it to dry.The next day I decided not to go easy on this bra, but test it right away the hard way. I wore it to work.PROS: Pretty. I was so happy to see a range of colors that weren't just black, brown and white. Or off white. Or beige. Or ug, 'egg shell.'IT. FIT! It did! I used to have the problem where the band would fit, but the cup would runneth over, or the band would be too small but the cup would fit, or the cup SORT of fit at the bottom, but I'd have a huge flat gap at the top of my chest. NONE of this happened with this bra!It was COMFORTABLE. I have never encountered a wire bra that was comfortable with the shape of my chest. It did not rub, create a rash, or make raw skin ANYWHERE.The entire day the band did not crawl up my back! This is the first time a bra band stayed well into the middle part of my back.I did not have to adjust the straps out of the bag at all!I had no cup bulge or flatness.The shape really made me look 'normal' or at least, regular-ish shaped in the chest area!CONS: I don't know right now. There is a chance that you could get the wrong size, or rely on your old bra sizes and it might not work out. There's a chance the bra may not be comfortable or you might get a bra that doesn't hold up well. I can't predict that.RECOMMEND? I've worn it to work 2 days in a row. So far, YES. If that changes I will be sure to update this review. But so far, YES. YES! I cannot believe how affordable this is and how pretty!