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I'd never really been happy with my Shock Absorber sports bra, and then with the weight fluctuation over the past year or so it had really just been a thing I kept around to change into, not for any real value. I'd been trying to work out how to decide what size new one to get - I know my size, but sports bras in my experience run very different from daily-wear bras, and if 9/10 users recommend going up a band size, fine, but then do I get the same cup size, or the cup size that goes with that new band size, or something different? And hardly anyplace carries sports bras in sizes that will be useful to me, so trying them on isn't really usually an option.
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flt showed up with an Enell, which I'd heard of but never seen, and she talked me through guessing what size I'd be, and I found the local retailer who stocks the damn thing and tried it on, and today I bought it and came home and changed into it because everything else I own needs to go in the laundry.
Wow. WOW. This is, bar none, the most supportive thing I have ever worn. Any sturdier and it would be made of kevlar. It's a bit of a challenge - it fastens in the front, and I can't actually see to do up the first hook, but I can make it work. It's got about a dozen hooks, because it's more of a vest-like thing than a bra, so the girls are really packed in there and not going anyplace at all. And I knew my right breast was bigger than my left, but that has never been clearer than it is right now.
Every other bra in the world, even the highly-constructed scaffolding I normally wear, is going to feel like a mere shoelace compared to this.
[eta: Oh - and I'm in only the 40th percentile of sizes that are available off the rack. That is, there are three sizes smaller than the one I'm wearing and six bigger. So if you're thinking "yes, but", go ahead and give the size chart a look - you may be surprised.]
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flt showed up with an Enell, which I'd heard of but never seen, and she talked me through guessing what size I'd be, and I found the local retailer who stocks the damn thing and tried it on, and today I bought it and came home and changed into it because everything else I own needs to go in the laundry.Wow. WOW. This is, bar none, the most supportive thing I have ever worn. Any sturdier and it would be made of kevlar. It's a bit of a challenge - it fastens in the front, and I can't actually see to do up the first hook, but I can make it work. It's got about a dozen hooks, because it's more of a vest-like thing than a bra, so the girls are really packed in there and not going anyplace at all. And I knew my right breast was bigger than my left, but that has never been clearer than it is right now.
Every other bra in the world, even the highly-constructed scaffolding I normally wear, is going to feel like a mere shoelace compared to this.
[eta: Oh - and I'm in only the 40th percentile of sizes that are available off the rack. That is, there are three sizes smaller than the one I'm wearing and six bigger. So if you're thinking "yes, but", go ahead and give the size chart a look - you may be surprised.]
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