The website listed is incorrect. Correct website is .co instead of .net.
Definitely not recommended for fittings. If you go in prepared to advocate strongly for your correct size and already knowing how to assess bra fit for yourself, you might fare all right.
I visited a friend who is newly engaged, and we used the ABTF calculator to check her current bra size. It spat out UK 30E/F or 32DD/E. We had hoped to visit The Bra Shoppe, also in Wilmington, because they carry a better selection of brands. Unfortunately, they were unexpectedly closed on the only day we had time for bra shopping, so we went to Lilies & Lace instead.
Lilies & Lace carries a selection of styles from Prima Donna, Simone Perele, Natori, and Cosabella. Based on what I saw, they stock 32-38 bands and US A-DDD cups or the equivalent, and not all stock is displayed in the front. Because the employee was busy with another customer at first, we were able to browse the display and pulled several styles in 32D and 32DD (for Natori)/32E (Simone Perele/Prima Donna). Couldn’t find anything in 32DDD or 32F, but since trying on seemed to point to 32D/30DD being closer to correct, that wasn’t a deal breaker.
When the employee was able to come chat with us, she asked how we were doing and if we needed any help. She was polite and asked what bra size my friend was previously wearing, what she had been finding to fit the best (whereupon she condescendingly said “well, honey, you’re NOT a D”) and asked permission to take measurements. She measured over a too-small padded push-up bra to get a full bust measurement of 36″ and took the band measurement below where the bra band was sitting very tightly, which gave her 28″. She informed my friend that she was “more of a 30” but that she didn’t have anything in that size, and proceeded to bring a selection of bras in 32B.
In the next fifteen minutes, she suggested that the quadding in the 32B styles “wasn’t too bad,” but reluctantly brought some bras in 32C; insisted that the 32C fit just fine and would look good under a shirt, which was “what really mattered”; brought a sheer white tank top to demonstrate that the bra would in fact look good under a shirt; and showed that she really didn’t know how bras are supposed to fit when my friend repeatedly complained about the bras sitting half an inch below her IMF.
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The website listed is incorrect. Correct website is .co instead of .net.
Definitely not recommended for fittings. If you go in prepared to advocate strongly for your correct size and already knowing how to assess bra fit for yourself, you might fare all right.
I visited a friend who is newly engaged, and we used the ABTF calculator to check her current bra size. It spat out UK 30E/F or 32DD/E. We had hoped to visit The Bra Shoppe, also in Wilmington, because they carry a better selection of brands. Unfortunately, they were unexpectedly closed on the only day we had time for bra shopping, so we went to Lilies & Lace instead.
Lilies & Lace carries a selection of styles from Prima Donna, Simone Perele, Natori, and Cosabella. Based on what I saw, they stock 32-38 bands and US A-DDD cups or the equivalent, and not all stock is displayed in the front. Because the employee was busy with another customer at first, we were able to browse the display and pulled several styles in 32D and 32DD (for Natori)/32E (Simone Perele/Prima Donna). Couldn’t find anything in 32DDD or 32F, but since trying on seemed to point to 32D/30DD being closer to correct, that wasn’t a deal breaker.
When the employee was able to come chat with us, she asked how we were doing and if we needed any help. She was polite and asked what bra size my friend was previously wearing, what she had been finding to fit the best (whereupon she condescendingly said “well, honey, you’re NOT a D”) and asked permission to take measurements. She measured over a too-small padded push-up bra to get a full bust measurement of 36″ and took the band measurement below where the bra band was sitting very tightly, which gave her 28″. She informed my friend that she was “more of a 30” but that she didn’t have anything in that size, and proceeded to bring a selection of bras in 32B.
In the next fifteen minutes, she suggested that the quadding in the 32B styles “wasn’t too bad,” but reluctantly brought some bras in 32C; insisted that the 32C fit just fine and would look good under a shirt, which was “what really mattered”; brought a sheer white tank top to demonstrate that the bra would in fact look good under a shirt; and showed that she really didn’t know how bras are supposed to fit when my friend repeatedly complained about the bras sitting half an inch below her IMF.
This was the point at which we walked out.