Soutien-gorge balconnet légèrement doublé havane

Fit very nice

You can add additional lift to this bra to make it more similar to the old balconette bra which had more lift. The way to do this is to add darts into it.. got a tailor to do mine. First buy your original size and avoid overspill but accept there is not enough lift for your first fitting. the way the bra is constructed is a thin (though opaque and padded foam cup) with a satin overlay. Pin it first to check your darts are correct. You have to hand sew as underwire won’t go through a machine. If you add thin darts to the foam, the satin overlay automatically does cover to the right amount so you dont sew the satin just the foam. Adjustment hardly shows under clothes. I advise to do 2 bottom darts per cup to push boobs together slightly then the side dart for the lifting to get same effect as previous. The 2 darts, to the left and right of the fullest part of the bust, go from the bottom of the bra upwards towards the fullest area of the bust but stops before that point. The darts pull together a small amount of material each less than 1cm maybe because otherwise the adjustments will show through clothes as they would be too thick as one combined dart. Pinch the dart together and sew. Then you will have some foam seam protruding inside the bra but then you sew a second seam to press it down which is to flatten the protrusion. Try it on again and check both cups seams are symmetrical and happy with first part of effect because it’s difficult to know when sewing. I recommend to find a tailor to do it because it hardly shows under clothes but might show a little bit through thin clothes so symmetry of seams important. Then for the lift, put a short maybe one inch dart running horizontally towards the bust area. Pin it before doing it and the correct seam for your bust will become obvious. Again you have to flatten this seam too and make sure symmetrical. The bra remains soft inside and don’t feel the darts and you have the proper support you need. Make sure not to sew the satin part. You sew on the inside of the cupboard which touches your boob. I hope I gave a good description of what my tailor did to fit these on me like the old ones did with good lift.
Also fitting varies so I buy many bras of same size and return the ones which don’t fit.

soft bra for those with excema. is the reproduction of the old la senza balconette i bought circa 2020 and every year previous to that, extremely similar but slightly different cut which is cut very slightly lower near the gore i think. makes no difference to general shape and no loss of support. gore is not as close to chest, it floats a bit more than the previous. i had to size up to a ddd to remove overspill compared to the previous model of dd because of this very slightly different cut. i suppose it depends on the shape of your boob where the fat is distributed whether you do that as the overspill was very slight for me on the 32dd. good support. very black, darker than the previous 2020 black which is an improvement. staps are appx 4 inches longer than the previous release i bought during 2020 which is better as much more leeway for adjustment to suit your boobs (i had to have previous straps lengthened). straps are thin but not painful appx 1.5cm at widest part. strong bra. good padding stops nipple showing through. cut is low but not so low you lose horizontal support. i had previously bought honey birdette bra which was supportive until i started moving and in that one my boobs fell out when i moved around because that cut was 1cm lower than this bra. this one is cut high enough to stop boobs moving around when you move around. fabric very soft microfibre. stitching very cleanly done. looks good under low cut tops and tank tops as it wont show over the top. underwire softly covered and properly stitched in. bra straps are sewn to the back band of the bra so no painful plastic loops there or worry that it will snap and break there. adjustment loop is at the top of the bra near the shoulder so much easier to adjust and comfortable than the ones where the adjuster loops at the back bend. very happy with this bra. doesnt show under clothes as is smooth microfibre.

I have been waiting for years for this bra to come back! It was my favourite LaSenza style and still is. Immediately bought one in Rosetan and black.

although comfortable, i had overspill on the 32dd so sized up to 32ddd. used to be a 32dd when the cups were cut slightly lower on the previous balconettes/
problem is the shape is more droopy and doesnt provide the lift of the 32dd. its just too natural a shape. it is comfortable though. im going to try to find another bra with more lift.