This bra promotes good posture and alleviates shoulder pain but at a pretty steep price.  The support is great.  Lifts and separates like a steel truss (38E here), makes torso look longer, puts your boobs back where they originally started.  However, the underwire travels all the way up the cleavage. In the picture the inner underwire is all the way to the top of the inner side of the bra--the tip is wire.  And, there is no padding on it, just a thin decorative covering.  So if you have any skin that touches it, from slouching while sitting or standing, or if the gap between boobs is not perfectly flat such that it's a wire against bone situation, you'll pay a price.  I actually have a two puncture wounds from being repeated impaled by the underwires.  Yet, I still give it 3 stars....because the support is that good.