I would recommend this bra for anyone with wide set breasts and it may work for normal set breasts, but definitely not for anyone with very close set breasts.  For those who don't know how to tell, the general guideline is that if you can fit about 3 or more fingers between the root of your breasts, they are wide set. Close set breasts are touching or with a very small space (less than 1 finger) and normal is somewhere between those two.  I'm still giving this bra 4 stars because it has so many good things going for me and it will work for some women out there.  It would be unfair for me to negatively rate the product because this is a common construction, it just doesn't work for my shape.  I now know I need to look for bras with a very low or no center gore at all.

When I first got this bra, I absolutely loved it because it gave me a great shape.  Many un-molded bras make my breasts look pointy, which is a very old fashioned and unflattering look IMO.  The ones that do give me a round shape, cut into the top of my breasts despite the bottom of the cup fitting perfectly.  This bra finally was one that didn't cut into the top of my breasts AND gave me a beautiful rounded shape and it didn't make my breasts look smaller than they actually are (which may be a plus or minus in your books).  The design even looks pretty sexy, at least compared to the normal selection of bras in my size.  The fabric was a little scratchy, but I have tried on many bras with that fabric so I thought it would probably soften up after a few washes.  I quickly removed the tags and wore it the first day I got it.

After not even an hour, I knew this bra was going to be a problem.  The underwire comes up so high in the front.  I thought it was ok at first, but between the underwires and the scratchy fabric, it made my skin red and I kept lifting it up to try to get relief.  Even if the fabric softens, the underwires are going to be a problem because they don't feel padded in any way.  Something to consider is that my breasts are very close together and because of that I typically can only wear bras with a very low center gore.  If you don't have this problem with most bras, this one may work for you, but on me the center gore digs into breast tissue.  Although the center underwire bothers me, the other end of the underwire does not.

If you would like to try this bra, I will give some recommendations on the size.  I most often wear a 30 band, but went with a 32 in this one based on other reviews, and I do believe the 30 would have been too tight.  I'm typically an H cup.  Since I went up in band size, I needed to go down in cups size, so I went with a GG and that fit pretty well, perhaps a little generous but probably not enough to downsize a cup.  So if you're in between on band sizes, my recommendation is to go up, and if you do, don't forget to go down a cup size as well to make up for it.