EgoFail or EgoBoost? Gossard’s award winning push-up reviewed
You remember Gossard, don’t you readers? They’re the brand that after coming under fire for appallingly incomplete and misleading fit advice performed a hopelessly flawed and uncontrolled ‘test’ on...
View ArticleUltimate and wonderful: Wonderbra Ultimate Strapless reviewed
“Ultimate” is a word often bandied around about push-up lingerie, but if there’s one bra that truly embodies the word it’s the gravity defying wonder of engineering that is Wonderbra’s Ultimate...
View ArticleVictoria’s Secret: my depressing Valentine
I seriously think I have an allergy to Victoria’s Secret: almost everything I see of theirs riles me. They are the opposite of everything I would hope for a lingerie company to be, and yet are...
View ArticleSwimming in the deep end: swimwear options for G-cups, H-cups, and beyond…
So I’ve never needed an excuse to look at swimwear (it’s an addiction), but in a week I’ve had three SOS messages from women struggling to find nice swimwear in G+ sizes. All three said previously...
View ArticleEvollove’s Sweet Blush reviewed
Evollove is a relatively young brand by the Australian Bendon Lingerie group (parents of Elle Macherson Intimates), designed to be a young, vibrant offering for D-G girls. I’d not heard anything about...
View ArticleFauve’s Coco Balcony bra in Mulberry reviewed
I love Fauve. Fauve is everything I want from my lingerie – it’s grown up, beautiful, elegant… and for some reason the orange Bronte longline coming this spring (below) is one of the most exciting...
View ArticlePeachy keen: Figleaves.com’s own brand reviewed
Between Midnight Grace and Just Peachy, Figleaves.com have quietly been doing a nice little line of cute, budget friendly swimwear and lingerie. This non-padded balconnette comes in 10 colours (I love...
View ArticleFreya’s Dionne reviewed
Freya’s half-lace cups have always been a firm favourite of mine. Loretta, Trudie, Tabitha, Edith – I love how they blend gorgeous prints and colour with a comfortable, everyday style. I also love how...
View ArticleAs easy as A, B, C (and D, and the rest…): Bravissimo’s Boob School
This post is hugely overdue thanks to my recent adventures in amazing Texas (howdy y’all), but two weeks late this not-so-new news is still worth shouting about. It’s no secret I love Bravissimo....
View ArticleAll things being equal…
The U.S. Supreme Court is debating Marriage Equality right now, so I just wanted to show my support for what by 2013 should be a given: equality for all. Here’s to a future where sexual orientation...
View ArticleI said yes!
I had no idea I would ever be writing about weddings two posts in a row, but last weekend on the back of a boat on the Thames and to my total surprise Mr B4J asked me to marry him. I said yes. I’ve...
View ArticleBravissimo’s Alana Reviewed
So regular readers will know I recently raved about Bravissimo’s continued dedication to good fitting advice, and fellow bloggers may have seen my (very sincerely meant) quote on the Boob School press...
View ArticleTo sag or not to sag? That is(n’t) the question…
First things first: I think everyone should read Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre. A healthy skepticism about ‘scientific’ studies is good for you, and would make the world a much more rational place. But...
View ArticleThe Holy Grail: my quest for wedding lingerie
So readers may know that I recently got engaged, and because I didn’t want to be talked in to the traditional wedding dress I’ve never wanted I didn’t wait long to make a cup of tea, fire up...
View ArticleScarlet fever: Tutti Rouge’s debut Lilliana reviewed
From the sneak peeks at Moda, to the tantalising Instagram snaps of gorgeous colours and fun frills, to the very first reviews in my RSS feed, it feels like I’ve been waiting to be Tutti Rouge for ever...
View ArticleHOTMilk Luminous maternity bra: guest review by Kaela
So after a few weeks of being pinched and poked by my normal bras I finally gave in and did some shopping. Like any other hot topic, there are many different ideas of the best way to dive into these...
View ArticleBrayola & your boobs out: Fit or Not
I don’t upload pictures of my boobs/bras to my blog, but I have huge respect for the bloggers who do [big up Georgina Horne and Cheryl Warner, amongst others]. In showing their diverse figures and how...
View ArticleAll new royalty: Curvy Kate’s new Princess reviewed
Not long after writing this review of Curvy Kate’s Princess bra did team CK reach out to me to let me know that the fitting nuances I’d noted in my review – namely that it ran slightly small – would...
View ArticleCleo’s Melissa bra reviewed!
I don’t know whether it was the scalloped red frill or the primary colour palette, but something about Melissa by Panache’s younger brand Cleo called to me in this soggy dog of a Spring. There’s...
View ArticleTotal Babe: new Freya reviewed
When I saw Freya‘s new Babes in the Wood bra, I knew I would love it. Their unpadded half-lace style is one of my favourites ever – I always know what fit I’m getting, it always suits me, and the...
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