Secrets From Your Sister

Happy TIFF! We’ve been watching the orange carpets and have some fun celebrity pics to show you, some good, some total brabominations, and of course, we’ll offer our solutions.

First, meet Yao Xingtong, Chinese actress at TIFF to support Jackie Chan at the premiere of “In Conversation With….Jackie Chan”.

Yao wore a beautiful sheer white dress with beige pasties underneath, which it seems she thought would be invisible on the red carpet. Unfortunately, those flash bulbs are bright, and not only were the pasties revealed, but they weren’t quite doing their job. According to Huffington Post, she noticed half way down the carpet and began to cover up with a stuffed toy.

Our solution? Well there are a few possibilities. 1. Wear nothing at all. Yeah, probably not the solution you’d expect from a bra store but we do think if you choose to wear something this sheer and white that you might as well just go for it. If that isn’t your speed… 2. Wear sparkly pasties like the kind we carry from Bristols6. This way, if they show, it will seem intentional. 3. Wear a beautiful white lacy bra, like the ones we show in this post. It would work great with this beautiful white lace dress. 4. Wear a opaque beige tshirt bra, which would appear almost invisible under this dress.

Here’s a great option we carry, by Simone Perele, called Caressence:

Here’s a TIFF carpet win, hometown star Rachel McAdams:

Rachel was a knockout in this green number. She is probably wearing a beige strapless bra, as would be the conventional choice for a one-shoulder dress of this design. A slightly more unconventional, though totally exciting choice would be the new Chantelle Rive Gauche in delicious forest green:

The straps are delicate on this style and just a hint of one poking out from this dress would be intriguing. It’s seamless and invisible under tshirts, so it makes a great every day bra as well.  We’ve just received sizes A-B 32-34 and C-F 30-34 in this style, which we have loved in past seasons in the basic colours.

Another brabombination came courtesy of Emma Watson, whose pasties slipped out from under her delicate dress:

Emma’s stylist should have used Stylin’ Tape, which would have held the dress in place to ensure it did not slip to one side and reveal the pastie. Or, as we mentioned above, Emma could have worn a sparkly or lacy pastie, that way if it showed, it wouldn’t have seemed so unintentional. (But honestly, that doesn’t seem like Emma’s style).  Pick up some Stylin’ tape next time you’re in the store. It is double-sided adhesive that magically sticks to your skin when you want it to, and peels off later with no irritation! It’s truly magical, and can be used for all sorts of things, including fixing hems, holding a blouse together when the buttons are tugging, and of course, on orange carpets, to ensure your dress hangs in place…just so.

Here’s Abbie Cornish looking gorgeous in this black gown with a down-to-there plunge neckline:

We’ve got lots of options for a dress like this but two basics are Jezebel‘s plunge strapless, that offers amazing cleavage!

Or, Empreinte‘s Thalia Very Plunge:

Lastly, patterns and prints were a hot trend at TIFF!

Lily Collins & Nina Dobrev

Nina Dobrev & Emma Watson

Patterns are hot in lingerie this season too! Check out this amazing new style we just received from Freya. Her official name is Ginny but we’re calling her Miz. Royal Doulton:

She’s got two gorgeous contrasting patterns, in lovely floral and polka dots. Her tiny bows are made with velvet. It is as if a funky antique shop has refashioned itself into the dream lingerie set…in the best way possible! Reminiscent of blue willow pattern this beautiful blue bra is so pretty you’ll hate putting on clothes over top of it.

We have limited sizes of this fun fashion style (F-FF 32-38) so hurry in to snap this one up!

As another year for TIFF comes to an end, we’re wondering if you spotted any stars, saw any great films, or had any brabombination challenges of your own? Keep in touch! Be sure to ask us on our Facebook page if you ever have bra questions. You can also ask us on Twitter, (though we’re a little wordy and sometimes bra questions are better answered in long form.) We also love to hear your brabomination suggestions, so be sure to pass those challenging pics along.

Hope to see you soon, xo sfys

Kim Kardashian is everywhere these days. We love her, because she works her curves! Maybe we don’t love that she’s famous for nothing…but it’s celebrity love, it’s allowed to be shallow. Right?

Generally Kim looks great, and we don’t see pictures and think “good gosh, get a bra!” but this photo of her in her sports attire has us worried:

My goodness! That is not a sports bra! Imagine trying to jog in that, no matter your size!

Apparently it is not an isolated incident either! Kim needs a great sports bra. We’d recommend she try Shock Absorber’s Run:

Available in sizes B-F, 30-38, we think this would fit Kim much better. Not only that, but it’s cute! There is no reason this bra wouldn’t look just as good with Kim’s stylish work out gear as her ill-fitting sports tops.  With summer headed our way, it is a great time to come in and be properly fitted for a sports bra. A good sports bra will significantly reduce ‘bounce’ and will change the way you work out, we promise.

Oh, this one is painful. Very painful. Because we love Christina Hendricks. She’s awesome on Mad Men, is a total babe AND rocks the curvy figure in a way the media hasn’t seen in a long time. From Christina to Crystal Renn and the Kardashian sisters (love em or hate em), it really is refreshing to see greater variety of figures in the popular media lately. Is this signaling a change away from the ‘waif’ look that has been so popular for so long? Maybe. We hope that it is a signal that there will be greater variety of women portrayed in media.

But, we digress. This is about Christina, and how painful it is for us to brabominate her.

Because so often, she writes the book on dressing appropriately for your figure, especially on the red carpet:

Delicious! And clearly wearing the correct bra. Perfecto.

And obviously, her character Joan on Mad Men is appropriately styled for the era, and so she sure seems to be wearing the right undergarments:

So if she can get it so right…how do you explain this?

Oh dear!!! That is one ill fitting bra. Christina is helpfully wearing a sheer top so we can thoughtfully inspect…yep, the wires aren’t sitting flat, she is pillowing and worse still, her shoulders appear strained by the shoulder straps of this bra. This is because she has chosen to wear a cup that is too small and a back that is too large.

It is a classic case of a woman who is above a dd working within the constraints of the ‘regular’ mall bra store. When you can’t easily find bras in ff’s or e’s or g’s, you settle. You settle for something horrible, because you feel you have no choice. Because you haven’t been fit and don’t yet know the truth!! Christina needs to learn the facts about bra fittings!

So many of you reading will relate to this story and it is all too common. That’s why we continue to endlessly rant about the importance of a bra fitting. Any busty babe that has converted from “settling” for a mall bra to wearing the correctly fitted bra from a good quality manufacturer can tell you, the difference is life-altering. It can be life-altering for a woman of any size. We have thousands of customers who will testify to this! Hmm. Maybe one of them knows Christina?

This bra is so unfortunate, in fact, that Christina herself seems uncomfortable in her clothes in some of the pictures:

 Hmm, could it be the sheer top? We’d like to think so but we know better. Any busty babe will tell you, once you are in the right bra, you could wear almost any top and feel great. Heck, you could even not wear a top at all, if you liked the bra enough. Christina needs a dose of this bra-confidence!

 Such a shame really that it detracts from her entire outfit, which we actually think would be really flattering with the right bra. Black and lacy wouldn’t be our first choice – we’d choose solid black with a lined cup for coverage, but that’s us. We might even choose strapless. But first and foremost, we’d make sure she was in the right size.

We’ve been thinking that if we were a successful actress her size (and we had gotten properly fit) we’d buy a whole wardrobe of lingerie in the correct size – strapless, bustier, all the colours of the rainbow, and so on, so that we could supply our own wardrobe to the stylists we’d be sure to be stuck with. That might help unfortunate shots like this one from happening:

Sure, sure, it is just a steamy picture for a men’s magazine. But, lets look closer. The wires on that bustier are sitting on her breasts, not her ribs. The wires are sticking out at the front. I would venture to say, that outside of standing in this exact position, that she came right out the top of this bustier! Sure, it works for the shoot, but wouldn’t it be amazing if she could pose in any position, comfortably, in a beautiful, well fit bra or bustier? Where are all the bra fitters in Hollywood?

Not an isolated incident either:

We have to say that we really didn’t want to post this. Mostly because we admire her but also because it is just so rare to see a woman of any curve on the cover of any magazine. We don’t want to take away from that. And she looks absolutely fantastic. We were even willing to let the cheap bargain-bin excuse for lingerie have a pass on the cover of NY Magazine (stifling our “what, is that all you could find in a dd?” comments…not that Ms. Hendricks is a dd…but you get the idea) because it seemed to us they weren’t trying to make her look fake, like something she isn’t. They didn’t appear to photoshop 40 lbs off of her frame. That’s refreshing.

But when we saw the pics of her at Fashion week above, we felt we would be avoiding the ultimate Brabomination in recent memory. This actress is quickly becoming an icon to busty, curvy women everywhere. Let us  hope she sorts this out soon! You know it is on her mind. She was even quoted as saying she’s “…look[ing] for a dress that makes you go, ‘[Gasp,] wow!’ … And then, [she thinks] ‘Can I wear a bra with that?’” Hello, relatable! Now…only if she had the right bras to go with the dresses….

Either Joan the character needs to loan Christina the actress her lingerie, or Christina needs to bring herself to secrets from your sister… right away!