Beautiful Bras:  Half-Padded, Balconette, Padded, Push Up, or Soft Cup.

A Quick Guide to the Different Styles.

To make your search easier we have created below a quick bullet point guide to the key features of each style.

Balconette

• Straps attach to the side of the cups.
• Underwired cups.
• Full cup.

Bridal

• Various structural styles in ivory or white.
• Highly decorative.

Deep Band or Long Line

• Underwired & padded cups. Sometimes with extra pads to make it a push up.
• Double (or more) depth to the bra band.
• Also sometimes called a long line.

Padded

• Underwired cups.
• Integral padding in the cups that cannot be removed.

Push Up

• Underwired cups.
• Integral padding in the cups PLUS additional padding, which can be removed, in the bottom section of each cup.

Semi-Soft Cup or Half Padded 

• Integral padding only in the bottom part of the cup.
• Underwired cups.

Soft Cup

• Underwired cups with no padding.

Strapless

• Underwired cups which are highly structured and padded to provide support plus additional bones in the band.

Triangle or Bralette

• Completely soft cup.
• No underwires, padding or boning.
• Sometimes also called bralette.

Garment Care

Whatever style you buy it is important to follow the washing instructions which you will find either on the product page, the garment label or swing tag, so that it lasts a long time looking as good as new. See our latest blog post for more information.

Sizes

Bra sizes are notoriously difficult. There is no international standard, different countries use different methods. The USA and UK sizes are based on the inch while European countries use the metric scale as their start point. All the sizing on our product pages is based on UK standards and to help customers outside of the UK buy with confidence we have plenty of guidance to lingerie sizes at this link.