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 side of cups.
• Under wired cups.
• Full cup.

Bridal

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

Deep Band or Long Line

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

Padded

• Under wired cups.
• Integral padding in the cups that cannot be removed.

Push Up

• Under wired 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.
• Under wired cups.

Soft Cup

• Under wired 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 under wires, 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 UK and to help customers outside of the UK buy with confidence we have international size comparison charts here.