Playtex Women's 18 Hour Full-Coverage Comfort-Strap Wireless Bra, Multipack
4.3 | 69,226 ratings
Price: 11.75
Last update: 01-03-2025
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Amazon Customer
Well made and flattering
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2024Placeholder
Really comfortable and fit very well
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2024Mym
Perfect!
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2024pamikins
Very nice well made comfy bra.
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2024This truly the best cord protector. Watch instructions and it is so easy to assemble. I purchase these for all my co-workers. I love mine! Great purchase!’
18 hour comfort
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2024
laugheagle
Nice fit, holds me well, comfortable
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2024September
One of the Bra has a manufacturing problem
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
Colliemom 3
They’re on the launching pad!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2018
Colliemom 3
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2018
I have gained weight due to steroid therapy, 30#, and so needed a couple new bras till I could go off the medication and get back to my normal size. I normally have always worn underwire bras from the 34C in high school till now, age 63. I got this wireless Playtex after reading reviews of the great support and fat-roll-smoothing of the admittedly large, harness like contraption. I have “grown” to a 44DD-DDD depending on brand and did not want to spend the stupid amounts of money most of the better underwire bras of this size can cost. Having big twins is very costly sometimes! And I am hoping/planning to only have to wear such a larger size for less than six months (fingers crossed that I get better by then!! I am tired of being so...let us say large and in charge)
I was very excited to receive these admittedly non-pretty undergarments but I was anticipating great comfort and support given the reviews by even much younger women who normally wear sexier bras. I thought if even the young women would like these well enough to wear (albeit everyday wear where no one else would be seeing them lol), then I had to try them. I was
Well, I tried it on, and the band size of 44 was not at all the size every other 44 I have tried on was. It was VERY tight, where other brands were borderline too big. I had to struggle to get it fastened on first set of hooks. I am not really greatly unhappy with that. I have extenders if needed, plus bras stretch a considerable amount after some wear. The back was a four row set of three hooks and was VERY nice and smoothing. That is one thing about this I did like. It is very hard to find a four row wide back lately, and when one is larger and has, let’s be frank, a fat back, with rolls, any less than a four wide back, three hooks wide, and most especially the surprising number of VERY large sizes with a mere two hook width, roll into thin ropes of torture, cutting a narrow swath of pain as it buries itself in your back flesh. Think a piano wire garrote but wrapped around your rib cage not neck.
Even with the tightness it was quite doable as I knew it would stretch. It was wide and distributed the fat rolls evenly and smoothed them really well. That is one good part. I looked at myself in the mirror and felt like I looked like one of those pigeon-breasted larger older ladies who look like they have one huge, saggy mono-boob. It is really remarkably hideous I must say, BUT I had no plans to do a strip-tease for my long-suffering husband, at least not till I was a size 10 again, not a 16-18 as the steroids have done for me, so it didn’t really matter how it looked with my shirt off right? Oh and lest I forget, the wide, well made, soft straps were engineered to distribute the weight of the blimps well and were the most comfy, non-painful straps I have had before.
Then I put my tee shirt on (“Impeach Him Now” shirt if anyone is curious :-p ) and that is where the low rating comes in. In spite of the pouter pigeon breast look I was afraid of, when I looked in the mirror without a shirt, with this enormous contraption of straps, cups, wide bands and harnessing, it was amazing insofar as support. It DID indeed hold ‘em up really well, with separation instead of the mono-boob I feared. But that is where it fell apart. My chesticles, rather than a nice smooth, rounded, melon type shape, I looked like I had a couple of very large ICBMs on my chest. Missiles, very pointy missiles.
Think the old days where Jane Russell debuted the Bullet Bra in a movie where she was supposed to be super-sexy. Think the 50s cone bras. Think protrusions sharp enough to put out some poor man’s eye. That. That is what I saw. I busted out laughing at my reflection. They were hoisted up very nicely, but as I said, shaped like a couple ICBMs. I looked ridiculous!! Brad my husband, would have fallen to the floor in helpless laughter, and he is not even the most observant guy around when it comes to women’s clothing unless they happen to look like a Hooters girl lol. He’d have spied those things on my chest and died laughing.
If you are ok with jutting rockets on your chest, go for it. The comfort is there, the construction and support is there (surprising support for a wire-free - first one I tried that didn’t let me sag like a tired floppy old crone), but the attractive look is NOT there. I folded the LARGE contraption away and buried in the bottom of my bra drawer, never to be worn again.
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