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Bra Cup Styles - Love, Wear and Learn
Within each bra style, there is a subset of cup styles. So, it’s important to understand the many different cup styles in order for your bra choice to meet your requirements. Here is a list of the many bra cup styles.
Full Cup
Full cup covers most if not all of the breast, offering both more coverage and support. A full cup bra will not cause a visible line or indentation along the top of the breasts, so is a great design choice under form-fitting clothing. Full cups also tend to have center pull straps. This reduces strap slippage give a fuller upper breast silhouette. Full cups are very commonly worn during sports.
Demi Cup
Demi Cup A demi cup means the cup has less upper breast coverage. The industry generally cuts a demi cup to 1″ above the nipple point. Most push-up bras are demi cups and so show more cleavage. The under wires of a demi cup are much shorter than other bras, so a demi cup can be a good choice for ladies who have issues with under wires poking under their arms. Also, most demi cups are designed with a slight inward tilt to push the breasts towards the center for more cleavage.
Minimizer Cup
Minimizer Cup A minimizer cup gives the appearance of reducing the projection of your breasts. This allows women to wear front-buttoned shirts and blouses without making gaps. A minimizer cup distributes the breast flesh more towards the underarm and the center front..
Contour Cup
Contour Cup Contour cups hold their shape, even when not worn. These cup have an underwire and are lined with a thin layer of foam or fiberfill lining that is molded into a specific shape. Contour cups are a perfect choice for any woman seeking a sculpted silhouette, as they offer a specific round and symmetrical breast shape. A contour cup can also add definition to the breast, a smooth shape, and elimination of nipple contours.
Balconette Cup
Balconette Cup Balconette cups are a little smaller than demi cup. A true balconette cup will be cut horizontally just above the bust line and give ones breasts the look of fullness and uplift. They will also have vertical seams just under the bust to give added boost. Many manufacturers call bras balconette bras when in fact they are not. A balconette cup usually has a little padding to enhance bust size as well. The name balconette comes from men in the balcony of a theater looking down upon women.
Lined Cup
Lined Cup Lined cups give additional support and added opaqueness to the cup. Lining in the cup can also help reduce nipple projection. In some cases the lining is cut smaller than the outer cup. This helps give added support.
Nursing Cup
Nursing Cup Nursing cups are specially designed to open. This allows access for babies to feed without mom having to take off her bra. Nursing cups come in a variety of configurations.
Padded Cup
Padded Cup A padded cup bra is filled with fiber in the cup. This padding adds size and definition to give a well-proportioned look to smaller bust lines.
Petite Cup
Petite Cup A bra designed for women with a short and/or petite build. The cup will be paired down and sewn closer together. Many pre-teen bras are made with petite cups. At Tiffany’s we also include in our petite bra category bras where the cups come in large sizes, but the under wires are shorter than normal. We call these “Petite Plus Size.”
Push Up Cup
Push Up Cup Push-up cups enhance a woman’s bust line by creating cleavage and the look of fuller breasts. Designed primarily for C cup and smaller, push-up cup are shaped like a demi cup with significant padding at the bottom of the cup. The cups are angled inward so that the breast tissue falls towards the center, thus creating cleavage. An elliptical shaped pad at the bottom of the cup – called the bump pad – is sometimes removable. Placed on the bottom outside area of the cup, this pad causes your breast tissue to be pushed up and inward. Most push-up bras also have wide-set straps. Setting the straps toward the outside edge of the cup will further assist in directing the breast tissue towards the center to create more cleavage. A recent design change in push-up cups is a new pad in the shape of a wide “L”. This L-shaped pad rests both at the bottom and along the outside just inside the cup. Designers feel this pad design gives a more extreme push-up as well as increasing cleavage. Tiffany’s has several bras with this kind of padding.
Soft Cup
Soft Cup This is the name given to wireless and in most cases non-padded bras.
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