Customer Reviews

Playtex Women's Front Close with Flex Back Bra, White, 48DD

5 star:		(34)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I have worn JMS for many years, and they would wear out quickly, and then as a large busted woman the bra just sagged down farther and farther. This bra FITS!! It rides correctly on the back with elastic crosses, and fits wonderfully at the top of the breast. I bought this bra and a JMS in the same style to compare, and see which one I really wanted. There is no comparison after wearing them all day. The Playtex bra was still comfortable, fantastic support, and is my all time favorite.

This bra gives great support and is comfortable too. The front opening also makes it easier to put on if you have mobility issues.

For a large breasted woman these bras are very comfortable and very supportive. I highly reccommend them.

This is most likely the most supportive bra I've ever worn. I'm almost 60 so you can bet I've tried just about every size and style out there and always seemed to choose an underwire style. However, having just completed 3 years of cancer treatments/remissions/relapses with illness causing me to lose weight, meds causing me to gain weight, the sedentary life style from being so ill as well as the infamous menopausal 50 lbs along for the ride I was feeling like an unfit, sloppy blob. I had pretty much been wearing cheap sports bras (you know, the 3 pack for about $9 kind) simply for the comfort and ease in dressing/undressing at the hospital and doctors' offices. Finally I got fed up with feeling lousy and looking lazy and sloppy and did some comparative shopping. Ordered several bra styles in several sizes and had myself a 'trying on party' when they all arrived. This bra is my favorite right now. The gel straps are amazingly comfortable and don't dig into my shoulders, pull on my neck or fall down the sides of my arms. My 'girls' look perkier than they have in about 20 years and no longer slouch against my midsection (wow, did I just really admit to that?), and the criss cross elastic straps in the back somehow, without discomfort, make me stand up straight and improve my posture tremendously.

Now all that above is the good stuff. What I'm finding now is that at the bottom of the front closure where the two sides meet, it digs into the area at the base of my sternum and in just a few hours has caused a gouge in my skin: almost looks like a bad heel blister from new shoes. A kind of scratchy, digging, wish-it-would-stop sensation and I find myself picking at the base of the bra closure through my shirt and adjusting it more and more as the day wears on. I'm not sure if it will soften up when laundered but I hope so. Otherwise I'll have to find something like a cotton ball to stick under there if I want to wear this bra for any length of time. I have no idea what would happen if I was more active: perhaps I would have noticed this irritation sooner, but I'm not allowed to leave the house for any reason due to my compromised immune system and flu season, so I'm not doing much other than housework and playing with the dogs. So right now I can say this is a great bra for fit and support but the front closure edges could use a bit more padding.

These bras fit me extremely well and are very comfortable to wear all day long.

This bra does it's business.

I am 5'6" tall, 215lbs and a 42D cup. I've tried soooo many bras and they never pick me up and put things where they belong. Wasted my money on the Breezies A51770 bra. When I first got it I loved the structure. Soon after the underwire poked into my sides and broke through the fabric. The elastic under the breast rolled up and was very rough. My breasts have never really stopped aiming towards my arms and stood up like they should with any bra that I have ever purchased...UNTIL NOW!

This bra pulls my breasts out of my armpits comfortably, picks them up and aims them forward without creating unnessary cleavage. There is no underwire and none needed. YAY! It actually acts as a minimizer which is great because it adds to the slimmer more youthfull appearance I'm looking for.

The straps are really nice. They are shorter than I usually find and don't provide the option of a sloppy drooping breast.

If I could design a bra myself it would be close to this one. My skin under my breasts is sensitive to the rough elastic that soooo many bra designers insist on using. The elastic under the breast with this bra isn't satin but, it is softer than the Breezies bra.

I found one of these bras at Walmart in the clearance rack for $10.00. It was a 40D , a little small around for me but, was so impressed that I ordered 2 in a 42D from Amazon.com

I say "go for it".

Excellent fit and excellent support
front close is so much easier especially
if you have a bad arm or shoulder.

This is my second round of these bras. I love them because they are supportive and help my posture. I wear a DDD, so I need all the help I can get in both of those areas, and these bras are the best I have ever found for both of those things. They also last a long time and maintain their support much longer than I would have expected.

However, I have had the same problem that other reviewers have expressed; the bottom of the bra ends up cutting into my skin. To be totally honest, though, I like these bras so much that I often put a small piece of fabric in that spot to keep it from happening. I had hoped that the second set of these bras wouldn't have this problem, but apparently it wasn't a fluke thing, and I guess I am not so malformed as to be the only one this has happened to, either. I think that ten minutes with a needle and thread could easily correct this problem for good. And if you need a good, sturdy, no frills bra it would probably be worth it. I am keeping mine and will modify them to suit, only because after a decade of looking for just the right bra, this is as close as I have come to providing the support that I need for more than a couple of weeks.

my mother-in-law has difficulty with using her right hand, so the fasteners on this bra help her get around that.

The straps are so thick on this bra that I don't own a single shirt that I can wear it under where the straps don't show by my neck. It's unwearable for this fact by itself. It's also not true to fit. I bought a 38DD and it is very, very tight under my breasts. It also makes "the girls" look very pointy.

I bought this bra for back support since I have been having middle back pain recently and it doesn't seem to be any more supportive than a cheap bra from Target.