Primark adapted bras review

Primark have launched a range of adaptive clothing which I’ve found quite exciting. There’s a few items in the range that I want to buy but I can’t afford them all in one go. So to start with I’ve just bought what I needed most which was their adaptive bras and a set of pyjamas. Today I’ll review the bras I bought.

The adaptive clothing range is only available in a small selection of stores meaning you can’t go all stores to browse the range. It’s a little annoying but I understand that the adaptive clothing range is very niche so it doesn’t make financial sense. Added to that for click and collect for the clothes is only available to select stores so you might not be able to get ahold of the clothes close by to where you live. I don’t quite understand why not all stores can offer this? I feel lucky that my local store does click and collect but going to collect the clothes is rather an ordeal. 

I bought both the bralettes and the lace plunge bra which are the two bras that Primark offer in their adaptive clothing range.

Photos from Primark

Both bras are front closing and have a magnetic closurfor myself and my PAs/carers when getting dressed and o. My usual bras I have to pull over my head so as you can imagine having something front closing has been an absolute dream. The bra’s from Primark also have given me more independence when dressing and undressing as I just need a bit of guidance to get them on but apart from that I can pretty much put them on myself and the closure is so easy to do even on days when I’m struggling with my hand function. Also with my Ehlers-Danlos my joints are very unstable so pulling my bra over my head can sometimes cause problems. However the front closing bras cause no issue at all with my shoulders.

Both bras come in two colours. Either pink or black. I got one of each colour in the bralette’s and a black lace plunge bra as I had some underwear that would go with it. With the bralette’s it would be nice to see them in in other colours such as light grey and both bras’s in white in a nude skin tone colour. There’s adaptive underwear in the Primark range so I’d have have them in these other colours too so they can co-ordinate.

I absolutely love the bralette, the only things I don’t like about them are first and foremost they aren’t padded. I’d love to see Primark add padding to these bralettes. The other thing is with tighter fitting tops the middle part where the closure is it is quite prominent and can be seen. Even on lose fitting tops you can see the magnetic closure if the top is pulled a particular way.

The lace plunge bra however is padded. Both bras’s are not wired which I like. The bralette if padded would have been the style of bra I’d normally wear. The lace bra I see as more fancy but I like it because it’s padded. 

The only problem I find with the lace plunge bra is that the lace on the strap goes quite far up so it show on some of my tops.

Another thing I found was trying to work out the size I needed. The Primark website wasn’t very helpful but eventually I found something online and found that I was an XS - I’m a 6/8 for clothes.

So in summary:

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  Photo from Primark

  Not are stores stock the range or offer click and collect
• I would say that on the whole the magnetic closure is very good and easy to do
• The front closure makes taking the bra on and off a lot easier 
• The adaptive bras promote independence when dressing/undressing
• I’d like both bra styles to come in more colours
• The bralette’s aren’t padded but the lace plunge bra’s are
• I’d like to see the bralette’s with padding too
• I like that both bra styles don’t come with under wiring which I like
• The lace on the that particular bra goes quite far up showing on some tops
• The sizing chart isn’t very clear on what size you need to get