Claire Harmeyer is a former senior shopping writer and current contributing writer for PEOPLE. Claire has tested hundreds of fashion and beauty products during her six years in digital media.
For women with large breasts , finding a supportive, comfortable, and durable bra is a challenge on its own. But finding a bra that checks all those boxes and doesn’t make their chests appear bigger is a whole other beast. This is why minimizer bras exist.
Minimizer bras do exactly what their name implies, bra expert Jené Luciani Sena shares with PEOPLE. They are “intended to minimize the overall projection of the breasts by 1 to 2 inches,” Sena says. “The design is slightly different from other bras in that the cups are more shallow (i.e. tall and wide) to distribute breast tissue evenly. Us