If beige comfort bras make you feel like a patient and lace underwires leave red grooves, the problem isn't your size.

Claire is 46, a size 16, and she refuses to wear what she calls the granny bras. Beige, thick, shapeless. She held one up in the M&S changing room and actually laughed.

So she wears her lace underwires. They look gorgeous. And she feels every one of them. The wire presses a groove into her ribs, the band rides up her back, and the cups spill at the sides under a fitted top.

She's stopped wearing the silk blouse she loves because you can see the bulge where the band cuts in. She's started standing with her arms folded. Not because she's cold. Because she's covering up.

If you recognise that fold of the arms, keep reading.

You did everything right. You got measured. You bought the bigger band so it wouldn't dig, and then it rode up your back and the cups sagged. You went back to the smaller band and the wire bruised you again.

You tried the padded wire-free ones. They flattened you into one shape, the uni-boob, and the side spill crept straight out under your arms.

Every fix moved the pain somewhere new. That's not bad luck and it's not your body. Every one of those bras carries your bust on the same few narrow points.

A thin wire. A thin band. Two thin straps. Change the size all you like; the weight still lands on a strip of skin the width of a pencil.

Here's what nobody in the fitting room tells you. A fuller bust has real weight, and a standard bra sends all of it down three routes: the wire under each cup, a narrow hook band round your back, and two skinny straps.

Narrow means concentrated. Concentrated means grooves, dents, red lines and the band rolling up to find a softer spot. The skin and soft tissue either side bulge out. That's your back roll. That's your side spill.

Comfort bras fix the pain by taking the structure away, so you lose the lift and the shape too.

The answer isn't less support. It's support spread wider, so no single line takes the load. Wide straps, full sides and a broad back panel do the lifting together.

It's called the ShapeChic Original Bra, and the first thing you notice is that it's pretty. Proper lace cups. Real shape. Nothing beige about it.

Then you notice what's missing. No wire. No hooks. No clasps. It pulls on over your head like a vest, so there's nothing to fasten, nothing to twist round and nothing to dig.

The wide cushioned straps spread the weight across your shoulders instead of slicing into them. The full sides gather the spill and bring it forward into the cup. And one wide, smooth back panel lies flat against you, so there's no band to roll up and no back rolls pushed out above it.

Lift from structure, not from a wire. That's the whole idea.

Put it on and look at your back in the mirror. The ridge is gone. With no narrow band cutting a line, there's nothing for soft skin to bulge over, so your top falls smooth from shoulder to waist.

Look at your sides. The spill that used to sit under your arms is gathered forward into the lace cup, which is exactly where it lifts your bust.

Now look at your shoulders. No dents. The cushioned straps hold the weight across a wide strip instead of two thin cuts.

A higher, smoother bust and a flat back can make you look up to two dress sizes smaller in the same top. Women stand taller simply because nothing is pulling them forward. Sizes run S to 4XL, so curvier figures get the same smooth line.

For Claire, the change wasn't a number on a label. It was the silk top.

She'd pushed it to the back of the wardrobe because the band showed through it like a belt. Now she pulls the ShapeChic on over her head, slips the silk on over it, and it lies flat. Lifted at the front. Smooth at the back. Lace she knows is there.

She uncrossed her arms. At the school gates, in the queue at the shops, round the table with friends, she stands up straight because nothing is digging and nothing is spilling.

She doesn't have to choose any more between feeling comfortable and feeling feminine. She just gets dressed and feels like herself again.

Think about the red line under your bust and the beige bra you can't bring yourself to wear. You've accepted that one of them is your lot. It isn't.

The cause was never your body. It was weight piled onto thin wires and bands. Spread it across wide straps, full sides and a smooth back panel, and the pain goes while the lift stays.

Right now it's Buy 1, Get 2 FREE, so you get three ShapeChic Originals in your pick of colours for the price of one. Delivery is free, and you've got 30 days from delivery to send them back if you don't love them.

Pick your size and colours on the offer page before this stock is gone.