Rigby and Peller

Maggie £25 is a start! I can't imagine paying £80, it's bad enough to be paying around £40!

I would say the cheapest would be approx £80. I have been a few times as a treat. It's amazing

Bravissimo.

Prima Donna (Rigby & Peller) bras (of which I have several at about £75-80 each can be purchased from a few independent lingerie shops, which us where I bought mine. They are trained to know your size just by looking, no tape measures are used and I can tell you this as a fact...they are a perfect fit.
If you are blessed in the boob department but want quality and comfort married with pretty fabric and sexy shapes, Bravissimo are the company to go to and their prices are less eye-watering.
I should imagine that HM has enough bras to see her out.

*is not us.

I use Bodas - more expensive than Sch you know who, BUT not in terms of price per wear as they last 'for ever' - and we all know how long the others last.

I believe my DIL pays around £100. I don’t know the details.

I think, if I’d known about it, I might have done that once if I were younger, but now I don't really care enough to fork out that sort of money for a bra.

Got measured on Saturday at M&S. £18 included bra! Have ordered a couple more. Cup size had changed.

Ladies.... R&P have a Factory Shop in Rothwell Northamptonshire. Beautiful, comfortable, quality bras....and I speak as someone with 40FF boobs... for around £15.

Knickers too. And swimwear.

At the risk of sounding like a mad old bag... R&P bras changed my life ... they are a cross between works of art and stupendous engineering.

If you've never worn one, plan yourself an away day to Rothwell... you will be amazed by the difference. Or as we say in Northants... gobsmacked !

Where do my replies go? Can never see them!!

Once you’ve had a R&P Bra you won’t want to go anywhere else. Ok they are expensive in my case approx £90 each, but they are so comfortable and give a really nice shape. If I had to choose between eating and a good fitting bra I know which one would win!

It is unfortunate for the company who bought it from the woman who caused the problem but I would be angry if I were famous and someone wrote a book detailing a bra fitting. It was a weird and disrespectful thing to do. She got £8m from the sale of the business so, unless she had run up a lot of debts, it wasn't about the money.
I never have much respect from people in close positions, like housekeepers or nannies, who write about the people they work for. It must be unpleasant to employ people in close positions and then have them betray you. It just seems like really bad manners.

It's the fitting expertise that R&P are known for, especially in the original London shop. As a 42J, I would love to see what suggestions the assistant makes.

sue I have read so many similar comments about the service being worth every penny.

Rothwell definitely sounds good.

Was it a state secret that the Royals wear underwear?
I understand that there are no details in the book just the breaking of the Royal Warrant agreement not to use the Royals in advertising as mentioned before.

I have used them once for a bra when I was a MOB, very good fitting service, problem is once you have got the bra you want the matching knicks - now they are expensive.

Agree with Nana - I had a R&P fitting and will always wear Prima Donna Bras now.

My daughter found an on-line source in Pontefract - can I name them - which has regular discounts on all stock. That is when I buy. I pay £65 -75.

I use 'Soak' to wash the bras and find they last well and look good so well worth the cost for the comfort.

With any other bras, I find myself tugging at them half way through the day.

I think she drops names in the book, but no details. It's about June Kenton's life, not a 'tell all' book. Apparently she's led an interesting life. She broke the protocol by mentioning the Queen.

I advise her Maj. not to buy the 'one size fits all' ones, I bought some, they give you one long boob, arm pit to armpit, like a draft excluder.

Is it just Her Maj or all the Royal ladies using R&P?
I buy my bras from the supermarket and don't care if they don't last. some are more comfy than others, but I only have a D cup, so it isn't that critical.

HOW much!! I bought two lovely t shirt bras at Matalan, they are a super fit and so comfortable.

Lynn what do you think makes their bras different? What are the other brands getting wrong?

I think if she had just said that in such and such a year she received the Royal Warrant it would have been OK but I gather she wrote about fitting "half dressed Queen surrounded by corgis".

radicalnan true! I tried one, only for stay at home days.
How can sizing you (Rigby and Peller) by eye rather than tape be good enough for a bespoke bra?Surely it needs both
Methods?

Hi all. Me again. If anyone would like to contact the factory shop... and since my last visit, it looks like they've changed their name...

Wacoal Factory Shop.
Rothwell Road,
Desborough,
Northants.
NN14 2PG.

01536 761252

Give them a buzz because they have odd opening hours... and they'll check to see they've got your size.

They also do Freya and Fantasie.

Why are they so good ? Just extremely well made. Which is why they are so eye wateringly expensive in places like Harrods !

The factory shop has bargain bins too. Bras and knickers from £5, if you can find your size !

Good hunting !

Maggie

"Bare minimum" Love it!

I’ve been going there ( the Knightsbridge branch) for many years and wouldn’t go anywhere else for fitting. I don’t buy their own brand but Prima Donna who are brilliant if like me you have a seriously big bust. £70 - 80 but worth every penny. Improves the look of everything you wear over the bra.

That’s why hair cuts and bras are my top spending priorities - they’re always with you whatever clothes you wear.