Understatement was founded in Stockholm in 2017, by Marie Stolt and Maria Lager. Their starting point was simple. Underwear should ask nothing of the body wearing it — no underwire, no stiff padding, no discomfort built in from the first sketch.

We were drawn to how far that idea is carried through. Soft, breathable mesh and lace. Flat seams. A genuine size range, not a token extension, the Mesh Support styles run from A to F cup, built with the same care at every size. It is a considered answer to a category that has long defaulted to underwire and standard sizing, and it sits naturally alongside the rest of what we curate at Primary.

There is comfort here worth discovering, of a kind that holds its shape without holding you to one. For the days an underwire structure is not what you are after, without stepping down in quality or design, Understatement has earned its place in our lingerette.