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Taking wires out of bras
I thought about permanently removing the wires of some of my bras because I would like to have some comfy wireless options which are not a sports bra, or look like I stole them from my granny.
Does anyone here have experience with this? What happens if you remove the wires of a regular bra?
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I did this many years back & the bra instantly lost support. It was an old Panache bra-loved the pattern, hated the painful wires. I figured it would work but found it to be like taking the bones out of a creature in some horror film-the bra turned to a gelatinous mess.......... Okay, so it wasn't really a gelatinous blob, but it wasn't a usable bra anymore either......
Maybe if the original shape was different it might have worked better for me (ie higher center gore & wing with a reinforced full band and no upper lace on the cups not intended for the strain.)
Most wireless bras are structured slightly different from wired ones.
You could always try it & put the wires back if it doesn't work. :)
I did this to a curvy kate swim top (based on the luxe). I can now actually wear it for more than a minute. I had initially tried bending the wires away from my body, but that just created new pressure points.
It did lose its structure - absolutely no gore tacking (over an inch or two away at the top, but the band does touch all the way around), slightly saggy cups, no more perfectly front and center - but it works just fine for a bikini and still fits better than anything you can buy off the rack in the US.
I think it helps that this bikini, because it was based on the Luxe, had more structured, reinforced sides than your average bra. So while it lost some structure in the front, as a whole it's still functioned.
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