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Tango undone
No pics yet, sorry. I just took the wires out of one old Panache Tango Ii Balconette (3251). Now, the band feels even looser than it was before, and the cups end further back by 2 cm. I guess the wires did give some resistance so the front of the bra wouldn't be pulled all flat. When I put the wire on my body, it sits nicely around my breast. But the underarm end of the wire doesn't have *anything* directly behind it, so when the band is pulled tight, the wire stretches back with it. If my ribcage was just a little bit wider, I think the direction of the force on the wire would be different and the wire would not bend. I mean, it is only very bendy in the "S" way but not in "U" way.
I wonder what kind of structure would prevent that. Circular wire, overwire, or something else to counter the force . The wires on Ewa Michalak Sm Trefl are not much more narrow, and they still don't bend so much out of place.
Otherwise, Tango sans wires looks not much different than usually. No uniboob, apex points forward rather than east-west. There is not so much uplift, and I can feel there is more pressure on my shoulders. The gore doesn't tack, of course, and looks like there's extra fabric there. And the pressure on my shoulders get worse by the minute... Ok, this must be one reason why I need underwires on my bras LOL
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Pinging alisa Branarchist Vee :)
I love experiments like this <3
I really believe all bras should have vertical boning behind the wires to at least somewhat prevent wire distortion. And the "bonier" our bodies are compared to our boobs (meaning the more shallow our boobs are) the more important I think it is because there's not enough weight in the front to counter the pressure by the band backwards.
This is why I kind of don't believe in +0 method + swoop and scoop. We all get ourself into a situation the bras cannot really handle. Because they were not really made for that. It's nothing wrong with it, it's just it's way more complicated. Sort of.
I think people have a hard time understanding that what we are doing here more and more seems that we're creating a new type of bras and bra fitting. We use the old bras and ideas as a base, but we make something completely new that wasn't there before. It's extremely interesting and I adore being a part of it <3
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