Altering Outside the Box

So, I've gone to town on my 65L - Ewa Michalak » Sm Beżyk . Every time I do stuff like this, I keep thinking that I should actually take photos of the process that I go through, but I kind of loosely base what I do on various tutorials and kind of figure out the rest as I go along. Also, I'm totally like a little kid at Christmas and get too excited to want to stop and document the process.

There was a bit of fabric attaching the straps to the cup of the bra, and I didn't end up needing that extra height at all, so I just removed it. I was a bit worried about sewing over lace, but it turned out that the lace is pretty sturdy and seems to stay in place pretty well. I still can't move the lift point in as far as I'd like, or it would end up completely messing up the fit of the bra. I almost feel like I need two sets of straps, with one set lifting almost from the very middle of the bra though I don't know how that would work under a shirt. I still need to take the back in, but I'm planning to wash and wear the bra on the tightest hook a few times before I do that because my Toffik stretched out so much in the first few weeks of wear! I sewed it by hand, as I'm still having sewing machine woes. The thread isn't a perfect match, but actually hasn't showed up at all in any of the pictures where I'm wearing the bra. Go figure.

What are my thoughts on the finished result? Well, the bra isn't cutting me off under the arms any more and the cups aren't collapsing. It actually feels very comfortable! I've pretty much pulled out about 1 cup worth of volume, all in the top section of the bra, so I have the projection that my breasts want to have, and none of the height/width issues usually associated with it. The visual apex of the bra isn't exactly where my apex actually is, but it looks fine under a shirt. I'm not sure what I'd call this shape. It's not clearly the 'blue', 'purple' or 'green' shapes as far as I can tell. It's certainly got a lot of coverage, but that doesn't especially bother me. I don't tend to wear low-cut/plungy tops anyway most of the time. It's certainly not a classic S fit by any stretch of the imagination.

I've put up some pictures of the bra on me in an album. I probably should have waited for my husband to help me take pictures, but I was too excited. Also, the original images for reference here. http://www.bratabase.com/browse/ewa-michalak/sm-bezyk/65L/

Is it bad that I actually feel like this is the best bra that I have, and that I'd almost be more tempted to do this again than order a bra in my 'correct' size?

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