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Nov 02, 2012 My new frankenbra
So I have just altered the straps on an old Harmony bra as per this tutorial. http://dressingcurves.blogspot.se/2012/03/alterations-moving-strap-position.html I brought the straps in about half an inch on each side. While the result is not as neat as I would like (my sewing skills are fairly basic) I can definitely say the straps are a lot more comfortable. I plan to unpick all the stitching and redo this several times over just for practice.
There are some other problems that have been created by this alteration though. I am getting some armpit spill as well as quadboob at the top. I decided to try taking in the center gore as it has always been too wide for me in this bra and I remember reading somewhere that by tipping the cups to a slightly different angle it can open the cups a little. It did help to some degree but the quadboob is still there and the armpit spillage is worse and the underwires are now sitting on breast tissue.
I can only think that I am going to have to buy a cup size bigger than I really need in order to make this work. I can see that causing some major problems as I will not be able to assess the fit until I've altered it and I won't be able to return anything that doesn't fit. I also think some of my bras can't be considered for this alteration such as the Panache Porcelain, the cup on that is already tightly closed and moving the straps in will only make that worse. So right now I am not sure whether to just live with straps chafing me or risk the expensive option of buying too big bras and altering them. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them.
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It would seem as a general rule the bras doing that alteration on needs to be too big in the beginning.
If the wires is on breast tissue after you altered the center gore I'd say you need wider wires. Or deeper cups. So yes sizing up is what I'd do.
I did the center gore alteration to one of my bra. I had a empty space on the side, but the wires came on my breast tissues in the center (painfull).
This bra wasn't too big for me, the cups were just to separate. The center gore alteration brought the cups close together whithout make them smaller (but the band is now smaller than before).
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