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• Glad your bra surgery was successful!

• You did a really nice job! It looks great on

• Nice! I wonder if altering the cup would also be a possibility, to sorta make the stretch lace tighter so it's not flapping around. But then that would also require cup depth to be altered and I can't even begin to figure out how that is done.
  Maybe out btb seamstresses can pitch in with ideas.

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  I think, if I do mess with the cups, I will either tack excess material to the bottom of the wire channel along the vertical seam, thus reducing cup height. Or tack the material to the wire channel along the horizontal seam and reduce apex and upper depth.
  I could also put in a dart, but that might require more skill than I have.

• You are very brave do this yourself! How is the wire for your frame?

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  brasaremean they are too wide and a bit too tall. I'm not sure yet if they're painfully so, though.

  I do have narrower wires I can swap them out for, but I think that would make the depth problem worse.

• Impressive alteration! I wonder if I could do this with any of my ill-fitting, but pretty bra. You have given me so many ideas!

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  I always fear wire replacement would make the cups deeper too. I think it would require a complete cup reconstruction to actually make it fit, but also if you think about it, the breast that escapes (if you have soft tissue like me, it literally fills out the cup to the wire no matter how wide it is) to the wire would be contained in the new wire, so maybe it wouldn't happen. Does that even make sense?

• brasaremean It does to me since my breast tissue does the same thing. The path of least resistance for the breast tissue. This only works if the cup is compressive enough to squish the tissue sideways though, so may not help in the cup is too big to begin with. :-/

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  Wow! I see you can’t let go this bra! :D I’m looking forward to see you end results as looks promising !

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  I really can't martka00 !

  I'm wearing this today as a test run. Thinking about my solutions to the loose lace issue, I'm not going to be reducing it vertically. I'll probably lose wire projection if I do and it is so blissfully deep at the bottom, I don't think I want to give that up.

  I think reducing it horizontally is also not the solution. Ewa's sister sizes do not scale, so while in theory this should be a 65G now, it is not. I'd say it is more a 65FF but with extra tall cups. I'm not having any trouble filling the bra out where it needs projection, which is why I'm getting a nice shape out of it despite the lace being floppy, the lace is simply laying on the shallow part of my upper roots where there's nothing to fill it. If I want to fix it, I will have to dart it. I may not as it seems to only be an aesthetic issue and not a fit issue.

  brasaremean my tissue is moderately soft, but I have pretty narrow roots and even if I squish down, my breasts don't really go to the sides, so I can't fill out wider wires. If I wear a bra that's too small in the cup it just squashes me down and hurts since my breasts are firm enough through the center to push back against that pressure even if there's space that could be filled on the side. Does that make sense?
  My issue with wider wires is my rib cage is really boney and I find Ewa's wires really hard, if they sit on my rib cage they sometimes hurt a lot. These are not awful, about .5" wider than I like, but we'll see.

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  Did you try bending the wire to follow your body curve? Then just bend the ends slightly away so they don't poke your underarm tissue.

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  Yep, I do that with all my bras actually since who the heck has a flat torso?

  I bent the ends towards each other to make them slightly narrower also, but that only helps so much.

  They've been okay so far, but I've also not been really active yet today.

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  ikr I don't know why wires don't come pre-bent :/

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  I altered the wires and gore. I added more pics and updated the review.

• Wow! Those alterations made such a difference. It looks beautiful on you.

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