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Love your blog! Advice on how to DIY this elastic savant bralette? https://www.idontlikemondays.us/Merchant2/inventory/savant_bralette_am.jpg Can’t imagine paying almost $200 for this!
Soitenly. There’s a couple DIY tutes on that bralette already out there, like on Monoxious (http://www.monoxious.com/diy-clothes-tutorial-making-an-elastic-harness-diy-fashion/) and dusty dress (http://dustydress.blogspot.com/2009/05/220-process.html).
The basic idea is you just pin the elastic onto your dress form, keeping the elastic taut but not *too stretched.* If you don’t have a dress form, then enlisting the help of a friend would be great, and pinning it onto a tight-fitting tanktop that you are wearing. Then, pull off the piece, and stitch down the connections on your machine using a regular stitch (not a stretch stitch) in black thread. It doesn’t even need a closure since it is elastic!
Best of luck – and you’re definitely right – $200 is way, way too much for some elastic!
xoxox
Carly
xoxox
Carly
thanks so much! definitely will try this during my summer break.
I have always envied the ability to shop in boutique lingerie shops, but have yet to find any in the Peninsula/South Bay parts of the Bay Area that carry stock for plus-size ladies.
Right now I’m shopping at Lane Bryant, but I’m kind of at a loss–post-weaning the second small human. And while the good staff people of Lane Bryant have all been really, really friendly on my quest to find my new fit and size, they have not, unfortunately, been really, really helpful.
Does anyone know of a good place in the Bay Area that carries band sizes 38 and up, and caters to the clueless shopper?
Wow, that’s a tough one. I’m not in the Bay Area so I’m afraid I don’t know either. Dear readers, can anyone help this commenter out?? Thanks!