Bralette Drafting Woes

 I’ve been in the bra mentorship since the end of August. Thus far, we worked on underpants and bralettes. I’m looking forward to the next step, bra fitting bands. We will take the band from the bralette and fit cups into it. 

I really don’t know how to fit cups to me in a regular pattern. Perhaps the band was wrong? But, then I change the band and it affects the cup? So, then the band and cups have to be altered to get the cups back to the right orientation? And, if the underwire is different than the one the pattern maker calls for, then changes need made to support that!

So, I tried one last time to make the bralette fit, and I did not succeed again. Somehow, measuring on my body is not giving me measurement that fit me. Through the band seems to be improving, these two piece cups just won’t cooperate. Also, new machine for Christmas (thank you, my love!), and I’m wondering if the vertical cup seam is just stretched?

What’s right? I think the band is much improved.

What’s wrong? Those cups have wound up with too much space well above the apex. The first stretch cups were at 15% stretch reduction, and this time I chose 10%. It could be that. I tried going for a 4 inch BCD instead of 3.75 inch because measuring after holidays… I think the upper cup somehow wound up with excess shaping.

But, it was expressed that we need cups that actually fit in order to alter the seam lines to make other shapes that actually fit. Maybe I’ll give the cups another try, so I’ll just move on to the next assignment and come back to these later.