1
What does it mean that I need to do this alteration?
So, I haven't done the alteration yet and haven't seen it online, but I have both the Cleo Lucy http://www.bratabase.com/troubleshoot/dhx92/ and a new cleo Alexa that I haven't added fully to bratabase yet.
With the Lucy, I had to initially bring in the gore. Recently it became uncomfortable (and slightly too small) so I decided to bring in the gore fully to make it slightly more open at top. This didn't affect the wrinkling at all.
With the Alexa, it fits perfectly at the bottom, way too open at top. The shape is a little pointy, but it's a quite lovely bra and I wouldn't want to part with it, but it has the same wrinkling at the top.
Recently, I've discovered that if I pinch in the excess fabric at the top near the gore, it looks perfect. I even get a little quadboob on both bras. I'm going to sew it in soon, but I'm wondering why I need to do this alteration. Would it be due to me not having enough tissue on the inner breast? Maybe it's due to my prominent breastbone pushing my tissue out?
Is there any type of bra that would fit this well? It seems that a plunge would work for this, but I'm rather shallow so those won't work for me. I don't mind the alterations, but I'm slowly discovering that not many well-fitting bras are wearable on me without alterations.
Filed under Bra sizing and fit
Prominent breast bone and a round ribcage can do those things yes. Also shallow boobs can be full very unevenly and have a harder time filling out cups wherever they are not full.
I feel like with my ribcage even if I need most room near the gore I might still get some gaping there due to my boobs being simply generally shallow. I feel for a round ribcage Cleo is quite a bitch with either cutting in or gaping. Or worse; both at the same time.
Thanks Branarchist. That's what I figured. But your comments about Cleo makes me feel a little worse. Cleo has the most beautiful bras (Alexa for example... I don't want to wear the bra because I'd rather sit and stare at the print for hours). But now that I've decided that there most likely aren't very many bras that I could get that I wouldn't have to alter (if there are any) I don't mind making little alterations to make these bras wearable.