Fire...damnit.
Jul. 5th, 2008 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
parasitegirlThe fire bedlah bra is in worse shape than I thought. I undid the ghetto fixes and realized that while the ribcage area was now big enough, it is SERIOUSLY flawed in construction.
The band that goes around your ribcage is attached to the cups around...oohh...NIPPLE level and higher. This means that the part that needs to be the tightest is pulls down the cups at niplevel and squishes your breasts (well... mine) into nothing. It needs to attach lower...near the base/bottom.The ghetto fix strip-mined the beads from a wedge shaped part on the sides of the cups and sort of darted the ribcage band under a bit to bring it lower...but not low enough.
I didn't figure out the major design flaw until I had already re-beaded one of the strip-mined pie-shapes (with beads I went and purchaced the hour after getting the set) .
The belt is so wonderful that I think I am going to perform seriously reconstructive surgery. This will mean detaching the ribcage strap, fixing up the cups where I detach from, and create a whole new lower ribcage band, beaded with the beads from the old one.
This is scary surgery...scarier than when I decided to trash the fugly blue beaded skirt and construct a bedlah belt from it.
Pictures:
Removing the stitches to expand the band I find this wedge shape of damage on each side of the cups.
Look at the left cup. I rebeaded that wedge only to realize...shit...major design flaw! There is no way that this band configuration works for ANYONE with breasts. Oh, at least my beading entertained the hell out of some little old ladies at Starbucks.
But the belt is such crazy fun that I am going to do it. I also can't with a clear conscious, even think about selling the set because that bra top won't work for anyone.
The band that goes around your ribcage is attached to the cups around...oohh...NIPPLE level and higher. This means that the part that needs to be the tightest is pulls down the cups at niplevel and squishes your breasts (well... mine) into nothing. It needs to attach lower...near the base/bottom.The ghetto fix strip-mined the beads from a wedge shaped part on the sides of the cups and sort of darted the ribcage band under a bit to bring it lower...but not low enough.
I didn't figure out the major design flaw until I had already re-beaded one of the strip-mined pie-shapes (with beads I went and purchaced the hour after getting the set) .
The belt is so wonderful that I think I am going to perform seriously reconstructive surgery. This will mean detaching the ribcage strap, fixing up the cups where I detach from, and create a whole new lower ribcage band, beaded with the beads from the old one.
This is scary surgery...scarier than when I decided to trash the fugly blue beaded skirt and construct a bedlah belt from it.
Pictures:
Removing the stitches to expand the band I find this wedge shape of damage on each side of the cups.
Look at the left cup. I rebeaded that wedge only to realize...shit...major design flaw! There is no way that this band configuration works for ANYONE with breasts. Oh, at least my beading entertained the hell out of some little old ladies at Starbucks.
But the belt is such crazy fun that I am going to do it. I also can't with a clear conscious, even think about selling the set because that bra top won't work for anyone.
