Despite that standards of women's beauty dictate that women with big breasts are beautiful, clothing lines continually fail to produce garments that fit my bust. Ugh. I was looking for a nice summer at Ross the other day, and ran into this problem: I find very cute cotton dresses but they all have these nice triangular boob-covers with spaghetti straps attached to them. Alas none have sleeves or thick straps. The fundamental flaw being that they appear shockingly revealing and borderline x-rated on me, and they cannot adequately hide bra straps. The dresses that do fit me are the ones that are made out of that obnoxious stretchy material that accentuates every lumpy bumpy part of my body that I would prefer to hide from the public at large.
So then I thought: Gee, I have a sewing machine. I know how to use said sewing machine. I have made medieval costume components on the sewing machine, but do not know how to sew patterns. I can probably learn. So I go to the Simplicity website and find some patterns I would like to make. I go to sizing information and get this, "Misses patterns are made for a B cup with 2 1/2" (6.3cm) difference between Bust and High Bust measurement." So I could sew a pattern which fits in the bust but is loose in the waist? I would not even begin to guess how one would modify the pattern to fit correctly. Really, what's the effing point?
But I think it might be worth my while to start learning to sew patterns anyway, especially due to the dazzling fabrics that I was salivating over at JoAnn's all those times I was searching for purse linings.
In other news: Andean plying WIN.
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