Women's underwear, namely bras, in addition to the main task of maintaining and correcting the shape of the breast, can perform several more functions. Beautiful and high-quality lingerie gives you self-confidence, complements and completes your look. In addition, according to many men, women's breasts look best in a black or red lace bra. That is why every girl has several comfortable and beautiful bras in her arsenal, which she wears every day or only on special occasions. However, no matter how high-quality and expensive a bra is, someday it will stretch and lose its shape. Should it be thrown away or does old laundry have a chance for a second life?
Options for using an old bra
Dresses and blouses with an open back are in every girl's wardrobe and in most cases they are either worn once or twice or not worn at all.The thing is that the cut of the dress, which opens the back and shoulders, simply leaves no room to hide a bra underneath. Many girls are unhappy with the way they look in this outfit and prefer to wear something more closed and conservative.
An old bra whose straps and back have stretched or torn can help give backless outfits a second chance. In addition to the bra, you will need sewing supplies, scissors, pins and a dress (blouse).
Important! The bust cups must be intact and not deformed.
The step-by-step process looks like this:
- The sides are cut off from the old bra. As a result, a frame of cups and a connecting element should remain.
- Armed with a thread and a needle to match the dress (blouse), the cups are carefully sewn to the lining of its front part.
Important! While working, you need to make sure that the seams do not become noticeable on the front side of the outfit.
If the clothing chosen for alteration does not have a lining and is made of too thin fabric, it will not be possible to sew cut out cups onto it. The way out of the situation would be to remake the bust itself. To do this, the back part of the unnecessary bra is also cut off, leaving only the front straps sewn on. They are then sewn directly to the sides of the cups. The result will be underwear that will not reveal your presence under an open outfit.
Advice! Under thin fabric, it is better to wear busts with a smooth satin cup. Openwork elements and decorations will be visible through thin silk, satin or knitwear.
Another option for dresses with an open back is to sew a wide elastic band into the back of the bust, which will allow it to be as low as possible.This alteration can be done with underwear whose sides have stretched or with a bust that has become large in volume.
Important! The elastic should be long enough to wrap around your waist.
What can be done from an old bra: popular ideas
Recent fashion trends are bringing long-forgotten things back to life. Thus, in the collections of famous designers you can increasingly find short T-shirts and tops. Particularly popular are models with a solid cup and lace bottom, which are a truly versatile part of the wardrobe. Particularly daring girls wear them in combination with tight, high-waisted trousers or pencil skirts. Some wear them under formal jackets and soft wool sweaters with a wide neckline on the chest or back.
You can make a lace top yourself using an old bra as a base. It is important to note that it must be intact and not lose its good appearance. To work you will need lace and fabric glue. All parts of the bra (except the straps) are covered with lace. Small elements are attached to the back and to the cups; a wide strip of lace can be glued to the bottom, allowing you to make the top wider.
Advice! In addition to lace, rhinestones, sequins, metal clips, and fringe made of leather cut into thin strips are used as decoration for bras.
What else can you make from old bras?
To create new things, you can use the entire bra or individual parts. May be useful:
- Straps. From elastic and durable bra straps you can make a fashionable neck decoration - a choker. You can sew stones, beads or a ring for pendants onto the ribbon and the stylish accessory is ready.
- Inserts.Models with shape-correcting “push-up” will help get rid of calluses resulting from wearing uncomfortable shoes. Simply remove the liner from the pocket inside the cup and place it in the part of the shoe that rubs the skin on your foot.
- Front and back. Craftswomen who know how to sew can turn old and tired underwear into a beautiful, stylish swimsuit.
Cups will also work. Armed with a thread and a needle and having a zipper lock in stock, you can make a handbag-case for storing telephone headphones from two cups from the bust. Being in such a case, they will definitely stop getting tangled and breaking. Thrifty housewives use soft foam push-up cups sewn together as objects for storing needles or pins.
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What if you just throw it away? If you try to make a candy out of kaki, nothing but kaki will come out anyway.
FIRE!!! )))))))))))))))))
And not a single photo?
Cut it in half, remove all the excess, you’ll get a boil and sell it to Jews in a synagogue or deliver it to Israel...
Here is a “high-society” martyr!
Yes, make TWO SKULL CAPS and okay!)))
Beautiful and stylish swimsuit made from old linen?? Shouldn't the author of the article sew an evening dress from her husband's old socks?
KNEE PADS!
I’m looking forward to the second part: “What to make from old panties.”
As I was at the humor show, I had to come up with something like that. I really liked about the boiling pots :)
Try it yourself and sell something to the Jews))))
You can make flea parachutes out of old bras. Citizens, you are in your own... You need to throw out the old ones and buy new ones, unless you are a fan of smelling used ones))))
Plagiarism... Petrosyan also said: if you eat a sausage and you still have mica from the sausage, don’t throw it away. It can still be washed and used...
And we already talked about old panties - if they are torn, cut off the top (lace elastic), tuck them under the straps of a bra that is not yet old - and both of them, there is a lace top sticking out in the neckline!!!!!!!!! Beauty-pretty
Two bales
Didn't you feel sorry for your time?
a bag for headphones)))))) made from cups? seriously? only if from zero)
Super article! This is simply extraordinary nonsense... At first I was looking for where to put “THUMBS DOWN”, but after reading the reviews I laughed heartily. I haven't laughed so much for a long time!))))))
And if the bra is size 10 or larger, by sewing two cups, you can get a string bag - go to the market for potatoes.
I couldn’t think of anything more stupid, my friend. Just the ramblings of a madman. Are you already completely impoverished?
The author forgot to write about shoulder pads. I just throw it away because the size changes all the time, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller. But there is no time for experiments, and there is no room for so many, it’s necessary, and handbags and backpacks, hats, pads, what is it called, camel toe, I think? Hilarious and nothing more
Here’s another option: unfasten or cut off the straps, take out the inserts, bones and carefully, trying not to wrinkle or mix up the parts, place them in the trash bin.
Those who do handicrafts in order to get a profitable new product are unlikely to like all this. And those who do handicrafts for the sake of the process themselves will figure out where to adapt things, since a creative person is his own “director.”
You can make six bonnets from three bras!!!
We all fell for the offer for a moron, the author did a great job of cheating...
Oh, these experimenters)))) Yes, if I connect two cups of a bra, then not only headphones will fit there... a phone will fit there, groceries and even a husband??
Goodness, at least they included pictures for clarity! I already read the first two sections (for dresses with an open back) several years ago. True, I haven’t used it yet, because... It seems that such a design will not support the breasts.
And the section “what else can be done” seems to be taken from the press of the times of the Soviet shortage and the headings “note to the housewife”?
No, my dears, nothing good can come of an old bra. And if he is not old, then it is better to take him to where they accept clothes for charity.
By the way, by “make a swimsuit” I meant using the cups from the bra as cups for a swimsuit. Stores sell special individual chagechkas of different sizes and shapes. And here you won’t have to buy it. I do this if the swimsuit I like does not have cup lining.
What about the classic hat for twins?