When my daughter comes home from uni, she always has a pile of clothes needing alterations. This is the second alteration/repair for my daughter’s favorite bra.
The first was 2 years ago. I shortened the band in the back. Folded the extra fabric and did a simple zigzag.
This time, The band was thread-bare. I had to make a new band. Here’s what I did.
I traced the band without cutting the old band off. (yes, that’s scrap paper)
I found some scrap spandex and cut out the new band with no seam allowance.
The part of the bra that was receiving the most stress was the area from where the strap attaches to the bottom of the band. So I cut reinforcement from scrap broadcloth and sewed it to the top and bottom. You can see that I serged the edges of the reinforcement.
I sewed elastic around the top and bottom edges. (Sorry. I forgot to snap a pic of this step.) This is where I sewed on the elastic using a narrow zigzag stitch.
Sorry. I forgot to take pics of the rest of the steps.
I cut off the old fastening and sewed it onto a scrap of wide, non-roll elastic.
Sewed the fastener with non-roll elastic onto the band.
Zigzagged the new band around the cup edges with a thin zig-zag stitch.
Cut off the old band on the edge of that zigzag.
Attached the straps to the band using a wide zig-zag stitch.
My daughter loves it!
I’m amazed that after so much wear, the underwire has not poked through! My daughter says that’s what you get when you buy quality. I agree.
Sorry I didn’t take pics of the end steps or the final result. Stay tuned for next time my daughter comes home from uni.