how do I decrease the cup size in a sewing pattern?
I am sewing a dress for my cousins wedding. I am using simplcity pattern 5052. I am a size 20, but I am only an A cup in the bust, as a I have a very broad back, how do I make it so I have less room in the front and more in the back?
I can’t find a photo of 5052, so I don’t know precisely what you’re working with. However, decreasing the cup size is the inverse of a large bust adjustment — you overlap instead of spread the pattern:
http://www.timmelfabrics.com/fullbustalteration.htm
http://www.burdafashion.com/en/Service/Workshops/Workshop_The_problem_-_large_bust/1000001-1487353-1227467.html
To increase the back, I’d use a seamline method of alteration:
http://www.taunton.com/threads/pages/t00018.asp (take a look at the last illustration– instead of pants, do that with the pattern side seam from shoulder, along armscye, to waist
but this will method will work, especially if you need the width along the whole back: http://www.taunton.com/threads/pages/t00103.asp
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