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Beverly on
2/21/2009 12:51 PM |
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The results are in! Duoplex is a GREAT fabric for bra cups. We had three women try the fabric in a bra that I made for them and at least 5 professional bra-makers test the fabric in bras for their clients. Here are the positive things our test panel said about this fabric:
it doe...
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Categories: Fabric
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Beverly on
2/21/2009 11:30 AM |
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I have the finished bras I made with the fabric I described in the last post. Duoplex, from the sample looked to be the answer to a bra-makers prayer. The proof would be in the sewing and the fitting. Here's how my testing progressed.
First, I made a bra in a control fabric. T...
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Categories: Fabric
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Beverly on
2/21/2009 10:06 AM |
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Some of you may know that we have lost a number of mills in Canada this past few years. One of those mills was Hafner in Quebec, and they made a lot of the fabrics that we used for many years at Bra-makers Supply, including our much loved Stretch Satin. They made both the lightweight and the heavy...
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Categories: Classes
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Amanda on
2/21/2009 9:14 AM |
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Hi! My name is Amanda and I work for Bra-makers Supply. I joined our team as Christmas help in 2007, knowing absolutely nothing about sewing, let alone bra-making. I'd been buying bras at La Senza when I could find my size but something was not quite right about them, and they weren't...
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We are working on some new features to Bra-makers Supply. Actually 3 things are going on at once.
new shopping cart on the website
new blog location
new email newsletter
We've needed a new shopping cart configuration for some time, and an ...
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I need some easy way to wind thousands of metres of elastic that arrives regularly from the elastic mills. They are often packed “festooned” which means they have a machine in the factory that folds and stacks the elastic neatly into the box. While festooning is great if you are using ...
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My name is Linda and I work with Beverly as her "Customer Service Manager" This job title involves wearing many different hats, one of them being "Custom Bra-Maker". I never intended to be a "Custom Bra-Maker" but I love making bras , and I love solving fitting issues (...
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Recently we had a suggestion from a student of ours about our shopping card. For those of you that have been in our classes, you probably remember the card with all the materials on it that you filled out. You wrote the exact amount of each type of elastic you used and the fabrics, as well as your...
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I don't usually get too fired up about Christmas, but this year I was kind of wanting to do something special with the door to our shop. The door is not particularly exciting on its own, and the suite across from us hung small red bells all around the door, so we looked kind of lame by compari...
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I hate to shop.
Does that surprise you? I'm in the lingerie fashion world. How can I hate to shop?
The fact is, you can drag me into a lingerie shop without a lot of effort because I can rationalize the trip as a fact-finding mission, but a trip to the mall or the high street in search of...
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