Post-Mastectomy Bras

This is an area I am ever developing in response to different stories. Bras need making or adjusting for new body shapes. Things can be anywhere from a simple half hour stitch fix to a whole bespoke process to solve but a lot can be achieved with a bit of good old fashioned seamstress sense that isn't on offer in a high st shop where bras are made far away and in their thousands..  


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This black soft organic jersey one sided underwear set was created for Katy Marks over a long period of time where we worked together talking about ideas, making, trying and remaking until we came to this solution..

Katy has a small back size and large cup size and wanted to show her new shape off by keeping the lift that the underwire gives. It was a much longer journey than either us had anticipated as we found that an asymmetric lift doesn’t behave in the same way as it does in a regular bra. It had to be made and made again with different cup patterns, weights of fabric, stretch percentages and edge finishes until we got here. I’ve found that women have hugely diverse wishes for their bras post surgery, an underwire isn’t for everyone but I was so inspired by the way Katy really wanted to show off her one sided shape and empower other women by presenting an option which questions the need for reconstructive surgery or prosthetics

 
 
 

RED SILK DELUXE

This Cherry red pure silk satin one cup lingerie was bespoke made for Katy to model along with many other marvelous women and men in our DIVERSITY OF THE BREAST catwalk show which was hosted for us by Sophie Parkin late in 2019 at the wonderful wonderland of VOUT O’ REENEES club in Whitechapel, London in partnership with BBOOKPROJECT to raise money for BREAST CANCER HAVEN .. I am so very happy now that we managed to come together hold this moving event when we did, more pictures of the show and the night can be seen here

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Altering existing bras

I have worked with lots of women to take their existing and favourite bras and reconstruct them with a super soft and hypoallergenic bamboo jersey flat side. I love this solution as it is affordable to do, guaranteed to fit to the breast and saves a lot of much loved bras from going to landfill.

 
 

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