Seamwork Florence lounge bra

Seamwork's Florence is a soft-cup lounge bra crossed with a cami. I had tried making stretch lace camis before (there are patterns in both Sweet Nothings and Sewing Lingerie), but was never satisfied with the results. Those camis seem to be mere decoration, rather than practical. I was pleased to see that Florence is different.

The other camis consist of a band of stretch lace about your underbust, and two cups (each made of two rounded triangles) attached to the top. Absolutely zero support.

With Florence the cups are actually set into the band, like a regular bra, and there is plush elastic adding around the bottom of the stretch lace band. The instructions include a few ideas for additional support; sewing the straps criss-crossed, adding channeling under the cups, and feeding underwires into that channeling. But overall it's still a soft cup lounge bra, with t-attached straps, and no fastening. It will always have a low level of support (thankfully non-zero), but it can still offer a little shaping/control.

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