Doctor T Designs

My last post went into a deep dive on this pattern, so this is going to be more of a quick “look what I made” situation. When I was ordering some of Emerald Erin’s specialty wires, I couldn’t help myself and bought a few of the fancier Black Beauty kits as well, including the Cassiopeia kits for the Black Beauty and the Friday French Cuts that I used to make this set.

I’ve seen a lot of hacks to the Emerald Erin Black Beauty Bra for style changes, but my alterations were pretty simple, and I think you can still see the basic shape of the original pattern in my final result.

I wasn’t sure which design elements I wanted to keep and which I wanted to edit, so again I went to Procreate to draw out a plan using My Body Model croquis so I could decide how to edit the pattern.

Since my first version fit pretty well, I only made a few alterations to the band to remove some of the excess width I’d added to the bridge, and lower the under arm a bit to better match the length of the 46 Bliss wire I was using. Style wise, I left off the power bar, but did split the band for use with mirrored lace, and I added the wide strap to include more lace along the neckline edge. I also changed the back to a ballet back because that’s my preferred back style. For the Friday French Cuts I used my previously modified version that has quite a bit more coverage in the back than comes standard in the pattern.

And here is my second version of the Black Beauty:

The kit is mostly made from bra tulle and embroidered tulle lace. I’ll be honest that it was kind of a pain to work with so many very sheer layers, but in the end I’m really quite pleased with the construction and how nice the materials are, so here are a few close ups of the details:

I really like how this set turned out, and it’s quite unlike most of my other bras because I haven’t adventured much into the use of bra tulle other than as a lining until now. I was really pleased with the quality of the materials from Emerald Erin, and I am really happy with how this kit turned out. I have a few others, but I think I may move on and try some other patterns before diving into them. I have a busy few months ahead of me, so I’m not sure how much sewing I’ll be getting done, but I’ll try my best to get things posted in a timely manner, though I will admit it took me the better part of the month to get this post up. Hopefully more sewing to post soon!