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How To Take In The Bust on a Dress or Top

By: Linda June 26, 2009February 5, 2021

Alterations, Bridalbust alteration, how to make a dress smaller, how to make the bust smaller in a dress, how to make the bust smaller on a dress, how to take in the bust, how to take in the chest area, how to take in the top of a dress14 Comments

This dress came from a mother of a groom and it needed to be taken in in the bust area, so I’d like to show you how to do that. You can use this technique on strapless dresses as well. Do you see the pins in the side seam? There are pins on the other side seam as well. I…

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