Message #53773

[countrigal]

I'm with y'all who have problems with gaping shirts.  I simply love pull-over shirts, because I don't have to worry about them gaping between buttons (or of buttons slipping open because of too much tension applied to them).  I really wish that folks who designed some of these shirts take into consideration women who are bustier.  Plus sizes are cut a bit larger in that area, but also in all other areas and you lose the contoured fit of the shirt after a certain size.  If I'm not taking shirts in, to make them more fitted (after buying them large enough to go around my chest), then I'm thinking of designing an accessory to buttons -- something that slips behind those little pearl - or other decorative - buttons that makes them wider and less-likely to slip out the buttonholes.

Most of the time I don't have a problem with cleavage, as I don't wear many shirts that are cut lower than 1-2 buttons down on a button-down shirt.  My exception?  One of my pregnancy shirts was almost indecent, and that was after I pinned it where it needed to be.  The problem was the type of material it was (stretchy under it's own weight), the size of it (turned out to be a size too big for me, but I couldn't return it -- and otherwise loved it), and my bras, which tended to act almost like a push-up when least needed.  I think overall, that cleavage may 'just happen' and if that's the case, it's probably not too much, but if you look at yourself in the mirror and think "wow, that's cleavage", then it's probably not something to wear to work.

CountriGal
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