Smoothing Support Shaping Bra
Support built from a band and a shelf, not from elastane.
Sand, a Sandstone shade. One bath, held short. The lightest dyed shade in the range.
The band does the work and the straps only locate it — which is how a bra actually functions, and why the band here is wide rather than token.
Knitted at a tighter gauge through the underbust, with an encased natural-rubber tape rather than a folded hem, so it returns to length instead of growing into one.
01Composition
- Extra-long-staple cotton
- 92%
- Natural rubber — band and strap casing only
- 8%
- Weight
- 240 gsm
- Knit
- 2×2 rib, compacted
- Sizes
- XXS – 3XL
- Made in
- Delhi NCR, India
Specification provisional until the first production run is finalised.
02Construction
Natural rubber tape sealed inside a rib casing — nothing abrades against skin, nothing meets detergent directly.
A second full layer of the same rib, not a mesh panel. It compresses rather than lifts.
Sewn with organic cotton thread. No overlock ridge under a band.
03Size and fit
- Close through the body. Between sizes, take the smaller for support and the larger for ease.
- Rated for low to medium load — Pilates, lifting, walking. Not distance running.
04Care
Cold, 30°C, inside out, with like colours.
Flat or on a line. A hot tumble dryer is the one thing that will shorten this garment's life.
Warm, on the reverse. Cotton takes a press; the rubber in the band does not.
Bleach, dry clean, or use fabric softener — softener coats the fibre and kills the absorbency you paid for.
05The fibre argument, in miniature
Every waistband and every bra band in the range carries a tape of natural rubber, tapped from a tree, encased inside a knitted cotton channel so it never touches skin and never meets detergent directly.
Read in fullA shelf bra in most garments is a strip of the same jersey folded over and stitched down. It supports nothing; it exists so the garment can be sold without one.
Read in fullRecovery is a fabric's ability to return to its original dimension after being stretched. Elastane does it chemically. A rib knit does it structurally — the fabric is folded into itself at the loop level, so stretching it unfolds a pleat rather than extending a fibre.
Read in fullMost activewear is graded by scaling one pattern up and down. It is fast, it is cheap, and it is why a 3XL so often looks like an XS that has been photocopied at 160%.
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