Don’t want your bra showing through thin tops? Here’s the solution
12.4.2024
Translation: Jessica Johnson-Ferguson
See-through shirts or tops made from thin material often show the outlines of your bra. A great way to prevent this is by wearing a seamless undershirt.
Visible underwear can look great when it’s a deliberate style choice. Most of the time, however, it’s a nuisance. Bras that show through transparent and thin tops because of their colour or seams can mess up your look or feel untidy.
It’s not easy to fix, either. Although seamless bras in light skin tones would go relatively unnoticed, they don’t provide enough support for most cup sizes. If they’re sturdier and double-layered or have inserts, the outline will still shine through. It’s a dilemma I’ve found a solution for: wearing a wafer-thin, seamless undershirt over my bra.
Source: Stephanie Vinzens
Lightweight and almost invisible
My go-to model is from the seamless collection by sustainable Zurich-based brand Moi Basics. If your skin tone is a light to medium, it’s virtually invisible under most tops and conceals the colour and texture of your bra.
The additional layer doesn’t feel uncomfortable one bit, because the material’s super soft and as light as a feather. It’s made of 20 per cent elastane and 80 per cent Tencel Modal – a fibre obtained from naturally growing beech wood. Unfortunately, the undershirt is only available in beige, which means it’s not suitable as a bra concealer for people with dark skin tones.
Source: Stephanie Vinzens
Source: Stephanie Vinzens
Sustainable materials, short transport routes
The price tag’s quite something, but partly due to the fact that the garment’s produced sustainably throughout the supply chain. Moi Basics attach great importance to Oeko-Tex-certified materials, durability and short transportation routes – from the yarn to the finished garment.
The brand works exclusively with companies from Switzerland and its neighbouring countries. The seamless fabric made from the fibres of Austrian beech trees is manufactured in the greater Zurich area and turned into a garment in Italy on the shores of Lake Maggiore. When it comes to shipment, you can also expect locally produced, recyclable packaging instead of tons of plastic.
Has endless love for shoulder pads, Stratocasters and sashimi, but a limited tolerance for bad impressions of her Eastern Swiss dialect.
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