Easily widening those dress straps

Do you have dresses that only see the light of day in the summer, when it is too warm to wear anything else?   Or perhaps a Christmas party frock that makes an appearance once a year?

I own four dresses.  Two summer ones that only get used outside of the UK where no one can see me, my wedding dress and a dress I have worn for a couple of weddings  (don't worry, different guests) 

I am just not a dress kind of girl.  One of the big issues is tiny thin straps that don't hide my big bazooka hammocks.  (I am a big chested girl, need some big support.  But big support comes with wide straps as a general rule!)

So, rather than wear a shrug, cardi or shawl over the top, I decided I would adapt them.

I had no chance of finding similar fabric, so I bough some colour matching wide ribbon instead.

And very simply sewed it underneath the original strap.   

Yeah, really, it was that simple and made a huge difference.

I did run it up on the sewing machine, but you could just as easily do it by hand with some tiny running stitches.

LOOK !  no more washed-out grey bra strap showing through.  Why did I not think of this before?

PS: dresses are now packed away again for next summer  :)