I’m making a corset for my circus-themed school fashion collection and I’m having a bit of trouble with the bust cups. Initially, I just followed the corset pattern and didn’t think anything of it until last night when I was looking for videos on how to install underwire into the cup. All of the videos I saw had bra foam in the cups and it made me start to wonder if i should remake the cups with a foam layer. The cups that I made just consist of an interfaced lining layer and an interfaced shell fabric layer. I feel like the cup shape on my corset is very round and flat and when put on a dress form looks like two large circles as opposed to proper cups. For reference, my model wears a size C-D cup and I want to make sure that she is supported and that the cups look flattering. Another problem that I ran into was that the C-D cup underwire I ordered is much longer than the bottom of the cup (see pic 2). I‘m honestly considering re-making the entire cup and cutting the opening where the cup is inserted to be deeper so that the underwire fits or just scrapping the cups altogether. I’m pretty stressed about this whole situation because I only have a few weeks to finish this corset so I hope that I can get the opinions of some of the more experienced sewists here.

The pattern I followed: [https://simplicity.com/mccalls/m7306](https://simplicity.com/mccalls/m7306)

Need Help/Advice on Corset Bust Cups