Ebay, ebay, Ebay!!! Much less expensive than online retail.

I use Adhesive 77 which is a all purpose spray glue. Kind of like photo-mount spray. The trick is to spray as light as a coat as possible so that you do not gum up the fabric TOO much and get your machine needle all nasty.

Regarding bras.. I made a choi but the same rule apply, cut the cup on the bias or else you will have it get all bunchy. But then I have BIG boobs, so on a smaller bra if might not be as important :)

Remember if you plan on putting backing fabric on your assuit panel, that whatever you are wearing underneath will no longer be visible. I like the fact I can still see thru my panel, especially if I am wearing it over my brightly coloured pantaloons!

Ooh, ooh, I did that!

My most recent costume has a velvet bra with the top of the cups covered in assuit. (I'm a bit busty, so I didn't want to overdue the silver-clad boob look. :-) ) The bra was not stretchy, so it was easy to do. If I were to the bottom two, I'd take two pieces of fabric cut larger than the area to be covered and then hand-sewn into place. I've tried the one-piece-of-fabric-add-a-dart-or-two-and-still-fail-to-get-a-flat-look thing and won't do it again. I usually decorate the top part of my bras anyway, so the seam is invariably covered. If you go to my photo album, you can see what I did. (It's the last pic, as of this writing.) I've since added small silver coins to the top-most part of the bra cup. The costume is evolving slowly but surely.

And, I love this list -- thanks for the sizing tip... I was resigned to scratchiness for the rest of my days, but now I don't have to be (well, at least not from the netting -- but I can remedy that with a simple rolling pin. COOL!)

You've worked with that stuff, too? That's nothing compared to the crud I used to work with when I used to decorate Rose Parade floats. The stuff we had made you incredibly high, and we used to get people who glued their hands together or got their shoe permanently cemented to the floor. It was so bad we had to work with that glue in shifts. It's funny how house paint now just smells sweet to me....

EXCELLENT!!! I just emailed you, Tahiyya!!! THANKS!!