Adjustable front closure for bra or bikini top

A combination comprising:

• a brassiere having a pair of cups having adjacent but spaced inner edges at a wearer's cleavage, and a front connector at the cleavage between the cups and in turn comprising:
• respective flexible cords attached to the cup inner edges and each carrying a succession of spaced relatively hard pearls;
• a generally rigid body separate from and between the cups and formed with a pair of adjacent throughgoing passages through each of which a respective one of the pearl cords passes and along which the pearl cords can slide;
• respective latch elements each shiftable on the body relative to the respective passages between a freeing position generally clear of the respective passage and allowing the respective pearl cord to slide therein and a latching position engaging at least one pearl of the respective cord and preventing the respective pearl cord from sliding therein in at least one direction;
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• respective springs urging the latch elements into the respective latching positions.