So after assessing my wardrobe for Self-Stitched September and deciding that some of my old things could happily be rejected because I hadn’t worn them in months; I spied (with my little eye) this dress in the potential toss-outs, and kinda fell in love again. The colours are exactly what I am dreaming about for this spring/summer season; and funnily enough the new fabrics I’ve just bought in Tessuti Melbourne are all variations on this kind of smudgy sludgy khaki/chocolate/grey/taupe kind of a colour…
So, like the prodigal dress, it has been welcomed back into the fold with open arms and joyful coos of delighted discovery and is back into circulation. It’s nice for warmish days when I’m aiming for edgily smart.
When I first made this dress I mentally dubbed it the Futuristic Nun, and I still feel a cross between space-age, thanks to the shiny but still quite rugged nature of the taupe stuff; and ecclesiastical, thanks to the severe cut of the tunic contrasting with the snowy white virtue of the attached petticoat.
The whole dress is quite shapeless, slips over my head easily, and is only given form by the (also attached) thin white velvet ribbon that wraps around my waist several times and ties in a loose monastic knot.
Details:
Dress; partly my own design, based on Burda 8511, taupe stuff(?), white cotton, velvet ribbon
Sandals; Franco Burrone, from Marie Claire shoes
You are so creative and artistic. I just love how make everything your own.
You know what I love most about reading your blog? (well, at least today, other days I love other things) Today I love once again how you will experiment with a unique shape in a garment and then carry off the wearing of it with such panache … I love this grey too, it seems "cool" even when it gets super hot … not envying you the hot weather to come there. I love how it is layering but summer. Summer layering is challenging but fun when it is built in like this. "futuristic nun," I love it … definitely not what the nuns in the catholic grade school I attended would have worn, lol!!
It looks like a fun and stylish dress and you have made it your own once again.
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