More correctly, I do not have a lack of Tshirts, but just a lack of me-made Tshirts. And after a few experiments I feel this dress really looks best over a form-fitting knit Tshirt and not over a blouse. So here it is again, this time over my striped Tshirt. I’m not sure the dress is as successful over a print as it is over a solid coloured Tshirt… what do you think?
Anyhoo, it should be obvious that I adore this dress and have worn it a lot over winter and hope to continue wearing it over these cooler early cool days of spring too. This should go some way to assuaging my disappointment that it is too warm to wear my new crocheted skirt already, and I had been looking forward to showing it off at least once during self-stitched September! This is often a minor problem with me, though naturally, not such a problem that I am not massively thrilled about the warmer weather! But, with my sewing and knitting projects at this time of year, I am partly stuck in “winter” mode and still envisaging projects suitable for the cooler weather, when really it is too warm to be wearing them for very long… why do I keep doing this? How do you go with thinking ahead in your seasonal wardrobe planning?
Details:
Dress; the “gathered hole” dress form Pattern Magic by Tomoko Nakamichi, made of a grey wool mix, details here
Tshirt; self drafted, navy and white striped jersey, details here
Tights; Metalicus
Shoes; Francesco Morichetti, from Zomp shoes
looks great on you! i love those tights. now with everypost you egg me on to really use my Pattern Magic book!
I think it looks good. And that dress, yes, it is PERFECT on you.
great dress- a versatility icon in the color you chose, I can imagine it in so many combos! Hope to see more of it!
You should be very proud of that dress, it looks fantastic on you. I think it looks good both with solid and the striped tops under.
Same with the seasonal planning. I've recently started knitting a winter jumper; the weather got warm, now I think I should work on things more suited to Spring. I'm not good at planning for the in between seasons.
I think it looks great over the striped top, esp. with the tights to pull together the color.
Gorgeous dress!
I think the stripe sleeves look great!
It is spring here now too, but I am still finishing (or trying to) my winter things I wanted to get made – so you're not alone!
I love that dress – it was made for you! Well you know what I mean. I like the stripes under it too. I think it will work with patterns as long as the colour is right and not much doesn't not go with charcoal really!
I love that dress, the gathers are so nice. Maybe I will have to buy that book.
I think gray is a real joker, it goes with everything (except brown). You should try a red, pink, yellow, black, white, blue, green … t-shirt. And I love your dress, it is really amazing, and fits perfectly! (É o meu favorito.)
Beijos.
I love that dress. It looks so great on you.
The weather in my part of the world suddenly went cold. On Saturday we were swimming in the pool with temperatures in the high 20"s to low 30's. Today it is 15! I am just finishing the end of my summer projects.
I don't have a jacket. ( threw them all away -worn.old,wrong size) I guess I will put that last swimsuit on hold and make a coat instead.
I sew and think off season all the time and it seems to work out!
Love seeing this dress, and other beautiful creations from Pattern Magic. I like the tee with the dress and since you asked, I would choose a more delicate print or a mottled jersey for the tee. My choices come from my petite status though-I venture into prints carefully (my zebra dress was not wearable in reality 🙁 ) Beautiful outfit and love those tights.
seeing you wear that dress makes me think I should try that from Pattern Magic as well. I would wear a wool jumper as you do, with tights and booties. so nice!
Have I mentioned that I love that dress? It looks great over stripes, and I think it would be equally lovely over funky colored solid t-shirts: cerulean, mustard, purple…
🙂 Funny thing about the Caesarean. I guess I have most of my medical English from Grey's Anatomy 😉 and anglicising the Latin words we use over here. We properly call it "sectio caesarea" although colloquially it's just "sectio"…
It looks great over the stripey tee. And I especially love it with the navy blue tights.
I like it with the stripes!