…for real.  (the jeans)
Although I last wore them tucked into my biker boots and this time they are hanging out in all their flared glory…  I love the 70’s bellbottom-ness of them, and with ma skivvy here, and ma dip-dyed wrap thing; well, I think I’m just about ready to hop straight into Hair and this is the dawning of the age of Aquariuuuuus!
However, I suspect I’m a little too grey to fit into that era’s rainbow-hued colour scheme.  I’ve got the 70’s silhouette happening but just not the palette; I’m like a stormcloud-hued depressed moan-groan new millenium version of the 70’s here…
My parents had the Hair record and I grew up being uplifted and moved by the joy of those supremely optimistic songs.  Yup, I wore flares ands skivvys and tie-dyed stuff the first time around, and you know what they say about if you were there the first time around…. (don’t go there the second time around) but I am a child of the 70’s so there is no getting away from that.  Anyhow fashion-wise just about anything goes now, and so if one wants to dress like a monotonal fallout from another decade then go for it, yeah!

Details:
Top; self-drafted, from greige/purple-y knit stuff, details here
Jeans; Burda 7863 modified, black stretch corduroy, details here
Wrap; wrap “f” from Unique Clothes Any Way You Like by Natsuno Hiraiwa, cream knit stuff dipdyed in a mixture of iDye Poly Blue and coffee, details here
(socks, not seen but knitted by me)
Shoes; Francesco Morichetti, from Zomp shoes

Below; recent naughty purchases, am rapidly becoming a pattern junkie…  the two Vogues, completely influenced by shams, whose creations are too terribly superbly tempting to resist emulating; also the Donna Karan maxi from ebay for which I paid ridiculous postage (don’t ask, I reckon Americans charge Australians like they are posting to the moon); and the Burdastyle magazine was completely on a whim.  I think I need help, is there a patternaholics anonymous…?

… of sorts.  Not a repeat of any actual garments, per se, and btw I am not consciously trying to avoid repeats during self-stitched September at all, because I’ve decided that would be silly.  I just want to wear what I want to wear, y’know?  But I am wearing exactly the same pattern combination as I did last Friday, coincidentally.  That is; the twist top from Pattern Magic; this is the cream version and last Friday I was wearing my charcoal version.  And Burda 7863 jeans; today the purple denim version whereas last Friday I had on my black corduroy version.  So, different enough?
And I whacked the scarf on just because I thought the outfit was a tad bland without it, it needed just some extra bit of colour, or something, somewhere.
I just love this scarf, rapidly becoming one of my everyday favourites and it was fair dinkum one of the easiest things ever… just a French seam joining two ginormously long strips; from a pitifully unwanted 80cm remnant of thin soft jersey.  Just goes to show, whilst much pleasure can be gained from a long-term beautifully constructed garment (and it is a rare seamstress who does not aspire to a sartorial work-of-art every once in a while) sometimes the simplest of things can turn out pretty wonderful too.  So moral of the story; always check out those remnant bins.  There may be a fabulous potential scarf sitting in there with your name on it… 

Details:
Top; the twist top, drafted from Pattern Magic by Tomoko Nakamichi, cream knit stuff, details here
Jeans; Burda 7863 with modifications, purple stretch denim, details here
Scarf; raspberry marle jersey remnant, details here
(also, socks not seen, but knitted by me)
Shoes; Francesco Morichetti, from Zomp shoes