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craftgrrlSelling clothing for a living has one huge advantage ~ you can get away with a rather casual style yourself, or may even get encouraged to wear the fancier (aka colorful) contents of your closet more often.
Selling clothing for a German company, hoewever, has one huge disadvantage ~ most stores have no AC, and the one where I am working at atm heats up to some toasty 40 - 50 °C during the summer months.
Solution: sew as many summer gipsy skirts as you can possibly get out of the light-weight fabrics you own. I made two so far, taking me about the time of one soccer match each. We'd moved my Necchi into the living room during the soccer world championship ;)...
A versatile white version, made from that lovely silk-looking cotton:
...accompanied by the lovely skull necklace I got as a gift from an LJ friend. :)
A red fabric I found at a summer sale, plus six meters of satin ribbon, became version #2. It's pinstriped, but that's hard to make out in the pictures.
In order to somehow complete the documentation, here are a few pics of the summer coat I had been working on in the last few weeks. It's absolutely not perfect yet...there still is a fake belt sort of thing missing in the back, and the shoulders aren't quite making me happy either...but considering how absolutely horrible the fit of the original pattern was and how much I grew to hate Aenne Burda while working on the coat, it's become wearable enough by now, after countless alterations on my part. I'm just glad that I used nothing but the cheapest cotton I had laying about, so there wasn't much money wasted on it. Still, no garment to exactly be proud of. N-E-ways...
(x-posted a bit)
Selling clothing for a German company, hoewever, has one huge disadvantage ~ most stores have no AC, and the one where I am working at atm heats up to some toasty 40 - 50 °C during the summer months.
Solution: sew as many summer gipsy skirts as you can possibly get out of the light-weight fabrics you own. I made two so far, taking me about the time of one soccer match each. We'd moved my Necchi into the living room during the soccer world championship ;)...
A versatile white version, made from that lovely silk-looking cotton:
...accompanied by the lovely skull necklace I got as a gift from an LJ friend. :)
A red fabric I found at a summer sale, plus six meters of satin ribbon, became version #2. It's pinstriped, but that's hard to make out in the pictures.
In order to somehow complete the documentation, here are a few pics of the summer coat I had been working on in the last few weeks. It's absolutely not perfect yet...there still is a fake belt sort of thing missing in the back, and the shoulders aren't quite making me happy either...but considering how absolutely horrible the fit of the original pattern was and how much I grew to hate Aenne Burda while working on the coat, it's become wearable enough by now, after countless alterations on my part. I'm just glad that I used nothing but the cheapest cotton I had laying about, so there wasn't much money wasted on it. Still, no garment to exactly be proud of. N-E-ways...
(x-posted a bit)
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