Here’s the seersucker dress (the Duro Junior pattern again) I promised to post when I got back (and I did get back, despite my flight being canceled; I got the next-to-last seat in the last row of the flight that left before my flight, and ended up arriving half an hour later than my flight was meant to — myriad and odd are the ways of airlines).
(The antepenultimate and utmost seats on that flight — i.e., the two seats next to me — were occupied by Masters of The universe who were swapping stories of the first-class seats they’d lost when their flights were canceled. Oh, woe!)
Anyway, I wasn’t wearing this dress on the plane, although I did actually wash it during my trip so I could wear it twice! The weather was so horribly humid, and this dress is so cool, that it was a necessity. (Also, being seersucker, it dried in about twenty minutes after I hung it up.) I wished I had eleven of these so I could change into them twice a day.
At first I was a bit anxious that this was too “swimsuit coverup,” but after wearing it for a while that wore off.
There’s a few a lot more changes I want to make to this pattern: I want to make the pockets broader and deeper, and sew the top of them into the waistband for extra support. I need to lengthen the front bodice another half-inch; and alter the seam across the top of the carry so that it curves down a bit. (I like the sleeve to follow the arm, not stick straight out.) I lopped two inches off the skirt before I hemmed it, but it would be a lot more efficient if I altered the pattern piece instead … and maybe make the skirt a teeny bit fuller, too, if only to better accommodate the bigger pockets.
Right now I want to make it in lemon-yellow linen with brown linen banding, dark gray poplin with red, a pink-and-maroon floral fabric (better than it sounds) … the list goes on. maybe for my next trip I really will have eleven versions!
Oh, and maybe next time I’ll match the stripes. but probably not:
And quickly: Jen at MOMSPatterns has started using “fauxlero” as a crucial word, indicating you can search for fauxleros on her site. and she’s running a 20% off sale from ideal now thru Sunday night, midnight EST with voucher code ‘fauxlero’. (And there’s a great history of the word fauxlero and list of fauxlero patterns on the vintage Pattern Wiki …)
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