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So I'm not doing a whole lot of creating lately. Instead I've been digging and sorting and culling and organizing and...well, not so much cleaning, but tidying and donating and...wait! I guess I have been creating after all. More on that later in the week.In the midst of all this nonsense, I cracked open my Bin of Very Special Fabrics. You know...the ones I'll never use? The ones I occasionally look through, exclaim over, and pat gently.
The ZOO! With little Madeline-esque girls holding balloons! Fairy tale animals reading storybooks! Lipsticks! Chocolate!
Okay, enough. The point is, there was one piece in there that wasn't vintage. It's really cute and has a vintage print, but it didn't belong in there. No matter how corny the jokes or cute the kittens.
It was the early Nineties when I bought this fabric, when novelty vests were the height of fashion. I'm sure Tim Gunn wouldn't approve of a novelty skirt, either, but too bad. I'll be happy to throw it out if he wants to give me a $5000 wardrobe.
At least it's a good length and flattering shape, Tim. I know, I know--too much black. I look like a mime.
I love it - it's so cute!
ReplyDeleteTheres never too much black!
ReplyDeleteThe skirt looks lovely. Love the other prints too.
I have some mouse printed fabric that was destined to be a similar novelty printed vest in the early 90s. Vest never got made and I still have the fabric. I decided its too loud to even cover my ironing board, so I have no clue what to do with it. nice job using your fabric, its a cute skirt!
ReplyDeleteLaine...too loud for the ironing board? You should see mine! I figure a crazy skirt is excusable when it's for a holiday, right?
ReplyDeleteVery very cute!
ReplyDeleteTerrific! And all that other fabric is way too cute. I see more theme skirts in your immediate future. I'll distract Tim Gunn with my ill-fitting brasseire, okay?
ReplyDeleteOh Julie, I could never CUT that other fabric! What if I made something and then I changed my mind? NEVER! :-)
ReplyDeleteI want the zoo fabric. Oh how lovely.
ReplyDeleteI covet that skirt. I would never have thought to use that fabric for adult apparel (not even in the 90's), but you have changed my perception of active prints. Very cute!
ReplyDeleteI often think of Tim Gunn as I sew. My husband helps out with this, he likes to come into my sewing room and say "Make it work!"
ReplyDeleteI love the skirt, and it looks awesome with the black. I have some fashion sense.
ReplyDeleteI love your Bin of Very Special Fabrics. My mum has a whole row of 'very special' fabrics in her fabric cupboard!
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