Modern Girl, Vintage Style

 I made it!  I got my outfit done just in the nick of time.  I finished hemming and pressing at 1pm and needed to leave the house at 6pm.  That was a pretty close call but worth it.  My coat came out much nicer than I could have hoped. This is the Swing Coat from Gertie's patreon.  I cut a size 10 and the only modification was skipping the cuffs.  I just hate cuffs, they snag on everything.  The joy of sewing my own clothes is that I could just skip the cuffs.  I finished it off with a hand sewn hem instead. I did screw it up pretty badly at the start.  I got the front facings reversed which made the coat curl open in front.  I was so confused and mad, thinking it was the lining somehow causing my problem.  A search on Facebook revealed others that made the same mistake.  By that point I had the facing in, understitched, and the lining attached.  I spent 3.5 hours ripping the facings back out so I could swap them....

 Still working from home full time but who needs a commute to inspire a great outfit?  I do have an office mate.  Minor detail she weighs 13 pounds and barks at the deliveries we get.  I can still dress to impress. The Fitbit always looks so terrible but I'm lost without it This is a favorite office outfit of mine.  The 1940s looks were so practical that they really lend themselves to office wear.  A-line skirts and trousers keep life simple when dealing with office chairs that have arms.  This is a chiffon blouse and wide leg trousers in a 1940s style.  I finally got my Besame order that the USPS lost and was delighted to see my new Besame Red lipstick matches these pants perfectly.  No more excuse needed to pull out my favorite pants.  I've been slacking on rolling my hair while dealing with school so just tucked up out of the way. Trying to not tip my head the exact same way every time I take a picture Weather has been in the 40's and...

 We're still in a pandemic so date nights aren't what they used to look like.  Living in the middle of nowhere, we don't have delivery as an option so if I want dinner, I make it or I drive out and pick it up.  Driving out to get something is a pain so we save it for special occasions.  Like anniversary dinners.  Cue me deciding that we were going to have a fancy dinner from our local winery and make it a date night.  After being stuck at home for almost a year, I'm pretty desperate for reasons to dress up.  I went all out for my trip to the winery to pick up our dinner in boxes with some bottles of wine. I got this dress at the end of December and hadn't even put it on.  I finally had an excuse.  I also did full What Katie Did foundation garments with the corslette and stockings to keep the lines smooth.  Wiggle dresses are not forgiving, there's a reason I usually wear poofy skirts.  Vintage necklace, usual hair, and plenty of red...

 The irony is that I decided to start a new blog dedicated to me dressing up in poofy dresses and the first thing that happens is a big damn winter storm.  Most of the country has it worse than us to be honest.  I'm close enough to the coast that the polar vortex didn't really happen.  The downside to this is that we got a wintry mix.  That's a polite way of saying it's a hot mess. We already had about 20" of snow on the ground.  This storm brought snow, sleet, freezing rain, and now just plain old rain.  All of the usual drainage is frozen solid so we now have running water where running water doesn't belong.  Like the driveway and the garage and my three season porch.  Temps are dropping overnight so everything should be freezing into perfect glaze ice by tomorrow. This is not weather for poofy dresses.  I can usually tough it out with some tights, canvas underskirt, sweaters, things of that nature.  Since I have to help get this ...