I heartily recommend this pattern. This is the reason I keep returning to Built by Wendy (Wendy Mullin for Simplicity) patterns. Some of them work really well. The sleeves are supposed to be set-in sleeves, but there was too much fabric for me to ease, so I just accepted that my version would have slightly gathered sleeve caps, and actually I needed this detail to balance the more masculine fabric and buttons. In my second version I will shorten the coat two inches so it doesn’t hit me at the widest part of my butt. This is unflattering, and the nice diagonal stripes of light won’t usually be there to break up that horizontal line. It took quite a while to get all those buttons & button holes (12) made, but the lack of a lining made the rest of the sewing pretty quick.
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I thought those light stripes on your butt were a silk-screened pattern and was really impressed. Then I realized it was slits of light from your window shades, but then the outdoor background just made my brain hurt. It was like that advertising trick where they Photoshop something wrong purposefully so it makes you look at it a little bit longer because your brain says it's wrong and therefore engaging.
Yes, well, I'm glad it worked. I irritated you into making a comment - the oldest "yougest child" strategy in the book.
I do like your idea of silk-screening strips of light onto clothing.
I also thought those stripes were really there and was thinking they were a fabulous idea! I was assuming they were some kind of clear iron-on that was reflecting light...but then funkospectrometer burst my delusion bubble. Thanks Funko.
Still, the stripes add an updated flair to a classic pattern, and they direct a viewer's eyes away from the butt and down the legs. You should patent this quick Keiler!
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