So this is the skirt and the top that I wore to J’s graduation.
The skirt was made first, at Christmas. It is a wrap-skirt, but it has a proper waistband and a generous enough wrap that it is quite possible to twirl around in on a windy day without fear of exposing oneself – and it does twirl wonderfully, especially with ruffle down the front. I didn’t want a tie at the side so I followed the suggestion of someone else who made this pattern and simply did two sets of buttons on the waistband, which worked really nicely.
The top, then, was essentially a free pattern in a book that I got given for Christmas. I altered it a bit, transforming it into an actual-covering-corset-style top as opposed to a tits-out-bustier and used one of my magazine patterns to work out how to add the gathering in the front. The standard fitting alterations are all there, needless to say, and instead of acutal boning at the vertical seams I merely added support with strips of interfacing (because quite frankly I’m not that masochistic!). I wish I’d got a photo of the back now – it’s just a straight backline with a cream basque zip, but it goes quite well with the shape of the skirt.
The material for both is silk dupion, bought from the market for £4 a metre, and the top is lined with cream polyester. After some comments on Facebook, however, I have a question for all of you: what colour is the silk?
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