“MeMadeMay (2020), day 9. Blouse 2 from my favorite blouse pattern (Simplicity 2759), with and without optional 70’s cop show variant (I think I look like a 70’s cop in this outfit plus leather jacket.)

Bonus: These pants are vintage US Navy trousers. I found a US Navy uniform in an antique store and the pants were the perfect size for me. They’re super comfy, and very sharp!”

…They’re very sharp if you don’t mind needing to spend 6 solid minutes unbuttoning them to use the bathroom, lol. Also, those pants themselves probably only fit me for about 6 solid minutes, thanks to having to live indoors and the imminent cessation of my dancing career. Such is life.

I love taking pictures outside Kenneth’s mother’s garage. This perplexes… pretty much everybody, because it’s a faded little box in a sun-bleached alley, but there’s something about really peely paint that I just love. If it were truly possible to do, I really think that my peak aesthetic is a state of arrested decay. Unfortunately decay really doesn’t stop just because you want it to, and anything you do to mitigate it really just makes it disappear in the process.

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“MeMadeMay (2019) day 7. Yes, a repeat already, but with regular jeans today. I have a few other things I could have chosen, but I had an art modeling gig this morning and wanted something I could just toss on and run out the door. This top is a little short for modern cut jeans, so if I did this again, it would be with one of my higher-waisted pair.”

This is, again, Simplicity 2759 from 1949. This truly is one of my favorite patterns to make, a second version shows up in my wardrobe in 2020, and I’d definitely make it again (with a few modifications). As I mentioned in the original post, they are a little short for modern jeans and, though I don’t really own any modern cut jeans anymore, I would probably add between a half inch to an inch to the bottom hem in the future. There is also another view that has a sort of strange standing collar which I am intrigued by, but it’s difficult to think about making that version as the sort of sweetheart neckline is one of my favorite parts of the ones I already have. In either case, I have spent the last couple of years amassing a sizable collection of vintage cottons, and though I have numerous other vintage blouse patterns to pair them with, this is the one I always keep coming back to and thinking about.

As always, if you’re new to the blog, or to MeMadeMay, you can read my overview here!

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“MeMadeMay (2019) day 1: The pants are my favorites from Voodoo Vixen, the top is vintage Simplicity 2759 from 1949. This is easily the easiest thing I’ve ever made from a vintage pattern, and also my favorite thing, which means I’m digging through my stash figuring out if I can make it again in other colors. Fabric for this one was Rifle Paper Co. from Harts Fabric.”

Ahh, this is the day that started it all, evidently. Over the years, I have given myself a few parameters within which to function, but in 2019 we were just getting our feet wet, and it was hard enough to come up with outfits for all 31 days. These photos (like most of the rest from this first year) are taken on Rockwell, just south of Beans and Bagels.

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