How do you need to dress in your day-to-day life?
Are you dressing up to drink champagne or to split wood?
What characteristics do your clothes need to have? Which features are indispensable?
What performances do they have to withstand?
When imagining the wardrobe of my dreams, I kick all reality related characteristics out the window, most of the times.
Dreaming of long silk dresses with delicate embellishments. Fragile fabrics rustling while you walk over clean and smooth floors. Kimonos and shawls to lay around your shoulders while roaming through the garden in the fresh hours before sunrise.
Suttle and earthy toned linen combinations for picking flowers in the fields or collecting apples from the trees.
Statement pieces to pose in at exhibitions in front of your art piece, while having intellectual conversations and drinking prosecco.
Then I remember that I am not living in a 16th century French chateau where I only must worry about which flowers should be placed in what room or which Cristal glasses, I am going to drink my Champagne from. Or worry where my next exhibition will take place.
If I must split some wood or take a walk through the wild forest, I will rip apart all the silk and linen in an instant.
What should I wear if I want to split wood in the day and drink champagne in the evening, without changing my dress in between?
Thats where it is rather convenient to sew your own wardrobe, no need of compromising between the two.
For almost two years I am carrying this flower-patterned wool fabric around with me.
Every time I pass it though my hands, I am lost in thoughts of admiration. How it feels to the touch, soft wool combined with the bright flower print. And I imagine a thousand different ways in which I could wear that fabric if it became a garment one day.
Skirts, blouses, trousers, kimonos or linings for a coat, even just as a scarf…
But never I had the courage to start cutting the fabric apart and into the shapes of a piece of clothing. What if I wouldn’t manage and waste the fabric? What if I wouldn’t like the outcome? What if later I would have a better idea of what to sew with it?
Sometimes the fabric and the ideas just need to ripe for a while until they are ready to be worked with.
The time is now.
After I spend all the dedication and time to create a perfectly fitting trousers pattern, I had to choose fabric to now sew the trousers I would love and cherish.
After cutting comes sewing...
…even though I am using a pattern, there is always time for some more engineering
...admiring the colours
...choosing threads
…sewing endlessly long strips
...the final touches
...followed by the off cut threads
...and an army of pins
Finally I can try them on...
...and I am absolutely in love!
Even though I must admit that I am not completely sure if I am ready to cut wood or stray though the forest in those trousers… for most other activities that aren’t including 16th centuries French castles, they work pretty good.
Thank you for passing by, and have a wonderful week!
All photos and words are my own, taken and written by me.
What a beautiful narration, we really always dream of our desired clothes and what our life would be like wearing them 😊.
I really liked that word that he says for those fabrics that we have stored for a long time and that we cannot find what to do with them:
That's how I'll say from now on 😊
On the other hand, I congratulate you since her wool jogger was beautiful and you look very good on her, an excellent model and excellent photographs, I hope you have a happy week 🤗
Thank you!!🙃
It is really nice to hear it resonated with you! ...and I love to hear that you also like to dream about the clothes and where to wear them🌞
It was a pleasure, have a great day!!
I love your trousers!😍 It must be colors or prints that add beauty in it. Then it must be very comfortable wearing those kind of trousers.❤️
Definitely agree on this statement. 🥰
😘 thank you!! I really appreciate that you like it😊
...and love to hear that it resonated with you!!
Oooh, how beautiful this fabric (pure, fatto in Italia!) and your pattern and they look fabulous on you, dearest @kesityu.fashion !! Bravissima! I love also your ongoing dialogue about making your perfect garments: I too am seeking to gain the mastery that'll allow me to create much more perfect clothing... I just need to upskill my current abilities, and am excited and inspired to be connected with such brilliant creators as yourself, as we all evolve our craft... Joy!
Thank you!!! It is always really nice to read your words:) 💛
...an ongoing process indeed, but then as well you see the results and you can even wear them, which is wonderful!
Actually Italy has quite a big textile/fabric industrie, no? Do you get to see any of that around you? Like leftover fabric or anything in those lines?
Aaaah -- it would be wonderful to exchange sewing thoughts and trawl the stalls here with you dear @kesityu.fashion !! Mmmm - I think that there would be a bigger possibility of finding cut-offs in the huge markets in the cities - Naples, in particular, being the nearest big city to here: I think they have a lot of fabric action.
In the Telese market, there's often but not always a stall with big sheets of cut-off fabrics, often from where it is double printed on the end of one print reel and the beginning of another.
There are tons of cheap designer-ish clothes though (not that I recognise what designer clothes are!), and tons of vintage linens and other fabrics - even furs - which can be bought cheaply and used for raw materials for projects. Caserta (between Telese and Naples) has a really good big market too, which has a LOT of both well-made and designer clothing... and if you are passing through Rome to get here, there are MANY big big clothing markets - oh my it is wonderful! - but I didn't find a 50c stall there yet ;-D
So excited: I've just started a new pinafore dress, from this old white and blue striped heavy cotton sheet 😍 -can't wait to share on Monday!!
It sounds like plenty to do and visit!!!I am getting excited just thinking about it😊
...I am looking forward to see how you go on with it!!!
Ahh another problem comes to light, that of not wanting to use a fabric because it is too beautiful to risk ruining it hahaha. I still have a burgundy lace that I didn't use at all, it's so pretty that I don't want anything to go wrong with it.
It's good that you found the perfect pattern for your pants, I remember that you tried the pattern before, a good way to be cautious. They look great on you, IMO these can be used for afternoon walks but no firewood, you don't want them to get dirty.
Greetings Kesityu, by the way, is that your name or what is it? 😃
It is fun, hearing that we all have those same problems!😂
...burgundy lace sounds awesome, indeed! and I am sure once you start on it that you will make some really beautiful lingerie with it!
And thank you💜 thats really nice to hear!!!😊
(it isnt my Name, or lets say my Artis-name or brand something in that direction🙃)
And then just when her silk wavy dress got stuck on the wild rose thorn, came the prince charming.... 😄
Overalls can be the solution for both picking flowers and dealing with wood. :D
Especially linen loose ones, want them in all earthy colors!
You have such a nice skin tone!
exactly!! and we ride away on a horse..😂
The overalls are a very good one too, yes, yes, yes!!
😊thank you
Haven't thought about leaving part... 🤦🏻
Found them chic and practical for any occasions even digging garden,being messy goes well with it. 💃
...which is quite the definition of "perfect piece of clothing"!
oh and also, you only have to wear one thing! (no decisions between top and trousers and so on...)
First let me say I think this should be a patented quote of yours..
As you can already see a few of us love it and totally agree. I really love it.
Your trousers look great on you. You always have a way with how you write up your posts and present your photos for it. I enjoyed seeing all of the colors throughout.
Thanks for a good read this Monday morning ~ 😊
Now I imagine us, storing piles of fabric in some sort of wine cellar, waiting for them to be ready...😂
It is really nice though to hear that, we are sort of coming around the same problems!:)
Aaaww and thank you💜 that is so lovely to hear, really means a lot to me to get such a response! It was my pleasure😊
Always a pleasure and a treat coming here ~ 💓
Hahahaha... The cloth turned out very well.
Indeed, we should dress as the occasion calls and not wearing clothes that didn't match the occasion.
You are a good seamstress 👍
disguising for different occasions...
Thank you!!😊
You're welcome
Thank you!!! and cheers😊🙃
The fabric and the pattern are totally great, you really made a good choice.
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Thank you, its awesome to hear that!!😊
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I think we all have some favorite fabrics in a box that we are too afraid to experiment with. Indeed there is always the thought what if I ruin it or come up with a better idea later?
It is nice that you took the decision to experiment with your fabric, the result is very beautiful. I love the wide legs template you chose.😍
Thank you💜
Indeed it is a never ending story... the worst is to keep the fabric for as long until you dont like it anymore lol
Hahaha indeed that's the worst😅
I love the material you use to sew your trouser especially the design on it, it look so beautiful on you
Thank you!!:)
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