hi, i'm maggie.

(like the rod stewart song)

i'm a millennial living in the bay area who loves dark beer, the environment, and sewing for the tiny humans in my life. more

seersucker dresses

seersucker dresses

sometimes it's fun to ask the girls what they want in a dress and make it. other times i ignore what they are saying and make what i want. 

this is an example of the latter. 

when I took nora and etta to the fabric depot last spring they said they wanted dresses that 'looked like boogers'. what i heard was a request for yellow seersucker dresses.

at the time i was pinning a lot of mad men inspired style. (note i wasn't watching mad men, after four years working on a wall street trading floor with 40 guys i find the misogynistic culture of sterling cooper a little hard to swallow. someday it will make for a good neflix binge though.) wanting the dresses to have a vintage feel i decided to do another iteration of the tinny dress from straight grain again (remember my first time around was the twirly dresses) but with a few changes.

  1. i did a pleated rather than circle skirt, which allowed me to do a double fold three inch hem.
  2. i lined the whole thing (instead of just the bodice) with a rich white cotton sateen that may have been a fitted sheet that ripped a few weeks earlier.
  3. i omitted the sleeves and hand stitched the arm holes. 
  4. i added a loop for the possibility of a future sash.

the result was a girly summer dress with a vintage feel. though personally i think it has more of a kim from 'bye bye birdie' than sally draper from mad men vibe. but that's probably for the best though i hear sally was kind of a strange character.

surprisingly the 'booger' dresses work for dressy occasions too, here they are at the rehearsal dinner for a family wedding in honduras. 

love,

aunt maggie

 

mister dolly's ergo

mister dolly's ergo

put a bird on it

put a bird on it