I have only made one thing so far, just today. Its a teal green tiered skirt with 3 tiers. In between each level is some piping I made from some pink floral sweatsuit fabric. It has an elastic waist and a "faux" drawstring in the front. The hem is made from the floral fabric as well. I am going to make a matching hoodie from the sweatsuit fabric.
DD is getting so excited for school to start. I am going to make one or two special outfits to start and shop for the basics - jeans, t-shirts, etc.
I would post pics since this skirt is so cute on her, But...SOMEBODY too my camera to the sandbox and now its broken.
It took me a while to understand this and finally the penny dropped - you don't have school uniforms! Sometimes it does make life easier to have to wear certain clothes to school - stops all the arguments along the lines of "you can't go out like that"!!
When we were in 6th form at school in England (last 2 years before uni) our school allowed us to wear our own clothes. After all the years of having to wear uniform we loved our newfound freedom and all turned up wearing nearly identical jeans and sweatshirts!
Hehehehe... But it doesn't help us teachers to remember which is who! Used top take me all term to learn most of them, and there were always a few wallflowers you never did sort out properly. And in the one school I taught in where they didn't have a uniform they STILL all dressed the same!
Ha! When that happened to me in the 6th form, we all dressed like we worked in banks or solicitor's offices - and this was in the 70's! No jeans (except on the staff!). Now our local boy's grammar school has abandoned uniform for the 6th form, and they all wear suits and look gorgeous! They have a 6th form tie, or a prefects tie, but otherwise look all growd up and useful. The girls in the 6th form of the girls school look wreaked by comparison! Scruffy as possible, and in some cases also indecent, with skirts up to their bums and I swear half a dozen bra straps showing! They don't look tarty so much as half dressed and not at all ready to work. The small number of girls who join the
6th form at the boy's school always look so efficient and busy and useful by comparison.
Clothes may not make us, but they certainly seem to affect our attitudes to our work! I still find this: on days when I dress all scruffy, I laze about and don't get started properly. On days I put my suit on or dress smartly (even if I have no clients visiting) I get a lot more done!
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