Making the Look: Steven Alan

        Sometimes when flipping through a lookbook you might find that one perfect outfit. Might not be really beautiful or extraordinary in any way, but it's you. It's your style. Not the style you wish you had but the one you actually have. An outfit that could fit you and your life effortlessly.         The Steven Alan spring summer 2011 look is such a style for me. When I think of all the festivals coming up this summer and the place I live in, with...

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Running Franken-Skort

        While everybody seems to be making bodysuits, that is Closet Case Files’ Netties - with remarkable results, if I may say so - as Mokosha’s, Sara’s, and the ones made by the ladies behind Jolies bobines and Sown Brooklyn; just to name a few… I decided to take one (bodysuit) apart. It was a gift, it was long-sleeved, it was too big, it was toooooo shiny. Besides me and bodysuits don’t get along and it goes both ways: I don’t look good in them, they don’t look good on...

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Adventures in Dartless (2) - Linen

        The main problem with the dartless bodice basic block, as outlined in Il Modellismo Sartoriale is that it “…causes the front of the armhole to gape. The amount of the gape depends on the depth of the bust”.                 In my previous project based on this block, trying to remedy I ended up overfitting slightly. This time I thought to follow the advice given in the book : “apply to the armhole edge a bias strip which is slightly...

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