That Burgundy Skirt

 

Remember that burgundy twill skirt I mentioned a couple of times this fall but never showed you?  The one that fit weirdly and I was never going to wear?  Well, it still fits slightly weird, but I decided to take it for a spin anyway.  

This is another redrafted Anne Adams 9481, and I pretty much followed the same script as my olive twill.  This is the same Kaufman Kobe twill as the olive, and it behaved pretty much the same way.  

The strange thing about this skirt is that I bought the fabric in early September and made it up right away, but then I couldn't remember how I had planned to wear it--nothing in my closet seemed right for it, and the slightly too-big fit around the waist didn't help.  (I did wonder if washing it again would help, as the fit of my olive skirt has improved with additional washing).

I really was ready to put it in the donation pile because every time I tried to style it with something, it just looked weird, but I pulled it out this morning after I thrifted this sweater from ThredUp.  I wore it with a dress over the weekend and I am in love with it.  It is 100% cotton and very light weight, so I'm very comfortable in it in this crazy weather and my crazy body that doesn't know what temperature to be.  I love the cropped length, the slightly dolman sleeves, the stripes, the color, everything.  It is slightly saggy today after wearing all day yesterday, but I don't even care.  A trip through the wash should reblock it in any case.  And it looks pretty good with this skirt, I think!

The only change I made from the olive skirt was to put a proper button hole on the waistband instead of a dress slide, and while I like the look of it, and was pleased to use my buttonholer again (like I said, I'm drunk with power 😆), I think I prefer the dress slide, even if it is is fussier to install.  

I think I like this skirt for weather that doesn't require tights, since the twill is pretty sticky even with a slip.  It is humid enough today that I ended up ditching the tights when I got home and the skirt is behaving much better without them.  Still looking for transitional shoes to wear with bare legs that are not sandals and don't require socks.  The perennial issue.  I did bid on a pair of clog booties on ebay, so that might be the ticket.

I succumbed to autumn-induced corduroy madness and ordered a couple lengths to make some corduroy skirts on this same block.  I'm a little short in the mid-weight skirt department anyway, and my one denim skirt has been on heavy rotation the past two weeks.  I'm really into straight knee-length skirts right now, so I think they will get a lot of wear.