Lovely blouse, Lauren! I have a vintage-style dress that I wear backwards. It's too deep in the neckline for my comfort, so I just flip it around and wear a cardigan over it so you can't see the blousiness in the back. Doing stuff like that, as you've shown with this blouse, gives you twice as many ways to wear a piece!
Love it! With a little ingenuity we can easily get more wear and comfort out of pieces already in our wardrobe. I'll have to try out some of my dresses backwards to see if they work like yours!
My favourite piece of sewing advice comes from an older dressmaking book: the right way is the way that works. I keep that phrase in mind whenever I'm sewing and it's wonderful the way it removes any pressure and replaces it with a bit of fun and sewing experimentation. And, as you say, there are no sewing police!
Katie, that's the greatest quote! I want to embroider it and hang it up in my sewing room, in fact. So true, thank you for sharing!
I made up the Butterick pattern, and just wanted to add a note. It works best with lightweight knits. I used a medium weight knit jersey and the ties were very heavy. The bodice rode up and the ties rode down. I added loops to run the ties through and it was still a no go. Having said that, I must add that it is a very interesting pattern and was fun to sew. I am tempted to try it again after seeing Christina's cute version.
Once again the vintage patterns win with their well placed darts and clever details. Although modern patterns can be a good substitute, they just can't match the attention to detail. And incredible you can wear the vintage top backwards, just fantastic. Thank you for including my opinion sweetie.
I love that about vintage patterns! Thank you so much for contributing your thoughts.
Lovely blouse – I especially like the colour.
I also like your slacks – are they one of your creations or RTW?
Thank you! The color is what drew me to this fabric, as I would never choose a knit otherwise. My slacks are vintage US Navy pants that I bought at my local Army/Navy surplus store for pennies. A lucky find!!
I have two other blouses to review! It is nice to have them, I'm glad you're looking forward to my other reviews 🙂 hopefully I can post one of the blouse reviews next week.