Hello friends!
It’s been a while since my last Weekend Links post, and I’ve missed you! I also have lots of links for you today.
But first, isn’t this a cute outfit from The Sartorialist? You could make something similar with our SoHo Skirt and a lengthened Bento Tee with a tall neckband. I love the grid print of the skirt.
Weekend Reading
- As a big fan of any fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, I’m really looking forward to seeing In America. Any opportunity to see the work of American designers like Claire McCardell! And it sounds like there will be plenty of different perspectives on the theme to keep it interesting.
- “The destination is the luxury now. You want to be comfortable, and travel is more complicated, there are more constraints.” —Valerie Steele on fashion and travel
- When I was 7 I was obsessed with Little House on the Prairie and my mom sewed me a long calico dress like Laura’s. Since I already lived that era I’m not really interested in revisiting it with the current trend, but you can! And here’s an explanation about why you might be interested in it.
- What do you think about Pantone’s spring/summer 2022 palette?
- This is so amazing.
- And speaking of Claire McCardell, this is very cool.
- If you’re a fan of costume dramas I’d love your perspective on this.
- I went down a rabbit hole on sports bras the other day and thought you might find this interesting as well.
- Incredible how much work went into wardrobe research for the most recent James Bond film. (And also, how spectacular is that bias-cut dress? I’m a little obsessed.)
- Are you “dopamine dressing” this fall?
Have a wonderful weekend. As always, we’ll be back next week with inspiration and ideas for you. What are you making this weekend?
Will you be back in the states in April 2022?
I don’t have any plans to do so at present, Teresa. Any particular reason why you ask?
I always enjoy your curated links Liesl! You found some interesting ones this month. I understood better why I haven’t been interested in the prairie dress trend. I’m uninspired by the Spring Pantone colors, Daffodil and Basil are the only colors I really even like from those selections. I’m looking forward to reading about “In America” this weekend. It’s fascinating to learn about the creative process involved in creating the costumes for films and television. That Vermeer discovery is incredible! Thanks for sharing!! I’m hoping to sew some navy blue elastic-cuff trousers that I’ve had cut out for weeks. I’m definitely into “dopamine dressing” but rather than brights my personal happy palette is mostly wine, olive, mustard, chestnut, navy, rust, cream.
Thanks for sharing such an interesting article about the ‘prairie’ dress style. I believe some of the companies making those dresses have (unwittingly?) attracted customers who actively embrace the racist history – there have been issues on Instagram around this. I’m planning to make an Edwardian blouse (using Folkwear’s Gibson Girl pattern), which I always think of as a suffragette blouse, and will now be thinking very carefully about other possible associations of that style.