The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100157   Message #2005055
Posted By: Scoville
23-Mar-07 - 11:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: One for us ladies
Subject: RE: BS: One for us ladies
Skirts and T-shirts/sweaters. I'm extremely pear-shaped/curvy and pants are both uncomfortable and unflattering. I was built to wear June Cleaver skirts and ladies' [fitted] tees (straight T's look horrible on me. Make all of me as wide as my butt. People start asking if I'm pregnant).

Currently wearing a T-shirt, turtleneck sweater, and black cotton-poly A-line skirt with elastic waist (I hate doing buttonholes) I made last weekend. I normally only wear those at home but I have messy stuff to do today.

I make a lot of my own stuff from vintage patterns. I look a bit kooky but if I don't mind that, they fit me better--apparently women in the 1940's and 1950's still had hips and backsides--and I don't have to waste my money on poor workmanship and bad fit. You wouldn't believe how many women tell me they secretly wish they had the nerve to wear yellow calico.