“First things first” are the first words to my first go-to karaoke song. I’ll come back to that later. But first things first, I finally, on the very tail end of summer, pulled together a dress from my palm frond fabric. FINALLY! As I’ve mentioned before, palm frond has been seemingly everywhere for the past 12-18 months, hitting peak cultural penetration… Read more →
Shifty ?
So, this post was going to focus on the gorgeous summertime palm frond fabric that I wanted to use for this dress — a simple shift dress from a PDF pattern I found online. I was going to do a quick practice run shift dress out of the black fabric left over from the Trap Crop and then make the fabulous, tropical… Read more →
The “Trap Crop”
Crop tops: all the rage. (Not groundbreaking, obv.) But the weird thing is, I’m actually into it. Not in the Urban-Outfitters-thinks-its-1994-all-over-again kind of way. But crop tops turn out to be the perfect companion to high-waisted bottoms when its too hot (or you’re too lazy) to have a bunch of unnecessary extra fabric to have to tuck in. Love high waisted bottoms + hate tucking in = crop… Read more →