I have two of these, one for athletics and one for fashion. (As a brief aside, SkirtSports is a great company – they really go the extra mile for their customers.) It’s got these amazing pockets on the thighs and a grommet in the skirt to pull a wire up from one of the pockets. Awesome piece of work, that. Unfortunately, the Sweetest Thing Capri Skirt is only available in black. While anyone who knows me knows I wear a lot of black, I wanted something more colorful to wear hiking. I decided to knock it off in a colorful swimsuit knit, which seems to be what the real thing is made in.
The pocket is a little low – on the next pair I’ll put it up higher. The top of it should be under the skirt. Still works great for my iPhone. I *hate* not having pockets!
I decided to not attach the skirt to the pants. I thought the print was overkill, and when I made the decision, I was wishing I had some navy swimsuit to attach instead. I’ve worn the skirt over navy UnderArmor, and that works well. As it turned out, when I was doing some organizing a few days later, I found 2 yards of navy swimsuit, so I made another skirt…then also left it detached. It’s more flexible that way, I think.
I just drafted the skirt off the SkirtSports garment and made it up. I should probably have drafted it properly, and if I decide I need more than two of these skirts, I will do it properly. It would still be a piece of cake. The pants are Kwik-Sew 3455, and I think I’ve sewn that one four or five times now. They are not all documented here. It takes me maybe an hour to make these. Mostly, it’s just feeding it into the machine because the cutting is just two pieces (there’s no outer leg seam) and one is a gusset.
The top pictured is Burda World of Fashion July, 2007 #107, which is a wrap top. It looks much better on me backwards, so I re-did the back neckline to make it a jewel neckline, and that’s it. It’s a very easy top to make, and I’d definitely make it again. The fabric is a rib knit remnant I got at Hancock last year, I think. I actually wore this outfit just like it’s pictured on Sunday and it looked very retro 60s. The pattern is so loud that the pants don’t read as swimsuit knit – they just look like I’m a master of fitting. (HA!). The top *backwards* just looked really old school. I think it’s because of the cut through the shoulders, but I’m not sure. I’ve also been wearing my hair kind of piled on the crown of my head, and that also added to it’s retro-ness. I felt like with strappy high-heeled sandals and too much makeup I could have fallen off the set of Goodfellas. Remember the mob wives? This just looked like something Karen Hill would have worn.
The net result? I will not be wearing these hiking. First, plastic-y fabrics like this retain smells, and second, wearing these in the woods could result in actual damage to the fabric.
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