https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:29:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440432 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:07:21 +0000 rachylou 1440432@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow. You are a master seamstress. Fantastic. The boots are INCREDIBLE and beautiful with the dress.</p> <p>Too good. Like some spoiled princess brat may lock you up and make you sew, like they did poor Rumpelstiltskin to spin straw into gold </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440406 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:19:03 +0000 Vicki 1440406@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Gorgeous in every respect and I love the boots, too! &nbsp;While I know nothing about sewing, it seems you sew with the eye of a designer. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440379 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:48:42 +0000 approprio 1440379@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks ladies as ever for the&nbsp;feedback.<b></p> <p>lyn67, Diane G:&nbsp;</b><i></i>I think might have&nbsp;to pick it apart and see what I can do with it. It's been bothering me since I noticed it, but it's a frequent problem with stitching linings into the hem, even with ease.&nbsp;And Lyn, I haven't tried the kimono yet, but&nbsp;I've enlarged the pattern print and I'd like to make it a project for later in the year&nbsp;(if I don't get distracted by something else)<b><br /></b><br /><b>lisap:</b>&nbsp;sewing's always been an important creative outlet for me, but I really have to make the time for it. I sometimes go for months without doing anything, then have a massive binge.&nbsp;And you're right, these boots are too good to be benched. I'm going to have to find the exact pants shape for them. Probably some species of bootcut, as <b>tulle</b> suggests. And maybe a three-quarter length tailored coat, another thing&nbsp;I don't have right now.<br /><b><br /></b>And<b> jackiec, celia, shevia, Sara L: </b>thanks for the boost!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440359 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:33:06 +0000 tulle 1440359@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My goodness, you're an adventurous seamstress!&nbsp; That Rucci dress is amazing.&nbsp; I love your Italian boots, but can see how they might be too much for tapered pants. Have you tried them with bootcuts? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440352 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:21:11 +0000 Sara L. 1440352@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What great dresses you made!&nbsp; I think the boots look good with the dress because they are very fitted at the ankle. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440350 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:15:51 +0000 celia 1440350@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I would wear any of those dresses in a heartbeat.&nbsp;<br />Ditto for the boots. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440328 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:53:49 +0000 Anonymous 1440328@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Holy cow - these are dresses after my own heart. &nbsp;I learned to tailor and sew couture level patterns while in university and I just loved the challenge too as much as the finished product. You are making me want to dust off the machines again. Anyways, those are fantastic boots, and I think they are perfect the way you are wearing them. Dress or pants - these are lifetime achievement boots &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440325 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:47:47 +0000 Anonymous 1440325@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, I think I remember the Ralph Rucci pattern from my old Vogue catalogues from way back (God I wish I'd kept those catalogues). </p> <p>The tunic/dress looks pretty perfect to me. Only a minor bit of bulge/pucker as Lyn mentioned. But barely anything to worry about too much. I know, though that you are perhaps like me and quite particular, so if you feel you should unpick and re-stitch, perhaps you will feel happier? I love how you styled it and I rather like the polka dot top for subtle pattern mixing.</p> <p>Going back to the Ralph Rucci, I think it looks awesome! I really, really like the boots with it too. They sound divine too. Oh, I just noticed the hem detail, how fab!</p> <p>I'm going to read your article on your other blog about the sewing too :)</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440320 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:39:48 +0000 Jaime 1440320@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Both dresses are fantastic but the second one really set my heart aflutter! Amazing! The boots are excellent - I love the ombre toes -&nbsp;and I like them with the dress, if that helps! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440319 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:38:23 +0000 jackiec 1440319@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My word, both outfits are fantastic! That second dress looks like it must have been a ton of work. I love those boots and hope you bring them out more often. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440315 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:33:54 +0000 lyn67 1440315@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, you are definitelly very very&nbsp;skilled! &nbsp;(I also loved to sew myself and DD until a decade or so ago, but then found my clothes in stores and&nbsp;called it having no more time for sewing...or I just became much more lazier:-((()., </p> <p>I see the problem with the lining&nbsp;down &nbsp;the left hem-and it depends on your time and willingness to repair it, or not, it's not that obvious for a not so trained eye, but if it bothers you then will pretty worth to do it, in the end-it's a great dress:-). </p> <p>Oh, my-for the second dress....It's beautifull! (Hats of for the Alexander McQueen kimono&nbsp; blazer, too:-))</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-home-couture-and-styling-an-orphan#post-1440301 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:07:10 +0000 approprio 1440301@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>In the post that prompted&nbsp;the epic thread about <a rel="nofollow" href="http://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/personal-style-and-fashion">personal style versus fashion</a>, Suz talks about&nbsp;"<span>the type of person who sews all your own clothes from old patterns".... Well, hello YLF! That&nbsp;would be me.</p> <p>OK, so it's not all my clothes and I most definitely look at fashion. But&nbsp;neither&nbsp; of these models are new by any stretch of the imagination. I've also updated patterns from&nbsp;the 1940's and&nbsp;could bore you rigid about&nbsp;the&nbsp;classic tailoring from that era. But I digress.</p> <p>The first is adapted from a pattern from&nbsp;around 1992. It's a very simple model with some rather subtle tailoring. The original was a hip-length tunic with long sleeves. I lengthened it, shortened the sleeves and added a separable zipper in&nbsp;the back. I like it a lot, it's really warm and great for&nbsp;the winter, but there are some issues with&nbsp;the lining ease in the&nbsp;hem so it's bagging a bit. Firecracker, Diane G,&nbsp;should I satisfice or pick it apart? Also not sure about the polka dot base layer, which was the thing that came to hand that morning.&nbsp;</p> <p>The second is&nbsp;from the late aughts. It is a different animal altogether, a challenging&nbsp;piece of couture sewing by Ralph Rucci that is as much about the making as&nbsp;the wearing. There's a&nbsp;piece&nbsp;about it&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://approprio.blogspot.nl/2015/02/thing-7-ralph-rucci-pin-tuck-dress.html">on my other&nbsp;blog</a>. This is why I sew.&nbsp;</p> <p>And I have to ask about the boots. These are a wild card turned orphan,&nbsp;</span>Italian bench made and super comfortable.<span>&nbsp;They look lovely benched on my shoe rack but they aren't getting the love they so richly deserve. I've worn them quite a bit with tapered pants but that's not working for me&nbsp;this year. How do they look with a dress? I'm thinking of trying them with more A-line styles in the spring.</p> <p></span> </p>