Old Fashioned Skirts & Clothing

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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OMG that first one!! GORGEOUS!!!! But I just don't know if it would look good on me...

 

[cybercat]

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Try looking up 8 yeard skirt. That is what the first one is like the most. I have a few of them. They are my favs by far. Last 2 I got at walmart a few years ago. First one I ordered off a belly dancing clothing site. Search Gypsy or belly dance clothing for sites. Your other route is to get pattens and visit a local semstress. You can find them in your local yellow pages under sewing. She would be able to help you out alot.

 

[Orchid]

Just don't try a big flowing skirt with a big flowing top - recipe for disaster. Only one big flowy item at a time, the other needs to be fitted!

Pick up the February issue of Glamour magazine, the Put it Together page is exactly what you're looking for.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I also love long skirts and can never find PRETTY ones for sale. I like beautiful and elegant prints, with no faddish nonsense.

So I have made my own a couple of times. I just went to Walmart and the fabric store for fabric, eyeballed it, and cut it out. You are supposed to take newspaper and make yourself a pattern and all. But I just wrapped the material around me and guessed.

Then I sewed it with some bought elastic (I like the wider waistbands). They turned out so-so, since it was a lot harder than I thought to sew the waistband. But they looked pretty if I didn't tuck my shirt in.

If you can master a simple elastic waistband somehow, then you have it made!!! The rest of the skirt is easy.

One warning though: there is a problem once the fabric shrinks in that it is kind of uneven sometimes. I would recommend prewashing and ironing your material if possible. I think this is called bias? I really don't know.

http://www.sewing.org/html/biasbasics2.html
this might be helpful

My skirts definitely aren't professional looking. It would be worth looking some things up on internet to get good at it.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

If you want to make super simple wrap skirts, here is a tutorial I put together when I was making a skirt with my niece.
The pics are so so, but you should have no trouble following along.
http://steveandpaularunyan.blogspot.com/search/label/Wrap Skirt Tutorial

 

[halfwaynowhere]

the bohemian look was really in a few years ago- peasant blouses, tiered skirts, all that fun stuff. i practically lived in those clothes for awhile. Skirts don't suit my body type, though, so i tend to avoid them these days. I would suggest looking at thrift stores for things like that, because they were in fashion not too long ago, so they shouldn't be too hard to find.

 

[PineappleMama]

I'd love one of each... but especially the second one... very feisty... bet DH would love it.

I confess to a major tomboy bias against ruffles... thus my strict no ruffles policy.

 

[Sharylva]

The most important thing is that you feel good in what you wear, to heck with what anyone else thinks. I'm a dress nut so its pretty much all I wear but thats just me.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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Ruffles make me look even "fluffier"!!! LOL

Don't wanna do that!

 

[PineappleMama]

Well... okay maybe a ruffle or two in the blouse... but NO way in the skirt... that end has plenty of padding of it's own.