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I'm honestly not sure if it's significantly warmer indoors this year at work or my internal thermostat has changed some more. I was wearing wool sweaters every day last winter, I remember well, but this winter hasn't ever been cooler than flannel shirt temperatures.
I have had a brainstorm that long skirts would be way more comfortable than pants now in the winter too, but the ones I have're all light and summery. I have to make or get wool skirts if I want to be warm and comfortable in winter - and also probably bloomers and/or petticoats, if I want to wear them when it's properly cold. I found two big quantities of appropriate wool in my late MIL's fabric stash when we went through it, but I haven't got round to making them because cutting and sewing feels like so much extra work compared to knitting! You need a table and measuring and writing tools and thread and a sewing machine and scraps and notions and space on the table and fabric scissors... but I really want to get them done over my upcoming two weeks' vacation.
Last summer when I thought skirts would be way more comfortable in the unairconditioned heat (they were!) I rather lazily ordered them from Emmy Design, but I don't really like their wool skirts as much. I want a good, comfortably full skirt that hits at the calf or lower, so around 30“ minimum and half circle or wider (or gathered or pleated of course). That's exactly how my summer skirts are - one in natural linen and gored, one in teal twill and gathered, both with buttons down the front and roomy pockets. They don't have these same designs in wool, though. There's a straight-cut one that I don't hate, but they don't have any copacetic colors, and the other wool skirts are either shorter or longer. There's no tartan, which feels pretty no-brainer to me for a full wool skirt, and only a tiny bit of tweed that's not even pure wool.
I already ordered one vintage tartan one in my size actually, in pure wool and for significantly less than the new skirts from Emmy cost, but that's not a very reliable method since you have to find the exact waist measurement. I haven't found any tweed yet. And anyway, even if I had managed to buy two or three already, I would still feel like I ought to use the wool I've got because it's right there asking to be used.
There are numerous more modern clothing shops out there, but needless to say, skirts in natural fibers and with these kinds of cuts are like hens' teeth. There are a lot of shops in Europe catering to people who like to dress "vintage style", and while a real 50s-60s skirt would work fine, in the present day the offerings that look like that are mostly made of plastic and typically only about 26“ long.
In the course of my researches I discovered that tartan wool fabric to measure can still be readily obtained from Ireland or Scotland, but the cost is about 60-100€/meter, so it's easy to see why I can't find any mass-produced clothes made with it. (If I like my first attempts at sewing I might still order some some day... . I quite like the hunting tartan of my seventh-great grandfather's clan MacFarlane....)
I don't sew enough to have a sewing tag, or talk about clothes enough for that one, so I'll make do with the knitting one.
I have had a brainstorm that long skirts would be way more comfortable than pants now in the winter too, but the ones I have're all light and summery. I have to make or get wool skirts if I want to be warm and comfortable in winter - and also probably bloomers and/or petticoats, if I want to wear them when it's properly cold. I found two big quantities of appropriate wool in my late MIL's fabric stash when we went through it, but I haven't got round to making them because cutting and sewing feels like so much extra work compared to knitting! You need a table and measuring and writing tools and thread and a sewing machine and scraps and notions and space on the table and fabric scissors... but I really want to get them done over my upcoming two weeks' vacation.
Last summer when I thought skirts would be way more comfortable in the unairconditioned heat (they were!) I rather lazily ordered them from Emmy Design, but I don't really like their wool skirts as much. I want a good, comfortably full skirt that hits at the calf or lower, so around 30“ minimum and half circle or wider (or gathered or pleated of course). That's exactly how my summer skirts are - one in natural linen and gored, one in teal twill and gathered, both with buttons down the front and roomy pockets. They don't have these same designs in wool, though. There's a straight-cut one that I don't hate, but they don't have any copacetic colors, and the other wool skirts are either shorter or longer. There's no tartan, which feels pretty no-brainer to me for a full wool skirt, and only a tiny bit of tweed that's not even pure wool.
I already ordered one vintage tartan one in my size actually, in pure wool and for significantly less than the new skirts from Emmy cost, but that's not a very reliable method since you have to find the exact waist measurement. I haven't found any tweed yet. And anyway, even if I had managed to buy two or three already, I would still feel like I ought to use the wool I've got because it's right there asking to be used.
There are numerous more modern clothing shops out there, but needless to say, skirts in natural fibers and with these kinds of cuts are like hens' teeth. There are a lot of shops in Europe catering to people who like to dress "vintage style", and while a real 50s-60s skirt would work fine, in the present day the offerings that look like that are mostly made of plastic and typically only about 26“ long.
In the course of my researches I discovered that tartan wool fabric to measure can still be readily obtained from Ireland or Scotland, but the cost is about 60-100€/meter, so it's easy to see why I can't find any mass-produced clothes made with it. (If I like my first attempts at sewing I might still order some some day... . I quite like the hunting tartan of my seventh-great grandfather's clan MacFarlane....)
I don't sew enough to have a sewing tag, or talk about clothes enough for that one, so I'll make do with the knitting one.
