2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

CAFCGirl

Congratulations @Laura_Elsewhere That is fantastically happy news and well worth (at all times but especially now) sharing with the wider world and may I say hat tip to your fella for continuing to live life and asking amidst all the chaos! 

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

PollyWollyDoodle said:

Oh, congratulations Laura. That’s brought a huge smile to my face, and I’m so pleased for you. Well, you may not be able to buy anything but at least you can sit and make plans - I really look forward to hearing what your wedding dress is going to be like!

Thankyou everyone! I wasn't sure about posting it but then saw how much friends and family all seemed to mention how nice to hear good news so thought I would!

Polly, at present, I am still whirling ideas around madly, but I am considering a deep rich warm grey, a storm-cloud grey, blue behind the pal-black, if that makes sense, with what I call "stained-glass window colours" for contrast - that rich crimson, bright ruby-pink, bright-scarlet, vivid-green, glowing amber, dark ultramarine blue... in other words, I can't choose what colour so am considering combining lots, with deep warm grey as the background!  

I'd want to wear it again, often, so probably a mid-calf-length skirt, 3/4 or full circle, with jolly practical pockets, obviously, and a little fitted jacket, possibly a 40s-style peplum but I'm not sure about that, and a hat of course! At present I have no idea how the colours will work - one idea would be to have a wide band at the hem of the skirt in patchwork designs using the colours, and the same on the pocket-tops and waistband, and patchwork lining in the jacket, but whether I can actually design, cut *and* make all the patchwork as well as make the skirt and jacket in the time, given how slow I always am at things... Not sure! 

I have been thinking about your outfit and the colours "issue".  You don't want the suit to look too busy, so how about grey suit with ultramarine or green collar, lapels and pocket edgings as your main accent colour, worn with a blouse that encompasses some/all of the other colours?  Your hat could either pick out the main colour or the main accent colour, with a contrast band in the main/accent colour [delete as appropriate] and either feathers or flowers to pick out the colours in your blouse.  For hat shape, I am thinking of something like this one, which I just found for sale on Amazon:



- Pip (I want that hat)


ETA:  Although sold on Amazon.com, they don't ship to the UK, so no hat for me...

maddiemay

Loving the ideas for colours.    Pip I too want that hat, I love hats and wear them a lot, I have given away most of my more formal ones now, but still have quite an array to choose from.

Laura_Elsewhere

The problem with only having green/blue would be that I'd then be limited in what I wore the skirt with afterwards... it might end up being skirt and some kind of very multicoloured cardigan... I would love to support my two favourite indie knitting shops, Ippikin and Ewe & Ply, both now switched to online/mail-order,  by buying gorgeous yarns from them to knit a little cardigan in glowing rich colours!

I think the hat would be smaller than that - like the little idiotic things worn in old b&w films! I'm almost always out on foot through woodlands and across commons, in my everyday life in normal times, so a brimmed hat would have to be much more weatherproof than that! Whereas a little close-fitting one would still be useful afterwards... one possibility is a Juliet-cap, maybe in crushed velvet, mainly in dark grey but with scraps of the stained-glass window colours.

I still haven't yet finished my shell-pink satin dressing-gown - it only needs sleeves, belt and hem now. And then I've a 1940s original-pattern Vogue skirt and jacket to sort out - I started making it in the 1990s, did the simple skirt and started the jacket quite badly, then Mum offered to finish it off and managed to put the sleeves into the wrong armholes and with the elbows bending in the wrong direction (SO easily done!), and also although I blew over 80 quid in the 1990s on beautiful very fine mid-grey wool flannel for some weird reason I just used nasty cheap pale pink lining which looks horrible - and what with one thing and another I want to dismantle the entire thing, press all the pieces and start completely from scratch again, this time lining it with some vivid pistachio-green really good-quality lining material I was sent free when I recently bought some second-hand fabric. 

I think once I've done those I shall be ready to start properly thinking about the wedding outfit! 

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

The problem with only having green/blue would be that I'd then be limited in what I wore the skirt with afterwards..

In which case, no contrast on the skirt, just on the jacket.  Stormy grey would go with multiple things - it's a really lovely basic.  (I'm on the winter-spectrum myself, so grey is one of my basic colours.)

- Pip

CraftyLittleLisa

Congratulations Laura - some good news for a change.  Something nice for you to look forward to.

Hugs and best wishes to everyone else that needs it in these very strange times.

No real spends to report again but I have successfully repaired the opaque tights I rescued from the allotment and also repaired some socks that had a hole in the toe.  I finished making a bag for my yoga mat (using existing fabric), which I was very pleased with, and I have done some more knitting (using existing wool) to add to the collection for the local premature baby unit.

After the initial upheaval caused by the virus and lockdown I have now managed to find my focus and have made a list of jobs that I want to get done over the next few weeks.  Some of them I have everything I need to complete so won't cost me anything.  There are some on another list that may need some supplies before I can complete but I can still make some progress on them.  I have made some progress on this list which has lifted my spirits, especially this weekend.  Getting into a routine has really helped me.

I hope everyone stays well and safe.

dolly84

Fantastic news Laura.  Congratulations to you both.  Stormy grey sounds lovely as a base, if I was to get married again it would ideally be in the winter, I would like to get married in the video for 'Somewhere Only We Know' by Keane, bare trees and mist, I blooming love winter.

diminua

I'm late as always but want to add my congratulations, Laura, and thanks for some good news. 

lolly2481

Hi! I know I'm late to the party but hoping I can join in? So far this year I have purchased:
1 blouse 5 
2 jumpers 10
1 dress 7
And 1 pair of shoes from a charity shop 0 
Total so far: 22
Full disclosure- the shoes from the charity shop were brand new with tags on but hope that they still count as 0? 🤣

PipneyJane

lolly2481 said:

Hi! I know I'm late to the party but hoping I can join in? So far this year I have purchased:
1 blouse 5 
2 jumpers 10
1 dress 7
And 1 pair of shoes from a charity shop 0 
Total so far: 22
Full disclosure- the shoes from the charity shop were brand new with tags on but hope that they still count as 0? 🤣

Hi Lolly

Yes, of course.  You are most welcome to join us.  We’re all socially distant at the moment, so I won’t shake your hand, but there’s a spare comfy chair near the window, six feet away from the next one.   Cup of tea?  Do you craft?  Tell all!

Unless they were manufactured to be sold in the charity shop - unlikely - the shoes are considered second hand, so zero coupons.  Someone must have donated them.

- Pip