70's smock

It's "still" that time of the year when I'm looking for cool floaty type items to add to my summer (or allegedly autumn) wardrobe.  This is a great little pattern with its various versions of the smock.  I would like to be brave and attempt to make up some of the flared pants, but pants can be quite a headache to make. 

I had this taupe coloured fabric lying around unloved and thought it might work for this top.  A bit of a boring colour for some people. I really should have added a feature colour for the yolk to jazz it up.  I really wish I had appropriate 70's style fabric to go with this pattern but I didn't.  This was an easy enough pattern to do. However, I made an error with material allowance and the sleeves were supposed to be two pieces joined together like you do with some capped sleeves. I didn't have enough fabric so simply turned over a seam allowance. I don't think it's obvious. This pattern was size 10 and I am and have been a size 12 since I was about 18.  For some reason this is a really large size pattern. I had to take the side seems in about 2 inches on both sides. It was ridiculously large.  That is pretty weird for a retro patterns, if anything they are usually too small, especially around the armhole and neck.

Anyways this will be a nice top to wear with jeans or a long black skirt. If I find some nice retro fabric I'd like to try the dress version.



The necklace is a me made wooden beaded necklace. I get a lot of wear out of this.