Saturday 9 August 2014

Shortskirt


No, it's not a short skirt... it's a shortskirt! Shorts that look like a skirt. Why would anyone make such a thing, you may wonder? Well, for a start, they are cute in a frilly kind of way. And, most importantly, the cunning trick of hiding the shorts under layers of ruffly skirt makes the garment more palatable to my shorts-averse daughter, in much the same way that disguising kale as 'chips' might persuade a child to enjoy their leafy greens (note the word 'might).


This is one pair of shorts that R has really taken to. As you can see I've pulled out all the stops with these: pretty, girlish fabric; ruffles; ribbon and bow. Short of encrusting them with sequins, surrounding them with My Little Ponies and having them modelled by Princess Anna of Arendelle, I don't think they could be any more appealing to a girly girl like my daughter.


The pattern is from the fabulous Sweet Clothes for Girls and has the sensible inclusion of an opening in the waistband, enabling late-night sewists to take a stab at the amount of elastic required, knowing it can easily be altered later (or expanded as the child grows older). 

I'll be adding these shorts to Shorts on the Line on Kollabora - assuming I can work out how to :)

(I did work it out! The link is here, in case you want to check it out!)

8 comments:

  1. don't you just love that technique for enclosing the elastic? So glad your daughter loves these and they pass the no-shorts test:) She looks thrilled to be wearing them!

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    1. Yes the waistband design is so simple and yet so clever. And I get the elastic wrong half the time, so I really appreciate the ability to adjust easily!

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  2. So pretty, no wonder she loves them. I'd love them!

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  3. Yes the waistband elastic gap is so nifty! Once I've tried it I don't know why anyone else would do it differently! Your daughter looks so happy in the short skirt :)

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    1. Thank you! The funny thing is that I always mean to do waistbands this way, but when the pattern doesn't call for it I forget to leave the gap...

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