I was not planning to talk about this...I posted about it on Instagram with a comparison of the Botany and the Strata top. But then I made another one and it seems worth a bit of proper documentation. I used size XS.
Here's the first one:
Linen.
I kind of liked it and I kind of didn't like it. I wore it a lot and then gave it to a friend and then kind of missed it. But really the main issue is the stupid wrinkling under the arm from the curve of the kimono sleeve.
However I had a Vision! It involved slippery rayon. And so I cut the thing out before leaving Flagstaff to cement my Vision!
Some major ironing-rehabilitation plus a mere few hours:
(This rayon clearly will want after ironing-rehabilitation all the time, but it's not getting any more!)
The problem, of course, is that I desperately wanted this in February when I moved here. It was hot. I was hot. I got a sunburn. I'm not hot anymore. But it's still cute. I still like the Botany top more but I have not yet conflated the two patterns into a sleeveless but high low hem top - which is going to happen eventually. This type of sleeve is not very useful in the winter because it can't be layered easily - you need a really wide top to go over it and I mostly have pretty fitted sweaters and cardigans.
Here's the first one:
Linen.
I kind of liked it and I kind of didn't like it. I wore it a lot and then gave it to a friend and then kind of missed it. But really the main issue is the stupid wrinkling under the arm from the curve of the kimono sleeve.
However I had a Vision! It involved slippery rayon. And so I cut the thing out before leaving Flagstaff to cement my Vision!
Some major ironing-rehabilitation plus a mere few hours:
(This rayon clearly will want after ironing-rehabilitation all the time, but it's not getting any more!)
The problem, of course, is that I desperately wanted this in February when I moved here. It was hot. I was hot. I got a sunburn. I'm not hot anymore. But it's still cute. I still like the Botany top more but I have not yet conflated the two patterns into a sleeveless but high low hem top - which is going to happen eventually. This type of sleeve is not very useful in the winter because it can't be layered easily - you need a really wide top to go over it and I mostly have pretty fitted sweaters and cardigans.
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