Ancient Willandra Pants

I pulled out these ancient plum Willandra Pants during a wardrobe clean this month and remembered how much I enjoy these fancy pants.

These plum Willandra were made before I had a rotary cutter and an overlocker, so the insides are zig-zag finished and I did a bias bound edge on the pocket bags. I love the way they hang- the way they drape makes them look like they have a very narrow leg, but in reality there’s a nice amount of room in there.

These are a Size F and the hem is a bias finish to get a bit of extra length for my proportionally long legs. Technically I’m a Size G on the M&B size chart now, so it’s good to know that there’s some flexibility on the sizing.

I’m wearing these here with a tencel Waikerie Shirt that Leila sewed and I won during a wardrobe clearout of hers. I sometimes feel like it’s hard to pair tencel with anything other than tencel. Undoubtedly I’m overthinking it, but that’s a pretty natural state for me.

I’ve been musing on officewear recently, which isn’t something I’ve had much to think about for a few years at this point. It’s totally normal to think about retraining and drastically changing your life as you enter the 2nd half of your 30’s, right? So with 2024 being the year of returning to paid, probably full-time work (Muna and Broad and my ChCh sews printing have been my main work for the past 3 years), I’ve got a complicated mess of thoughts and feelings:

• How do I feel about my wardrobe in general?
• I don’t feel any of my previous musings on colourschemes are true anymore- so what is true for me?
• I’m so drawn to so many different things and I’m slowly trying to decipher the difference between liking something and wanting to wear it myself (colours, styles)
• Dress codes are so often more strictly enforced on fat bodies- I’d say my general style is pretty modest and I wonder if that’s a preference or a reaction to anti-fat bias?
• How would I like to present in a workplace, given that my sewing skills could now whip me up shirts and other nice things that I would not necessarily have had the skills to sew last time I worked in an office.

No answers yet, only questions!