...or possibly early 2000. It's Style 2494, and it has a 1994 copyright, but I'm pretty sure I got it when I worked at Joann from mid-1999 to early 2000
Having finally made it, with enough time to develop my sewing skills so much more than what they were back then... Well. If I had made it immediately, I probably would have thought the problems were with my skills, and not with the pattern itself.
Now, though, I know enough to be unhappy with the pattern itself.
Once upon a time, I managed to be in a Walmart at the right time to get a mill end precut of some white cotton swiss dot. I figured it would eventually become a shirt (or two), but there were no clear plans. I picked up Simplicity 7233, with eyes on view 2, a bit over a year ago at the craft thrift store, but it took a while to connect the cloth with the potential of the pattern.
Then I put the pattern in the "To Do, Maybe" box and ignored it for months.
And while I have very much been having fun recently making girlie print menswear shapes, or tweedy skirts, I decided I'd go ahead and make this shirt--which involved raiding my lace and trim stash for suitable froufrouness
When I say froufrou, I mean froufrou
