Fluffy Layer

 Someday I will make McCall's 5675 from 1977 in a way the pattern wants

 

 but this isn't quite it.

Ensemble

 I made the Tiny Stripe Jumper specifically to wear over the Unnecessary Pillowcase Shirt, and of course the Tiny Stripe Hat to wear with the jumper, and here they are all together

 

 And this reinforces how much I want to make more jumpers in general and more iterations of this shirt in better fabrics specifically and embrace the eventual return of cooler weather unequivocally.

What decade am I dressing for?  No clue!  But: it has pockets!

Doing Everything Wrong

...but, like, doing it all wrong intentionally...

So.

Years ago, I found this copy McCall's 5675 (1977) in a thrift store

At the time it was the right size, and I made a few shirts, and even a dress, from View C, and all with short sleeves.  After the weight gain, I considered trying to grade it up, but I never got around to it.

Then, in 2018, McCall's released 7868

It's obviously a descendant of 5675.  A modern, loose, unshaped-hem, very very loose descendant.  With extra looseness.

And only later did I look at the fabric suggestions and see that it's entirely light, slinky or floaty stuff.  Not from my stash it's not.  And reviews mentioned how very deep the front slit is, and how prone to coming open the hooks on the collar band are.

I borrowed the neck facing and collar band with ties and fabric suggestions from 5675 and used the bodice from 7868 and tossed aside the concept of sleeves altogether and made this

 as, y'know...proof of concept.