Could Be Any Number of Vest Puns or Rhymes

 There was a decent amount of fabric left over from the skirt I made a few days ago, and I decided I'd make it into a vest.

As someone who was a teen in the early 90s, I have a definite history with vests, although those were mostly unstructured, generously cut excuses to collect a variety of 'tapestry' jacquard fabrics.  I wanted this one to be a bit more structured, if only because the fabric in question wouldn't make as notable a feature as the tapestry.

(It will surprise no-one to learn that I do currently have an assortment of tapestry jacquard fabrics in the fabric stash.)

I must have gotten rid of the early 90s Style pattern with a variety of vest options, including double breasted lapel collared view (and I tried looking for it again, but using the word 'style' in searches does not actually narrow anything down...and excluding all the other major pattern names just confuses the search algorithm.)  But I do still have McCall's 5186, which does have a single breasted lapel option in view A

And it's definitely a vest.

Basic Skirt and Ersatz Shirt

 and one of the waist cinchers

Shirt

Waist cincher

Skirt

A Basic Skirt

 Many years ago, I thrifted this Simplicity 2666 from 1948

And I made a skirt from it in 2013

Now...I did not have a 24" waist even back then, but the skirt pieces are cut so that only the centers are on the bias, so I added 1½" at each side seam to make a 30" waist. (Incidentally, I remember trying the skirt on right after I made it and being extremely disappointed with how it looked--then I tried a petticoat under it, and suddenly it was perfect.)

This skirt was one of the many things I gave away when I gained weight, and I finally tried making a new version

This time, I added 2" at each side seam.

Day of Quick Projects

 So, for reasons unknown, yesterday the small pile of odds'n'ends sewing projects and random fabrics flipped over from being an ignored part of the background clutter to being something I needed to deal with as fast as possible.

The Mixed Print Ersatz Gunne Sax Shirt

 I picked up Simplicity 5303 from the creative re-use store

It's from 1981--so incredibly from 1981, from that largely forgotten time when it was Trendy Youthful Fashion to wear ruffly shirts and knickers (American definition thereof), or ruffly shirts--with built-in neck bows--and A-line skirts for A Professional Look.

Which is, of course, not the kind of shirt I've made from this pattern.

But, my many deviations do lend a certain air of 'knock off Gunne Sax' to it.

Oh, another update

 Just over a year ago, I made this shirt, and the sleeve bands were incredibly tight, even after I let them out a bit.  The shirt was unwearable.  So!  Today I picked out the sleeve band stitching, cut slightly longer bands on the bias, and sewed 'em back on.  Much better!

For the record

 I have finished the bottom hems on two of the former dress bodices, to make them potentially usable as shirts.  One I might even try wearing myself, the other will make a good boxy very cropped layering piece for someone.  (The third will need me to fill a bobbin, so isn't happening right now.)