What I Wear - Audrey Hepburn esque

                    

I have always really liked this outfit from Roman Holiday.  Her other dresses are a little over the top (OK,  a lot over the top), but this one is so cute and feminine and modest and real.  I was more than a little disappointed when she rolled up the sleeves and undid the top button.  

                                                

I don't know what they did to skirts in the 40s and 50s to make them swish so beautifully, but this skirt really does.  I fell in love with it the first time I watched the movie when I was 11 or so and immediately decided that I had to make one for myself.  By the next summer I had myself a pattern and a bolt of fabric.  I took over poor Micheline's living room with my sewing machine and fabric and set to work, not comprehending what that "full circle" on the pattern envelope meant.  Oops.  I decided to make my first skirt for my sister whose birthday was coming up (hence sewing in Micheline's living room, not ours).  that way, if it turned out - great, and if it didn't, that was her problem because it was her skirt.  Honestly, that's what I thought - wasn't I a sweet child?  

                                  

      But it did turn out pretty well, despite my attempt at hemming a "full circle" skirt (is that what it means!), and it became Kaitlin's.  But when I went to make one for myself a few months later - that pattern was gone.  No one knows what became of it, but it hasn't been seen since.  Well, about a year ago Kaitlin didn't want it any more and it became mine!!!  Then I found this great shirt at the thrift store on bag day and all I need now is a pair of cream coloured wrist length gloves.  I just realized I don't have a picture of her gloves, but she was wearing a pair when she first ran away.

 I love how red my hair looks in these pictures, it's almost as red as Daddy's beard.  My hair is weird that way, depending on the day and the lights, my hair can look anything from medium brown to red to blonde.  I like it in any of it's "moods", but I  think red is best.  (That is a quote from my little brother's favourite book when he was 3-6, I think I have it memorized even though he's 12 now. :)

What I'm wearing: ruffle-y shirt (thrift store), skirt (made by me), knee socks (dollar store), 1940s pumps (Wal-Mart)

I thought of wearing Roman Sandals, same as Miss Hepburn wore, but decided with snow still on the ground, it was possibly not the best idea in the world.  :P

In his grace,

Laurel