Fri-DIY-Day: Get Inspired At Creative Reuse Pittsburgh

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There is a lot of stuff in the world! And way too much of it ends up in the garbage when it could be put to good use. Creative Reuse Pittsburgh is an amazing place that brings order to the chaos of random stuff, thereby helping folks see the possibilities and potential left in it.

The hunter-gatherer in me goes nuts for this place! Each time I visit to make a drop-off of fabric scraps, I end up spending at least an hour looking around, and I always leave so inspired! This time I found a double-knit poly that is the exact same as my favorite childhood dress!! MINE!

It is truly a crafter's paradise, and you should totally look here before hitting up the dreaded Joanne's or Michael's.

Here's a few things that grabbed my attention on this latest visit. Totally different things will grab your attention -- that is the beauty of it!

Sewing patterns and crafting books out the yin yang! Seriously huge selection.

Books with bugs and frogs for your collaging pleasure.

Fabric and yarn and fluorescent pom-pom trim!

And a forest of trophies! Someone needs to make a stop-motion animation with some of these ...

There is sooo much more -- check out CRP's Facebook page to see. The "Button Fetish" album is particularly fine!

 

Shift in the Wild: Megan Draper Is Free

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Sigh, I love Mad Men. A large part of that has to do with the clothes, of course, and I look forward to reading Tom and Lorenzo's Mad Style analysis of each episode almost as much as watching! I love seeing how costume designer Janie Bryant uses clothes to help tell the story. Think about Betty's perfect housewife dresses, Joan's curvy sheath shapes, and Peggy's extremely practical tops and skirts. You could almost line them up in an "evolution of womankind" poster -- as the idealized femininity of the 50s fell away, something new took its place.

Enter Megan Draper, a woman just a bit younger than Peggy but far freer in her ideas, speech, and emotions than any other female character we've seen on the show (except maybe Peggy's awesome lesbian photographer pal). And I couldn't help noticing that, in the first episode of this season, she's wearing a lot of shifts. Some pretty frickin fabulous ones, too.

Free waists for free women! Janie Bryant is telling us that women are changing, and Megan is one of the new models.

Not only is she setting aside traditional feminine silhouettes; she's also showing quite a bit of leg in these looks. New shapes for a new kind of gal.

I can't wait to see these trends play out over the rest of the season. Will we see Megan in a Yves St Laurent Mondrian-inspired shift? Will Peggy rock a mini-skirt? How long till Sally's running around in ripped jeans and muddy feet? I rub my hands in gleeful anticipation!

Bursting Into Bloom

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On a lovely day last week, I decided to wear my favorite warm weather shift and stand by a very pretty tree. My toes are out for the first time in months!

So far this spring, I have spent my time sewing, sketching, thinking complicated thoughts, and making diagrams about them ... mixed with a bit of sunshine, nail polish, and coffee. Tremendous! I am filled with the desire to make shit happen!

What's your springtime been like so far, my pets?

Cute Skirt Alert! Kalpana S., Dublin, Ireland

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Kalpana was Wear the Shift's #1 customer -- our first beta tester, and our first real non-beta order, too! I am grateful not only for her support and love, but also that she sent this picture of herself taking names in her Skate Party skirt with some rather rad hot pink tights and cute little oxfords. I go crazy for this combo of adorable and bad-ass. Love!!

Thank you for sending your lovely picture, Kalpana. And also for being WTS's #1 everything! Someday we will get you a foam finger like this!

In Springtime, The Only Pretty Ring Time

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Wow, you guys. Pittsburgh has gone from cold as hell to full on spring in the space of about a week. Check out what I was wearing 2 Mondays ago compared to now! Craziness.

The other night, my beloved and I went out to Teppanyaki Kyoto with a couple of our friends, and WOW! It's absolutely delicious. They just opened, and right now it's reservation-only, so call ahead and definitely try the Hiroshima Yaki!

Anyhow, this is what I wore to eat all that yummy food: an Atomic Argyle shift (got enough left for a skirt if you like it!), some black jeggings, a satin blazer, and my red Camper boots. And I have a tiny bit of turquoise sock peeking out there, too, and a way-too-big ring, both of which make me irrationally pleased. :)

I'm getting out my springtime shifts this week! And we started planting lettuces! And there are daffodils! And trees are starting to explode into all kinds of crazy colors!! Ahhhhh so happy!!

Donuts + Doggies = :D

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Saturday I had the best breakfast with my honey Jolene! We went to E2 in Highland Park and noshed and dished and laughed and I tweaked out a tiny bit on too much coffee. And we had these beauties ... chocolate coconut donuts that were still warm inside! Ungngngnh!

Then, after we licked all the ganache off the plate, we went outside and met the nicest dog! Jolene could tell you what breed he is but to me he's just fluffy and sweet. Here's a pic of us both making the same face.

This is my favorite kind of Saturday -- wear a cute outfit (that's an Aloha shift!), eat some chocolate, squee about a dog you don't know ...

What did you get up to this weekend? Anything fun? Wear anything adorable?

The Joy Of Being An Outsider

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When I started Wear the Shift, I was an outsider to fashion design, a complete amateur. I had never drafted a pattern or even sewn a real garment in my life. But starting the company from Knowledge Level 0 was a conscious choice on my part, because I wanted to approach this problem of "how do we make clothes" from a new angle.

And it worked. Since I didn't have any experience, I just tried stuff. With each iteration, I thought deeply about what worked and what didn't, and I was able to cycle through ideas very quickly until I hit upon an algorithm that created the fit I wanted.

Of course I ran into stumbling blocks. Of course I will continually refine what I'm doing based on customer feedback and continual learning -- I am finally taking patternmaking lessons!

But my process of experimenting and thinking and experimenting some more led me to a unique way of creating sewing patterns, one based on the reality of an individual person's body rather than a list of commercial standards. I'm not sure I'd have been able to do that if I'd started off by going through design school and learning all about The Way Things Are Done.

I think about this in terms of the way I look, too. I'm cute enough, sure, but I've never been the kind of girl you'll see walking a runway -- I'm a beauty outsider. And while that sometimes made me a little sad when I was a kid, I see now how it's given me enormous freedom. I will never look like a movie star, so why not just try to look like what I think is cute?

Even as Wear the Shift grows into a bigger company with a wider impact, I never want to lose my outsider status. I never want to fix my crooked teeth, or starve myself to get skinny, or worry about whether the way I dress is "fashionable" or not. I want to look like myself, experiment with wild abandon, and retain every drop of my freedom.

We tend to think of being an outsider as somehow being less than. But I see it differently. Being on the margin gives you a unique perspective on the status quo and makes you less beholden to it. Which means you can more easily change it.

My Best Thrift Score

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... is this orange coat. It's clearly from the 60s, high quality wool lined with satin, and incredibly warm. Almost too warm, sometimes, but as you can see I needed it today as winter blew back through the Burgh.

I got it at Red, White, & Blue about 5 years ago, and it was $3 because it had a giant gross stain on the front. One trip to the cleaners later, it was good as new.

I love it because most winter coats are black or navy or gray or something. This tangerine stands out. Oh yeah, and isn't it the color of the year or something? Go me!

Underneath this treasure, I have on my Eddie Vedder flannel shift, some turquoise sweater tights, a sweater from Uniqlo, and my trusty Merrell boots which are the best winter boots I have ever had.

What's your best thrift score?

From Now On, Ima Be My Own Best Friend

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Imagine you are walking down the street with your bestie, and some douchebag says something about her. Maybe he's commenting on her body, or maybe he's doing that thing where a guy thinks that calling a lady stuck up is going to make her want to talk to him. It doesn't matter. Just imagine how you would react.

Me? I'd either give him a dirty look, or haughtily ignore him, or maybe make a lewd Outrageous Fortune reference just within earshot. If what he said was truly heinous, I might go over and give him a generous serving of my mind. Whatever the situation called for, my reaction would invariably be some variation on a middle finger. Without hesitating for a second, I'd defend my friend with my mighty weapons of ferocity and loyalty and hilarity. I'd automatically be on her side.

I'm guessing you would, too. That's what friends do.

Now imagine this: you have a shitty thought about yourself. Haha, do you even have to imagine, or can you just tune into the shitty thought station as it blares away 24/7? For me, Jabba the Hutt is often involved -- for instance: "Ugh, God, I look like Jabba the Hutt in this."

But, like the ejaculations of the douchebag on the street, the content of these thoughts doesn't really matter. What matters is what happens next.

Do you immediately roll over and concede the point that you actually do look like Mr. The Hutt and skulk back to the closet to find something that might render you a bit more invisible? Or do you give that thought a big old middle finger and move on with your day?

Just think about it. What if the cool part of your brain could defend you from the douchebag part, the same way you'd defend your BFF, with full dedication and without a second's hesitation? What amazing things might you have the confidence to wear? To do?

Just something to think about. All the ladies, if you feel me, help me sing it out.

Up, Up and Away

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Did you get up to anything fun this weekend? I sure did! Friday night, my fella and I went to try Union Pig and Chicken where the fried chicken was so good it made my eyes roll backwards in my head.

Then we went to see Daptone recording artist Charles Bradley, who basically burned down the Rex with pure love. AMAZING. Plus he did Robyn's call-your-girlfriend/hump-the-stage move!

Saturday, we finally picked a date for our wedding and began scouring the web for honeymoon hideaways. We found a great place in Costa Rica and I can't wait to hug a bunch of monkeys!!

So, yes, a great weekend. Plus the sun is shining in Pittsburgh today! Normally such an overflowing of joy would result in my wearing a crazy ass outfit ... but our car is busted and I'm on the bus, so I'm containing my enthusiasm to a hot air balloon necklace and a big cheesy grin.

Whatcha up to this week?

What Size Am I? Depicts Fashion's Fatal Flaw

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Have you seen this cool new website, What Size Am I? You use the sliders to put in your bust, waist, and hip measurements, and the site tells you which sizes at which stores are likely to fit you. Right now the site is of limited usefulness to me in figuring out where to shop, because it only goes up to size 16 -- maybe there'll be more sizes in version 2? But I still think it is an amazing tool, because it paints a clear picture of exactly what is wrong with the way we do sizes.

How the site works is, it plots your bust, waist, and hip onscreen, forming a curve out of the 3 numbers. For folks with hourglass proportions, the curve looks like a U. For folks with straighter proportions, the curve is shallower, and closer to a straight line. Here are a few random graphs using measurements from customers I have had in just over a year of business -- the client measurements are represented by the black curve.

Pretty wide variation, right?

Now check out the curves created by the measurements corresponding to store sizes -- the gray lines on the graphs above. Unlike the individuals' curves, these show almost no variation. The proportion between bust, waist, and hip is basically the same shape across all the sizes and all the stores.

These graphs show it clearly: if your curve is different from the check-mark-ish curve that this mix of stores designs for, you are largely SOL.

For a very long time I have felt that seriously 99% of what is in shops is not meant for my body type, and I have to say that seeing the data visualized in this way makes me feel vindicated. I'm not crazy and I'm not deformed … most clothes really just aren't designed for me!

What do you think about all this? And where would we outliers be without stretch clothing? One shudders to think.

Fri-DIY-Day: Embellish A Hem With A Ribbon

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Today's DIY came about because I accidentally made my last shift a bit too short. I loved the fit and really wanted to wear it with tights, so I came up with the idea of extending the length of the dress with some sort of wide band or trim at the bottom. At first I thought I would put velcro around the hem and make a few interchangeable options to extend the length of the dress.

But the velcro proved way too bulky ... so instead I decided to attach a wide velveteen ribbon to the hem, offset a bit from the edge to hang down and add just an inch or so of length.

I started by trimming the hem's raw edge to make it perfectly symmetrical. Then I serged it, which is good to do, but optional -- pinking works, too. Or you can even leave the edge raw if it's a knit -- I won't tell anyone.

Then I took my time and carefully positioned the ribbon and pinned the heck out of it.

Then I put a Beyonce/Jay-Z playlist on the computer, got out my hand needle, and slip-stitched the ribbon onto the dress. I knotted every few inches to keep the whole ribbon from falling off should I one day pop a stitch. You could do it by machine, too, if your ribbon will allow it (mine wouldn't). I only stitched along the top of the ribbon, since the bottom was overhanging the dress. But in general you'll want to stitch both sides of the ribbon if you can.

This is a very basic embellishment, but whoa! The impact is huge. This simple knit dress looks so much classier with the ribbon to set it off! Just one little mod touch makes it like a hundred times more special.

And it's a trick that can save a dress! For instance, I massacred the hem on this shift trying to master the blind hem stitch on my machine. But I put a ribbon right over top of the crime scene, and now you'd never know.

So many possibilities! What about a rose-colored shift with something like this around the bottom ... or a yellow shift with green gingham ... or something like this eyelet trim around the bottom edge of a floral dress?

RIIIIBBBBON!!

Free Waists For Free Women!!

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In the 1910s, women wore dresses in which "the waistline essentially disappeared," then got the right to vote.

In the 1960s, women rocked some craaaazy shifts, then ended the war and gained reproductive freedom.

Coincidence? You decide!

But I hardly find it surprising that we made our biggest steps forward in times when we could dress in the height of fashion, be comfortable enough to work, AND have plenty of room for a nice pasta dinner. Followed by a lovely piece of pie.

We've got the world at our feet, ladies, and pockets to carry everything we need.

Long live the revolution! And pie! And the shift!

Diamonds and Cashmere

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The title of this post might be slightly misleading -- my diamonds are the argyle kind. For some reason, this Atomic Argyle shift reminds me of the very vintage game show Card Sharks -- maybe it's the red and blue.

The cashmere part is no lie, though. I got this pullover from Uniqlo for very few dollars compared to the number of times I've worn it. So warm!

The oxfords came from Flirt, my favorite boutique in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn. I stalked them from over $100 to under $50, and they are perfect: blue, olive, and charcoal with wingtip details. They make me feel light-footed and zippy, especially compared to the boots I'm usually sporting this time of year.

What's shakin with you this week? Got any fun plans for V-day? Any fun OUTFITS?

Xox

Madge

Five Fly Fashion Blogs

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Ahh, fashion blogs, how I love thee. There are so many smart, stylish, really really ridiculously good looking people in the world! Here are five that I really love. Grab a cup of tea and check them out!

Le Blog de Big Beauty

Stephanie is a model living in Paris, and her French language blog is full of gorgeous shots of her looking chic as all get out. I love seeing her elegant and creative outfits. This shift-based one is one of my favorites.

I also love that she doesn't talk about dressing to "camouflage her figure problems" or to "be flattering". She just wears crazy great outfits and works the camera and is her inherently foxy self. Show us how it's done, Stephanie!

And she designs clothes, including this insane black and white jacket that I need.

Fashion It So

When I first heard about this blog on The Hairpin, I squealed. It is a WHOLE BLOG dedicated to the wackadoo fashions of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

From Riker's deep v-pajamas to the startling variety of nutty jumpsuits, there is plenty to talk about. And that's before they even get to the aliens.

If I go to heaven when I die, it will surely look like the Starship Enterprise D. And I hope Anna and Charlie are there to have a Cardassian hot chocolate or something with me in Ten Forward, and talk smack with Guinan about Wesley's sweaters. Oh, and maybe Laxwana Troi can be there too?

<3 u, Fashion It So!

Already Pretty

Already Pretty covers the intersection of style and body image -- writer Sally McGraw posts outfit pics, styling ideas, and more philosophical pieces, too.

What I love about Sally is that she holds lots of space for all the contradictions that are inherent in being a modern, liberated woman who is into fashion.

For instance, in a recent post about the documentary "Miss Representation," she describes how the film made her question her life's work. How does dispensing style advice help women in a culture that assigns much of our value based on how we look?

"The point is not to feel beautiful. The point is to feel powerful, capable, invincible. The point is not to feel pretty. The point is that you’re already pretty, and once you’ve accepted that, you free up an enormous amount of mental space for other things."

Also, the, geek in me loves how she breaks style down in an analytical way -- it's almost like she's creating A Pattern Language for fashion. This recent post highlights a pattern that I use almost every day -- Long over Lean. I just never had a name for it before!

Worn Fashion Journal

Worn is a blog that goes with a Toronto-based magazine called Worn Fashion Journal, and it covers a wide variety of slightly nerdy fashion-related topics. I love how it blends cuteness and philosophy.

Recent posts have spotlighted recently departed costumer Eiko Ishioka, vintage ads for luxury goods, and a fashion studies graduate symposium at Ryerson University.

Oh, and jewelry made out of Barbie parts. Nice.

Fuck Yeah 60s Fashion

This is a Tumblr full of awesome 60s fashions that slay me. Yes, there are lots of shifts.

I love this blog because it captures so much diversity in what we think of as "The Sixties" ... there are some pretty incredible differences between what was the pinnacle of beauty in 1961 …

And in 1969 …

I love finding great new fashion blogs! What are some of your favorites?

Being A Badass Makes You Beautiful

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I've been watching "Mad Men" again, getting ready for the new episodes next month. And, oh man, it is SO FUN to see it knowing what's going to happen!

I'm in the middle of the first season, when you still feel bad for Betty and sad for Peggy. And I keep being struck by how radiant they both are, and how the quality of their beauty feels completely different.

Betty is a classic American blonde, repeatedly compared to Grace Kelly, gifted with a gorgeous face and a trim figure. Her beauty gets her lots of attention from men (and yikes! even boys!), and she's learned to see that as her major power in the world.

To me she seems like a superhero who knows that her powers are fading -- she has everything now, but she knows it will all go away. So there's an odd desperation to her character. We see this as she turns from one man to another, repeating the same patterns and judging her daughter as harshly as she has been judged.

And as her desperation grows, she becomes more and more odious. (Seriously, type "I Hate Betty" into Google and how it auto-finishes the sentence.) I can't WAIT to see what she does when Sally (inevitably) starts hanging out with hippies. And as she loses more and more of her youthful glow. She has a porcelain doll quality -- stiff and hollow and cold -- and the world is moving on to real flesh.

Peggy, on the other hand, comes from humble surroundings and would generally be considered pretty plain. But there's an intensity in her eyes that makes her stand out, that makes you want to watch her. Her beauty isn't a shell that can crack -- it's a coalfire burning from the inside out.

The first season is kind of a shocking time for Peggy -- she learns she has good intellectual instincts and poor romantic ones. (Seriously, girl? Pete Campbell? Let us talk!) But there's no denying that as she grows and gets more confident, she also becomes more and more beautiful. I like noticing it happen as I re-watch the show -- from the moment she sells her first copy, she develops a lookie-what-I-did glow.

Peggy's variety of beauty is more a side-effect of doing cool stuff than it is a genetic gift. It comes from taking risks and achieving stuff and being proud of it. Which means it's accessible to everybody.

And it's self-renewing, which means it doesn't go away when you get old -- in fact it only gets more luminous with age and increased badassity. Imagine Peggy in 2012 -- the drama, the stories, the hilarious and wistful memories! I kind of wish she was not a fictional character so we could hang out!

And it's also predicated on a much nicer notion Betty-style beauty: the idea that a woman's value comes from what she does, not what she looks like.

The genetic lottery is real -- some people reap the benefits of being born beautiful, and others not so much. But think about the people you think are gorgeous -- is it about their looks, or is it about who they are?

True beauty -- the real, lasting, burning-from-within kind -- doesn't come from our DNA. It comes from the boldness of the choices we make every day. Bravery is the new black.

Kar Hing And I

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Saturday night, we went out to dinner to celebrate my friend Rene's birthday. She chose the place -- Kar Hing in Chalfont, which I had never heard of -- and it was dee-licious. And adorable.

Our dinner was absolutely stellar, some of the best American-style Chinese food I've ever had. My favorite was the Special Wonton Soup for 2, full of crisp tender veggies, fresh chewy wontons, and chunks of chicken and pork in a rich tasty broth.

I forgot to take pictures of our food -- bad blogger! -- but I did remember to get a pic of my outfit. Priorities!

Yes, I'm wearing the Blowfish shoes again. I am obsessed. That's also a Sweet Tooth skirt, some purple tights, and a black tunic I got at Costco (!!) years ago. And giant sparkly clip-on earrings which you can kind of see here.

How's life? Wear anything fun lately?

Fri-DIY-Day: Put A Sleeve On It

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I'm so excited about today's tutorial, a joint effort between yours truly and Julie, our pal from Handmade Mess. Julie's made so many fun modifications to her DIY custom shifts -- super inspiring! -- and one of the most impactful changes is to add sleeves. She sent me instructions on how she did such an amazing thing, and I went through them, snapping pics of my progress and augmenting her steps with stuff from books. Enjoy! And get your custom pattern to start with here.

We're going to add a short sleeve here, but you can do whatever length and shape you want once you get the basics down.

Measure Twice, Cut Once

You need to grab a few measurements before you begin.

A) The circumference of your shift's armhole. Measure and record the front and the back distance -- in most cases, they will be slightly different lengths.

B) Where do you want your sleeve to end? Measure the circumference around your arm at that level. I chose to end my sleeve right around my bicep.

C) The distance from your armpit to where you took measurement B. For me, this was 4".

D) The distance from the top of your shoulder to the place where you want your sleeve to end. Put the end of your measuring tape on your shoulder, about where the outer edge of a wide shoulder strap hits you. Go straight down to the level of measurement 2. For me, this was 8.5".

E) The difference between D and C = your sleeve cap height. For me, this is 4.5", which is a pretty typical sleeve cap height for a non-stretchy fabric.

WTF Is A Sleeve Cap?

It's the height of the bubble we have to create to put your shoulder in. Think about a sleeve -- it's mostly a tube of fabric. But there needs to be a curve and some extra height at the top to accommodate the curve of your shoulder. The extra height is the sleeve cap height.

Sleeve cap can vary based on what kind of fabric you are using, what kind of sleeve shape you want, but taking the measurements above will give you a good place to start your further explorations of what happens when you change the sleeve cap shape and height.

Start Your Pencils

1. OK, now your have your measurements. Next, get out your supplies: * drafting paper: any paper will do, it just needs to be a couple feet square * ruler (clear is easiest to work with) * a pencil * a French curve if you have one: you should totally get one if you plan to do much pattern drafting -- it's so handy and pretty cheap, too. If you don't have one, you can use something like a 28 oz. big can of tomatoes. Basically you just want an established curve to trace against.

2. Draw a vertical line down the middle of your paper, approx 10-12" long.

3. Measure down the distance of your sleeve cap (4.5" for me) and draw a perpendicular line that is equal to B + 1" (arm circumference at end of sleeve + 1" for ease of movement). This forms a cross.

4. Draw a line just a couple inches long along the top of the cross, as shown. Label your sleeve showing which side connects to the front of the dress and which side connects to the back.

5. From the top of the sleeve, draw a straight line the same length as the front armhole minus .5 inches -- this allows the line to get a little longer when we curve it out. Remember that the front and back armholes will be a little different.

6. Use your French curve to curve out the armhole lines you just drew. You will start by curving the top edge, then reversing the French curve to connect to the bottom edge. Do the front and the back.

7. Now the sleeve cap is drafted, we just need to extend the length of the sleeve to your desired length. Use your ruler to draw 2 straight vertical lines that begin at the ends of the sleeve cap and go down to the bottom of the sleeve (measurement C). For me this was 4".

8. Draw a horizontal line connecting the 2 lines you just drew.

9. Add your desired seam allowance all around (I used .5").

You have a sleeve pattern, yo!

Facing Off

Before you can sew these bad boys into your dress, you'll need to adjust the facing shape that came with your custom shift pattern. Since you have sleeves that will be attaching to your armholes to finish them off, you no longer need the facing to go all the way to the armhole. Here's how I modified my facing shape to accommodate sleeves.

     

Sew It Up

This part is straight from Julie's tutorial with a few photos added -- she explains the process perfectly.

1. For a sleeved shift, you won’t need Madge’s “magic” shoulder technique...although it is magic, indeed, for sleeveless shifts.

Instead, with right sides together, pin the front neck facing to the neckline of the front body. (As shown above.) Sew the neckline all the way from one shoulder edge to the other. (Don’t leave an inch open the way you would for the Magic.) Do the same for the back facing, to the back neckline.

2. Trim seams, turn, and press in place.

3. Open the facing back out, lay the front and the back right sides together. Pin along shoulder seams, both the shoulder itself as well as their corresponding facings. Sew the seams you just pinned.

4. Turn and press. Top-stitch neckline if desired.

5. Staystitch the top curve of each sleeve piece. This just means stitch along the top curve around 1/4" from the edge -- the seam helps ease the shoulder into place.

6. Line up your sleeve and your shoulder like this:

7. Pin sleeves to shoulder, right sides together, matching edges and center point. Stitch and trim seam.

8. If you are including pockets in your side seams, attach those now following the main directions in your Shift pattern.

9. Pin sides of dresses together, front to back, right sides together, including the sleeves. Sew one long continuous seam from the cuff of the sleeve to the armpit, then down the side of the dress. If you've installed a side zipper, just sew from cuff to zipper top, then from zipper bottom, down around your pockets, to the bottom hem.

10. Hem your seams at the cuff, or finish however desired.

There you have it! We expect to see thousands of sleeved shifts on the street by Monday!

Xox Madge and Julie