Do you know what being authentic truly means or you’re just repeating stuff you’ve overheard because they’re popular? Sure, being authentic gives you power and security but once you really integrate with its meaning. Being authentic means being true to yourself, being yourself. But do you know who you really are? Have you given yourself enough space and time to discover that part about yourself? And if you did, were you able to heal everything that needs healing?
Being authentic also means feeling truly okay to be different, to be unique. And that doesn’t come easy. Because there are certain beauty trends, fashion trends, pressure of aging, weight, and other things. Maybe you won’t fall in there. Probably you won’t. Because once you start journey to your authenticity, you start noticing that you don’t really fit there. And that’s fine. It’s actually more than fine — it’s perfect.
So being authentic and learning how to stay authentic is quite challenging journey. With many ups and downs, many doubts and heavy days. But then you slowly start noticing the change, a small movement inwards, and the calm and understanding that comes after it. It’s a journey, definitely. I hope you’ll give yourself enough time to find yours, and never give up on yourself.
- just some thoughts past few days.
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“I am wearing a thrifted skirt with a DIY shirt I cut myself and a Chanel jacket from mid-2010’s. My style was influenced by the model off duty aesthetic. The Chanel is gifted and the skirt is like 3$ from the Salvation Army.”
Nov 12, 2022 ∙ Williamsburg
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Amateur sewing - Red Riding Hood
So, uh... I've sewn a thing.
I'm reusing an old curtain here, it's polyester. It looks nice in theory, but I'm not even going to try and pretend it's anything else than 100% plastic. 140 cm x 140 cm square for the cloak, approximately an eternity of hemming.
Behold! Two different sets of lines that don't actually say anything because I can't do math and had to do the pleating, like, a dozen times.
First half of a box pleat in the making, 7 cm wide. I wanted a pretty drape for the back, and we're getting there.
Box pleat in the middle, additional knife pleat on either side. When I realized that the cloak was still too wide to fit into the shoulder capelet the way I wanted it, I cartridge-pleated the outer several centimeters up to the knife pleats.
Speaking of, shoulder capelet! I started out with two 40 cm x 40 cm squares outer fabric and the same size of lining. The lining is the rest of a duvet cover I began slaughtering for lining a while ago, cotton, because I may be cheap but I'm not suicidal. Don't want that much polyester directly on my skin. I sewed the squares together and hemmed them all around except for the corners where I still had to figure out how much I needed for my neck, and that got me to the yoke shape you can see above.
Could I have gotten away with a more practical closure than buttons? Yeah, definitely. Especially since this "fabric" frays like a bitch. I can actually do a darling buttonhole stitch, but you wouldn't be able to tell from this because I was working against the fabric. Then again, I had these buttons lying for around for far too long; they were presents from a friend and I never got a use for them. A fantasy-ish Red Riding Hood cape with zero historical basis seemed like the way to go, and I love them.
The finished capelet was kinda uselessly bunching around the neck, but I didn't much bother with that because there's still a hood waiting to go there. The way it fell over the arms when I didn't spread them was a bit more annoying, so I took in a tiny lil dart on each side, back and front.
I wanted a huge-ass hood for this. In the end, it would have probably been wiser to use the bigger squares for the shoulder capelet, but I have no regrets. Same story as with the capelet, just a lot less complicated; off with the corner and in with the lining.
That's how the whole mess looks on the inside of the capelet, the back of the hood cartridge-pleated down until it fit the neck opening. It's not pretty, but I really fastened every tuck twice and thrice. Then the cloak... oh boy, that nearly broke me. But I sewed it in around the back half of the neck opening so that it came out in the centers of my shoulders, and from there in a 90 degree-angle down the back. It ran out in that L shape you can see up there, not so much because I intended it but because I didn't have the best control over the cartridge-pleated outer part of the cloak.
And after I sent around the poll... I just went and did the opposite of its result ^^' I did end up putting the fancy golden trim around the capelet instead of the hood bc 1st, people I asked live said it'd look better there, and 2nd @kittycatalex made a pretty good point for sensory issues. And it looks so nice. Look at this big hood. I can play such a shady figure in this. The whole cloak is a bit top-heavy because the hood is bigger than the capelet, and the cloak doesn't have any lining, but that only means that the back can dramatically go whoooosh when I move. And when I don't move - behold that drape! So worth the bother!
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