Legs, arms, meh….
How are you all? This is where I must apologise for my absence – I’m still in Laos, in Luang Prabang right now and dripping all over the floor at the internet cafe. No, I don’t have an incontinence problem, but it happens to be Lao new year, during which time people throw water all over each other. It’s apparently lucky – for the person throwing the water and for the person on the receiving end, but I don’t think it’s so lucky for the owner of the internet cafe whose floor I am drenching right now.
Anyway, if you’ve been following my Twitter ramblings you will have seen quite a few of my travel shots, and I do have a lot to show and tell, but for mundane reasons this post is very short on pictures.
So.
I have only two photos of my remake project that kept me busy in the studio above the Mulberries shop in Vientiane for quite a while last week. This is the before photo of the pants I bought in the Talat Sao mall.
Amazing embroidered legs, yes? They’re from the Yao tribe. I also bought the matching jacket but I will have to show you that later. I already have a pair of Yao pants and these ones were kind of short, so I decided to turn them into sleeves for a dress. Legs and arms are both limbs, so why not? The body part is made from organic, fair trade, natural dyed indigo cotton that I bought on a trip to Udomxai. Mayphone, who was the local government officer who showed us around, also happens to be a master indigo dyer – handy, as indigo cotton is exactly what I was after! Here’s how the dress turned out.
Looks OK in the pic, but whether it will look OK on me is another story. I guess I’ll find out once I’m back home. Hopefully it won’t be one of those “seemed like a good idea while I was on holiday” type things… do you have any tales of holidays that have seriously affected the style centre of your brain?
That's one of your best remake projects, nice one! It's a good twist on a classic-ish dress and looks like an easy way for non-adventurous dressers* to incorporate a bit of interest into their wardrobe without adding loads of colour… You won't like me saying this but it looks very Melbourne!*ie me, yes, this whole comment is a thinly veiled request to try this on when you are home please!Also, your new blog design is good, I like the green theme. But where's the intro banner about you being in a Style Wilderness nicked off to? Or is it just not showing on my computer? Gah, technology!!
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