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// New entrance

Posted on | July 20, 2009 | 3 Comments

The tulle leggings are making a new entrance. This starts to look like me!

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Wearing them with a pair of Doc Martens (a steal from eBay), silk slip and hot pink bra.

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Sweater is self made, too. Fine laceweight silk-kid mohair mix knitted with giant needles for cobweb-like outlook. Amazing thing here is the lightness of the knit, it weighs under 100 g (about 3 ounces). There is no way to disguise seams in knit like this so I decided to sew this up from the top.

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Posted on | July 20, 2009 | 3 Comments

// Tulle leggings

Posted on | July 19, 2009 | 9 Comments

Okay, here we go…

This is a small DIY project I finished few days ago. The inspiration was Acne winter collection and the fabulous plastic leggings / pants in there.  I’m not enthusiastic about actually wearing leg long plastic tubes plus I have some doubts if the leggings never make it to production and if I have any money or will to purchase an item I would use once or twice at my lifetime.

Anyway, I wanted something transparent and interesting to wear on my legs, something other than regular stretchy leggings. So I came up with an idea to make a simple pair of black tulle leggings, cut extra long so that there is a possibility arrange some ruches around my legs.

They came up like this:

tulleleggings2Sorry, I don’t have a pair of perfect pins — but still my legs are my favorite part of my body. I’m also a bit self conscious about that fact I have a giant scar on my right knee. But these leggings mask it enough for me…

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I paired them to a T-shirt I unraveled from the back entirely and Anette Görtz wool-linen jacket. The jacket is actually quite clever. It has a detachable bottom part, when removed the jacket converts to a short and boxy one. The hem can be also unbuttoned partially to get interesting slightly deconstructed look. I wish I had a pair of nice platform pumps with this outfit.

Probably I will end up wearing the tulle leggings played down considerably more than in here, these were the first items that came to my mind when I arranged the quick photoshoot. The thing I like in here is the play between two different kind of transparency: the orderly, delicate but sculptural ruched tulle — and textured, almost organic frayed hem of the shirt.

I happened to have some nylon tulle in my stash, but if this pair finds its way to regular use I’m definitely considering investing to a piece of silk tulle. The construction of these leggings is really simple: just basic straight trouser pattern cut close to the leg and extended at least 50 cm for ruching. Tulle stretches little bit but it still might be a good idea to leave some room around the knee and seat area. I did not want to sew the ruching — it is nice to be able to arrange the fabric around the legs and tulle kind of stays where you put it. The only must thing for work like this is french seaming, there is no other way to go with tulle.

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Posted on | July 19, 2009 | 9 Comments

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