This is a week of a me-made and thrifted secondhand wardrobe in video format. Each of these outfits features at least one handmade garment, plus thrifted or secondhand items. These are all work-from-home suitable outfits that are fun to put together and sew.
This is a week’s worth of outfits with (almost) nothing new. The jeans in the video above are “new” but several years old now.
Each of these outfits is autumn-suitable and a mix of thrifted or secondhand plus some me-made garments. I’m trying to add more color to my neutrals for fall and winter (I have fallen into the sad beige trend like everyone else, which we call “quiet luxury” but in the depths of fall and winter, it was just sad, sad dark colors.) My goal is to add in bright punches of color in my neutrals-heavy wardrobe this year. The fuscia pants (cropped, cotton lycra knit) I made 2 summers ago as a 2-piece set with a wrap top and the “new to me” ones are corduroy wide leg cargo pocket pants. Teal, navy also make an appearance and are great bases / color accents to neutrals.
There’s a fine line between a middle aged woman wearing pink pants stylishly and looking like a 4pm early bird dinner attendee, so I am balancing these with my neutrals for more sophistication. But, too, I see a lot of millennial and genZ women online (who sew) who are mixing things up in a fun and bright way, so I, too, want to dive into that trend I see in my sewing community.
My local friend Julie tells me to “get on my bicycle for everyday trips” so I will definitely need to make a more sturdy and stylish ankle wrap for that for the wide pants shown here in these videos. Stay tuned, another handmade is coming for that.