Work/clothes

Well, I'm off on the first experiences of my new career on Monday! My first contract! I'm so excited! Now it's just a question of organising the family to cope with the altered regime while the contract lasts!

This also means that not only do I get to have fun being a “librarian” for a while, but it gives me the extra push I've been needing to make myself some new clothes - I don't think I will have the time to weave myself the yardage I would need for a suit just yet, but it would be nice if it had been possible *G*. However, it does mean that I will need to spend some time over the rest of the week making a couple of skirts and an extra blouse or two *sly grin*. What constraints I inflict on myself!

The other problem is that I now have to work out what colours will work with my existing wardrobe, while being "fashionable" or at least "chic" ...
Who am I kidding?! *G* I'll just make up some more cream/off-white shirts according to the pattern I've used for the last ten years, and some more trousers (also from a fifteen year old pattern) and a skirt or two from a pattern that I was using many centuries ago when I was still 'a school-gal'. At least I know that the shapes suit me ... but there are times I would love to wear something that was more fashionable, but I have a really tough time coping with the concept that in order to get something nice to wear I would have to shell out $100 more or less and even then, because I am so short I have to chop a foot off the bottom so I don't trip over the hems. Which strikes me as somewhat wasteful *sigh* Why does there always appear to be the assumption that horizontally endowed women are all over 180 cm? (That's six feet in old money.)
One advantage in "having to" make a majority of my own clothes anyway, is that at least I don't look like I've been turned off the usual fabrication line, and nobody is ever going to be wearing what I am!

But I really would like sometimes to be able to just get something off the rail occasionally *wistfully*