People grab your sunglasses and a cup of tea, pop on some Grace Jones-Pull Up To The Bumper because this post  is loud. What’s On Trend? I’m not too sure, this was the challenge over at Sew Weekly. If I were to sit in my local cafe and people-watch over a soy latte or two I’d find leggings worn as jeans (jeggings) accompanied with a small grey sports hoodie, $5  tennis shoes, fake hair extensions and large amounts of makeup. That’s what the kids are casually wearing anyway. It’s different where ever you go. Melbourne are notorious for wearing black. If I were to look at magazines and blogs for On Trend inspiration? well, that’s another avenue altogether; I’d have to say that these days anything goes, mixing colours, patterns, mixing textures, genres, high-end clothes mashed with vintage, the thrifted mixed with high-end and let’s not forget handmade. It comes down to your own person style really,  don’t you think?. I like to see someone wear something eye-catching, chic with a helping of ‘what’s going on there?’ I’d definitely run up to the person tell them how smashing they looked and give them kudos for stepping outside the box.

I downloaded my copy of Paper Magazine, my eyes pounced on this fantastic fashion shoot ^ will you take a look at that? It’s an explosion of colour, print and texture it’s up there with anything  Mary Katrantzou has designed, printed and sewn together, it’s a visual feast and not for the faint hearted either. Using Paper Mag as my inspiration! here goes…

Throughout the week heading up to my big sewing night (Friday) I rummaged through my stash and took photos of all the bits of fabric I could potentially use for this challenge, on my coffee breaks at work I’d used this Diptic app to place fabrics next to one another mixing and matching until I thought I found a winning combo. Winning? well, that comes down to personal taste. I used Vogue pattern 8738, it was the drape on the pants and the half price pattern sale that made me say YES PLEASE. The pattern stresses two-way stretch knit fabrics only. I didn’t want to buy fabric this week so I cut the pants from rayon and placed a zip in the centre back seam. They draped and sat just fine.

The top is from the same pattern, I cut the back piece from black jersey and the front—as you can see, a piece of plaid cut on the bias. Sewing both the pants and top were a breeze everything has been serged, hemmed and pressed except for the bottom of the top it actually goes down into a point (my choice) but once I stood in front of the mirror the proportions were off so she’s tucked under for these photo’s. I felt I needed to take it just one step further to get this ‘mixed prints’ post across. I picked up this paisley chiffon for a couple of dollars to help take it to the next level, I can hear Tim Gunn say ‘Girl you need to edit’ but Tim I’m trying to make a point here… So, with that I made this long breezy coat thingy-ma-jiggy. There’s lots of gathering, gathering along the shoulder seams, across the front bodice and back, she ties up at the front and sits and moves just like I anticipated. The faux fur shrug I made a week or two ago; I’ve been living in my black one so I thought a contrasting colour would give me something else to throw over my shoulders to keep the chill off my shoulders during these wintery days here in Melbourne.

Now, would I wear this out? I’d wear the top two outfits, different turban though. I’d wear the coat thingy-ma-jiggy and shrug with a pair of black skinny jeans instead of these pants a different top and perhaps a different turban too, it’s all too much. But for this post, I think I’ve managed to get my point across. It’s kinda like that game you play when you’re having trouble working out what to wear? you say to yourself, okay! when I open my wardrobe door I will wear whatever lands on me.

Voila! this is what landed on me but straight off my sewing machine funny faces and all. Oh it’s an eye-sore for sure that’s definitely what I was going for.

On trend? who know’s anything goes these days.