I made this.
@caitlinburke clothes fit me off he rack fine. I just don't like what's on offer. All shapeless, and just not what I like to wear.
@regina Actually, I'm in that spot, too. I have the "right" shape (pretty much), but it doesn't matter, because mass-produced clothes are in their own little world that has oddly little to do with the people who actually wear them.
And fuck that! TO THE SEWING MACHINE!
And fuck that! TO THE SEWING MACHINE!
That looks awesome!! I am a decent looking size but oddly proportioned and I can never find stuff that fits. Wrap dresses are always wins. Yours looks great.
@cristin trial and error, trial and error, trial and error. I suppose there are people who claim they can speed the process along, but that sounds a bit like finding a really great psychotherapist.
Also, women too often cede waaaay too much power to off-the-rack sizing conventions to mess with their body image. Mass production of clothing may actually have created the cultural commonness of a "body-image problem" as reflecting an individual's failure (as opposed to the occasional person with idiosyncratic issues). I have come to think of making one's own clothes - and thus getting something both personally appealing and fitted - as a feminist act.
In conclusion, lookin' great!