It then sat unused on my desk for several months. It is a lovely pattern, but it is a very cute pattern, and I don't really do cute, partially as when you put cute on my fairly tall curvy figure it can just look a bit "we gave all the bridesmaids the same dress and we picked it to suit the 10 year old". There a lot of gorgeous Macarons out there, but none of them really grabbed me.. until this week's Sew Weekly challenge-Pin ups, when Macaron veteran Adey moved away from her previous jolly colourful ones, and made a grown up sexy version. Excellent.
Now I can't really pull off animal prints, but the less cute version has inspired me to consider some different colour options. The Macaron is a dress that screams out for colour blocking, but how to to that without it looking too girly or (as mentioned by snugbug) too much like those strapless dresses with white tshirts sewn in that we all wore in the 90s..
A bit of rooting around on the old image search and pinterest threw some interesting options.
Luxe it up a bit with some glamorous yet still officy gold satin and navy
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| dorothy perkins us |
Some lovely bright blue, keeping the black for the yoke
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| asos |
Cut a new panel out form the front and mix up the colours even more
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| shabby apple |
Team a nice conservative grey with something wilder
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| asos |
I was torn, between smart useful stuff I might actually wear, and zany bright colours... and then I spotted this..
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| eva longoria in victoria beckham |
oohh..
it is decided. at some point, I am going to make a Macaron with a bright red body and a dark red yoke. I may have to get on with some other projects first though!
Well, I can't wait to see your version. I am sure it's going to be gorgeous!
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