Do you know that song? Do you have any idea what the heck it is actually about? If you do, please tell me. I don’t, but it seemed to fit with today’s post so there you are.
Last week I went for a loooong overdue haircut (I last went in…September?), so my hair was just all long and hanging there like a beat-up Raggedy Ann and he said, “Well, we have to do something about this! You’re not a hippie chick.” And this is true, but it wasn’t always true. In college I had two floor-length tie-dye dresses (some of my East coast friends saw this as a sign of California conversion)! But to be honest I was probably always a little bit too into grooming and shiny platform shoes to ever consider myself a hippie chick– I just liked to don the costume on occasion, and in smaller ways sometimes I still do.
So when I saw this pattern I knew I HAD to have it, and even if I wore the dress with my not-at-all-hippie-chick layered haircut I might feel just the teensiest bit boho
Now, the version I was planning to sew originally was the floor-length one with the ruffle on the bottom. But I had to do all kinds of cheating because I used a stretch fabric (not in any way recommended for this pattern) and had I added the ruffle everything would have fallen apart. So, it is less boho than I originally intended. I think it would look entirely preppie, in fact, in a cheerful printed cotton voile, and absolutely elegant in a watery blue patterned silk in the super-long ruffly version. Maybe one day!
But back to the actuality of it– it is very, very comfy, and I think would be particularly great in wildly hot weather, as the fabric is extremely light. The pattern is only a few pieces and very easy to put together (even cheating like I did), so I’d recommend it if you’re feeling the hippie chick vibe yourself this spring!