Wardrobe Redux: The White Bryn Walker Jacket-Thing

I didn't get a photo of it when it was still white, but you know what that looks like, right? White. As in: not a bit of color. So I dyed it pink, and here's what it looked like then:

(I still hate this photo--it still makes my butt look huge.)

Then I got busy with some orange linen from a Goodwill dress. It was one of those you don't feel bad about buying and cutting up because you know it's going to get bundled and shipped away because nobody is ever, ever going to buy it. I think it had a tear in it, but it also had--aieeeeee!--shoulder pads. I cut that baby up lickety-split.

I think it may be a linen-rayon blend--I love the drapeyness of it. The pockets were cut from the part that had darts--I really like the result.

What I like best about this is that it gets better every time I wash it. The jacket is 100% linen. No, I do NOT iron it. Gah. I don't iron anything unless a hem gets wonky, and then I'll iron the hem. But I don't iron my clothes. Never. Ever. I don't know *how* to iron--when I once had a job where I sometimes needed to have things that looked ironed, The EGE ironed them for me. All the Zachery Boys learned how to iron their own clothes early on. He knows how to do sleeves and stuff. Collars!

So I ironed the orange fabric to Wonder Under (I think that's the brand I use--I don't know) and cut it out and ironed it in place and then stitched with embroidery floss--pretty heavily, several rows, so it won't ravel too much and won't come loose. I did rows of stitching around the edges, too--the reason I started the embellishment in the first place was to hold the facing in place--I absolutely HATE it when facing isn't sewn down and flaps around when you don't have the garment buttoned. I can't stand it. It's why I do stitching down the front of my jackets--I don't always wear them buttoned (hardly ever) and have to keep the facings from flapping around and making me lose my mind.

With Monk, named after Thelonius Monk.

 Lennie Lulu's brother, only he lives in the backyard.