So, I forgot (again) to tell you (or at least the Chicagoland-area you) that I would be on Chicago Tonight on WTTW last night. (I was only talking about txt-messaging abbreviations, LOL.)
But, I figured, I might as well wear a Duro. (A Duro, as some of you have asked recently, is a kimono-style dress with contrast banding, as popularized by the designer Duro Olowu. That makes ‘Duro’, like ‘cardigan’, an eponym.)
The Duro worked fine on TV (as far as I can tell, being no expert on production values, and only being able to enjoy myself for a few minutes post-show, before it was time to put the little kid to bed). I’m sure someone helpful will tell me if it didn’t …
The only problem with wearing dresses on TV is that the mic person doesn’t have a super-convenient place to put the mic. With a Duro, though, you hang the box on the back sash, and run the cord & mic through the large sleeve to the front vee. works fine! (Occasionally when I’ve worn dresses to speak they have to hang the mic box from my back bra strap. Not ideal.)
The print fabric here is Liberty, a pattern called “First Prize”. Here’s a non-flashy photo:
The banding is quilting cotton. It’s a little rough next to the fine lawn, but I haven’t been able to find good colors in cotton lawn, unfortunately. and it’s probably one of those things that I’m the only one who notices, too. I’m also convinced that either my mannequin has a made a decision list to one side (or maybe I do?), or the floor of my sewing room is slanted. (Or maybe I just can’t hold a cam straight? My worldview is skewed? Something’s going on.)
I’m also showing it here with the tank I normally wear under this one; a plain milk-chocolatey one from H&M. (I don’t think you can tell here, but it matches a brown tone in the center of the first prize rosettes.) lots of you have commented about how deep the Duro necklines are, and I wanted to show you how I manage to wear them without being, in the classic words of somebody-or-other, a “cleavage-y slutbomb.” (Not that I think cleavage is necessarily slutty, and of course it’s the patriarchy that defines sluttiness anyway, always with an eye to perpetuating itself and controlling uppity women, but I just really like the word slutbomb. ) I also like having a chance to throw another color into the Duro mix with various tanks. Not to mention being far too lazy to alter the pattern to have a higher neckline.
I can’t remember if I posted this one before, or not! (Do I repeat myself? very well then, I repeat myself.) If I have posted it before, I’m sure someone helpful will post it in the comments.
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