{"id":211,"date":"2019-04-17T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T20:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/?p=211"},"modified":"2019-04-17T22:26:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T22:26:51","slug":"more-or-less-meh-vogue-8784-and-the-named-ruska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/2019\/04\/17\/more-or-less-meh-vogue-8784-and-the-named-ruska\/","title":{"rendered":"More or less “meh”: Vogue 8784 and the Named Ruska"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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These aren’t the worst<\/em> dresses I’ve ever worn (far from it), but I’m not head-over-heels about either of them. Vogue 8784<\/a> is a wrap dress made from a slate-blue ponte from Joann. I foolishly made it a size or two too large, and while that wouldn’t normally be such a big deal for a wrap dress, this one has pleats in the bodice, and they just don’t sit properly at this size. I think it would be a nice dress if I’d just sized down a bit. I suppose I can take it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the plus side, it wasn’t a difficult sew, and it’s definitely wearable. I just don’t feel like a million bucks in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Named Ruska<\/a> (from Breaking the Pattern<\/a><\/em>) is a cool dress, just not on me. It came out looking boxy and droopy. Maybe it would look better in something like linen? I think, though, that I need something with better waist definition. I’d thought that was what the waist tie was for, but it’s not meant to really cinch in at the waist; just sort of provide decoration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This also just feels too short to wear without tights, and I’m afraid I’d look like a bee if I did. Not a bad dress, just not for me. I’m planning to send it to a friend who says she’d wear it. I still haven’t worn it out of the house and don’t think I would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,31,30,34,33,35,36,37],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dresses-for-adults","tag-breaking-the-pattern","tag-named-ruska","tag-namedruska","tag-v8784","tag-vogue-8784","tag-vogue8784","tag-wrap-dress","tag-wrapdress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/sewing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}