Could I Interest You in a Romper?
Curves and baby clothes— dressing your inner tot-ness
I have several dear friends who are celebrating summer with a new baby... two of whom gave birth this past week! —An extraordinary constellation.
I've made outfits for every single one of these new babies, my first foray into infantile dressmaking.
What I've learned about baby fashion is that while I have zero interest in I am delighted to make clothes for the roly-poly’s. While I cannot suckle or soothe your infants, I can clothe them!
I haven’t made clothes for anyone but myself in my past years of sewing madness; a few exceptions that only prove the rule. I've been consumed with how to make attractive designs for myself, and crack the code for how to force fabric to wrap itself attractively around difficult things like “breasts.”
Some people think that the fashion industry only makes clothes for flat-chested models because they are misogynist bastards. Not so! The reason for Flatsie-Patsy designs on the runway is because sewing for geometric curves is like …