{Pants – Perry Ellis Vogue Pattern 2356 {you can see the coat here Hat – Revisions ECO Fashions – Made in BC Canada}   Hallo!  The theme for Project Sewn this first week is favourite fashion icon.  I mused over this a bit; I mean I can’t really say that my personal style follows any single fashion icon. What I can attest to, is that  hands down, without question, Diane Keaton as Annie Hall was the first, and perhaps only, fashion icon that I’ve intentionally copied.  I have a very clear memory of shopping in the Salvation Army, long, long before it was cool, rummaging through the menswear aisles, returning home with vests, ties, and baggy pants.  Annie Hall’s dapper dress code was based on Diane’s personal style…menswear inspired, unique, and sometimes quirky.  Diane is still rockin’ the dandy look today…the vests, ties, hats, oxfords, belts, and masculine silhouettes.  So, in honor of my early days experimenting with personal style, I couldn’t not choose Diane as my inspiration.   Of course, this would be the week that my sewing did not go smoothly.  I had big moderate plans for an outfit complete with handmade hat.  That all went sideways after the little fiasco with the serger gaily scissoring my trouser leg.  As I saw it, there where two choices…Plan A, scrap the trousers and move on, or Plan B, make a wrong a right….Oh wait, cries me…there is Plan C.  Spend far too much time sighing and looking at said trousers, and then spend an equally excessive amount of time on Pinterest bissfully ignoring the whole thing. Yep, I  lost my oomph, my mojo, my game.  Honestly, I was tempted to toss the half finished project into a corner, allowing it to wallow in self pity.  The fabric, purchased at a thrift store for a few dollars, wasn’t a huge investment.  Meh, I’ve paid more for a coffee and a croissant, but the truth is that I was smitten with the dark tints of this plaid.  But…there ain’t no extra fabric the little voice cried.  Uh uh, ’tis true, so what was I to do?  Well, I did me some serious alteration to the pattern.  Gone are the wide legged, pleated Perry Ellis trousers and, why hello, now we have a slimmer legg-ed, non-pleated pair of pants.  Because the hole in the fabric was only about an inch from the side seam, I was … Continue reading PROJECT SEWN |A FAVOURITE FASHION ICON…