I made a short jacket (the short version of the long jacket I made out of brocade that didn't fit) out of scuba knit and a simple pair of elastic waist pants out of some sort of black suiting material, I think it's a wool blend.
Work clothes.
I do work from home, but on occasion I need to make appearances around people and need to be dressed appropriately. Most of the time, I am in no way dressed appropriately - as in "oh my webcam must not be working" because I rolled out of bed and my hair looks like Axl Rose in the Welcome to the Jungle video. In case you're wondering, I'm wearing striped navy and white pajama pants and a long sleeved Pantera concert t-shirt. Conclusion? Not work appropriate.
Aaand that's why I'm not modeling these creations. I need to go to bed and I'm not down for hair and makeup right now. So, instead you get Penelope, the dress form I got for Christmas.
The jacket is view C from Simplicity pattern 4789 and the pants are view A but highly modified. I made them this afternoon per the pattern, put them on (I knew I should have done this out of muslin first) and wowzers. Talk about droopy drawers. Way wide legs and too much crotch going on in these things. My seam ripper and I got to work (of course I had serged everything except for the outside leg seams) and I pulled them completely apart and started over.
What I did to adjust them (and this is probably the super hacky way because it's Sunday and I couldn't be bothered with math and fractions) is take the original pattern piece, and laid a pair of pants that fit me better on the top of the pattern and took a pencil and traced around them. I then took my cut pieces of fabric and re-marked them with the new leg and crotch lines to slim them down.
End result is pants that fit much better. Not so wide in the legs, but a little more tapered at the ankle than I would typically wear, but I guess skinny pants are a thing so I'm just going with it. They still need to be hemmed but I'll take care of that another day.
For the jacket, I was going to leave it open but decided that it needed some sort of closure, so I attached this fun little claspy guy.
I was going to make an effort to put the pants on Penelope so you could see the complete outfit but let's be honest, it's creeping up on 10:30pm on a Sunday and ain't nobody got time for that.