Listening: Pharis & David Romero, Long Gone Out West Blues (2013).
I've gotten distracted again. I think this is justifiable, though; I need blouses. I need work blouses more, but I'll start with a weekend blouse.
DuBarry 5637 (1943) is a casual slacks/shorts and "jacket" pattern.
I have to resize this. There are two copies of it in my size range for sale on Etsy but they're priced between $22 and $50; I got this one on eBay in a lot of four patterns for $6.99 plus shipping. It's in factory folds and the envelope is in as good or better condition as the two expensive ones. Win! I didn't want the other three patterns but for that price, even if can't sell them and end up donating them to Goodwill, I can't complain. It's a size 12/bust 30, but the blouse is pretty simple so grading it up shouldn't be too bad (resizing the pants, though, if I ever have the guts to attempt them, could be a doozy. I'm super intimidated by pants).
The fabric is a budget 1930's reproduction from Hobby Lobby, blue with daisies. I have a love-hate thing going on with this print. They've carried it forever--they used to have it in light green, too, but that went out of stock years ago--and I kind of hate it because it's saccharine and because it's an unimaginative take on 1930's-style prints . . . and yet it draws me in every time I go in there. I finally decided that that made it the perfect candidate for a second-draft muslin: I'll use scrap for the first round to work out the worst of the kinks, and the blue for the second round where I want to do a good job but am not going to be totally crushed if the results make me look like Shirley Temple's dowdy older sister.
The pattern calls this a jacket. I'll be leaving the pockets off so I can tuck it in if I want, and adding more buttons to make it more like a normal blouse.
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