People watching

I like to people watch to see how their hair style looks, what they are wearing including shoes.  I find where I now live a very laid back casual style mostly.  It is interesting to see the styles here in the area where I live which tends to have more individuals my and my husband's age. I compare this to styles going 15 miles down the road and there are lots of younger people, many in the military and many young mom's. Wearing leggings, cropped tops or athletic wear. Not what my body can wear uncovered!!!

Even some of the businesses where I have been, the work style is pretty business casual. I am almost ready to do some sewing (if I can just leave my sewing room as I have it mostly set up now).  One thing of interest to me is seeing so many kimono style toppers/jackets.  When I lived in Roanoke, VA I just did not see this much at all.

I made this kimono jacket in 2016. Fabric was from Fabric Mart Fabrics.  The fabric was a silky polyester and you know poly can be very warm.  So for cooler days it worked well.  I just never felt comfortable wearing it.  Now I see a lot of this style or similar and in lighter weight fabrics with skirts (long and short) or with jeans and some shorts.  The weather has been extremely hot for the past few days and adding humidity to this and 87 degrees F can have a real feel of 96!  Not sure a lightweight kimono jacket is needed much, though some evenings at dinner in restaurants one may feel good.

I mostly wear shorts, knit or cotton tops with sandals now.  I love sandals and when living in Florida one could not have too many.  So I get to wear sandals again and loving it!

I did breakdown and buy one of the newly released Jalie patterns-The Bobbie V-Neck.  This seems like the best new pattern that's perfect for the weather and style for me now.  Look forwarding to getting it soon. This is my first "hard copy" pattern for 2018.  I think this is the longest run I have had on not buying patterns.

More later.