Vintage with a twist

My sister and I have been drooling over our  mom's high school clothes patterns.  I'm sure it pains my mom to know that what she wore then is now called 'vintage', but she rolled with it pretty well considering.  This week sis finally had some time off, so we looked through and settled on this pretty package.

Date on pkg says  June 11, 1977

In case you are thinking, 'oh, I like that nice summer shirt, the stripes are very flattering' prepared to be shocked.  We opted to make the little green halter top!  We went into this project knowing that this would be worn in the back yard while the kids were out playing and we had some free time to catch some vitamin D (read: tanning).  But we are fairly modest people, and even the knowledge of a privacy fence couldn't convince us to show quite that much skin.  So we improvised and created a 'modesty panel' as sis calls it.  I just prefer to think of it as the missing piece of the outfit.

Nice stretch knit in purple for her and gray for me, but the beauty of the project was the gauzy colored material that we found.  Tie dyed purple/green for sis and gray/pink for me.

I am very thankful that sis has a mathematical mind, because the pattern was a bit small for us.  We measured each other and got down to it.  Sis played with the children and I sewed and sewed some more.  We felt like mad hatters trying to get it finished before her work called her away.  A good days (and nights) work later and this is what I got out of sis' financing and creativity (plus a whole good measure of sister time!).

I would show you sis' but she jetted off with hers before I was able to snap a pic.  And no, you won't find any pictures of us modeling in our sunning tops...because...you know...we're modest and all.