Wildflowers::Pretty {blog feature}

I have been in touch with Anna, the author of wildflowers::pretty, and she has graciously agreed to let me feature her blog on Well Rounded Women.  When I was in college, I was friends with a young man who informed me that the type of woman he was looking for, to someday wed, was what he liked to call, “a knitter.”  He explained that women who knew how to knit were often skilled in many areas and possesed many of the qualitites he wanted in a wife.  I don’t know if that gentelman ever found his “knitter,” but I have certainly found one in Anna, and multi-talented she is!  I have decided to publish a post about a swimsuit.  Why?  Because the suit itself is fabulous, and this freezing cold weather has me dreaming of a beautiful day at the beach.  Enjoy the post, and make sure you check out Anna’s blog, wildflowers::pretty.

1930s inspired bathing suit.

I don’t know, but I feel a slight bit nekid posting this picture. But I decided to post it nonetheless. I’m kind of excited about this suit made from a dress and I wanted to share in case some of you might like to try it yourself. I actually wanted a more simple suit and it would have been, but then I screwed up by cutting a low back. And guess what? You cut a low back and suddenly there is no support for the front and sides! So I had to cut off the top/front, gather it and attach this woven binding I happened to have on hand. I was seriously about ready to throw the dang thing across the room. But yay, it worked out after all! And I modeled it off of my original wool bathing suit from the 1930s. 

Notes from flickr:remember this? using this dress from forever21, i transformed it into a bathing suit similar to this original wool suit i own. i had some problems along the way and initially thought it would be much more simple, only shortening the skirt and changing the straps into halter straps. but i was stupid and cut the back lower and suddenly, the front didn’t fit right. anyway, it worked out in the end.

 

{pardon my whiteness. i’m not used to showing this much skin! unless i’m at the lake, where 99% of the women there are wearing bikinis!}