Me-Made-May Day 1

Me-Made-May 2019

Day 1

If you haven't heard of Me-Made-May head on over to Sozo's blog here to read up on all the details!

My Pledge:

I Lillie Shepherd, sign up as a participant of me-made-May 2019. I endeavor to reflect on any gaps in my wardrobe, at least 15 outfits with an element made by me, make at least 3 outfits from the fabric in my stash, and make plans for the rest of my stash!

Now May is a bit of a crazy month for me. As you may or may not know I am a college student in Massachusetts which means I am in peak finals season. On top of the craziness of classes later this month I will be moving to Brighton for the summer. I am very excited but that means I really need to focus to make this month successful.

Now on to the fun part!

For day 1 of me-made-may, I wanted to start with something simple as I actually chose two outfits for today! I have a work banquet tonight so I need to dress semi-professionally, but I wanted something more casual and colorful for this beautiful spring day!

Outfit 1:

Basics:
    Top- basic yellow T-shirt from Old Navy
    Bottoms- black denim jumper from H 'n M with hand-embroidered lavender by me.
    Jacket- Purple and black plaid jacket from Target
    Accessories- Black tights, brown combat boots, black and white daisy hair scarf made by me

Score:
I have created a scoring system for each outfit as follows:
Each category is scored on a scale of 1-5

• 1pt - wear for the whole set time
• 2pt - comfortable/minor fidgeting
• 2pt - re-wearability

Categories:

• Top
• Bottoms
• Dress (instead of top+bottoms)
• Shoes
• Accessories

All pictures are taken on my college campus by my friend Becca with her iPhone XR

This outfit is actually one I wear quite often when the weather is nice enough. The only pieces I actually made in the outfit are the lavender embroidery on the jumper and the daisy hair scarf.

My scoring of this outfit

The only reason that the yellow T did not get a perfect score is that I do not wear T-shirts often except in outfits such as this and it is also cheap so it bunches up under the jumper often.

Outfit 2:

 As I mentioned I had a work banquet to attend tonight so I wanted to continue on my purple trend and wear this fun outfit.

Basics:
   top - black and purple plaid jacket from H 'n M
   dress - purple and cream "ribbon" dress with a full skirt with a built-in petticoat and pockets!
   accessories - black tights, light brown leather booties from Nordstrom's

My score for the second outfit of day 1

I love this outfit and once it is a little warmer I fully intend on wearing this dress more often. In fact, if you go to my photoshoot page (coming soon) you will see the full photoshoot I did in this dress back in March 2019 in Kinsale Ireland.



                                                                                                 
That concludes Me-Made-May day 1! I am so excited to show you everything else I have in store for this month including actually making some new outfits and taking you all through the whole process.