Getting Trendy

I'd like to think that I'm not super trendy...but I'm sure that's not actually the case all the time. Well, when colored skinny jeans came out, I vowed I wouldn't purchase any. They were just TOO trendy for me and I totally remember owning colored jeans in sixth grade and people thought I was weird. At least I perceived that people thought I was weird. Anyways, the more colored jeans I saw on campus, the more I wanted my own pair. I tried talking myself out of it, I really did, but it didn't work. Any time I would go to a store, I would find a pair to try on. Every pair looked awful. All the cute colors are made in junior sizes and basically nothing in the juniors department fits me right. And all the adorable light colors made my thighs look ginormous.

Well, one day I went on a fabric shopping spree with my mom and sis-in-law and was inspired to make my own colored jeans. That way they *hypothetically* would fit me perfectly. I bought myself some denim, a pattern and fabric for a shirt to match and once we moved to Utah I got to work on those jeans! I made a practice pair out of lovely gingham and discovered that the pattern was terribly ill-fitting. I tried my best to fix them but I got a little tired of it and just kind of gave up. I decided to just go with the pattern and hope they looked slightly decent. Here's what I came up with!

This is one of those projects that I just get sad about. Nothing worked right and I felt awkward all day in this outfit but I was determined to wear it after all the work I put into it! I think with some more tweaking I would definitely make more jeans but this pair was a flop...and I picked terrible fabric for that top, definitely looked better on the fabric bolt. Oh well...some projects work and some don't. Better luck next time I guess!