I sewed it mahself!!
Well, altered it anyway.
I'm pretty POed that I didn't take a 'before' picture, but I found this blousy plaid thing at the thrift store and thought I'd monkey around. It looked like a nightgown, but itchier. Kind of like this:
But plaid. And with dolman sleeves.
I don't think it was a nightshirt originally intended for a fat body because my boobs made the front hem hike up
like 7 inches. I thought hemming the back to make it even would be a disaster because the stripes would make the whole fiasco completely obvious and just wearing a belt looked weird too.
I was just going to sew down the sides and make it a little more fitted, but it had pockets! I didn't want to hack those out, so I decided to make a whole bunch of little pleats.
There were pleats at the shoulders already, so I just ironed them flat and pinned them at the waist where I wanted the thing smaller. The plaid was kind of helpful at that point because I just had to start sewing at the red stripe and end a little above the white ones.
I think I broke my sewing machine, so I just sat down with a needle and thread and had at it while I watched 5 or 6 episodes of Intervention on YouTube.
I made like 5 pleats (or "pintucks" apparently) under each boob and then 10 more across the back. And magically the back hem shrank up. Now there's only like a 2 inch difference between front and back hems. And that's close enough for me!
Galloping away from the self timer.
It's clearly not perfect and I intend to wear it only in dimly lit locations, but I am also pretty damn proud of myself and my little needle and thread.
Me and my duct tape dressform with the next experiment.
x-posted to my journal and sew_chubby.