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  • Fitting My Pencil Skirt and Simplicity 8601 Top- Fail

    June 12, 2018 / 8 Comments

    As a part of my work wear wardrobe,  I wanted  a pencil skirt.  I wanted this pencil skirt to be woven with minimal stretch and fit like a glove, easy, right?  Welp, in search of a skirt in RTW (ready to wear), I found tons of plus size pencil skirts, but none that were non stretch.  What I saw was scuba, neoprene and ponte.  I guess that’s a good way to get a fit, add spandex.  I don’t have anything against this, I actually own a few but I was looking for something more tailored. This is a basic pencil skirt, it’s very similar if not identical to this one (mine came…

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