Halloween is upon us and my friends are having a party at their house this weekend. i was told to bring myself and a costume. at first i said i probably wouldn't have a costume because i had already used up my other costume ideas: 2 yrs ago i was a hippie and last year i wore my poodle skirt. so i got to thinkin'. i love the 50s and 60s, so what can i do? then it came to me! i can be one of the Pink Ladies, from Grease. i figured: i have the saddle shoes, i have the black skinny jeans, and i have the hair scarf. it was a no brainer!
so i went out and bought some light pink satin when it was on sale at Jo-Ann and some black ribbing for the collar and waistband and black knit cuffs. for the jacket, i used them same pattern from the footed pajamas, but took the kid's size large and just shortened it. i added the knit cuffs and made a waistband and collar from the knit ribbing, which i ordered from Jo-Ann, and voila i had my jacket.
to finish up the costume i did a simple appliqué on the back of the jacket. since it was just me being a Pink Lady i decided to do Pink Lady instead of Pink Ladies. now if you were going out with a group of friends it would be fun to have them all say Pink Ladies. for my appliqué i simply printed the words from a word doc, traced it onto the fusible Pellon interfacing, ironed it onto my cotton fabric, cut them out, and ironed them onto my jacket.
i must say I'm pretty excited about how it turned out...especially since i made it up as i was going along!
