Holiday making (95/365)

[white_hart]

(I remember years ago "Making Monday" was a thing in the craft blogosphere. Maybe I should revive that?)

My biggest plan for my holiday was making a boiler suit. It turned out that boiler suits take quite a lot of sewing, so it took me several days, but I finished it on Saturday afternoon and immediately put it on to go out to meet my swimming friends.

I did also sew up the basic garment out of an old sheet first, to check fit, so that was some of the time it took, though it turned out not to need any adjustments at all from the plus-size version of the pattern, which was cut for a D-cup rather than the normal B and also has darts at the back waist which the normal version doesn't. It's a while since I've installed a zip, but mine ended up coming out very neatly, and it turns out that setting in sleeves isn't even something I find particularly difficult any more. And I'm absolutely delighted with the finished garment, even if it does turn out that boiler suits are surprisingly hard to get out of quickly.

I also made another set of underwear, this time with space print on.

I am very pleased with these too.

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

I love your boiler suit and your space underwear!

[white_hart]

Thank you!

[sartorias]

I had no idea what a boiler suit was--never heard of that before! I love that color!

[white_hart]

It may be a UK-only term? The pattern referred to it as a "flight suit".

[sartorias]

Thanks--that's what I gathered from the photo.

[cosmolinguist]

In the U.S. this is sometimes known as a type of overalls.

[white_hart]

I thought overalls was dungarees? Or is this one of these things where US English uses one term when UK English has two distinct words, like sweater versus jumper/cardigan?

[cosmolinguist]

Dungarees are bib overalls, because the top is a bib. So they're a kind of overalls and yeah the most popular/often talked about but I grew up with those being called "bibs" because otherwise "overalls" meant this kind of thing, work clothes to go over your regular clothes.

Boiler suit is a term used in the U.S. too though, I remember it's what the Ghostbusters call what they end up wearing. :)

[white_hart]

In the 2016 Ghostbusters, which I actually watched this evening, they say "jumpsuits", I think. Whereas I would say that a jumpsuit is a bit sleeker and less obviously workwear-inspired.

[cosmolinguist]

U.S. English also has two words for jumper: sweater and sweatshirt. It confused me so much at first that both of these use the same word! It was also confusing that the word is "jumper," which is used at least in my region of the U.S. to mean pinafore dress.

[sfred]

Is a US sweatshirt distinct in the same as a UK one? Sewn from a particular type of fabric? Or is it interchangeable with sweater?

[cosmolinguist]

It's a distinct type of fabric: sweaters are knitted (or similar). I don't hear them called sweatshirts here but the ones with hoods are called hoodies here. Hoodies are sweatshirts, that kind of gsrment without a hood is probably the prototypical sweatshirt. (Does that make sense?)

[white_hart]

I'd also say sweatshirt for a garment made out of a fine machine-knitted jersey, probably cotton, usually with a fluffy inside; a jumper can be hand or machine knitted but the fabric is different and it doesn't have the fluffy inside. But a cardigan is never a jumper, whereas I get the impression that in the US a cardigan can be a sweater?

[ankaret]

Yes! If it's matte on the outside and fleecy on the inside it's a sweatshirt, whereas if it's knitted it's a jumper. I think you can have a sweatshirt material cardigan - I have one in a novelty comic strip print that I bought in the mid oughts - but I wouldn't argue with someone saying that it was in fact a light jacket and a cardigan had to be knitted.

I used to have a style advice book that referred to any kind of jacket / cardigan / shrug as a 'topper' which I found rather off-putting.

[white_hart]

I have read way too much Wodehouse and similar to associate "topper" with anything other than a top hat.

[ankaret]

Me too. Though I suppose a top hat would have livened up some of the rather bland outfits on offer.

[sfred]

Yes, that totally makes sense, and they totally are called sweatshirts here too.

[sartorias]

Thanks!

[callmemadam]

The boiler suit fits you really well! Very impressed.

[white_hart]

Thank you!

[girlyswot]

The getting out of them is my main objection to boiler suits! But it is still fabulous on you and the fit is excellent.

[white_hart]

Thanks! I love it despite the contortionist aspects.

[mountainkiss]

It looks wonderful.

[white_hart]

Thank you!

[sfred]

I am very impressed!

[white_hart]

Thank you!

[ankaret]

Those are excellent!

On the subject of overalls / dungarees and jumpers / pinafore dresses, I had worked out through trial and error what to put into the eBay search box to find what I wanted and then they changed the algorithm and if you type in 'pinafore dress' you now also get UK listings for jumper dresses which are not the same thing at all, being bodycon, made of thin knit material and usually having sleeves.

[white_hart]

Thank you!

Transatlantic vocabulary differences do make internet searching annoying sometimes.

[lokifan]

omg that looks AWESOME!!!!

[white_hart]

Thank you!