Plaid Women’s Blazer

Green Plaid Women's Sport Jacket

Pub­lished March 13, 2019 Women’s Sport Jacket Hap­py (ear­ly) St. Patrick­’s Day! Today, I’m shar­ing one of my recent cus­tom orders. Here is a sports jack­et/blazer for a lady.  I used Gor­don tar­tan wool from Eng­land. This dark green, navy, and gold check is a clas­sic Scot­tish tar­tan named after the House of Gordon. The pock­ets and sleeve hem bind­ing were made with soft cognac (real) South Amer­i­can leather. (The but­ton is also...

Gold Wool Kids Cape

Gold Wool Cape Kids

(Writ­ten Fall 2018. Post­ed late on the blog.)    Today, I am shar­ing the gold 100% wool cape hand­made for the Pic­co­las by Ana­gras­sia Fron­tier Col­lec­tion. The cloak has open­ings for the arms, a but­ton enclo­sure at the neck, and a hood­ed (lined) cape. This cape is incred­i­bly cute and warm. It is the most pop­u­lar item in the Fall 2018 collection! Below, you see Ivan­ka sport­ing the cape. More col­ors avail­able...

Ukrainian Embroidered Blouse Plaid Dress

Ukrainian Embroidered Girls Blouse

Pic­co­las Col­lec­tion Shop Chil­drenswear Fall Clothing We saved the best gar­ment for last. The final piece of the 2018 Pic­coalas fall col­lec­tion is the hand embroi­dered blouse/vyshyvanka. It is a white linen bohemi­an style blouse with black and navy authen­tic Ukrain­ian embroi­dery. The blouse can be pur­chased on the web­site here: Ukrain­ian embroi­dered blouse Cus­tomers can cus­tomize the col­ors and embroi­dery design. Please email Mary Grace if you are inter­est­ed in...

Navy Wool Jacket with Leather Cuffs

navy wool womens jacket

Pub­lished August 30, 2019 Below are more pho­tos and details for Girl #1’s Coat from the Sus­tain­able Fash­ion Plaid Jack­ets blog post. Navy Wool Coat: This is the same coat design as the Plaid Tweed Wool Jack­et, Navy Wool Jack­et, and Dark Green Wool Jack­et. How­ev­er, I adjust­ed the shoul­ders, sleeves, and length to bet­ter fit a teenager.  (I think the shoul­ders on the orig­i­nal pat­terns were orig­i­nal­ly a bit too wide. I...

Silk Faille Bridesmaid Dresses

Dark Navy Silk Faille Pleated Junior Bridesmaid Dress with suede silk lining, open back, pockets, and emerald green big bow for wedding Bat Mitzvah interlining

A Day in the Life of a Dress­mak­er and Fash­ion Designer Have you ever won­dered what’s behind the vision and con­struc­tion of a beau­ti­ful dress? Hours and hours of labor? Yes. Cre­ative vision? Absolute­ly, but this cre­ativ­i­ty must also be firm­ly ground­ed in basics of tex­tiles and con­struc­tion tech­nique. This is why I am not just a fash­ion design­er. What I see in my head I know how to make...

Navy Wool and Brown Real Leather Woman’s Custom Jacket

A navy wool cashmere jacket coat with brown real leather with gold buttons for Notre Dame. Bespoke custom tailoring Worn with Ukrainian hand embroidered blouse

Here is a project from ear­li­er this year. It’s anoth­er wool jack­et like my pre­vi­ous jack­ets. The jack­et is 100% navy wool with Eng­lish ray­on lin­ing and real gen­uine (Made in Chica­go) leather cuffs. I love this jack­et and plan to make many more! The lapels and waist pleats make the jack­et very flat­ter­ing and chic. I think the cur­rent but­tons will even­tu­al­ly be replaced with new but­tons that have more...