Today in the hundred-day challenge: The Inevitable Hair-Tie Experiment.
Most people, I think, use a coin with a hair tie, but I didn't. I just scrunched up some dress on the inside and wound a hair tie around it, then pulled and tugged until I got it more or less the way I wanted it.
The effect you get is this:
The hair-tie bunching inside the dress gives you some gathers and shape, in what is essentially a shapeless dress. In this context, incidentally, "shapeless" is a good thing, because it does signify versatility. You can manipulate the lines of the dress in one way or another to create shapes that you want –– or you can wear it as it comes, which is also fine.
Anyway, this is a fun variation. Not that you can tell by my facial expressions, because I'm just trying to strike some kind of natural pose before the timer goes on the laptop webcam.
I'm not sure how well the hair tie will hold without a coin or button, but so far so good. I'll leave it in for now, but reserve the right to change things up later. We're going out to dinner in Blowing Rock tonight, courtesy of my new novel publisher, and I've considered wearing a long, narrow skirt under the dress, so that the dress becomes a flowing tunic –– tried this look last night and liked it, but I might feel differently by this evening.
Today's agenda otherwise: writing, reading, walking, general housework, staying cool in the heat and humidity.
LATER:
I did put a penny in to secure the hair tie better. Didn't take a photo of my out-to-dinner ensemble, but it was Camellia worn this way, with a jean jacket and tan fake-Birk sandals.