Recent Dress #4.

Josh made me sit on the woodpile (but do note that he was nice enough to put a jacket down so I wouldn't snag my tights):

My hair is doing something insane (which everyone really should be used to at this point, but this picture was taken after work today, so I have an excuse for once), and I'm making my classic "I hate having my picture taken, so I'm not going to even pretend to enjoy this and even though it's me who wants to document my sewing projects, I'm going to act like a complete puke the entire time the camera is pointed in my general direction" face, but if you ignore all of that, you'll notice my awesomely massive collar.  The fabric of the dress is a medium brown with a white pinstripe, and I tied my (well, Josh's, but I borrowed it) tie with an Atlantic knot. 

I used this Simplicity pattern from 1970, and I made it a size bigger than I'd usually wear, both because I thought it would be more comfy that way and because I was being lazy and didn't want to fiddle with re-sizing the pattern:

Even though it looks short on the middle lady, either her legs are three miles long or I'm a stump, because I had to hack a good five inches off of the bottom before it hit me above the knee.