my mom: pick a dress or jumpsuit pattern
me, several hours later and several fashion decisions deep: this button up shirt MUST have safari pockets and underarm gussets!

every several minutes i get the urge to flee back to the safety of a mccall's jumpsuit pattern

ultimately it comes down to what seems more painful: finding and purchasing the kind of bra i would want for the kind of jumpsuit i would make, or drafting and sewing a classic button-down (which has many moving parts involved with the fit) and vest (somewhat ditto, but less so)

(gender presentation is also a factor here, but how i will want to present at the time i'm wearing this is basically impossible to predict so we're pretending that's not a factor)

although if i were going to present more femme a strapless jumpsuit seems like the way i would do it

ALSO A FACTOR: this will be...in the tropics and i live in canada, what am i going to be able to wear in both places? how much do i care?

also my tastes in waistcoat unfortunately make it a lot harder to fit on my body because a lower/more open neckline would be a lot more compatible with giant tiddies but i want my waistcoat to button up to like mid-chest at least

illin' klorvus : almost certainly @ repeatability remember how hot it got last year

okay, fair

there's a pair of pants i'm going to make to match your skirt

i'm bringing the fabric to florida