vintage Style 2588
I needed a summer nightie. Something cool and easy to wear, but acceptable to be seen “in public”. And in my stash was vintage Style 2588.
Combined with my favourite summer fabric, voile, this has become just what I wanted!
Okay, it’s possibly not the most form-flattering item I’ve ever made, but I’ve been wearing this for the past couple of weeks (not consecutively – it has been washed!) and it is amazingly cool and just perfect as a summer nightie. A pillowcase nightie wasn’t going to cut it for me!
When I made it according to the pattern the neckline was way too high, pretty much at choking level. I unpicked the bias binding/tie, cut the neckline down another 1.5 cm all around, then rebound it. It’s fine now. Not that I do up the neck tie anyway. The fabric is one of Anna Maria Horner‘s Innocent Crush voiles – I think that the print is called Mixed Signals, and the colour Cornfield. Luxurious to sleep in! And evidently I didn’t even bother to iron it for these photos….
I love that voile – it’d be perfect for a nightie. And as for ironing, I believe all kinds of terrible things would happen f I ever ironed a nightie – so probably best you didn’t!
I recognise that pattern, I made it when I was about 13 in a rather fetching yellow seersucker. On its first wearing, I woke in the middle of the night to a stabbing in my neck: I’d left a pin in the yoke.
Looks nice and comfy to sleep in and for bombing around the house first thing in the morning.