I got a couple of RTW pairs of culottes back when I wanted to wear skirts but we were in the baby gate phase of our lives. There are no baby gates in the house now, but I still like the combination of swish and practicality in a nice, wide-legged set of culottes.
When I mentioned my plan to make culottes, the first question from the fam was, What are culottes? “Skirts with legs,” I said. My kids were quick to point out the pairs I already had. But as I told them, I didn’t have a black pair.
Ahead, two books for your summer antiracism reading: a fact-filled thought provoker, and a middle grade novel that will have you smiling through your tears.
I first saw the Untitled Thoughts Chandler Trousers on sandi204. It was May 2020. It took until May 2021’s Me Made May seeing Sandi AGAIN in her Chandlers to think, They look so good! I’m going to make those pants.
I’ve always really enjoyed books that play with time and space, and The Chosen Ones, by Veronica Roth, is at the intersection of many of favorite ideas and genres.
Over the course of the past year, participating in book clubs at my local library, one of the things that came up was video conferencing etiquette around pronouns. One of the moderators asked us to state our gender pronouns at the beginning of the call. I went with it that first time, but I felt really uncomfortable about it.
