Vogue 9065

 I wasn't in the mood to sew any of the patterns I had cut out, and this one won because I had this color thread in the machine. I didn't have enough fabric for the bottom lapel-inside lining piece, so
I cut a full lining and cut the lapel piece and sewed the two together and just treated it as one
piece. It actually was a better solution because then you don't have a thick fabric acting as lining.

I had a whole stash of burgundy buttons that would have worked, but decided not to use any of them because I thought I'd probably always wear a necklace with this vest.

In this picture the underarms look too big, but this doesn't bother me and in normal life it looks good. The skirt is velvet, cut in half with a casing at the top. I almost gave this fabric away and glad I didn't.

When I was looking for a shirt or blouse for this outfit, I was shocked that in my collection I couldn't find anything...then I looked in one more place and voila!