Nina Lee - Kew Skirt Extended Size Range

Bringing something slightly different today and breaking my mantra of 'Emma does not do skirts', with a skirt.

I was very lucky to be asked by Nina Lee to be one of the second batch of testers for their new extended size range. (All opinions here are my own there was no obligation).

The sizing of the beautiful Kew Dress (big fan, I've made it many times!) now come with a 16-28 option AND added skirt varieties! There's a B cup and D cup selection for the dress, multiple bodice/sleeve options an a-line skirt but now also a gathered and pencil skirt too.

I was testing the pencil skirt and the size chart put me exactly at a 16 waist and 18 hip making grading between the two very easy. 

The PDF goes together like a dream and only takes 23 pages which is instantly a relief for sticking together. 

Now I usually don't do skirts. Predominately because they tend to highlight my belly pooch (recently discovered #FUPA terminology! Google it, I'm not telling you) and also pencil skirts remind me of 'corporate' stuff. (Ick). Knowing how much I loved the Kew Dress and it's shape, I definitely thought this would be worth a go if only as an experiment.

 

The shaping of this skirt is gorgeous and I didn't feel self-conscious about that at all when wearing the end result! I love how it feels casual and comfortable without having to pull anything down or feel restricted in any way. Thanks to some nifty front and back darts it skims well. (Bum wrinkles courtesy of my t-shirt tucked in).

My favourite bit are the buttons down the front. As I didn't have any matching in the stash, multi-colour way the way forward and it worked in it's own way.

 I actually think I would wear this out and about - a little walk about a park perhaps when we are one day released.

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