The final Secret

I couldn’t resist doing one more outfit from the movie The Secret of Roan Inish to finish out this series.

To help you get the full-effect, I found some of the music on YouTube to play while you look,

You can find my posts about Fiona and Eamon here and here.

I have to say that I love this idea of recreating outfits from films for my kids. There are two ladies that have a Flickr page that I have been linking all of my movie posts to called Film Petit. They have some amazing creations over there. Moonrise Kingdom anyone? The Big Lebowski? Ferris Bueller?? Oh yes.

Anyhow without further ado, here is Fiona #2….{unintentional rhyme}

I wanted to do this outfit for many reasons, the first being that I wanted Falafel to have a chance to pose as an actual girl this time. Ha!

The other reason is that I absolutely adore this outfit and all the details. The dress in the movie looks like it was too small, so someone patched together a border (probably out of old men’s shirts) to extend it. That is what you call re-purposing, before it was cool. I love that if you look closely, that you can see some hand stitching. It is the tiny details that tell the tales, afterall {I swear I am not rhyming on purpose!}. I did some of my own hand stitching on top of the machine seams so that it mimics the dress in the film.

To extend the length a little further, Fiona wears a slip that is slightly a different shade of blue than the dress. I used a men’s XL button-down shirt to make the slip for my girl as I imagine someone would have done something similar for Fiona.

I also found this sweater, which started out as a pullover, at Goodwill. The colors were perfect! I used Delia’s tutorial for turning sweaters into cardigans. Let me tell you, it was so easy and so fun. WHY HAVEN’T I BEEN DOING THIS ALL ALONG??? I want one! I want one!

I used some green buttons along one side, but no button holes. I thought it looked cuter this way. Plus I may just despise doing button holes. No. I will go with it looked cuter without them. Yup. That is it.

Again, we traveled exactly 5 minutes to the beach and took a bunch of photos of the outfit. Where we live in WA is what I imagine Ireland to look like. Any of you live in Ireland? Let me know if it is true! Maybe I just have a really good imagination.

No matter what it looks like, I do enjoy where we live.

OK, just a few more photos.

Back view.

Full front view.

And… having tea with an imaginary seal.

I hope you enjoyed my exploration of this film’s costumes! I think this leads up to St, Patrick’s Day, very nicely.

What movie should I take on next??

Hmmmmm.

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