{"id":944,"date":"2012-12-23T23:51:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2012-12-23T23:51:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T23:51:47","slug":"racing-stripes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Racing Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A client brought me a number of items that were just a little too small. A couple of them, I added what I like to mentally refer to as &#8220;racing stripes&#8221; up the side, though calling them that out loud to clients generally gets a negative response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1868.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-945\" title=\"IMAG1868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1868-364x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1868-364x1024.jpg 364w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG1868.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG24091.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-947\" title=\"IMAG2409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG24091-577x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG24091-577x1024.jpg 577w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG24091-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG24091.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For both the jeans and the skirt, I added a contrasting grey stripe; for the skirt, I serged horizontal stripes to give it a textural difference and add some interest. I made one long piece that was more than wide enough for both sides, then cut it into strips:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2411.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-948\" title=\"IMAG2411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2411-577x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2411-577x1024.jpg 577w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2411-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2411.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the results:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2414.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-949\" title=\"IMAG2414\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2414-341x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2414-341x1024.jpg 341w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2414-100x300.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2417.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-950\" title=\"IMAG2417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2417-373x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2417-373x1024.jpg 373w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2417-109x300.jpg 109w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG2417.jpg 1017w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A client brought me a number of items that were just a little too small. A couple of them, I added what I like to mentally refer to as &#8220;racing stripes&#8221; up the side, though calling them that out loud &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=944\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[157],"tags":[94,195,197,20,194,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}