While I’d planned to buy the fabric from Repro Depo, I ended up buying the five yards of bright red cotton printed with rows of sushi and sashimi from an eBay seller. I’d had Past Patterns’ 1880s Polonaise With Walking Skirt pattern for years but never made it up. It seemed a good choice for sushi, so I decided to make the polonaise tunic of the print fabric, then make the ruffled skirt from solid red cotton, maybe with black piping or trim on the edge of the ruffles. I’ll use black trim throughout the outfit.
Past Patterns’ 1880s Polonaise With Walking Skirt
Red sushi-print cotton
To top it all off, I could hunt down some of those plastic fake-sushi pieces that Japanese restaurants have, and use those to trim a little hat. Somehow, I will have sushi on my head 😉