sunny summer days= cute beach cover ups 8-)

since most designers do a collection that is hommage to their hometown, well maybe im making that up, its probably more to their heritage but being born and raised on cape cod for 22 yrs i used to resent that preppy nautical look,because some people here thinks that the only "fashionable" look in some ways i still do, but in other ways ive started to embrace it, i loveee stripes especially navy and white, and i love summer dresses and beach cover ups. I think that is due to the fact that ive worked in a bathingsuit store for the past 7 years, so ive seen alot of cute cover ups and alot of not so cute cover ups. My favorite one is one that can be paired with flip flops and worn to the beach, and then you throw on some makeup and wedges and your good to go out at night, ill sometimes even wear them to work, but like i said, i work/ed at a bathingsuit store so i wouldnt suggest the beach cover up look for everyones work place. So anyways last summer i bought all these nautical fabrics to make a summer collections, with some cute gold and pearl accents, but then i got swamped with work hours and having a social life haha and only got half of a muslin done for one. But now that summer is a few months around the corner, I would love to try and work on it again, sadly i misplaced all the sketches i did for it so I'm going to have to do some new ones. So my goal is to make some great cute, but affordable summer looks that i can sell in the store that I work at
So they're not going to be anything super crazy and artistic like i like to do, just very "capey" which my friends wil probably be very surprised to see from me, there will be no neon pink and green zebras or no cable knit sweaters draped around the neck tho.
So I'll be posting my line pictures soon, I also obviously want to add this to my portfollio, so i think its only right I do a moodboard, and flats, its kind of late to do cost sheets though because i bought the fabrics last year and I have no idea what i payed for them, but if i do actually finish more than one garment I'm definitly going to make some cute hang tags, I love a cute hang tag so I definitly have to think of a cute beachy idea, and a cute label for this brand
ok. so now im off to do some designs