The lining fabric is a silk and rayon blend from Fabricland which I think they were marketing as "dirty silk". Here's a close up of the fabric. You can see it's a floral jacquard weave and the right side is brownish-black, or blackish-brown, in an interesting kind of way. The lighter side is the wrong side, and it really does look "dirty" - the dye is uneven and smeared as you can see below (the real colour is less yellow than the photo below, and less pink than the photo to the right).

My thoughts then turned to the inevitable question: "But what (besides jeans) can I wear this with??" I went burrowing into my stash, where I found some likely candidates.

But what else to wear with these future elegant and flowy trousers? In my silk bin, I found many possibilities, but the one that has caught my eye is a refashioning project. My super-shopper friend found a Thai silk skirt in one of her second-hand haunts which she gave to me while extracting a promise that I actually do something with the fabric. The skirt is a floor length, front-buttoning dirndl in an interesting print. The colours are unusual for me since I don't gravitate towards purple, but I like that it's combined with a cool beige, black and a couple of nice pinks and reds. There is lots to make a little shirt. I could reuse the front button detail since it has really gorgeous tiny self-fabric loops and covered buttons, but right now I'm leaning towards the top from Simplicity 2938. I've made this one before too.
To the left is a sneak peek of the jacket together with the two coordinating fabrics I'm planning. What do you think?
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