Emma is home for a visit and it reminds me that the last time she was here, we took some photos for a Wearability Wednesday post. It was in February and really cold out, so of course I made her pose in the garden in a summer tank. But since she got a hand-knitted garment out of it, I felt it was not overly cruel.

Wearability Wednesday is an occasional series of posts (published on Wednesdays) in which I take another look at a previously knitted item, and examine it from a wearability perspective. Do I wear it? If not, why not? If yes, how do I style it? Has it held up? This time I am going way back to 2012, when I knitted Laresca:

I blogged about this tank here. The pattern was designed by Corrina Ferguson and was knitted with Rowan Panama, a cotton, linen and viscose yarn. I wore this for a while, but very soon grew out of it. However, when Emma was last home, we discovered that it fits her very well:

Kudos to Emma for modelling this in February, and pretending not to be freezing. This was one of the fastest photo shoots ever.

Emma wore this top many times over the last summer and, each time, she thought “I need to get a photo of this for the blog”. It never happened. Even when I was visiting Emma, with my camera at hand, we forgot to take any Vancouver summer photos of Emma wearing this. However, just the fact that we forgot to photograph it multiple times, demonstrates that it is, indeed, wearable. It does, in fact, get worn. Just not by me.

Maybe I knew it would end up in Emma’s wardrobe because it is not my normal colour palette, but is one which she often wears. Sometimes she wears it with jeans, sometimes she dresses it up a bit. Given that she lives in Vancouver, she often wears it like this:

It’s hard to believe I knitted this 13 years ago. I think it still looks contemporary and pretty. I’m glad it has been given a new life.