Nearly all of my skirts were made with an elastic waist pattern… that I lopped the elastic off of and converted to a flat waistband. That doesn’t mean I don’t love an elasticated skirt though! Holly Darling often makes these suuuuper basic, elastic-waist skirts and I’ve admired them for ages but never seem to have the exact perfect fabric for it–she has such a good eye for pairing pattern and fabric.
This skirt of hers is probably my favorite of the genre, and I remember wanting to copy it when she originally posted it, but couldn’t find the fabric–leopard prints are hard to get right!–so when she did a little destash sale on her insta and included a yard of this fabric I immediately snatched it up with the express intention of totally copying her.
Holly used a pattern in her original version, but I used her more generic tutorial for a rectangle skirt (linked above) and just made the top rectangle really short before adding the ruffle at right about the fullest part of my hips.
I have a few different elastic waist skirts (here, here, for example) and this basic combo of tee + elastic skirt is the perfect casual late-summer outfit for this time of year, when your sundresses feel a bit too summery but it’s still 80 degrees in the afternoon.