One of the things I love about collecting/selling vintage patterns is stumbling across clothing designs like these. They're the ones that startle me -- sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way.
This one, McCall's 3013, is certainly a head-scratcher:
A zipfront shortsuit with a...reverse apron thrown over it? Well, why not?
After much deliberation, I've decided that the reverse apron thingy should not be considered a skirt. No way. This innovation is a coat for your legs.
Picture it. Sigourney Weaver's character in The Ice Storm would wear this to a nice restaurant, whoosh through the door, whip off the skirt (exposing the shortsuit beneath) and hand it to the coatcheck girl. No one would question her. Sigourney's tough that way, after all.