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The belt allows me to cinch up the vest when I want to, and let it fly when it’s too hot to wear it neatly. I put the reflective strips into the back side seams between the yellow vest and the black mesh, and sewed it all together with my coverstitch machine. Here’s what the base vest looked like with the mesh pinned in place: (The trim is “iron-on”, but I don’t do iron-on, especially on poly knits.) Then I cut side panels out of the S vest, and cut replacements from breathable mesh (that’s the black fabric).

Then I took two pieces of the IKEA reflective strips, and sewed this trim on top of them (I used the middle-sized one):Īdding velcro at the ends. First, I removed all the reflective strips from the IKEA vests. The back is pretty tame (forgive my duct tape dummy, who is both lopsided and a lot larger than I am now):

On very hot days, it needed to allow me to wear only a sports bra under it, and yet appear in public somewhat modestly-clad.īingo! My vest does it all.

It needed to be large enough to wear over anything I’d put on while cycling.

Also, my vest needed to do four things, above and beyond being nautical : I love the nautical look, but the BB vest is too small, and too somberly colored for day use, as least in my view. Let me be the first to admit that mine isn’t nearly as cute as this one. The photo is on a site called post is from 2009.) I’d been thrashing around the internet for a while, looking for inspiration when I stumbled on this: And I took the photo indoors, apparently in bad light. It appears darker than the IKEA vest because it’s just one layer, and on a darker background (my dummy, that is).

So I got a hold of two IKEA Patrull safety vests like this one: But a boxy, horrible utility vest? Not so much. Bright red, screaming orange, and hideous yellow-green, yes, ma’am, you’re my friends. I cycle, and I like to be as visible as possible.