 Hey you guys it's Lindsay here and I wanted to talk a little bit about like rain jackets and like water repellent type of stuff. Here in Charleston we definitely have two rainy seasons every year one in the spring and one in the fall and it's like one second it's bright and sunny and perfect and then the next second it's like a complete down core anyway so it's always really handy to have a rain jacket on hand but it's so hot here and really muggy especially after it rains or when there's that moisture in the air that you can't wear like a traditional rain jacket. You really have to find something that's water repellent but breathable. So last year was it last year? Whenever Sewaholic came out with their Vancouver collection there were actually two rain coats in there. One is the Cypress Cape and the other is the Seymour jacket. Instantly Abby and I both purchased both the whole collection. We were just so in love with the whole thing and I jumped right in to both of those projects. I really wanted to have some cute lightweight jackets to wear. Recently I've talked about this already before the McCalls 7333 pattern. This is another really great one that would call for some kind of like water repellent type of fabric but you know where do you even start in trying to find that fabric? I had heard of Suplex before and so I just did a general search for Suplex and landed on this website called Rocky Woods Fabric and their fabric selection is truly for anything related to outdoors. I mean they don't sell your traditional fashion fabrics at all. They sell stuff to make sleeping bags and tents and you know things like that like really outdoorsy type of stuff. I probably never would normally have find myself on their site and it weren't for the Suplex but in addition to the Suplex they also sell something called Taslan. So I didn't really know the difference between the two. From what I understand Suplex is the name brand and Taslan is the generic version of the name brand. Now they do have different weights and different types of Taslan but Suplex is pretty universal. There's only the one weight and the one kind I think. Either way so I went on their website. I was completely overwhelmed. There were so many colors and so many beautiful colors. I didn't know what to choose from so I just went with an olive green. You can see this is my Seymour jacket back here on Judy but Abby she thought she was getting like a really light baby pink and what showed up is like bubblegum like bubblegum pink. It's still in her stash. She has no idea what she's going to do with it. So whenever I got the McColls pattern I said I don't want to make that mistake. Like I want to make something really fun and springy and not a neutral like I'm normally drawn to. So I went back to Rocky Woods was kind of like looking around trying to find something that I thought would be okay when I realized they will actually sell you a sample of every single one of their Suplex and Taslan fabrics for like 20 bucks or something and I thought that is so worth it so that I don't end up with a fabric that I don't love and that just stays in my stash and I can't do anything with it. So I ordered that and here it is. I tied them all together with a string. They came kind of all loose but this is all of them. There are seriously so many. I haven't counted them all. There must be more than 30 of them in here. So what I wanted to do is kind of at the very end of this I'm going to go through each one that's in here. So if you're interested in seeing their entire inventory and kind of like my visual description of it as compared to what it's reading like in the camera and then also comparing like there's several navy-ish type of colors and kind of comparing those and there's also some true dupes like the Suplex color and the Taslan color are exactly the same. So save yourself the money and buy the generic version right. But in this portion of the video I wanted to kind of go through some that I think would be really good for this. It's so hard for me because I am drawn to the navies and the olives and even like those steely grays but I'm going to try really hard to not get one of those for this and do something a little bit more fun and unexpected. So the first one that I was immediately drawn to is what is called Coral Rose and this is a Suplex color. Coral Rose. It's really pretty and bright. These colors always favor my skin tone. Every time I wear colors like this people compliment me and in a way it's kind of neutral which I know sounds so silly it's definitely not a neutral but think about all the things that this matches. It's going to go with your whites, your blacks, your like tans, also with navy, also with green. So it does go with a lot. I feel like these these coraly colors do. This one's more pink than orange so not a true coral but maybe that's what Coral Rose means. More of a rose than a coral I think in terms of the name. Next up is what they're calling Ocean Depths and this is a really pretty teal color. Teal is a great cool color for people with darker skin tones. It's one of those really rich vibrant colors that I really love. So this is Ocean Depths and this is a Suplex fabric. Next and this is more for like a true springtime one but I like the lavender a lot. This is Suplex's Lavender. It's a really pretty lavender not too bright but not too dull either. Also purple is my favorite color so maybe that's why I'm drawn to lavender. Um what else? There is this one called Butterfly by Suplex. I love butterflies. This is kind of like a light lime green which might seem odd but if you think about it with like jeans or something like that I think it could play off of that navy color of jeans really well. I don't know this might be a bit of a risky choice because it is I don't know how it would be so much of it. You know what I mean? Like it's pretty in this one little square but like a whole jacket might be a little bit much. Here are the blues and the olives that I love. I'm gonna skip right over those. Um let's see. Colony blue is really pretty. It's like a cross between a blue and a lavender in a way. It's like a purple it's like a purpley blue. I almost like it better than the like the sky blue that's in here. That's called Colony blue. And then there's this Persian red. So it's kind of like a burgundy but redder than that. Pinker than that in a way. So this is Persian red and this is the Suplex Persian red. So this would I think be really good in the fall if you were going to make one just for each season but it could definitely work in spring too because of those pinky colors in there. There's like the see like yeah like seafoam bluish color. You can see all the colors every single one of them at the end of this video. These are just like my favorites I think. So now we're getting into the Tass lands. Oh and here is seafoam. Okay so this is 100 percent nylon two ply Tass land DWR nylon fabric. I don't even know what half of that means. But what I do know from looking at it is that it's sheer. It's more sheer than the other fabrics that I've shown you. If you can see my hand kind of through there. And I do think that this pattern is lined. Let me see. Loose fitting. Loose fitting unlined outside casing inside casing two piece please please. So maybe not. I don't know what this outside casing inside casing means. But the is that one even lined? I think it's lined in parts. So I don't know if this sheer seafoam would work for that. I mean would you want to see your clothes underneath your rain jacket? Maybe. You'd have to like I don't know. I don't know. It's such a pretty color though. But it is for sure like see-through. I mean when you put it yeah it's legit see-through. If you wore a print you would totally be able to see it. So more navies, more grays. I love the navies and grays. Let's see. Anything else in here? This one's really pretty. This one's called five ounces per square yard multi-ply Tasslon nylon in blue shadow. So you can see there it's definitely more heavy weight. So it's going to be more structured than the other ones. But that color is really pretty for sure. What else? White, gray, and then okay yeah. So those are my favorite one. My favorite like non-neutral ones. But yeah so there will be a link to I'll link the patterns. I'll link McCall's pattern seven three three three. I'll link Soaholics jacket patterns. And then I'll give you a link to Rocky Woods website where you can search for Suplex and Tasslan and and buy your fabrics there. I want to say they're pretty affordable. So the Suplex is seven ninety-nine yard and the Tasslan is five ninety-nine yard. So I mean I think they're really great quality. Tons of colors to choose from. If you're looking into making a rain jacket hopefully you'll check out Rocky Woods and these fabrics that I am showing you today. And you can find the perfect color that you had in mind and not end up with bubblegum pink. Sorry Abby. Okay this is dandelion. It's a bright yellow. This is heliotrope and it's looking blue on the camera. I gotta be honest but it's more of like a grape. It's a really dark purple. It's not really showing up right but it's like a grape. This is coral rose. It's like a muted coral not so much orange more pink. This is Vegas gold. It's like a goldish taupe. This is ocean depth and it's like this looking a little blue but it's actually more green in real life. It's more like teal or like a peacock blue if you can imagine that. This is dazzling blue. It's not this blue in real life. It's more like a royal blue. Definitely has more purple to it than what's showing up on camera. This is lavender. Light purple. Lovely. This is black. This is cobalt. Again these blues are just not showing up. Cobalt is not that different between it's like a combo between dazzling blue and heliotrope. So if you combined this and this you would have this. So this is definitely a purpley blue and this is grape and this is like a blue or blue like a royal blue. So that was cobalt. This is butterfly. It's like a really light springy green. This is patriot blue. Very dark navy. This is green. Maybe OD green but it's like an olive. It looks really good on camera. Port royal burgundy. Another black. This is olive. So if you want to see the difference between olive and green you can tell green is much darker and olive is well olive ear. What else? Marigold? Marigold is like I don't know sports team yellow. It's like orangey yellow. This is dandelion and that's marigold. It is gold for sure. Here is colony blue. It looks okay on camera. It is a light blue. This one definitely has some more lavender undertones than what's showing up on camera. Really really pretty. Parfait pink. It's a little bit more bubble gummy. It's looking like nice and light here but it's definitely got some bubble gum tones to it. This is red. It is a very very bright in your face red. This is Persian red. Persian red has some pink to it. So let's compare it to the burgundy. You can see those differences there and even this coral. You can see those differences there. How the corals more pink and this is more red. This is almost like a magenta if you want to think about like a sort of like a muted magenta in a way. This is called gulf stream and it's like a really pretty sky blue. This is wrought iron and it's like a gray like a grayish. It's looking a little steely here. It definitely has some beige in it though in real life. This is java chocolate brown like dark chocolate brown. Little boy blue is more of like I don't know a baby blue whereas this is sky blue. That's like a baby blue. Here is cypress green and cypress green actually it's like a very very dark green not quite forest green. It almost has some blue in it. I don't know if that makes any sense. Here is the olive next to it. Yeah it's a very dark muddy green. This is seedling green almost like that yellowy bright yellowy green. Here's another. This is woven olive. This is little boy blue just in the rip stop not in the um what was the other one suplex. Here is true red. Let's see what true red looks like against red red that we saw earlier. So those differences. So here's the suplex red on top and this is the tassel and red on bottom and really I mean they're indistinguishable you cannot tell one from the other in terms of color. Tropical green this is straight neon green bright bright neon green. This would be really great as piping I think. This is another black multiply black. This is safari tan and it is that like khaki that khaki tan color. Here is seafoam and you can tell seafoam is greener than golf stream. Seafoam really is that seafoam green. You can see how sheer it is too. Here is police blue. I don't know if I can find the other. This is not patriot blue versus police blue. Can you all see a difference there? Yeah it's like one's more navy. Police blue is definitely darker. Let's see what else. Another chocolate. Here's the first one. So this is suplex chocolate on top or java I'm sorry. This is java and then on the bottom is tassel and chocolate. So java here and chocolate here. All right another navy it looks like this is called ink and ink compared to police blue. You can see those differences there and ink compared to patriot blue. Just getting harder is that difference right like that. Not much of a difference at all. In fact yeah I would say these are dupes for each other. So the suplex patriot blue is a dupes for tassel and ink. I would say those are very comparable in terms of color. This is silver. Silver definitely has um like a steely gray to it. Where was the other? Is this it? Rot iron? Yeah. So suplex tasselan and this might even be yeah this is a multiply tasselan. So that's why it's sheerer than the regular suplex but you can see the colors there. And then foliage there which also has like a grayish beige topiness to it. That's true to what it looks like on camera is what it really looks like. Here's another navy. There are so many options geez for navies but you can tell like the differences are so subtle. So that is ink. This is police blue. Let's see those are pretty close. Police blue is darker but not by as much as showing in real life. They're closer in real life. So these are all of the navies here. Patriot blue, police blue, um navy and ink. Patriot, ink, navy, police. So you can see how these two are more similar and these two are more similar. Dark dark dark navy and this is like a true navy what you would expect whenever you think of navy. This is almost like a black navy both of them. All right here is happy blue. Happy blue isn't quite as happy in real life as it is here. It's more subtle in real life. Really pretty blue color. Here's white. Here is another olive. This one's called rifle green. Where are my other olives? So it's nothing like that dark green. Where's the olive? So you can get an idea of the differences there. So this is a more like leafy green called rifle green. This is nomad. Very true to the color in the camera is really what I'm seeing here. It's like a it's like a great little neutral. I actually really like that. That could be weird with some people's skin tones though so I would be leery of that for that reason. Then we have another chocolate brown. This is blue shadow. Blue shadow is really pretty. Actually would be like a really great wall color is that weird to say? It's definitely like a gray blue. It's reading a little bit more just reading lighter in real life than it is. I'm sorry lighter in the camera than it is in real life but it's definitely a really pretty muted blue. Really pretty. This is steel gray. Steel gray. And these are all sort of their mid-weight versions. So blue stone. Here's blue stone next to what did they call it? Blue shadow. So blue stone versus blue shadow. Blue shadow is not that baby blue. It is lighter than this obviously but it's reading really baby blue next to it. It's definitely a gray blue but not as light as baby blue. Here's white. Here's frost gray. That's really pretty. Here is pewter. Pewter's nice. It's like a dark gray not black. That's nice. Marigold. Now what do we have two? Oh this is the coated version so it's the same colors before but it has a coating on it. And then this is dark navy which I mean looking at our other navies that I pulled out. It's almost more gray than the other ones. It's not really navy to me. It's gray in real life and in the camera and that is all of them. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video please subscribe and give us a thumbs up. Every time you thumbs up a video it shares it with others so that they can find our channel too. Be sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. We are inside the hem everywhere also on Pinterest and so yeah until next time I'll see you guys around. Thanks so much for watching. Bye.