What difference does a language, or fabric make... Cascade #13 or m

I have spent many months (I'll admit to well over a year...) admiring everything in Handmade by Carolyn's blog and apart from her Alabama Chanin creations, the posts I keep re-reading & being inspired by are those from Natsuno Hiraiwa's  Unique Clothes Anyway You Like It, released in English as Shape Shape.
Shape Shape is now out of print in English - sigh, I remain SO far behind the times some days... so after getting an inter-library loan & reluctantly returning it, I've bought the Japanese version.
This is Shape Shape's #13 Cascade Skirt, or UCAYLI's skirt 'm'. Carolyn made it in a gorgeously soft pink linen cotton  and my grey shirting is my closest version to this inspiration.

As a lesson in choosing fabrics wisely, my first version was in this slightly stretchy, heavier weight print. I adore this fabric & might have clutched it to my chest, along with my raspberry dragon scales wool, while at The Remnant Warehouse in Sydney during a fabulous fabric store tour with Maria.
I do love this fabric as a skirt, it hugs but doesn't show the seams of my underthings, and the little hatted men are just so fabulous. It doesn't collapse into itself though and as dramatic as it appears, the skirt extension simply doesn't work in it.
Exhibit A:

I also used snap tape instead of a zip on this version - my thought was that I could vary the waist circumference & wear it on my waist or my hips as I wished - that definitely doesn't work, the snaps pop open with the weight of the skirt, let alone with any movement or small person tugging = closure fail. It's ok though as being one large rectangle, the fabric is available for another pattern - and I feel it will be perfect for a Vogue 1247...

The lighter weight shirting was collected as part of my $10 fabric haul at Phillips Shirtmakers - I was completely overwhelmed by the bolts of fabric and limited myself to the remnant bins - there's been a few pictures on Instagram of the amazingness of their first ever sale, and I do hope they have another one - I'll focus on the bolts next time, I promise!

another 'Anna's Shrug' from a Phillips remnant

I initially thought (on trying it on), that I'd erred on it being too lightweight for the skirt, and then noticed that Carolyn had lined her lightweight version, an excellent idea. I'm tempted to try for a lucky third time with something really drapey, and potentially lined. I have worn this version out to three social functions & found that the textured grey goes with SO much of my spring wardrobe, so I guess it's a keeper as is ;)

I used an exposed metal zipper from the stash rather than the invisible zipper the English pattern called for as after my experience with the snap tape, I don't trust the plastic zipper to hold. A touch of overkill maybe, but I also like the exposed metal teeth.
I also reinforced the waist with straight seam binding within the layers of the self faced seam.
The skirt is one large pattern piece, joined on the side seam and with the zip, half of the waist, which forms the cascading drape. I sewed a size L without sizing modifications.