Posts Tagged ‘shirtdress’
Another shirt dress
After I made my Death Star shirt dress I found I couldn’t stop at one. They’re so practical for work. This time I used a vintage pattern, Simplicity 6270. I made the view in stripes on the envelope: long sleeves, shirt collar, and worn with a leather belt rather than a self-fabric one. I swear […]
Filed under: Dressmaking, Finished, Sewing, Simplicity, Vintage | 25 Comments
Tags: Dressmaking, Sewing, shirtdress, simplicity, vintage
Now witness the firepower of this armed and fully operational shirt dress. Sorry, I couldn’t resist the quote because this is the second dress I have made out of Death Star fabric. Why is it Death Star fabric? Here it is close up. The design is meant to be glitter balls, but it looks like […]
Filed under: Burda, Dressmaking, Fabric, Finished, Sewing | 22 Comments
Tags: dress, Dressmaking, fabric, liberty, Sewing, shirtdress
Into the blue
So here’s my version of Vogue 1220 being worn by me for the first time, as opposed to my dressform. I really like it. But it’s not at all the easy-to-wear shirtdress I’d envisioned. This dress is short. I’m surprised by the shortness because the envelope photo shows it stopping on the middle of the […]
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Tags: blue, Dressmaking, Sewing, shirtdress, Vogue
