...it probably is. Recently, someone in my reenacting group posted a pattern image to our Facebook group, asking what we thought. It was an early 1940s Hollywood pattern, and looked so easy! And wonderful for summer, as it was essentially a muumuu with a sashed belt. The pattern envelope art looked fabulous, and I thought, how hard can it be?
I had some knock-off Liberty Lawn fabric from Robert Kaufman, and someone found that pattern mislabeled on etsy for $4 (!!) so I snapped it up. It was the wrong size, but I figured that the blousy nature of the dress wouldn't matter that much, and might help, given how voluminous it might end up being on me if graded up properly.
Well. The dress sewed up in a hurry--1 hour and 12 minutes, to be precise. Raglan sleeves are so easy! I did an elastic casing to make the neckline more nursing friendly, which was also easy, and machine hemmed the bottom since it was straight. I left the elastic off the sleeves because elasticized cap sleeves look really really bad on me, and I like the flutter sleeve okay. It is easy-breezy, to be sure.
And, meh. The armscyes are a little too high up, and I don't really know how to fix it, so even though the fabric is lawn and super breezy and thin, I feel hot in it. The sash doesn't pull things in enough and I think it doesn't do me any favors.
Oh well.
Beautiful pattern. Have you considered to make sleeves longer, covering elbows? The dress would look prettier, I think.
ReplyDeleteAlso the chest line of the dress doesn't do you justice.
Hope you don't mind my so-not-professional correcture :-)
Not at all! I had the same thoughts myself--the neckline is too high, the sleeves are too wide, there are just a lot of problems with the dress. I did take the elastic out of the casing, and am trying something different up top to see if that helps. I'll post it if it works!
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