50s Gingham Shirt Dress

Inspired by Betty Draper from Mad Men I wanted to make a classic fifties sleeveless shirt dress made from a traditional gingham material with a cute peter pan collar. I found this dress pretty tricky to make as I haven't made a shirt before. I used a classic shirt pattern from my book to draft the pattern and then mixed and matched different pattern drafting together. Again I just gathered the shirt so that was pretty simple but I had to make a button stand which was new for me again! I found this slightly tricky as I had to make sure I had enough buttons going up the shirt so that people wouldn't be able to see my bra........or worse! I was also inspired by a lady sewer on sew retro who made a baby blue shirt dress which looked really cute and very well made. I decided I wanted it to look cute and so thought putting a bit more of detail on it would add a special touch to it, so I just sewed a pretty lace trimming around the hem of the dress. Unfortunately I haven't taken photos of this properly so it's just one of my mannequin for now, better photos to follow!

This is Only in the Making but better pictures to follow