Blue Wool 1940's Dress
May. 7th, 2020 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
atherleisureI have had a couple of modern dress lengths of wool in my stash for several years, and I finally felt like making one of them up last month. nuranar loaned me an early 1940's Hollywood Patterns pattern to copy about five years ago, and I used it for this.
I liked the quasi-keyhole neck but wanted the longer sleeves. I liked the contrast on the sleeves in the pattern so I cut straight bands for the ends of the longer sleeves. The biggest thing is that the skirt is not nearly as flared as the pattern illustration showed.
It's a pretty, blue wool crepe, somewhere between royal blue and navy. The pictures make it look darker than it appears in reality. The trim is done with the ivory wool I made my 1897 Harper's Bazar dress from a few years ago.
The back view looks kind of wrinkly, but from the side you can see that it's simply that it blouses a bit.
Once again I got my daughter to take pictures.
nuranar loaned me an early 1940's Hollywood Patterns pattern to copy about five years ago, and I used it for this.I liked the quasi-keyhole neck but wanted the longer sleeves. I liked the contrast on the sleeves in the pattern so I cut straight bands for the ends of the longer sleeves. The biggest thing is that the skirt is not nearly as flared as the pattern illustration showed.
It's a pretty, blue wool crepe, somewhere between royal blue and navy. The pictures make it look darker than it appears in reality. The trim is done with the ivory wool I made my 1897 Harper's Bazar dress from a few years ago.
The back view looks kind of wrinkly, but from the side you can see that it's simply that it blouses a bit.
Once again I got my daughter to take pictures.
