atherleisure | Blue Wool 1940's Dress

I 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.