Cocktail Dress Patterns: I’ve Never Attempted A Vintage Inspired Hair Accessory Before But This One Turned Out Pretty Well

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I LOVE this dress!

Bravo on this dress!

Using that 70s pattern was brilliant ‘toosome’ of my favorite 40s but not from the 40s patterns are from the 1970s. By the way, the revival of interest in the 1930s and 40s during that decade means that plenty of patterns have the look! Generally, I’m finding myself drawn to vivid greens lately, and that taffeta and the pattern are amazing. Which I’m sure they have, you will have been the stars of the event, if your gorgeous sisters have gone for equally stunning material and patterns. Blessings dear jessica. What a beautiful gown. So, it’s a good idea to be so proud of it, To be honest I can quite imagine all the work that went into it. Did you know that the greenish is resplendent on you, and the beautiful head piece is perfect. Since no info if my yardage shrunk after the two washings I gave it, or if I didn’t buy enough, Know what, I still had some skirt pattern ends coming off the fabric. It is I didn’t have to worry about a few inches not making it into the skirt pieces, I’m pretty sure I recalled that the mockup I made had inches and inches of hem on me, it was a frustrating hour for sure.

Now that I had all the pattern pieces figured out, and only two weeks to finish the dress, I got down to business laying and cutting out the pieces. Being short comes with its blessings, I suppose. Keep up the lovely sewing! On p of this, do love dropping in when I can, Know what, I often feel badly I can’t keep up as much with my favorite blogs as I used to be before Miss was born. Thank you very much, sweet lady! Whenever washing again to get the ‘ironed in’ wrinkles out and ‘re ironing’ before it was of an acceptable smoothness, it ok loads of ironing. Do not ever to attempt to machine dry it! Just keep reading! I was a little nervous just getting the fabric ready for the pattern layout and cutting process, as a first timer with taffeta. Instead, use the lowest setting on your iron to heat dry it. One problem about taffeta that is quite ‘annoying it’ wrinkles like anything when washed!

Whew!

I can lift my arms up a full 90 degrees with little strain on the bodice!

Which should not be good for my formal gown if I ever wanted to dance in it, with the mock up I could only lift up my arms to a 45 degree angle. Nevertheless, a pair of shredded armscyes. Known it works, a tally new little addition pattern to accompany the armscye to give ease to the sleeves of nearly any bodice you can think of that doesn’t possess good sleeve ease. On p of this, she learned how to draft it, and after using it herself on a little project you will see later this week, Know what, I decided to use it to give my gown’s sleeves some much needed ease. Then, I can see it now rip, rip, Rip! Using Brigi’s little pattern was only one way to save my dress from this kind of a calamity. Stunning styling, sweet lady.

Incredibly, timelessly gorgeous ensemble.

I’m truly honoured that you partnered that necklace from Chronically Vintage with it.

That dress is a resplendence vision on you. On p of this, grama, your comments are definitely the best! So here is a question. Who else but we three get to have their Grama commenting their personal blog? Let me tell you something. I am so delighted to know that you find beauty in my handiwork, and I give a decent deal of credit to the Lord for giving me the patience I had while working on the gown.

Basically the mock up turned out beautifully!

It had to be done so I could make a proper go at it with the taffeta sans taking out seems.

Well, the oh happy day came after the ‘adjustments nipping’ in the side seams and sleeves, and nearly everything else construction wise for the bodice. Oh happy day! Of course I was so pleased with it that I decided to make it a wearable mockup. If you have ever usedthrifted, good quality cotton sheeting, you will understand that the mock up was immaculate. With that said, because of the wear it had previously been through it also possessed a soft touch, the crisp cotton was nice and stiff. So it’s safe to say that there were many other young ladies more fashionably equipped for that wonderful night than we were. Remember, it only made the evening that a lot more decadent and enjoyable. Believe me, I’m pretty sure I was one of those people still oogle eyeing other ensembles!

Thank you dearly, Miss Pond!

Thank you a lot for saying so!

I actually don’t have long enough hair at present to do a tutorial on this hair style. Known before pinning it in place, I put it up in pin curls the night before. So combed all of my hair from behind one ear over to the opposite side. I put all of my hair into a hair net, and finished it off with a head band. I can just tell you here in the comment, thankfully, That’s a fact, it’s pretty simple to do. Now regarding the aforementioned fact… I love reading your blog! It gives me ideas on how to be stylishly vintage and copy feminine styles of the late 40’s and early 50′ All of you are so beautiful and modest in dress.

Thank you!!!!

Could you possible give us a tutorial?

I am in love with how you put up your hair!! Verdancy of the dress mingled with the dark green plant life behind me was almost it’s so beautiful!! It was definitely a challenge, I’m almost sure I have actually sewn a dress with taffeta acetate and it was an interesting experience… I was young so my Mom did the majority of it.

I love the detailing on the sleeves and the way you accessorized. It always has great results though! I can hardly wait to see your beautiful sister’s gowns! I think making things to be passed down to generation to generation is a wonderful idea. On p of that, this lovely dress, Jessica! It’s a well-known fact that the details and accessories that you added to your dress are simply enchanting! Whenever creating with her hands, reading, styling her hair, and best of all, studying natural history, when Jessica isn’t blogging, her interests lie in studying God’s Word, homemaking, gardening, exercising, singing. Jessica is the Schedule and Communications Manager of the Blog as well as the Props Designer for the series Photo Booth Fashion.

Last details I reckon I must mention about the construction of the dress, will be the fact that both of the bodice yoke pieces, the waistband and center front band, are faced. For ages being that the fabric is period correct acetate taffeta, I chose, gether with the girls, to tack in some removable sweat guards to protect the armholes.

There’s no chance of the edges fraying into little spiderwebs of thread, all of quite a bit of the seams were zigzag stitched. Even if for any longerer construction time, we’re looking at the little details that, in the end made my dress that a lot more valuable, and worth my while to make. I know that this gown will hold its own for many years to come, and Lord willing, shall be a heirloom to my descendants. With that lovely thought, I’ll end my story. With that said, you’ve inspired me to go through all my 70’s patterns and find anything suitable for the 1940′ what a special piece to pass on one day. It could potentially get passed on if still in good shape, a lot of my sewing is day wear.

Smocked dresses my grandma made for me as a little girl are being stored for any future daughters, as far as heirloom sewing goes.

Jessica, therefore this dress is absolutely beautiful.

Whether it gets worn again, I imagine my wedding dress should also become a family heirloom. Colour suits you so well. Look, that’s exactly what happened. More wonderful was the feeling of slipping on my greenish work of art after its completion. You know the pattern instructions like the back of your hand, you know what to watch out for, and you can work on mastering the fidgety bits to get them to your liking. That’s the feeling. Furthermore, it was so wonderful. Sewing a garment the second time around is very much more fun to do than the first time.

Accordingly the headband looks great must be to use copper or colored crafting wire.

Therefore in case you think you might make more in the future you could invest in some fine colored crafting wire in brownish. I’m quite sure I decided to make a mock up to define what needed to be adjusted before I cut into my 3 precious yards of hunter light green taffeta, a single hang up was that the dress pattern was one size make it pretty easy for you to in on a little ‘secret I’ used a 70s pattern, and as you can see it actually worked for the 1940s!

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