If you want a solid color dress, you're done!īut if you want the high waist, like the dress shown at the top of the page, you have one more step.īefore you create these dress, skirt or blouse styles, you'll need a well-fitting dress block.
If your skirt and bodice don't meet at the waist, follow the wider of the two so that the dress fits comfortably. Smooth out the side seam a bit you'll probably have a bit of a point where the bodice and skirt meet smooth that out with a curved seam. That will give you a bit more room at the waist. If the dress block felt a bit too tight for daily wear, you can make the final dart a little bit narrower than the original darts (there are 2 rows of dashed lines in the illustration to show this). You're moving the skirt darts over to sit under the bodice dart, that's all. Just draw a dart that starts at the bottom of the bodice dart (the same width as the bodice dart), and the length of the skirt dart. Okay, I’ve convinced myself: I may have to make myself one, if I can do it while Sarah takes her naps.To make the waist dart for the dress, the skirt darts will be combined into one dart that lines up under the bodice dart. It would also be pretty simple to add lace and other trim to get the look you want. However, your “Lilly Pulitzer” dress will have the advantage of fitting you just right (if you’re at a level where you can make basic pattern adjustments) and you can choose the patterns and colors you like best. There’s a store locator on the Amy Butler site, but any local fabric store should be bursting with colorful prints right now! I’d estimate that you could make one of these dresses for around $40 (the Target price)–figuring fabric at about $12 per yard. Leaf Lines Jade might be my favorite choice–I love the cool green tones and the graphic simplicity of the shapes. Daisy Shine Confettiĭaisy Shine Confetti is another colorful floral print that would be perfect for a Lilly Pulitzer-type shift dress. Henna Paisley Pink is a gorgeous print in a classic Lilly Pulitzer green and pink color scheme. Luckily, Amy Butler is known for her gorgeous, colorful fabrics, and I found a few on her site that fit the bill nicely. Now as any sewer worth his or her salt can tell you, finding a pattern is one thing–finding the material is another. And three, you can make a matching bag if you want! Two, I like the different contrast band options at the waist and hem. I like my second “Lilly Pulitzer” pattern, New Look 6095, even better for three reasons: one, it doesn’t have the banded neckline that 6176 has, so it looks even easier. Lilly Pulitzer Dress Pattern 1: New Look 6095 The sleeve and pocket variations offer some flexibility, too. The sleeveless version of New Look 6176 looks very Lilly Pulitzer-like: a simple, classic shift dress that can be made with about two yards (or less) of material.
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But! If you know how to sew, I’ve found some patterns and fabrics that are quite Lilly Pulitzer-esque, and I’ll share them with you! Lilly Pulitzer Dress Pattern 1: New Look 6176 It’s just much more effectively learned in person, from a person. It is a worthwhile skill to learn, and not terribly difficult.
So if you don’t know how to sew and would like to learn, find a friend, family member, or class that can help you. I myself was taught by my lovely mother– her mother sewed all of my Mom’s and her sisters’ clothing in the ’50s and ’60s. The very idea of the time and effort (and photos) involved makes my hair stand on end, and at the end of the day, they still probably wouldn’t help a novice sewer in the long run. Now: I cannot teach you to sew via this blog. Throw on one great-fitting shift dress–just one piece of clothing–on a summer day, and you’re ready for everything from a day at the beach to a frickin’ wedding.Įven better: if you know how to sew, shift dresses are easy and (relatively) economical to make, which means you can avoid eBay and make your own Lilly Pulitzer dress yourself. You know what they’re good for? Everything. You know what else Lilly Pulitzer dresses are? They are colorful, classic shift dresses. Nice knockoff, Betty, but I’m having even more fun hanging out in my Paris original* Lilly Pulitzer!
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