Making a 1940s Sun Dress | 2 in 1 Pinafore from a Vintage Sewing Pattern McCall's 7475
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- I finally finished the 1940s Sun Dress I have been working on all summer! Just in time for autumn. Thankfully, this vintage dress doubles up as a pinafore, or a jumper, depending on where you are in the world.
If you're a beginner and want to learn how to sew a 1940s dress I really recommend this pattern as a great way to get into vintage sewing.
For this project I used a vintage sewing pattern and vintage Liberty cotton fabric.
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The dress is beautiful! I also struggle to find non-eye-searing or not too girly summer clothes that keep me comfortable and feeling like myself.
Thank you! And the struggle against the large scale floral is never ending 💚
I love this dress! 40s murderous librarian is always a look to aspire for
Gets-away-with-murder librarian is definitely a look to aspire to :D
I have learned a trick for turning belts on the right side after stitching, When you lay the right sides together before stitching place a piece of dental floss along the entire length of the belt and stitch it into the top of the hem. Then when you want to turn the right side around the floss can help you pull it the right side around. You need to make sure the floss is sewn in well to begin with. Love this video. I miss you making mid-century dresses.
This dress is glorious! The print is beautiful and the style is super versatile. Love it! 😍
Beautiful dress , and you look great in your lovely garden
Super cute dress. I might copy it for myself 🪡🌹
I think it looks lovely as a pinafore.
I like how, even though this wasn't precisely a tutorial on how to make this specific dress, you did still include comments about your thought process and why you were doing the things you did. It gave great information for someone like me which could then be applied to lots of scenarios, not just this pinafore. I also liked how you showed the way you batched things together like you mentioned in your disability vid. The editing work was also top notch. Thank you!
Thank you very much! It's always my aim to put sewing skills into context. Not just to show how to do something but also when and why because that's truly when it all starts to make sense! 💚
Lovely dress great job, very precise instructions. Well done. Thank you Tricia.
The dress looks amazing.
Thanks!
I like it. ❤ 😊
I found this video very peaceful to watch and the dress ended up looking wonderful! I didn't find your voice croaky at all I enjoyed listening to you talk!
Thank you 😊 maybe my voice didn't sound so croaky but it sure FELT croaky! 💚
That dress is amazing on you. You have to make another version. I'm really cackhanded, and no good with delicate things like a loopturner, so I use a chopstick for turning things inside out. The Japanese ones are really pointy.
I adore pinafores, I am seriously addicted. That is adorable, and making me itch for vintage
The dress is gorgeous and watching the whole process of you making it is simply wonderful. Thank you for sharing your passion.
Why the jump in characters??!!! 🤣🤣🤣 is either nice and lively, or morbid and cool 🤣🤣🤣👌👌👌
So good! Thank you.
great music, nice product
Your videos are so relaxing and your voice so soothing, you are calm and explain everything well. I love that fabric!
Adorable!
I really like how you didn’t pin the pattern to your fabric at all! I have never seen that before. If you haven’t made a video on this before, could you share with us clever tips like that?
For grabbing a needle that is tough to move through fabric try a popped (or unblown up) balloon. The rubber / latex kind, not shiny Mylar. The rubber grips the needle allowing you to keep a firmer hold on it. Or a finger cot (a single finger glove like covering) that you can slip over one or two fingers and wear while sewing by hand (actually usually used to protect a bandaged finger from getting wet.)
This is so useful!! Thank you for sharing 💚
stunning!
Wow! I love this dress. It looks great on you. I like tiny florals. The big ones can get overwhelming.
I love it !
thank you for sharing this process, Claude :)
I recently discovered your channel and I just want to say I really appreciate your detail and your humor. I love how this garment turned out!
love this🌸🌸
I have a loop turner. A safety pin is easier if it is longer than the turner!
So well made! The dress will last a lifetime ❤️
That fabric though! I want that color combination so badly.
Well Done! Good job on making the amount of fabric work for the pattern you WANTED to make!
Your precision was a joy to watch. Thanks for a wonderful video.
I love it! 40s librarian is definately my aesthetic! 😆
I love the outcome! 😍 I guess I "have to" do such a dress as well... And i also like your camera work, whatever you say. 😘 And i get what you mean by not so cutsey. I think it has to do with having so much green in it and not having a wide skirt..
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I think you are right the narrower skirt makes it a little chicer 💚
I love that dress!!! It’s cute, and looks great!!! Great work!!!
librarian it is! :))
That was a very pleasant video to watch, thank you! I love to see the small adjustments you do (and that you mentionned in your CoCoVid video) to help you smooth out the sewing process.
Beautiful dress, great job! It looks absolutely perfect on you.
Thank you so much!
Very cool, what a good looking dress.
Seding durable and robust wishes to your zip!
I've recently found your videous, and I really enjoy them. As somenone already commented, I appreciate that you explain what you're doing as you sew. I am new to sewing and was wondering what the advantage is of tiying off the thread when making the darts, and not back sewing?
It's a subtle difference but it means you get a smoother point on your dart. When you back sew your stitches don't always end up exactly on top of each other so the end of the dart ends up thicker than the rest of the dart and on delicate fabrics that can cause puckering which as darts are right at the bust point is not a pleasant look!
That being said, when I make costumes for theatre I do back sew as it's stronger, I just do it very carefully so the stitches end up exactly on top of each other and not off to the side. I hope that helps ☺️
Excellent job
Thank you very much! 💚
lovely work as always... question on the stitch you used to stitch down the raw edge of the facing... does that not show from the front side of the dress... this has been my biggest struggle/question on these vintage dresses with facings :) thanks
Heck yeah. Summer is coming for me and this video fell as if from the sky, this is amazing :D This is probably gonna be my project for spring break, thank you ❤️
PS some of your links in the description aren't working, I think it's the "..."s at the end 👀
See I'm not late for Summer I was just thinking of our friends in the southern hemisphere! And thanks for the heads up I'll make sure to fix the links 💚
oh, TH-cam just swallowed part of my answer.. 🤔 I am wearing a vintage austrian dirndl right now, with similar colors but it's cutsey because of dust pink velvet ribbons and lace. 💝
Its lovely and looks so good on you. Im wondering how you finished the seam that joins the skirt with the bodice?
Just with pinking shears! So far no fray 😁
i have a question: what do you mean by rounding the corners slightly to make them crisp? when sewing the neck facing
When you need to sew a very sharp angle that has to be bagged out or turned through, such as on a square neckline, it is very tempting to stitch a perfect right angle. But it is actually better to stitch a little curve into the corners as this gives the seam allowance space to sit nicely when it is turned through. I usually stitch to just short of the corner and then rotate the work 45° and do a single stitch, then rotate another 45° and carry on sewing along the other side of the corner. I hope this helps it is difficult to explain without a diagram. 💚
Retro Claude wow i never knew 🤭
does that work for triangle-ish collars too?
@@minisnoozer Yes absolutely! If anything it's even more important the sharper the angel gets 💚
Question, if someone were to comission this dress from you, what would it cost?
Im just curious about the value of the hours put in and the materials cost :0
Well to remake this dress, I wouldn't get out of bed for less than £500. Assuming I've already got the pattern, sourcing vintage fabric, pattern alterations, making the toile, organising and travelling to a fitting, actually doing the fitting, cutting and making the dress, then ALL that hand finishing is AT least a week's work. The cost of the materials is probably only about £50. Fabric for the toile, 2.7m of the vintage fabric, 10cm of interfacing, the vintage fastenings and buckle, the hem tape and 2 reels of thread. Then of course the insurance, machine wear and tear, miscellaneous equipment, electricity and rent..... So in the end probably a total of £600.
@@RetroClaude okay thats about what I was thinking. Ugh im a working tailor (as one of my jobs) in the US atm and I hate that I consistently have to undercharge :P still better than an office job lol. Just curious 👀👌 its worth about what I imagined lol.
@@RetroClaude I can't wait for fast fashion to start fully cannibalize itself and die already lol. Have you ever taken comissions for a dress like that one ?
@@kamilareeder1493 I'm a professional costume maker so I've taken many commissions in my time and I've worked in costume workrooms for film and theatre as a freelancer. The reason I've started to make my own clothes is to help kill off fast fashion sooner 😊
@@RetroClaude nice :) thanks for responding! I hope i can go back to doing tech theater and dance costumes again soon .
An economist in the new York times is pushing for the city to invest in the arts to revitalize the economy in nyc but our government HATES that idea lol 😂 but we'll convince them 👀👌