I would never be able to sew that gown. I'm so impressed with how well you are able to sew something so complicated. You looked lovely and it was nice seeing you and your friend dressing up for the theater. 😯🙂❤️❤️❤️
Yes! Don't give up! Pros learn by making muslins, the garment out of inexpensive fabric, sometimes only half the garment. Once you've done that, you're more confident to do the real garment. 😃
Not now, but Future You can make that. You keep sewing and you learn stuff. Sewing books are amazing to learn things from too. I buy them used, they’re cheap, and you get an older book for older styles and the tricks are amazing. A basic sewing book from 1960 is a different style of construction from 1985. Look in your library.
I have to say it is fortuitous you are posting a 1956 pattern this week. I was born in 1956 and this is my birthday week. It is like a birthday present to me. As a costume designer I love historical and vintage fashion. I love watching your projects and this is just beautiful.
Oh my gawd! This dress is not only a stunning work of art on the outside, but couture-worthy on the inside. You look absolutely gorgeous in the finished shots!❤
The "yoke" is a panel. That's what we called it in school when we made corsets princess lines. Yoke was made to prevent gathering so the fabric lays flat on the body where it curves cause there's ease. I love your videos ❤❤❤ I have all these vintage patterns and I'm afraid of using them but I really want to start dressing retro. I went to school for fashion and all though I don't do it as a career I love and adore historical fashion. Would one day like to dress up in some of the patterns I've bought over the years.
Love your content! And thank you for introducing us to SewSewDrew. I so enjoyed you two at the symphony. Now the Opera... or a ballet... or maybe a Broadway weekend... Girls weekend in NY...
Love the fabric and the style! 🥰 You’ve inspired me to dig out my sewing machine and start making my own clothing. I think I’ll start with something easy like a t-shirt though. 😁
Realizing why I was always shocked to see photos where I am obviously not tall and willowy-my mom sewed every stitch I owned, and all the pattern illustrations are of women with 8ft legs!
I'm five feet tall, and had an hourglass shape in my younger years. Back in the late 60s and 70s the fashionable standard was tall and willowy. My mom sewed beautiful clothes that fit me. It's so neat when your clothes help boost your confidence. My mom was even shorter than I, and she sewed lovely, perfectly-tailored clothes for us. Only when I learned sewing, myself, did I realize how fabulous a seamstress my mom was. The alterations of patterns and many haute couture additions were masterfully done, and made each garment flatter us.
@ my mom learned sewing and tailoring when she went to a wonderful school for disabled kids in Boston in the 1940s. She was a true artist! You and I were very lucky!
Beautifully done! I loved your YT short about the hotel you stayed in and I hoped we would get to see you make this dress! The pattern has some interesting construction details, thank you for taking the time to show them in the video.
The pattern is so simple. V patterns are infamous for many pieces. You do amazing work. I wish I had that spark. You can do many styles with that pattern. I don’t know if the alterations will fit with your style.
i just got into sewing the past couple of months and i'll tell you what it has given me such a deep appreciation for how good you are at this! everything is so neat and tidy and lines up all nice, even with the things you don't see!
Thank you so much! It all came with time. Once I got my clothes to stay together I started focusing on the details. I always take extra care on pieces that may need to be dry cleaned I’m nervous for ppl to see my work up close 🤣
Wowie - you are getting so good with those brocades! I’m so glad you made this AND went somewhere fitting for it and had a great time! How do you clean brocade, though? Dry cleaning?
You remind me of my mama. She was a professional seamstress who would tailor my dad's off the rack suits (he had a spine issue that caused one shoulder to droop-she would fix the pads so he'd look even). I wore Paris fashion to high school a full 2 years before the styles would appear in America!
Way back when I was sewing for theater, where the costumes are worn like football uniforms 🤣, I learned the hard way, due to an incompetent sewing room floor boss's decision to tell us never mind prepping, that brocade shrinks like the devil when you iron it! So always buy two yards more and iron the whole thing before you cut. 😑 Even dry cleaning and steaming will cause shrinkage. Which was horrible because the entire set for "The King and I" was made from imported Thai silk brocade, and OMG the horror! The floor boss was fired and billed. 😬
I have always loved this pattern ( from seeing it online) and omgosh it looks so incredible! Love your fabric choice and I don't think ill ever get over those matching heels! 🤩💞
Sewrena you are so blessed I live vicariously through seamstress like you because, being a adult take priority over everything and my time is decided to my responsibilities, but if I had the free time I would be living for the seams and fabric, congratulations on your beautiful ballgown 👏❤👏
I'm so exited about this video (haven't watched it yet, but seen the short)! I have the pattern as well and was contemplating using it for my wedding gown. I'm sure this will help me make up my mind and maybe find the courage to do it. Also, as a classical musician, it warms my heart to see people dressing up for concerts!
@@SewRena Thank you for the encouragement and the congrats. YOur version is delightful! I think I'll at least muslin it and decide from there. I'd probably add a train and maaaayybe make it a corset back, what do you think? Oh, and pockets?
Gorgeous dress and the shoes are brilliantly done! You can say you don't fit in but it seems more like you are in a class by yourself (and the sky's the limit)!
Early shot, when you were pinning the pleats in the skirt, I thought about how interesting 50s pattern pleats are...I've made a couple of 50s patterns and found directionality and placement of pleats interesting And then the bodice pleats...look This is the kind of dress that makes you happy you can sew.
I would like to gift to you my grandmothers vintage hats from the 50’s and 60’s. They are dear to me but I’ve had them in a box and I’d rather they go to someone who would use them. Are you interested?
I would never be able to sew that gown. I'm so impressed with how well you are able to sew something so complicated. You looked lovely and it was nice seeing you and your friend dressing up for the theater. 😯🙂❤️❤️❤️
Don't give up
Yes! Don't give up! Pros learn by making muslins, the garment out of inexpensive fabric, sometimes only half the garment. Once you've done that, you're more confident to do the real garment. 😃
Not now, but Future You can make that. You keep sewing and you learn stuff.
Sewing books are amazing to learn things from too. I buy them used, they’re cheap, and you get an older book for older styles and the tricks are amazing. A basic sewing book from 1960 is a different style of construction from 1985.
Look in your library.
Absolutely glorious! Couture inside and out. Beautiful work as always.
I have to say it is fortuitous you are posting a 1956 pattern this week. I was born in 1956 and this is my birthday week. It is like a birthday present to me. As a costume designer I love historical and vintage fashion. I love watching your projects and this is just beautiful.
🎉happy birthday
Happy birthday!
Absolutely stunning result! I hope you enjoyed your evening.
You did a great job with this. It was even more beautiful in person!!!❤
Thank you so much for accompanying me
Oh my gawd! This dress is not only a stunning work of art on the outside, but couture-worthy on the inside. You look absolutely gorgeous in the finished shots!❤
Thank you so much 💕💕
Beautiful craftswomanship! I get powerful Grace Kelly vibes from that gown. Inside finishing is always the 'tell' of an high end gown. Chef's kiss!
Another beautiful vintage gown. Thanx for all the tips about using difficult fabrics
It looks very elegant paired with that cape.
You knocked it out of the park with this one! Fabulous!
I love the shaping in the bodice. I feel like it would look amazing in an everyday fabric with either a gathered or circle skirt.
I always love watching your videos, just wish they were longer. Your sewing is so beautiful and I can't get enough!🤗
Just beautiful! I would love to see more of your fitting process - it would be so helpful since you have a way of explaining things so clearly.
I will do that next time. In this case I pinned out all the gaps while wearing the muslin I made the changes to a traced version of the pattern.
I so love these videos better than the shorts...the dress is beautiful...hope you have many occasions to wear it.
Gorgeous dress on you! Burning the edges on brocade and organza is new to me. Sounds brave! 🌻🍄
The "yoke" is a panel. That's what we called it in school when we made corsets princess lines. Yoke was made to prevent gathering so the fabric lays flat on the body where it curves cause there's ease. I love your videos ❤❤❤ I have all these vintage patterns and I'm afraid of using them but I really want to start dressing retro. I went to school for fashion and all though I don't do it as a career I love and adore historical fashion. Would one day like to dress up in some of the patterns I've bought over the years.
Absolutely stunning! Great pivot making use of the organza when Mother Nature conspired to keep you from finishing your gown! Beautiful!
Love your content! And thank you for introducing us to SewSewDrew. I so enjoyed you two at the symphony. Now the Opera... or a ballet... or maybe a Broadway weekend... Girls weekend in NY...
Thank you so much 🫶🏾🫶🏾 that’s the plan SewRena and Drew takes on the performing arts world
That fabric is so beautiful
How lovely!
Wow! You really nailed this one!! Pure elegance, and a perfect fit. Congratulations
I don’t think I’ve ever been this early! I love this dress and you look incredible!
Looks great on you the color scheme is perfect.💕
Love the fabric and the style! 🥰 You’ve inspired me to dig out my sewing machine and start making my own clothing. I think I’ll start with something easy like a t-shirt though. 😁
Realizing why I was always shocked to see photos where I am obviously not tall and willowy-my mom sewed every stitch I owned, and all the pattern illustrations are of women with 8ft legs!
I'm five feet tall, and had an hourglass shape in my younger years. Back in the late 60s and 70s the fashionable standard was tall and willowy. My mom sewed beautiful clothes that fit me.
It's so neat when your clothes help boost your confidence. My mom was even shorter than I, and she sewed lovely, perfectly-tailored clothes for us.
Only when I learned sewing, myself, did I realize how fabulous a seamstress my mom was. The alterations of patterns and many haute couture additions were masterfully done, and made each garment flatter us.
@ my mom learned sewing and tailoring when she went to a wonderful school for disabled kids in Boston in the 1940s. She was a true artist! You and I were very lucky!
Beautifully done! I loved your YT short about the hotel you stayed in and I hoped we would get to see you make this dress! The pattern has some interesting construction details, thank you for taking the time to show them in the video.
I made a living sewing for 40 years. You are wonderful. So talented.
The pattern is so simple. V patterns are infamous for many pieces. You do amazing work. I wish I had that spark. You can do many styles with that pattern. I don’t know if the alterations will fit with your style.
What a wonderful make. The finish is everything a couture garment should be. Bravo!
that dress is amazing!!!! I've been looking forward to this video since you posted the short. so pretty 💜💜💜💜
Timeless beauty 😍
You are a great and awesome seamstress. I enjoy watching all of your makes.❤
Monumental work !! ❤
I love the tutorial on so many techniques!
Stunning!! Vogue patterns are so hard to read! There’s so much assumed knowledge. Definitely not for beginners. You slayed it!
i just got into sewing the past couple of months and i'll tell you what it has given me such a deep appreciation for how good you are at this! everything is so neat and tidy and lines up all nice, even with the things you don't see!
Thank you so much! It all came with time. Once I got my clothes to stay together I started focusing on the details. I always take extra care on pieces that may need to be dry cleaned I’m nervous for ppl to see my work up close 🤣
Wowie - you are getting so good with those brocades! I’m so glad you made this AND went somewhere fitting for it and had a great time! How do you clean brocade, though? Dry cleaning?
Yes dry clean
That gown is beyond gorgeous!! ❤❤
You remind me of my mama. She was a professional seamstress who would tailor my dad's off the rack suits (he had a spine issue that caused one shoulder to droop-she would fix the pads so he'd look even). I wore Paris fashion to high school a full 2 years before the styles would appear in America!
Wonderful to witness such a beautiful gown
You have done a beautiful job! I love the choice of the fabric and how well-made your gown. To top it all off, you are stunning in it!!
Thank you so much 💕🫶🏾
Awesome pattern find and gown! I always learn a bit more about sewing when I watch your videos. ❤
I love the brocade fabric you chose and the coloring suits you so well, just absolutely gorgeous!
Gorgeous! I really enjoyed your discussion of your understructure choices - I would not have thought of using organza there.
This dress turned out beautiful!
GORGEOUS! Please make more videos of you making these beautiful glamorous gowns! Your lucky you have the figure to wear this fashion
If I can manage it financially I will. This was so fun plus I love supporting the arts
watching this and smiling! love your passion for vintage as well what a collectors piece!! amazing work Sewrena 🥰
Glorious.... exquisite. My Gran is smiling
You are always so inspiring, SewRena.
This. is. impressive and spectacular work! You took my breath away.
You did a beautiful job. ❤
Oooo, thank you for scrap fabric boning chanel trick! 😃❤️
Way back when I was sewing for theater, where the costumes are worn like football uniforms 🤣, I learned the hard way, due to an incompetent sewing room floor boss's decision to tell us never mind prepping, that brocade shrinks like the devil when you iron it! So always buy two yards more and iron the whole thing before you cut. 😑 Even dry cleaning and steaming will cause shrinkage. Which was horrible because the entire set for "The King and I" was made from imported Thai silk brocade, and OMG the horror! The floor boss was fired and billed. 😬
I loved this fabric!! So beautiful!! And the shoes 😍🙏!! You look like a process on them!
Beautiful Gown!! Just gorgeous and perfect for the symphony. :)
✨Impeccable!✨
It turned out beautifully
Love it and you look so elegant wearing it.
Absolutely incredible! You look amazing and elegant.
This looks awesome!! You did a really good job. I love the brocade that you used for the dress. 😍❤❤❤
Elegant beautiful- you looked amazing!
This turned out so beautifully! I love your fabric choices
Fabulous! That color is so flattering on you.
the brocade you chose is so gorgeous!
WOW, STUNNING!
So cool! You make it look so easy!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
What a gorgeous dress. You look like royalty!
I have always loved this pattern ( from seeing it online) and omgosh it looks so incredible! Love your fabric choice and I don't think ill ever get over those matching heels! 🤩💞
Absolutely elegant!
Sewrena you are so blessed I live vicariously through seamstress like you because, being a adult take priority over everything and my time is decided to my responsibilities, but if I had the free time I would be living for the seams and fabric, congratulations on your beautiful ballgown 👏❤👏
That brocade is gorgeous!
I loved the inside out view of the gown, so helpful! Would’ve loved to see more clips of you in the dress for longer at the end, it was gone too soon!
You are amazing and classy. ❤😊 I couldn't sew a straight line.
This is stunning...jaw droppingly stunning....
Absolutely stunning.
Can’t wait to see!!!
I'm so exited about this video (haven't watched it yet, but seen the short)! I have the pattern as well and was contemplating using it for my wedding gown. I'm sure this will help me make up my mind and maybe find the courage to do it. Also, as a classical musician, it warms my heart to see people dressing up for concerts!
This is absolutely wedding gown worthy. If I knew how to sew at the time this would be it! This and the opera coat pattern! Congrats by the way 🥂
@@SewRena Thank you for the encouragement and the congrats. YOur version is delightful! I think I'll at least muslin it and decide from there. I'd probably add a train and maaaayybe make it a corset back, what do you think? Oh, and pockets?
It’s GORGEOUS work 😻😻😻
Beautiful
I think the fashions in the 1950’s and the early 1960’s were the most beautiful. Having grown in that time I just may be prejudiced.❤❤❤❤
Love your wallpaper. I have a small ironing board cover that's got a similar vibe. Beautiful gown.
This may be my favorite one you’ve made
Gorgeous dress and the shoes are brilliantly done! You can say you don't fit in but it seems more like you are in a class by yourself (and the sky's the limit)!
Enjoy the video of the construction especially seeing this after I watched you wearing thr final result, which is beautiful!!
It's a beautiful dress and I would love to try making something similar except either with a short jacket or sleeves. Love the full skirt 😊
Early shot, when you were pinning the pleats in the skirt, I thought about how interesting 50s pattern pleats are...I've made a couple of 50s patterns and found directionality and placement of pleats interesting
And then the bodice pleats...look
This is the kind of dress that makes you happy you can sew.
Absolutely stunning!
I would like to gift to you my grandmothers vintage hats from the 50’s and 60’s. They are dear to me but I’ve had them in a box and I’d rather they go to someone who would use them. Are you interested?
Stunning work
So Beautiful Rena!!
Absolutely beautiful ❤
So beautiful , well done
Love your channel and style!
Beautifully done
Thank you
Looks fantastic!
Wow, that was gorgeous
Just beautiful. 😍
what lovely dress.
Looks fantastic! Is this the one where you covered the shoes also? You seem so savy I bet you could have made that pattern.😊
Beautiful dress ❤