Yes please I don’t know if you already made videos cause this, it was from four years ago but has anyone tried this also how easy was it that front bus scene looks really challenging for my sewing level-. Also I would like halter or sweetheart neckline
You are absolutely right about how flattering the front darts are on this dress. I'm awestruck that you were able to successfully drape the pattern. That's quite an achievement for someone who is self-taught. The dress itself is beautiful. You have a chameleon-like ability to inhabit your creations so thoroughly that when you wear them you look like you stepped out of the era into today. That dress would look terrific in a plain fabric so that we could all admire the bodice seaming.
could you let us know how you drafted the pattern for this dress or make it available for download on your blog? it's really pretty and I would love to try it but as a new sewer I wouldn't trust myself to draft a pattern
@@gwendolynsheperd9011 & @Hestia Dimitri - attached is a copy of a comment I made to the same question elsewhere. Hope it helps. Joanne Carroll 1 second ago Try V8789 in the Vintage Vogue range for a similar shaped dress (The skirts are all straight forward). The bodice front in V8789 captures that triangular fitted shape as the front is cut in 2 pieces, each cut on the bias, sewn with an upward dart then connected at centre-front seam. A similar look in the same range V2903, is done with princess seams , but imho V8789 has the closest similarity in shape.
Learning so much, as always. It's a delight watching you. I would really love a 50's dress series type thing. They all look so deceptively simple. Don't be afraid of showing a process you feel won't work. It's a learning process and we are all in this world to learn, try, error, succeed.
It's such a shame you didn't show how you drafted the pattern because I would love to recreate this dress but I wouldn't know how to measure the top :(
irgendwelchedinge I figured out how it can be done. Cut a large square piece of pattern or tissue paper, large enough to go from shoulder to waist and elbow to elbow. Pin this to your dress form at the shoulders allowing extra for the seams. Front will be two pieces with a seam down the middle.. Starting at the waste make a mark mid point, another mark midpoint at the neck. Connect these two dots with a line. Mark a dot at each breast where you want the dart to end. Mark a dot on the center line where the band of your bra hits, the mark a larger dot 1 inch down from that. Draw a line from this dot to each breast dot. You have the basic Y dart shape. Now comes the tricky part.
I know it's been 2 years but another way to do it is to take a bodice with a dart. It can be princess seamed, from the sides or the underbust. Cut the pattern from the bellybutton to the tip of the dart, tape the original dart closed and you have a new dart position like Angela's.
Gosh, everything you sew is just so beautiful! Thank you for sharing your talents. Btw, I would love, love, love to see more 50's styles. I love the style of that period, very lady like and classy.
The dress is beautiful, i have one same fabric but the blue is a bit darker. So easy to wear like you said i love the 30's /40's/50's, i love the things you make on here, lots more please. Thank you.
I love this dress! Excellent work! I would definitely love to see more 1950s inspired dresses from you. I adore all of your historical projects, but it's nice to see some mid-20th century styles once in a while.
you can read my mind! I was thinking that these dresses can be great in loads of colours and patterns! 50s dresses are super flattering to everyone! do make more please!
I'd love to see some more of these styles! I love 1940s-early 1950s styles and this is a gorgeous example. you look like you're plucked out of the post-WW2 era!
Your dress came out beautiful. Yes, you definitely should make more 50s dresses. The 50s was a beautiful era in clothes. The movies and magazines displaying 50s genre always show fashion so polished and elegant. I absolutely love vintage. Thanks for the video :)
I just ordered dress patterns from McCall's of 18th century, 1920's grown, 1940's and 1950's dresses during their cyber Monday #$2.38 per pattern. I am a beginner and really enjoy watching your and other videos to get pointers. I will be taking a bigger's sewing class by making my bedroom curtains. I think the vintage dress patterns are a great start for a beginner to understand the entire process. great video
I loved being a teenager in the 50s. We had such beautiful dresses, and Girls always dressed pretty. At the weekend we put on our high heels beautiful dress just like that and more, and always always or white gloves. Life was wonderful, even though we didn’t have a lot, Saturday and Sunday was dress up days. Of course we had our sheer nylon stockings. So wish young Ladies could dress like that today.
I love it! I may have to figure out that lovely bodice & draft one up myself. More like this one, please! :) ... A handy tip for circle skirts (as it seems someone else has already told you about the potential problem of an enclosed hem) - circles can be easier to hem without puckering if you do a straight or basting stitch all the way around the bottom first, maybe 2cm in from the edge. This will reduce stretching on the bias & you can also use the basting stitch as tool to help fold & press the hem before stitching ... Good luck.
I made a similar dress, a Butterick, tho not with those darts (those are cool!). I was very large chested for someone my age, so I had 'graduated' into different fitting requirements, needing to use my grandmother's dummy as she no longer used it. 🙄 Such was life &just the beginning . . . The lining for my dress was not sewn to the outer fabric at the hemline. I, instead, wanted to cut the lining short enough to insert a 3.5-4" flat cotton eyelet lace, so the lace would show when I moved. My grandmother decided to choose THIS project to teach me how to French seam 😳 on.a.curve.yet! I can now French curve ANYthing - thanks to her & that dress 😂 haha. I wore it proudly, 1st day back from Spring break '66 (w/gramma) 6th grade. Sunshine yellow with white dots (tho smaller than the ones above) & grassy-green 1.5" grosgrain ribbon tied in a bow. I also crocheted a #10 cotton shrug-like 'thing' (summer sweater-ette?) [ I have so often looked for that darn pattern to no avail! ] ANYway, I wore that outfit at Graduation from 6th grade in 1966. Gosh I'm old . . . 😬😀🤣 Watching you make this dress brought back so many dress memories, Angela. I've had so, so many pokadot dresses, skirts & shirts over the years - I guess 'cause there's been so, so many YEARS. 🤔 Hhmm Angela, you're doing a wonderful job. I love your enthusiasm & poise. So keep coming up with great ideas & give my memories a boost 😉 in the process. Looking onward & forward? to the 90s. 🦋
Love the dress and yes, I agree that it is very flattering for you! Please remember one thing...from one dressmaker to another, a Magician never reveals their tricks!
This dress is gorgeous and I love it! The pattern and everything is lovely. I really wish that your video was more informative, like a tutorial, than an overview of how to make it. I was really hoping for some info on how to make the bodice, specifically, as the measurements are not clear in this video.
Hi! I love this dress and I'm really interested in making this dress, but I feel the bodice is a little hard to create... Could you tell me how you created this one. Thank you
This is such a beautiful dress and you are so insanely talented!! Hopefully one day I'll be able to make something that's even a fraction as beautiful as your's. I'm also really digging your hair in this video! It's bold and playful, and the color is absolutely gorgeous with the blue fabric that you chose. I have so much love and respect for what you do, so thank you so much for sharing it with us!
definitely make more videos like this! I just started sewing this year and I normally wear 50s style dresses and I've been wanting to try my hand at making one.
If you ever wanted to make a video showing us how you drafted the bodice of this dress I'm sure there are still plenty of us who want to make it too and would appreciate it!
can you make a video on how you draft patterns, preferably bodice ones? I'm planning on eventually making the Tudor dress and this one, and would like to know how you make basic patterns. thank you!
I sew over pins, too 😣. I always end up with some bent pins, but rarely do I break needles. I just hate stopping to take them out 😜. This dress is beautiful. Very similar to a Butterick pattern I have but haven't made yet, #6318, a retro style of theirs from 1961. Because of your videos, I would like very much to learn to draft patterns, especially as my measurements cross pattern sizing. Thank you for making the how-to! You're a constant sewspiration 😘
Please keep posting the 50's inspired looks. I have a bunch of these dresses from Amazon, but I want to start making them myself, (the fit will be even better).
I make a lot of 50's inspired dresses but never saw that type of darts at the front, it is really cute ! Now I want to try to make one :) ! I love watching your videos, they are so relaxing ! :)
I love that you crafted a pattern based on a real dress. I loved you other video that was similar (but then you also showed that drafting process). I'd definitely watchor making of videos. If it's possible adding in how to for the creative process, drafting, or even using and adapting bought patterns would be awesome too!
I love any clothing from the 1950's, so much so that most of my sewing projects are 50's inspired haha I would love to see more of your pattern making process! I am a fairly intermediate sewer (I've been sewing for almost 3 years) but I am mostly self taught so I lack most of the proper terminology.
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I need this as a downloadable pattern!😆
It's so hard to find dresses i actually like the look of and this is spot on for my tastes
Beautiful dress! Yes please show us more 1950s inspired fashion!
I agree!! more of this era, please!
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You are so very talented,nits going to take me forever to get even one of these beautiful dresses. Thank you so very much
Yes please I don’t know if you already made videos cause this, it was from four years ago but has anyone tried this also how easy was it that front bus scene looks really challenging for my sewing level-. Also I would like halter or sweetheart neckline
You are absolutely right about how flattering the front darts are on this dress. I'm awestruck that you were able to successfully drape the pattern. That's quite an achievement for someone who is self-taught. The dress itself is beautiful. You have a chameleon-like ability to inhabit your creations so thoroughly that when you wear them you look like you stepped out of the era into today. That dress would look terrific in a plain fabric so that we could all admire the bodice seaming.
could you let us know how you drafted the pattern for this dress or make it available for download on your blog? it's really pretty and I would love to try it but as a new sewer I wouldn't trust myself to draft a pattern
Same for me! (Even tho I'm a little bit late😅)
@@gwendolynsheperd9011 & @Hestia Dimitri - attached is a copy of a comment I made to the same question elsewhere. Hope it helps.
Joanne Carroll
1 second ago
Try V8789 in the Vintage Vogue range for a similar shaped dress (The skirts are all straight forward). The bodice front in V8789 captures that triangular fitted shape as the front is cut in 2 pieces, each cut on the bias, sewn with an upward dart then connected at centre-front seam. A similar look in the same range V2903, is done with princess seams , but imho V8789 has the closest similarity in shape.
Last y're so glamorous wearing this elegant dress. The color is sooo lovely and so are you.
Have a great day. Thanks for sharing and caring.
Angela, I'm always amazed at your skill and patience. You make such superb pieces. They are a delight to look at.
Hi Angela, Your bodice patterns are amazing. Can you please please please make a tutorial on how to draft different kinds of bodice patterns?
By far the most comprehensive and professional tutorials on the internet. THANK YOU.
This dress on you is absolutely stunning!! You look like you just stepped out of a vintage '50s fashion magazine!!! GREAT JOB!
Learning so much, as always. It's a delight watching you. I would really love a 50's dress series type thing. They all look so deceptively simple. Don't be afraid of showing a process you feel won't work. It's a learning process and we are all in this world to learn, try, error, succeed.
It's such a shame you didn't show how you drafted the pattern because I would love to recreate this dress but I wouldn't know how to measure the top :(
i'm sure theres more detail on her blog if that helps!
She answered to another comment that she does not have any pictures of the proces so she did not male a blog post about drafting the pattern
Yeah that's what I thought too!!
irgendwelchedinge
I figured out how it can be done. Cut a large square piece of pattern or tissue paper, large enough to go from shoulder to waist and elbow to elbow. Pin this to your dress form at the shoulders allowing extra for the seams. Front will be two pieces with a seam down the middle.. Starting at the waste make a mark mid point, another mark midpoint at the neck. Connect these two dots with a line. Mark a dot at each breast where you want the dart to end. Mark a dot on the center line where the band of your bra hits, the mark a larger dot 1 inch down from that. Draw a line from this dot to each breast dot. You have the basic Y dart shape.
Now comes the tricky part.
I know it's been 2 years but another way to do it is to take a bodice with a dart. It can be princess seamed, from the sides or the underbust. Cut the pattern from the bellybutton to the tip of the dart, tape the original dart closed and you have a new dart position like Angela's.
Love, love, love this dress. It turned out very beautiful. The dots brought out the beauty of it.
Gosh, everything you sew is just so beautiful! Thank you for sharing your talents. Btw, I would love, love, love to see more 50's styles. I love the style of that period, very lady like and classy.
The dress is beautiful, i have one same fabric but the blue is a bit darker. So easy to wear like you said i love the 30's /40's/50's, i love the things you make on here, lots more please. Thank you.
This was a good video to watch for sewing darts and linings. I also appreciated how you made the circle skirt. Thank you.
Yes please, definitely make more 50's style dress patterns! It's fun to see you make projects that you can wear on a regular basis. :)
I wish you would release this pattern! it's absolutely beautiful
I love this dress! Excellent work! I would definitely love to see more 1950s inspired dresses from you. I adore all of your historical projects, but it's nice to see some mid-20th century styles once in a while.
Thanks for sharing your process of making this dress - it was fascinating to see many of the techniques you used.
you can read my mind! I was thinking that these dresses can be great in loads of colours and patterns!
50s dresses are super flattering to everyone! do make more please!
I'd love to see some more of these styles! I love 1940s-early 1950s styles and this is a gorgeous example. you look like you're plucked out of the post-WW2 era!
This is super cute!!!!! Please make more!!!! You're tutorials are super easy to understand
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The perfect model for the perfect dress .
I love your tutorials , I always learn so much .
Your dress came out beautiful. Yes, you definitely should make more 50s dresses. The 50s was a beautiful era in clothes. The movies and magazines displaying 50s genre always show fashion so polished and elegant. I absolutely love vintage. Thanks for the video :)
This pattern is beautiful! The dress is so stylish! Well done!
Love the dress. Yes you should make more. Very good job. Cannot wait to see what else your going to make.
Such a lovely dress, and the polka dots make it so fun! I'd love to see more 1950's pieces.
It is so soothing to look at you work, live the way you put this video together
I just ordered dress patterns from McCall's of 18th century, 1920's grown, 1940's and 1950's dresses during their cyber Monday #$2.38 per pattern. I am a beginner and really enjoy watching your and other videos to get pointers. I will be taking a bigger's sewing class by making my bedroom curtains. I think the vintage dress patterns are a great start for a beginner
to understand the entire process. great video
Such a cute dress!!! Wish I had the patience, talent, and determination to learn to sew like you 💖
Indeed, it *is* a beautiful polka dot dress !!! And you look gorgeous wearing it !!!
Yes, please, this my favorite area ..so classy and timeless.
I loved being a teenager in the 50s. We had such beautiful dresses, and Girls always dressed pretty. At the weekend we put on our high heels beautiful dress just like that and more, and always always or white gloves. Life was wonderful, even though we didn’t have a lot, Saturday and Sunday was dress up days. Of course we had our sheer nylon stockings. So wish young Ladies could dress like that today.
I love it! the color suits you really well and it's a very pretty model. The darts make it very special.
Dude, this is soo soothing. looks beautiful on you too!
I love it! I may have to figure out that lovely bodice & draft one up myself. More like this one, please! :) ... A handy tip for circle skirts (as it seems someone else has already told you about the potential problem of an enclosed hem) - circles can be easier to hem without puckering if you do a straight or basting stitch all the way around the bottom first, maybe 2cm in from the edge. This will reduce stretching on the bias & you can also use the basting stitch as tool to help fold & press the hem before stitching ... Good luck.
Yes please more videos of your 50s style plans! You are very talented - whoever thumbs down a video like this is just a troll to be ignored.
Beautiful.Would you do another tutorial showing how to draft the bodice with the unusual dart placement
I made a similar dress, a Butterick, tho not with those darts (those are cool!). I was very large chested for someone my age, so I had 'graduated' into different fitting requirements, needing to use my grandmother's dummy as she no longer used it. 🙄 Such was life &just the beginning . . .
The lining for my dress was not sewn to the outer fabric at the hemline. I, instead, wanted to cut the lining short enough to insert a 3.5-4" flat cotton eyelet lace, so the lace would show when I moved. My grandmother decided to choose THIS project to teach me how to French seam 😳 on.a.curve.yet! I can now French curve ANYthing - thanks to her & that dress 😂 haha.
I wore it proudly, 1st day back from Spring break '66 (w/gramma) 6th grade. Sunshine yellow with white dots (tho smaller than the ones above) & grassy-green 1.5" grosgrain ribbon tied in a bow. I also crocheted a #10 cotton shrug-like 'thing'
(summer sweater-ette?) [ I have so often looked for that darn pattern to no avail! ] ANYway, I wore that outfit at Graduation from 6th grade in 1966. Gosh I'm old . . . 😬😀🤣
Watching you make this dress brought back so many dress memories, Angela. I've had so, so many pokadot dresses, skirts & shirts over the years - I guess 'cause there's been so, so many YEARS. 🤔 Hhmm
Angela, you're doing a wonderful job. I love your enthusiasm & poise. So keep coming up with great ideas & give my memories a boost 😉 in the process. Looking onward & forward? to the 90s. 🦋
Love the dress and yes, I agree that it is very flattering for you! Please remember one thing...from one dressmaker to another, a Magician never reveals their tricks!
Love the 50s inspired dresses! Please do more!
This dress is gorgeous and I love it! The pattern and everything is lovely. I really wish that your video was more informative, like a tutorial, than an overview of how to make it. I was really hoping for some info on how to make the bodice, specifically, as the measurements are not clear in this video.
I would love to see more `1950's patterns they are usually so flattering on different body types..... love your work
That is a beautiful dress. It’s definitely your style . 👍🏻😊🧵
they are so perfect for ballroom dancing, especially if you build in a body suit
Hi Angela!
The dress turned out beautiful!!!
Yes, please make more 1950's dresses and make a tutorial on how to apply bias tape!
Kisses from Portugal!
Hi! I love this dress and I'm really interested in making this dress, but I feel the bodice is a little hard to create... Could you tell me how you created this one. Thank you
This is such a beautiful dress and you are so insanely talented!! Hopefully one day I'll be able to make something that's even a fraction as beautiful as your's. I'm also really digging your hair in this video! It's bold and playful, and the color is absolutely gorgeous with the blue fabric that you chose. I have so much love and respect for what you do, so thank you so much for sharing it with us!
YES, more 1950s they are my very favorite
Super cute, and very flattering!
Wow!!! This is so inspiring. I love how you lined it. I do not think I could figure out the dart placement easily.
I love 1950's dresses! I'd love to see more of them from you! 😊
this is so beautiful! This is one of the reasons I became a Patron... The 50's do you sew well. But then again everything you wear does too!
Stunning !! Love the fabric and the dress so flattering ❤️
definitely make more videos like this! I just started sewing this year and I normally wear 50s style dresses and I've been wanting to try my hand at making one.
Beautiful job. Very feminine and very flattering. Keep up the great work.
Another excellent video, Angela. I've seen that dart placement in a pattern book but never thought to use it. Thank you for inspiring me!
If you ever wanted to make a video showing us how you drafted the bodice of this dress I'm sure there are still plenty of us who want to make it too and would appreciate it!
can you make a video on how you draft patterns, preferably bodice ones? I'm planning on eventually making the Tudor dress and this one, and would like to know how you make basic patterns. thank you!
This is like a soothing balm.
Love your gorgeous nail color! Beautiful! 👍🏻👏🏻 The dress too, of course!😄☺️❤️️
Beautiful dress!!!! I like those 1950-ish dresses
SEWING GOALS. :) Please do all the vintage dress making videos!!
I love this dress I'm in love with 50s too. Keep ur great work up love ur video
I love this dress and it looks great on you!
can you show how you did the pattern for the top? 😊
I wish you did more videos a week....... I adore everything you do!!
love it! is there a way to get a copy of the bodice pattern?
I would love to see more designs in this style, beautiful work!
This dress is so cute! You should definitely share some more 1950s projects!
I am so in love with this dress, I can't wait to try and make it myself!
Beautiful ! Yes please more 50's fashion
I sew over pins, too 😣. I always end up with some bent pins, but rarely do I break needles. I just hate stopping to take them out 😜.
This dress is beautiful. Very similar to a Butterick pattern I have but haven't made yet, #6318, a retro style of theirs from 1961. Because of your videos, I would like very much to learn to draft patterns, especially as my measurements cross pattern sizing. Thank you for making the how-to! You're a constant sewspiration 😘
This is beautiful! I live for 50s dresses. More please!!!!!
Please keep posting the 50's inspired looks. I have a bunch of these dresses from Amazon, but I want to start making them myself, (the fit will be even better).
This is beautiful. I love the V neck.
i wanna learn to make this SOOOO BAD :(
I make a lot of 50's inspired dresses but never saw that type of darts at the front, it is really cute ! Now I want to try to make one :) ! I love watching your videos, they are so relaxing ! :)
This is wonderful! I would love to see some others with different sleeves and necklines!
I can definitely see Lucille Ball wearing this dress. Beautiful.
I love that you crafted a pattern based on a real dress. I loved you other video that was similar (but then you also showed that drafting process). I'd definitely watchor making of videos. If it's possible adding in how to for the creative process, drafting, or even using and adapting bought patterns would be awesome too!
Yes please I would love more 1950's dress patterns xx.
I LOVE 50's inspired dresses! They are so pretty and feminine :)
Lovely! You look like you are ready to swing dance now ;) I love how you lined the skirt, great technique.
You did a good job on your hair it’s beautiful Rita Hayworth!
Really nice. I hope to try it! Thanks for a very clear video tutorial.
This is a very beautiful dress perfect for you.
More 50s style dresses loved this video!!
Lovely dress and it suits you well!
Omg i'm in love with the dress and your hair and you have such a nice voice you're amazing.
I love any clothing from the 1950's, so much so that most of my sewing projects are 50's inspired haha I would love to see more of your pattern making process! I am a fairly intermediate sewer (I've been sewing for almost 3 years) but I am mostly self taught so I lack most of the proper terminology.
This is so stunning!
I love it.
I really enjoy 1950s style too
I love the 1950's fashion! This dress is so cute :)
the dress looks amazing!! really into 1950s style dresses so I'm looking forward to it if you decide to make any more dresses :)
Your hair always looks so pretty!
I'd love more 50's stuff!
This dress is gorgeous!
So happy that this dress is in a video
Beautifully done!! Thank you for sharing.