Vintage Shirt Dress

Reviewed by Holly Stevens on 19th October, 2018

I’m not normally into vintage style clothes, as I always tend to go for more modern styles for day to day wear. However, I’d seen so many gorgeous styles of this pattern that it won me over. It helped that I found a gorgeous fabric to make it in – and I think it’s a perfect match!

The Sew Over It Vintage Shirt Dress is a lovely pattern, available in print or PDF format, it has a flat notched collar and lapels, as well as bodice and waist darts, gathered shoulders and optional addition of a sleeve.

The fabric is an Art Gallery Fabric from Cotton Reel Studio in the sale last year and I knew as soon as I saw it, it was destined to be made into this shirt dress. The background of this lightweight cotton is a gorgeous vintage-y, rich cream colour and the little pineapples are mostly blue, pink and lime green in muted shades.

I’d prepared myself for some careful pattern matching and had 2.5 metres to play with. I cut out the sleeveless version in a size 8, roughly placed the paper pieces on my body to judge where the waist seam would come and the overall length of the dress. I’d read that the dress comes up quite short on a lot of people and as I always have to shorten the length of most things, I omitted this step and hoped it should be just about right!

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A Vintage Shirt Dress in Pineapple Art Gallery Fabric

Happy sewing,
Holly x