I made this dress several weeks ago, strictly on a whim, inspired by a wee baby’s dress I found at a yard sale and a blouse spied on Pinterest (via Casey).  In my excitement and haste, I went about things rather haphazardly, throwing all caution to the wind.  It’s made in a typical 1920s fashion, the skirt is created from a series of squares and rectangles sewn in various ways, not wasting too much fabric.  2 rectangles for the front and back, 2 slits cut into each, and a triangle (half a square) set into each slit is all the skirt is, easy to do but looks extra nice.

While I love wearing silk georgette, I simply do not like sewing with it (see my other dress using this fabric).  The nude fabric inset’s seams are a bit wonky.  I think if I had planned better and not rushed, stabilized the fabric (or something) it would have turned nicer.  All I can say is the next time I do a fabric inset like this, it won’t be with georgette!  The bodice and hem are finished with a zigzag stitch and the back closes with a single vintage button (that I forgot to photograph).   I like to think it looks like an actual vintage garment and not something newly created.

But, despite the issues, I adore this dress.  Unlike many projects I have sewn, I wore this out and about–to the pet store of all places…ha!  Why wait for a fancy occasion to wear a fancy dress?  And the color is gorgeous.  I’m not sure how it looks on your monitor but I would describe it as salmon pink.

I have other sewing projects in the queue (as usual) that I hope to continue working on this weekend but I’m also going to start a knitting project, something I haven’t done in quite a while.  (And it’s all I can think about even though it was 98 degrees yesterday!)  I bought a skein of the prettiest mermaid green yarn that I’ll use to make this little scarflette.  I’m just going to ease into knitting slowly before I jump into anything more complicated!

Have a splendid weekend.

This is a smaller post since 1) I wasn’t able to finish my updates to the other yellow (print) dress I was going to include in this post and 2) I (luckily) didn’t have to do much to this one!

So this dress is what has gotten me interested in 1920s style, in terms of actually wearing it, not just admiring it from afar on perfectly willowy, old Hollywood starlets.  I have been fairly convinced that this style makes me look  like a sack of potatoes but when I saw this in Clever Nettle’s shop I knew it had to be mine!  I think this dress works on my frame because it’s short, sleeveless and pretty simple in design. Anything fussier wouldn’t do.

When I got this dress, I also knew it was the perfect place to apply these beautiful antique sequined stars, few of the little things I collected while shopping for wedding stuff last summer.  (They never actually made it into the wedding but I figured they’ll find their purpose eventually.)  And they go so perfectly with this little sequined bag I found a while ago too.

These stars are fragile; the backing is paper.  To make them more sturdy I glued felt to the back (I used Tacky Glue):

Instead of sewing I pinned the stars onto dress – very gingerly as the fabric is, sadly, frail in some areas.  I have a bunch of really tiny sequined stars too which might be cute applied to the shoes!

Oh, and there’s a cape!  To wear in a mad caper?

I wore this ensemble once to a gallery opening (with different shoes though – seafoam green t-strap sandals from Seychelles and a lacy cream-colored, embroidered cardigan) and it’s already one of my favorites.  In fact, I was so inspired I’m working on an emerald green georgette ’20s dress as we speak!