1920 pattern

I rather love that brief but strange and potent period of fashion history when ladies' dresses were shifting their lines and shape from that of the Twenties into that of the Thirties. Even as the now-iconic look of the latter decade - the straight-edge, close-cropped, waistless Garçonne silhouette - was finally being universally accepted, waistlines began flirting with a woman's actual waist. And just as skirt lengths reached their greatest height yet - skimming or even floating above the…

In 2009 I was asked to help judge the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals/Threads Challenge. The challenge that year was all about seams. Judging was blind, meaning that the names of the contestants were removed from the final garments, only numbers were attached. For the judging, we were supposed to have a dressform, but none was available, so guess what!!!, I became the dressform! It was such a great experience and I loved seeing the creativity and ingenuity of the garments. The…

Simple and elegant. Just wait till you see what I did with an old tablecloth! I promised you a way to get a basic 20’s dress pattern so here we go: This is the Sorbetto pattern from Colette,…

1926 fashion print -evening dress

Once I knew what the One Hour Dress was, I saw them everywhere. http://theclosethistorian.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-one-hour-1920s-dress.html Go search on 'one hour dress 1920s'. Go ahead, I'm here all week. https://youtu.be/VImcfqrqWKQ is the You Tube ad for the book (original link is dead) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/163561029X/ but here it is on Amazon. There are a million variations on the One Hour Dress. I based my pattern on this image I found online, which turns out to be from a…

Sophie Blum inspiration

1923 Dernières Créations, Cashmere evening gown and skirt with wide belt forming a large bow at the back