Dressmaking

I have a guilty secret - A box full of part-made dress patterns. Begun then abandoned to a more interesting/more urgent job. Recently I have resolved to finally complete a few of these, and in the last few days I actually ticked one off the list: A shift dress from a very elegant 1950s pattern I found when rifling through the shelves at a junk shop in Bath.



There are things I would do differently next time (my zip insertion didn't go all that well!), but I love the style of this dress. Very elegant and understated (until you make it in giant red polka dots of course!).