Okay, here’s one more one. This is my version of the Claire McCardell (McCalls 4292) that a couple of you had asked about. It’s in silk charmeuse that I gotten at vogue Fabrics, as well as I assumption it is likewise blue as well as brown, although the brown is truly a charming old-gold color.
Here’s a closeup of the bodice:
The dark lines you see in the bodice are the spaces in my adjustable gown form, beneath the fabric. I failed to remember to gown her in her white undershirt today!
I believed this pattern went together extremely easily; it even has two side pockets, although I ended up just doing one since the directions for putting together the pocket on the zipper side confounded me totally (and I was in a rush to get it completed to wear to my good friend A’s charming wedding). I believe I’ve used it when or twice considering that then; I have a cardigan that matches it, which gowns it down a bit.
If I made it once again I would take in the upper back center seam about 1/2 inch; for some reason I have the opposite of a dowager’s hump (dowager’s sinkhole?) as well as gowns seem to gape on me there. Or perhaps it’s narrow-shoulderedness? I don’t truly know. conjecture welcome.
I nearly failed to remember — here’s the bow in the back (sorry for the fuzzy picture):
The charmeuse is extremely soft, so it doesn’t have the loft of the bow in the original pattern.
It’s a extremely comfortable gown — simple to wear, as well as the wrapped sash is extremely forgiving. I believe next time I may make it in black, even though I have a couple LBDs already that I don’t wear …
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