sailor dress

here is the sailor dress I made. I finished it a few weeks ago however I wanted to wait till I was at the beach to get pictures of it, because it just looks so much better in character.


the tie is attached at the shoulders. I tried to make it a removable tie but that didn’t work, it bunched up all funny under the collar, so I cut it in half, got the length I wanted and sewed it to the shoulder seams, which worked great. I used a navy button I got from my grandma’s house. which probably dates its back at least forty or more years. I thought it looked cute with it. once I finally made the trip to the fabric store I got all my black bias strip. which was easy enough to sew on. I love tailors chalk it makes my life so much easier when I have to sew things on evenly like stripes. I used an invisible zipper in the side so it wouldn’t have to mess with the collar. the dress went together fairly easily once I figured out how to put the dickey in properly. Please try to ignore my dork faces, it was so incredibly bright, I tried not to squint but alas I failed.