A dress as delicate and sweet as a tea cake. You will need your lady’s maid to do the back buttons, however. I did omit the sleeve cuff and cut down on the sleeve fullness, using the gathered waist variation. To make the skirt hang better in lightweight fabric, I enclosed the hem in a 5″ deep facing. I made these adjustments based on an original garment in my collection.
Rated 4 out of 5
Frances Grimble –
Works best if you use a border eyelet fabric, lace insertions, or embroidery. Originals from this era have a lot of decoration, though not much colour contrast. In plain, undecorated fabric this dress can look dull.
Rated 4 out of 5
Amanda Williams –
I had to size the pattern up. (I wish Folkwear offered their patterns in a wider range of sizes.) It wasn’t difficult to scale; all the pieces are rectangles. It went together easily.
Lisa Dyrke –
A dress as delicate and sweet as a tea cake. You will need your lady’s maid to do the back buttons, however. I did omit the sleeve cuff and cut down on the sleeve fullness, using the gathered waist variation. To make the skirt hang better in lightweight fabric, I enclosed the hem in a 5″ deep facing. I made these adjustments based on an original garment in my collection.
Frances Grimble –
Works best if you use a border eyelet fabric, lace insertions, or embroidery. Originals from this era have a lot of decoration, though not much colour contrast. In plain, undecorated fabric this dress can look dull.
Amanda Williams –
I had to size the pattern up. (I wish Folkwear offered their patterns in a wider range of sizes.) It wasn’t difficult to scale; all the pieces are rectangles. It went together easily.