Wednesday 16 December 2015

Feline Groovy Dress



Following on from my Kitty-A-Go-Go dress, my next make towards my Vintage Pattern Pledge is another Catzilla stage outfit featuring, you guessed it - more cats! Obviously this dress actually came first, because as you can see we started off with quite a small cat pocket which grew significantly in size for the Kitty-A-Go-Go dress. It features the same cat fabric but in green this time.


Believe it or not this is my very first proper vintage pattern and it's Simplicity 7526 - a mini shift dress with zip up front. The drawing suggests it's meant to be a young girl's pattern but our vision was a bit more go-go girl than school girl. As you can see it was shortened quite significantly but other than that not many changes were made. The pattern size is a 12 and pretty much fitted straight out of the box with only a couple of little added extras.


Cat pocket and cat zipper charm.


The back piece was quite big which I know is the style but I added in a couple of small darts and a contrast waistband to give it a little bit more shape.


The edging at the bottom of the dress was actually meant to add length as we cut it shorter than we intended to. Like, that really made a difference didn't it?

With it's twin in red



6 comments:

  1. Awesome. I have a few patterns similar to this but I've always hesitated to use them because I'm afraid the 60's look will leave me shapeless in appearance. You look great in it!

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    1. Thank you! You should give one a go, you can easily give it a bit more shape with a couple of darts or taking in the side seams.

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  2. These dresses are brilliant!! 😃

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  3. They've been such fun to make - thanks Lynne!

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