Red-White Striped Dress - A Candycane That Can Be Worn

Red is not my colour. I think this skirt is the only garment that I have sewn that even features this colour. And I hate to admit it, but I rarely wear it, even though I’m still loving this print. But when it comes to stripes, I can hardly resist. So I ended up purchasing this red-white striped fabric at the Maybachufer fabric market in Berlin. Therefore, this fabric does not sit in my fabric stash forever, I have joined the 12 Colours of Handmade Fashion of Tweed & Greet, which fittingly had red as their July theme. I would have loved to show you this dress worn, but the weather has just been too cold lately. Let’s keep our fingers crossed, that it will warm up again and I can get a lot of wear out of this year 😉

[stextbox id=”grey”]Pattern: Burdastyle #104 05/2014

Difficulty: ●●●○○

Size: 72 (the tall size corresponding to my usual size 36)[/stextbox]

Me-made red-white striped dress pattern 104 Burda May 2014 ... Sewionista.com ... Sewing ... Slow Fashion ... DIY ... Blog

Materials & costs:

Striped fabric: fabric market at Maybachufer Berlin 3.5 m = 10 €

Lining: leftover piece 0.5 m = 5 €

Zipper: invisible zipper 60 cm = 2 €

Total = 17 €

Pattern modification: I did not make any changes to the pattern.. Even though I’m not tall enough with 5 ft 7 for the tall sizes, it fit me without any adjustments. However, I changed the construction as I completely lined the bodice. Burda doubles the front and finishes the back with a facing, which does not make sense to me.

Conclusion: I’m really loving this pattern and the feminine shape of this dress. At first, I had doubts that the neckline might be cut too low, but it is perfect the way it is. Due to the stripes, I used up a huge amount of fabric (3.5 m!), but if you sew this pattern from a different fabric the amount that Burda indicates, should be sufficient. I can quite imagine to use this pattern again 🙂

that is so pretty and your stripe placement looks perfect. It’s quite a challenge to do a dress like this in stripes but this is a great success.

Julia says:

Friday July 28th, 2017 at 09:29 PM

Thank you so much for your kind words! It took a lot of work, but I’m really happy about the result 🙂

Hallo Julia!
Das Kleid ist hinreißend! Ich bin schon sehr auf Tragebilder gespannt.
Habe übrigens Dein Swing-Shirt 2x genäht – ein wunderschöner Schnitt, sitzt ausgezeichnet
Tragefotos kommen demnächst ?
LG Birgit/fadori

Julia says:

Friday July 28th, 2017 at 09:30 PM

Liebe Birgit,

vielen Dank für deine lieben Worte!

Freue mich sehr, dass dir der Swing Top Schnitt gefällt und freue mich auf Tragefotos 😉

Liebe Grüße
Julia

So ein schönes Sommerkleid! Du hast die Streifen sehr schön plaziert. Auf die Tragebilder freue ich mich!
Liebe Grüße, SaSa

Könnte eine moderne Biedermeier-Interpretation sein. So viel anders ist der Schnitt gar nicht. Interessant! Ich mag ja auch Streifen und schaue mir das Kleid gern noch mal angezogen an! Regina

Die Streifen machen sich bei dem Schnitt richtig gut. Gefällt mir!! LG, Nina

Red-White Striped Dress – A Candycane That Can Be Worn

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