quarta-feira, 5 de março de 2014

MAD MEN . TAKE ONE DRESS SEWALONG

Em Fevereiro participei na série Take One Dress, organizada pela Victoria no seu blog As It Seams, com esta túnica que fiz para a Ines. Mas também lancei um desafio à Jenya, a participante do mês de Março: fazer um vestido inspirado pela série Mad Men, mais precisamente por este vestido da Miss Holloway.

Last February I've been visiting Victoria and her blog, As It Seams, for her wonderful series Take One Dress. I've shared with her readers this tunic I made for Ines and also set a challenge for Jenya from While She Was Sleeping, this month's contributor: make an outfit inspired by the great TV series Mad Men and this vintage dress Miss Holloway is wearing.
Gosto tanto do estilo do guarda roupa da série que não resisti a fazer um vestido Mad Men para a Teresa... Será que a Sally Draper teria um vestido assim no seu armário?

I just love Mad Men's wardrobe, so I couldn't help myself and I made a little vintage dress for Teresa. I wonder if Sally Draper would have a dress like this in her closet?!
O corte é ultra simples. Basicamente é um vestido trapézio bastante estreitinho e curtinho, ao estilo Mod.

I drafted a very simple a-line dress, quite narrow and short, like the 60' Mod dresses I love and added a nice geometrical detail to make it special.
 

O tecido foi comprado agora mas tem um toque vintage. É azul muito escuro e, embora tenha bastante elasticidade, é algo grosso. As fitas que formam as riscas são em algodão branco (com uns 7mm de largura) e foram aplicadas com ponto zigzag - tal como já fiz neste vestido e neste outro vestido também.

The fabric was bought recently but has a vintage felling that suits this project perfectly. It is dark blue and, although it is a bit stretchy, it is also quite thick. The stripes are made of simple white cotton ribbon (about 7mm wide) and were sewn to the fabric with zigzag stitch - a technic I adore and have already used on this dress and this dress.
Devo confessar que demorei mais tempo a aplicar as fitas do que a coser todo o vestido! Comecei por tentar cose-las prendendo-as apenas com alfinetes, como faço normalmente. Acabei por aplicar entretela no lado de dentro do corpo e alinhavar as fitas antes de as coser à máquina. Foi a única forma que encontrei para "estabilizar" o tecido e evitar que ele esticasse à medida que ia cosendo as fitas.
O forro foi feito com uns bocados de camisa de homem - quase poderíamos pensar que seria uma camisa do Don Draper! - e o botão das costas (igual aos que usei nesta camisa) é antigo e veio da minha caixa de botões.

You can't imagine how hard it was to sew those stripes! The fabric kept on stretching while I was sewing them! It was awful! I end up adding a bit of interface to the wrong side of the bodice and I had to bast (by hand) the stripes to the main fabric before sewing them. This was the only way I was able to stabilize the fabric and make it work.
The dress' lining is made out of an old man's shirt - it could even be Don Draper's shirt, couldn't it? - and the anchor button on the back is vintage and came from my ever growing button collection (I've got these buttons in different sizes and already used the small ones on this shirt I made for Ines last summer.)
A realidade é que o facto de ser feito com tecido elástico faz com que este vestido seja super confortável e a Teresa adora-o! Mas não sei se não lhe estará um nadinha curto...

Teresa loves her new dress especially because it is made of stretchy fabric. It is so comfortable! But I don't know if it isn't just a little bit too short for her...
 


Não se esqueçam de ver o vestido Mad Men que a Jenya fez para a sua filha aqui e, se o tema vos inspira, participem no sewalong organizado pela Victoria!

Don't forget to check out Jenya's Mad Men creation here and, if you fell inspired by this tv series, feel free to sew a nice vintage outfit and share it at Take One Dress sew-along flirck group!

5 comentários:

  1. When I read you used fabric with some stretch in it and sewed ribbons on it I thought it was a recipe for a trouble, but hey - it was totally worth it! The dress look cool!

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    1. Thank you so much Jenya! At a certain point I though about giving up! Sewing that ribbon was really, really challenging...

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  2. I saw this dress on the link party from Make it and Love It. Just wanna say that I love it and makes me want to make one for myself.

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    1. Thank you so much for stopping by my blog!
      I think a female version of this dress would look really cool too!

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