How Do You Sew A Vintage Dress?
Vintage styles are very popular. But sometimes it’s tough to find just the right style, color, or fabric of vintage dress in your local vintage or thrift retailer. Sewing your own helps you to pick the right fabric for your event or season–and allows you to customize a vintage style to your body shape. Take your measurements, or the measurements of the future wearer, using the tailor’s measuring tape. Measure the bust, waist, and hips, and write down. Carefully read the instructions on your pattern, and take note of the measurements assigned to specified sizes. Bear in mind that the styles of some eras, such as dresses of the 1950s, may have a more exaggerated waist size, due to the prevalence of girdles and other undergarments in that era. You may need to alter your pattern to match your measurements in your specified size. Roll out your pattern paper. Trace the pieces of your pattern in your specified size onto your pattern paper, making sure to transfer all grain lines, tabs, darts
