Making a 1920's Party Dress // Handkerchief Hem and Fitting the Bust

It's pretty clear when I look at the numbers behind the scenes here that people are interested in seeing some more 1920's projects, so once I spotted this blue lace on MoodFabrics.com and decided to make something 20's for the recent Ravenclaw lookbook, I just had to share the project with all of you! So today I detail exactly how I drafted a new sleeveless pattern, based on the famed 1920's 1 hour dress pattern, and added a fun handkerchief hem. For skipping past lots of (useful! Well I think so...) prep information and going straight to the pattern drafting, go to minute 15 ish The sewing of this is quite short, because the sewing of these is very straightforward and fast! (as long as you're not using lace like me...) To skip straight to sewing, skip right up to around the 1 hour mark! The 2 dart blog post that really pleased me from an excellent blog called Witness2Fashion can be read here : https://witness2fashion.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/the-second-dart-a-1920s-pattern-alteration-for-busty-women/ Sewing Darts in lace : http://www.sewstylish.com/2017/04/11/sew-along-week-6-lap-and-applique-lace-darts/ All other images found on Pinterest of course, and can be perused further alongside other 1920's extant examples here : https://www.pinterest.de/bmesposito/1920s-inspiration/ Music from Epidemic Sound. Want to help me continue making more videos? Peruse my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/TheClosetHistorian More from me? Blog: http://theclosethistorian.blogsp