Slip dress: DIY pattern

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

A huge number of people are interested in the technology of building a slip dress pattern. After all, this wardrobe item was hardly proposed by designers, and immediately became a global trend. The girls just fell in love with him. Let's figure out how to make it yourself!

Features of the product under study

Slip dresses are a pajama style that has become popular relatively recently. Slightly more adapted for the city dressing gowns, trousers, loose shirts, T-shirts - these are its main elements. At the same time, a similar set of clothes belongs to the summer wardrobe. Therefore, it is made of light, breathable fabric, decorated with various ribbons, ruffles, bows. Pajama style goes well with shoes, sneakers and ballet flats. Due to this, it is suitable for beautiful persons of different characters, views and styles.

The slip dress pattern is built quite simply. After all, the product is a straight or slightly fitted dress in the style of the 60s. With the help of which the sexuality of female forms is demonstrated and emancipation is emphasizedladies. Therefore, in the daytime, it is recommended to combine it with fairly heavy and massive wardrobe items. For example, a leather jacket, sneakers, a denim jacket, a cardigan or slates. In the evening, you can complement an extravagant dress in a bohemian style with pumps and a small clutch.

Preparatory stage

It is believed that the idea of wearing the product under study as a casual or evening dress is newfangled. However, everyone knows that most trends are rooted in the past. And this one is no exception either. Our great-grandmothers also wore unusual dresses made of natural silk, decorated with appliqués, prints, embroidered lace and always with thin straps, for walks or at the movies. Only then combinations for citizens of the USSR were an unfamiliar wardrobe item and people simply did not know what they were really intended for. In the fifties, the combination began to be worn under transparent dresses, and in the nineties it was completely transferred to the category of women's erotic lingerie.

Now the fashion has changed and many young ladies are again interested in how to build a slip dress pattern on their own. However, before moving on to the instructions, you need to prepare. The first step is to purchase the right material, silk is best. Also, the work requires large comfortable scissors, chalk, a long ruler, pins, an elastic centimeter, a needle and thread for baiting parts and a sewing machine for the final assembly.

Measuring technology

To build a pattern of a slip dress that fits well, you need to measure a beautiful person. To do this, we prepare a centimeter, a piece of paper and a pen. Professional seamstresses recommend that beginners first of all think over the style of the desired product and draw it. And then directly on the diagram to display all the necessary parameters. This will prevent you from getting confused in the future work. So, in order to bring the idea to life, you need to measure:

• length of slip dress (shoulder to hem);
• chest girth (through the most convex points);
• neck girth (at the base);
• strap start point on the front of the product (from the bottom edge to the base of the strap);
• armhole level (from the bottom edge to the chest line, along which we measured the girth of this part of the body).

Correction of necessary parameters

Thanks to the actions described in the previous paragraph, we were able to determine the general measurements. However, the pattern of a slip dress with straps or several modified models is built according to other parameters. After all, the product under study should not cling to the body of a beautiful person. His task is to draw attention to the charms, but not to open them completely. Therefore, before starting work, you need to add eight centimeters (6 cm for airiness and 2 cm for seam allowances) to the chest circumference. In addition, it is important not to forget to slightly increase all other values. To do this, add 2 cm to them - the same allowances for the seams. If this is not done,the combination dress will turn out not only to be slinky, but it will also turn out to be small.

Manipulations prior to work

Many novice seamstresses try to build a slip dress pattern on thin straps, doing the back and front separately. However, professional craftsmen are convinced that this not only makes them spend much more time, but can also lead to inaccuracies and errors. As a result, sewing a neat and beautiful product will not work. Therefore, next we need to carry out the following actions:

1. First of all, we prepare the material. This will be a rectangular piece of fabric, the minimum length of which is equal to the desired length of the dress, and the width is equal to the chest girth.
2. Needlewomen are advised to work with carefully steamed or ironed linen. So it will be possible to avoid creases in the fabric and, accordingly, errors in the pattern.
3. Fold the cut in half and use a needle and thread to bait from the long side.
4. Then spread on a large comfortable table or smooth floor. So that the seam runs exactly in the center.
5. Strengthen with pins on all four sides.
6. And thoroughly steam the side folds.
7. Then we put the necessary materials and tools near us, and after that we start building an easy pattern of a slip dress.

Modeling the base of the dress

Here we have reached the most important and crucial stage of the entire master class. Now you should carefully read the instructions below, and then proceedto work. Once again studying each step and observing the actions described in it. So let's get started:

1. In front of us is a rectangle of the desired size (the seam is facing us). We take chalk, a long ruler and a sheet with the parameters by which we will build a pattern.
2. Mark the level of the armhole on both sides and draw a dotted line connecting the two points.
3. Turn the canvas over to the front side.
4. On both sides, mark the starting point of the strap and also draw a dotted line.
5. After that, remove the pins and put the canvas so that the seam is on the right side.
6. Use scissors to cut off the excess, but clearly along the dotted lines.
7. Turn the canvas over again on the front side.
8. On the upper side exactly in the middle we outline the collar - half the girth of the neck.
9. Below we mark the level of the armhole, we find the middle on it.
10. Then set aside equal segments on the left and right sides.
11. And connect with the center and extreme points of the armhole level.
12. Cut out the resulting slip dress pattern without darts.

Cooking straps

Before you proceed with this step, you need to prepare three strips of the same fabric. To do this, measure the distance:

1. From the webbing start point on the front, through the armhole, back, second armhole to the webbing start point on the other side.
2. Between the same points, but through the center of the gate.

Leave the first value unchanged. Add two times to the secondthe following sum: (product length - distance to the level of the armhole) + (product length - distance to the starting point of the strap on the front of the slip dress). And as the third we take the girth of the chest. Then we measure three strips of the desired length. We determine the width by eye. Traditionally, a strip or satin ribbon two centimeters wide is taken to decorate the product under study.

Product assembly

It is very easy to sew a combination dress according to the pattern prepared thanks to the presented master class. First you need to sew on a typewriter a seam located on the back. Remove bait. Then position the prepared tape as shown in the photo above. Bait, sew on a typewriter and remove the bait. After bending the tape to the wrong side, again bait, stitch and pull out the auxiliary thread. Then we decorate the finished products at our own discretion.

Master class on building a slip dress pattern

In the previous paragraphs, we studied technology that is more suitable for beginners. But if the reader wants to work as professional cutters and seamstresses, they should proceed differently. For readers who prefer specifics, we have prepared a combination dress pattern from "Burda" - the favorite magazine of all needlewomen.

But if the reader absorbs information better when he directly observes the whole process, we offer a detailed video master class. In it, an experienced needlewoman tellshow to cut and sew a combination. By analogy, you can make a shirt, sundress or fashion items, which we studied in the current article. The main thing is to choose the right material.

The technology of sewing the product under study is quite simple. However, it is important for the reader to follow the master class proposed in the article. And then you will be able to create a really spectacular and stylish thing on your own.