Vintage-style 50s dress - fitting a zipper using the 50s method
Hi all. I'm considering embarking on a fairly ambitious project to create this dress: V&A Couture 1950s dress. However, I'm the type of person that reads over instructions and patterns going through each step mentally before even starting the project.
I've read the pattern instructions and just can't get my head around how the zipper is placed. Unfortunately there are no photos of the dress back.
The confusion come from this: The zip runs down the center back through the bodice and down into the skirt. The bodice has a seam down the center back, but the skirt does not.
The pattern requires you to cut an additional layer (zipper facing) to sit at the center back of the skirt. The instructions call for you to sew .5cm either side of the center line of the skirt and just cut down.
I've been over it mentally and I can only imagine this means that the zipper teeth will be visible/exposed. Is this how zippers were fitted in the 50s?
I'm thinking possibly as the skirt if quite voluminous, there is room for the fabric of the skirt to kindof fold over and conceal the zipper?
Maybe send BurdaStyle member 'you' a message, she may be able to help, her version is gorgeous.
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I'm thinking possibly as the skirt if quite voluminous, there is room for the fabric of the skirt to kindof fold over and conceal the zipper? Maybe send BurdaStyle member 'you' a message, she may be able to help, her version is gorgeous.