Burda Style For people who sew

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  Jul 23, 2011, 07.30 PMby Testosterone

  Bonus points for the print! Delightfully unexpected and fun.
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  Jul 22, 2011, 09.32 PMby peaches2218

  Nope. The fit is just weird. Period. I am not especially large-busted, and the pleats are equally weird on me. My fabric did have the tiniest bit of stretch. It didn’t help much. It’s really a shame because I love the dress on the pattern envelope, but in real life it just doesn’t work. If it weren’t so much work to unpick the facing, I’d try making the pleats go in the opposite direction so that it basically ended up with a large box pleat at the bust. I have this one stashed in that infamous made-but-worn-once-pile. To make things worse my silk wrinkles a ton and the pleats look ridiculous. I’m planning on tacking them down if I ever get around to it, although I’m so ambivalent about the dress I don’t know if I will. Your busy print and non-contrasting ties make it more wearable though.

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    Jul 22, 2011, 09.48 PMby ktmcgrath65

    Ya, I agree about everything you said. I just finished taking out the front waist pleats and am trying to figure out what to do from there. I put it on like that with the belt and it just looks more of a mess with all the extra fabric. Maybe gathered elastic and no belt? Maybe darts instead of the pleats? What do you think?

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    Jul 22, 2011, 10.03 PMby peaches2218

    In my case the ties were purely decorative. They didn’t cinch the dress at all, as it was relatively fitted (minus the weird gaping caused by the pleats. My unfinished solution was to put it on and pin down the pleats. I’ll eventually get around to sewing them down as if they were strangely shaped princess seams, which, in effect, I suppose they are. Somewhere on here I’ve seen a dress with inverted neckline princess seams, maybe from the 04/10 issue, and that might be a good place to start trying to fix the craziness.