Fashion returns every 25-30 years. Nowadays you can see girls wearing elegant dresses from the fifties. If desired, every fashionista can make herself such an outfit.
The style of the dresses of those years was a form-fitting upper part, and the lower part was lush. The style emphasized the waist. She often wore a belt. To now flaunt in such an outfit, you need a slender figure or corrective underwear that will "pull" the waist to reasonable limits.
Cutting out the fabric
If you sew such a dress for yourself, then you can walk on a warm summer day in it, as ladies did in the fifties. From accessories you will need a small handbag, beads and a light gauze scarf or a hat on your head.
Cut the material first. For a dress, you will need about 7 meters of fabric with a width of 1 meter 10 cm. The back of the bodice is one-piece. This means the fabric is folded in half. A pattern is pinned to it with pins, while the middle vertical part of the bodice back is placed close to the fold.
Remember to leave seam allowances when cutting. If in doubt about the size, make the side seam allowances slightly larger. If the first fitting shows that the dress fits well, then you can leave it that way. If it is a little small, then the line is made closer to the edge, and the dress will become a little larger.
When cutting out the bodice, do not forget to mark the place of the undercuts. If you didn't do this right away, then re-attach the pattern to the cut out fabric base and mark these places on the wrong side of the fabric with chalk.
The two parts of the front of the bodice are symmetrical. If it does not imply the presence of a fastener, buttons, then it, like the back shelf, is also one-piece. In this case, sew a zipper in the back.
The fashion of the 50s is also fluffy skirts. In these models, it is flared or sun-flared. Attach the detail of this part of the dress to the fabric folded in half and cut out the front and then the lower part of the skirt.
If there are button fasteners in front of the dress, then the hem is cut out. Do not forget to cut out the belt, if available in this model.
Stitching parts
First, baste the undercuts and side, shoulder seams. Now fitting is needed. If the shelf fits well, then you can sew the seams on a typewriter. After that, the sides of the skirt are sewn together and stitched to the bodice.
In order not to have to unpick, it is better to first baste the seams, and then sew them on a sewing machine.
If the zipper is at the back, then sew it in. It's the turn of the neck. The cut is processed with a bias tape. The bottom of the dress is sewn on the hands or on a typewriter that performs this operation.
The 50s dress is ready. Now you can start creating your 60s model. A sheath dress was fashionable at that time. These are garments that fit around the top and thighs, unlike the previous style.
