sarah in nyc

I made this dress yesterday. It has a  twisted cowl neck  and nifty extended sides.   I have been seeing lots of garments on the street where the hem is extended to the full  selvedge to selvedge width of the fabric. You get a top or a skirt that looks really complicated but is in fact quite simple to  both draft and construct. You can see direction for  a skirt made with this principle here table cloth skirt . Here is an earlier example of using the same concept . The skirt is cut wide at the hips and creates a lovely vertical cascade.   I was also poking through a Japanese sewing magazine ( a constant source of good ideas) and found this. I realized, perhaps influenced by the very graphic Japanese sewing magazine, that I could more easily explain the process with pictures than with a whole lot of words.   I cut the dress as usual from shoulder through high hip. Then I cut straight out to the selvedges.   Here ...