Pattern: improvised
Fabric: white viscose dyed powder pink
Haberdasheries: two snaps, one hook, 1.4
m light pink lace, elastic for the waist
Hey y’all, I took a bit of a break from blogging because it was feeling
too much like a chore and I wanted to focus more on sewing rather than writing
about it. But now I’m back and have quite a few unblogged projects, so you can
expect many more posts the coming time.
One of the things I’ve made is a 1940s half slip. I improvised the
pattern, which is a simple A line skirt. I used a white viscose fabric which I
dyed powder pink using Dylon fabric dye in the colour powder pink :P. Strangely
this colour, among a few others, is not sold in my country so I had to get it
from eBay. I used this colour before to dye some granny underwear from Hema
that I use with 1940s clothes (see here)
and the colour turned out much brighter, and also a different shade (less peach
pink), on that cotton fabric than on this viscose, but the resulting very light
pink was what I was going for. It’s a classic 1940s underwear colour.
I made French seams because the fabric is quite thin and sheer, and a
placket with snap fasteners and a hook and worked eye to close the slip. I
might replace the snaps with more hooks and eyes though, because they have a
tendency to pop open when I sit down!
I learned a ‘couture’ technique for sewing on hooks for this project.
Doesn’t it look nice?
