Inspired Faux Leather Dress

To capture some of  the inspiration DVF Leather Wrap Dress, I used my rtw wrap dress template & black faux leather. 

My go-to wrap dress is for knit fabric, so to ensure some ease, I added 1/2" to the back bodice & 1/4" to the front bodice pieces.  Also lengthened the bodice 1" and lengthened the skirt 1-1/2".

  I swapped out the short sleeves for the sleeves from Vogue 8151. 

In an attempt to achieve some of the sleeve detail of the inspiration photo, I used black stretch charmeuse for the forearm of the sleeves and faux leather for sleeve   cap & cuffs. 

Used the same cuff technique that I'd used for my tie-bow blouse.

  

 To ensure I would not have pin marks showing, I pin about 1/8" or so from the edge and serged the seams between 3/8" - 5/8".

Thinking that the fabric had a lot to do with it, the back along the waist seam was sitting away from my lower back and fixed that problem by using the zigzag stitch & 1/2" clear elastic to gather the seam.   I didn't want to see elastic everytime I wore the dress and sewed 1/2" lace atop the elastic to conceal it.

Pockets were also added using pockets from Butterick 5211. To ensure proper placement of the pockets, I pinned the back bodice & back skirt pieces together and placed B5211 dress pattern piece upon it to mark for pocket placement.

After I'd completed the skirt, I found it to be too flare and removed about an 1" from the side seams.

Although there were several changes, I enjoyed every minute of making this dress and love the fit. 

Will I make another one... who knows....

 until then, Have A Great Week.