Quite by accident, here's another striped dress to show you – this time from the 1950s.

This is one of my earliest sewing projects when I started sewing with vintage patterns – in fact it has one short French seam among the *ahem* unfinished other seams which was my first French seam ever. But this is its first airing on the blog.

Needless to say, it has some issues since it's an early sewing attempt – but hey, we all have to start somewhere! And I still find it quite wearable.

This was before I realized I had to always shorten the torso of a dress, so the waist is too low, but the wide belt hides that flaw quite nicely. Also the fact that I didn't get the stripes straight at the top of the skirt. 🙂

It has a classic wide skirt – a rectangle gathered into the waist.

And other 1950s style elements are shown in the cap sleeves cut in one with the bodice, the wing collar, and the top stitched yoke interest.

The wind was being a bit of a problem!

Although sometimes it gave my too-limp crinoline a boost. 🙂

Partly because of the colorful stripes, I think of it as a picnic dress so I had to get some lawn photos…minus the picnic. (It was starting to rain.)

Along with the picnic theme, I paired it with my big basket style purse with embroidered strawberries.

I'm a sucker for straw purses.

And I must say, I hope this hat goes with the dress despite the fact that it is neither red nor white, since it was the only one in my large collection that came close to matching! (That's a good reason for a large hat collection – and why it never stops growing!)

I made this dress for my birthday a while ago and haven't worn it for over a year since then, but am finding a new interest in it since today's outing!