1950s Slim Line Dress for American Girl Doll

Doll clothes are such a great medium for show casing some of the beautiful vintage styles.

My latest pattern 1828 Slim Dress is a faithful copy of the slimmer silhouette of the mid 1950's designed to be teamed with a crop jacket. Pattern 1829 for the jacket will be out soon.

As said by Donna Cosmato on lovetoknow.com

"The hourglass figure gave way to a more columnar shape. Instead of the plaid and polka dots so popular in the early 50s, late-50s styles featured more monochrome fabrics."

Though this slim dress looks fabulous with a contrasting plaid or check jacket.

And just as good by itself.

The back has a dart to shape the skirt around her little bottom so it stays narrow around the hem.

The front has angled pleats as a design feature to give the illusion of a narrow waist.

Included in this pattern are separate pattern pieces to make a blouse with shirt tails and a short skirt with a waist band. You can use the short skirt with the dress or make a long skirt with the waist band.

The skirt and blouse

A blouse for any occasion

This pattern is available in my Etsy store and my Crafsy store for $2.50 USD as an instant download PDF

Happy Sewing,
Val


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Pattern 1827 Dress and Blouse

I get so excited about my patterns that I completely forget to promote them on my blog. I just put them in the shop and do a quick post on Facebook.

So today I introduce the first of my 50s Collection of doll clothes for American Girl Doll. It is such fun to design the outfits for doll size and now we have MaryEllen to wear them. I don't have her yet, but she is on my wish list.

Here is an elegant wide neck dress with slightly overhanging shoulders and a full circle skirt. Perfect for any occasion.

It has a lined bodice and does up in the back. I use velcro.

It is designed to be worn as a dress by itself or as a jumper with a blouse underneath.

The gorgeous 3/4 sleeve blouse is included in the pattern. I made this pink one in linen and it looks and feels wonderful.

The blouse has a small peter pan collar and inseam plackets in the sleeves. It does up in the front with velcro and I put 3 pairs of buttons down the front.

It works with both modern and vintage outfits. Here I have teamed it with my free pleated skirt pattern.

You can find the pattern for the dress and the blouse as 1827 in my Etsy store and in my Craftsy store

Here is a preview of the next design. It will come out as two patterns. 1828 with the dress and also a skirt and blouse version. 1829 will be the jacket.

I am just doing a few slight adjustments to the pattern. Look out for it soon. 

If you follow my page on Facebook you will be kept up to date.

Happy Sewing,

Val