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✨ 🌀Transform Your Wardrobe: Fashion Week Trends You Can Sew! The Flapper Dress✂️ 👠
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We continue to Showcase our fashion-forward designs from our membership site that align with this year’s top Fashion Week trends!
Our Flapper Dress captures the vintage glamour that graced the runways of Chanel, Gucci, Givenchy, and Giorgio Armani, Dior.
See how a quick fabric or accessory switch can change this flapper dress over and over into a new design.
For our advanced sewists, try amending this pattern. Perhaps shortening the dress and overlaying with a glitzy rhinestone overlay, or using stretch lace overlay. You can also bring the modern take for the fringe and use Leather Fringe or Sequins Tassels.
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Women’s Flapper Dress
A modern take on the 20s’ iconic flapper dress known for its fringed details and elegant silhouette. You can take this pattern and opt for luxurious fabrics like silk, or chiffon with stretch or sleek fabrics like satin, or velvet. For a summer take, pair this dress with a strappy sandal or can be used for a night out or themed party pairing with contemporary accessories like ankle boots and minimal jewelry or the classic long strands of pearls, beaded headband, and T-strap heels. Paid Members Log on to see the dress pattern here!
High-Fashion Fabric Inspirations from Fashion Week for our Flapper Dress
Designers like Dior, Prada, Alexander McQueen, and Givenchy. Lanvin, and Akris showcased a modern take of the iconic Flapper dress. The fashion week showcased silhouette with sequins, a metallic high-shine one, unique silhouette with beadwork fringe. a fitted ribbed top with fringe detail.
Fabric Requirements: Stretch Crepe or Ponte de Roma and Chainette Fringe
» Luxurious Velvet (Amazon)
» HoloGlam Sparkle Knit
» Stretch Sequins (Gold Sequin Stretch Lace Fabric for Overlays)
» Stretch Crepe 10% Elastine
» Hoogram Sequin Chainette Tassel Fringe
» Leather Fringe Trim
» Laser Silver Sequins Lace Tassel
» Blog Article on the Flapper Pattern
Sewing Pattern Secrets’
Women’s Flapper Gloves
Why not accessorize the Flapper Dress with our Flapper Gloves. We recommend to use at least 50% stretch in the fabric for the Flapper Gloves however, you can always use fabric overlays with lace, rhinestones etc.
Fabric Suggestions for Flapper Gloves
» Ultrastretch Scuba
» RetroVelvet Micro Suede
» Shimmer Champayne Sparkle Sequin Knit
» Valentina Sequin Lace with Embroidery Mesh
» Vintage Organza Flower Trim Edging
Essential Books on Sewing with Fabrics
Checkout this amazing professional and detailed guide book to sewing with common knits and stretch: Sewing with Knits and Stretch Fabric: Bundle book.
Another highly recommended book is The Colette Guide to Sewing Knits: Professional Techniques for Beautiful Everyday Garments.
Trims and Overlays as seen in Fashion Week
» Retro Lace overlay
» 3D Multicolor Embroidery Floral Lace
» Multi-purpose colorful Knit Binding
» Metallic Glam Bias Binding

Other Sewing Brew Articles
» Fashion Week: What is it and Why Do I Care?
» Fashion Week: Our Tank Dress Pattern
» Updated: Comprehensive Guide to Sewing with Interfacing
» Learning Features on our Paid Membership Site
» Taking the Perfect Measurements (Free Measurement Printable Measurement Chart)
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