The Sweetheart Dress

The weekend before the 1950's summer dress was the weekend of the 1940's "sweetheart dress. I placed a bid on this pattern through ebay for $7 and promptly forgot about it. I loath the bidding wars on ebay and generally stick with the "buy now" option. Imagine my surprise when I received an email of my win, I didn't even remember what I bid on.



The dress took me about 2 weeks to make. I must have been dragging my heals a bit because I am too impatient to allow myself to take that much time on a project. I really must create more sewing zen.

Figuring that Boston is experiencing a focused global warming event, I needed to get this little number off the hanger. Topped off with a fun and gigantic red pin-up flower purchased from Now Voyager on Etsy



I did alter the pattern slightly, I couldn't really stand the heart shaped pockets and created spade pockets with cuffs.



A simple tie in the back.



The original dress design as seen on the pattern envelope.