Project: 1960s Shift Dress

Shift Dresses are definitely a huge fall fashion staple and I am all for it! typically I am a Fit and flare type but seeing all the A line and shift dresses at work has inspired me to make one of my own, mostly because of all of them being too short for me. So I sat down with 3 patterns of 60s shift dresses and after an hour of weighing pros and cons of each pattern I chose the 1967 Simplicity 7119.  I chose this because of the detailing at the neckline underneath the peter pan collar. I chose some black linen and white lace and went to work.

After completing my project I now have a new appreciation for Shift dresses. They are Unbelievably easy and they are SO comfortable to just sit around in. They also seem to be very hard to mess up. even with the detail work under the color (which because it is in black is a little harder to see) this dress only took me about 2 hours to stitch together. I considered making long sleeves in lace because of fall weather and then instantly realized that it is still in the 80s outside and in the foreseeable future is following that trend. so maybe my next shift dress will have lace sleeves, but this one not so much.