Make The Look
Talbot's Champ-Elysees Skirt
This is the first edition of Make the Look, where I hope to help you match up currently for sale styles with patterns and fabric so that you can make the look. Whether your price point, size, or color and/or fabric preference is different from what's currently being offered in RTW, if you can sew, you can have it!
Let's look at Talbot's Champ-Elysees Skirt. Very retro-looking skirt, not too costumey, and very versatile. From their own website: Back zip, fully lined. W sizes have a comfort elastic. Length: M26½"; P24½"; W26½"; WP24½". Cross-dyed linen. Dry clean. Imported. We can also add to that, stitched-down pleats and deep hem.
Now, here's a pattern, and I think this one is pretty close: HotPatterns 1017 Riviera Croisette Skirt. From their website: Neatly pleated full A-line Skirt features a contoured waistband that sits at the natural waist, a side seam invisible zipper and 4 inverted box pleats on the back & front. Skirt finishes at knee length with a deep-faced hem. Pretty close, the zipper is in a different position, there are four box pleats instead of 5 or 6 (hard to tell from the original website).
Butterick 5285 is also similar in design with views C and D being of interest, their description is: Skirts A, B, C, D have side seam pockets, back zipper and waistband. A: front and back gathers. B: front and back pleats. C, D: front and back stitched pleats. C: contrast hem band. A, B, C, D: length is mid-knee.
Now, where do you get fabulous fabric for such a skirt as this? Well, you can pretty much use a variety of mid-weight wovens to get the same look, but if you want some really nice linen in a similar color to the original, I'd suggest the Tweedy Linen in Blues from Gorgeous Fabrics:
You could probably also use denim, twill, or poplin and make a skirt that you can wash at home and not have to send out to the cleaners!
So those are my suggestions for this skirt. I'll be keeping my eyes open for next week's post, but if you have a garment you'd like pattern and fabric suggestions, just email me. You can click on the link to the right.
All photos from respective websites with links included.
Parting Shot: Round Two. Oh yeah, that's another tooth box, with another tooth. Remember a couple of weeks ago that my son had an infected tooth? Well, the same tooth on the other side of his jaw became infected too, so it had to come out today. At least both sides of his jaw now match and he's not dealing with an infection!
16 comments:
Good idea to post these clothes and suggest patterns and fabrics.
I hope you continue. It gets the imagination going.
I just bought a cross dyed flax from www.voguefabricsstore.com that would work for that skirt very nicely.
But I see you have to have a swatch membership to access this fabric, they probably post it after subscribers have had first chance at it.
It was 14.95/yard, very nice fabric indeed.
This is a great skirt.
Poor little one, troubled with his teeth. Hope he is all better soon.
I love the idea of "Make the Look" - I hope you can keep it going.
Neat suggestions for the skirt!
Aww! One tooth was bad enough, but to have two!
El
Poor baby. I hope he is feeling better.
Will 'sew' enjoy your new "series," Make the Look. Great idea, and thank you.
Glad Son is feeling better now... and balanced. HA
That skirt from Talbot's actually looks amazingly like the Marc Jacob's skirts from Louis Vuitton's Fall 2010 RTW show. So actually, you'll be making an even more expensive look for less!
Jacki
I like the idea of this feature and thanks for great suggestions. Your daughter looks so cute with that bag, I'm sure she will get lots of use from it.
I have two vintage skirt patterns in my Etsy shop that are very similar (one is sold, the other is still there) and the finished hem on both circumference is really huge - 100 inches or more. I think a light weight fabric might actually be easier to manage, since that's a lot of fabric to fit into a waistband.
Love your new series! It'll be a great help to beginner sewists as well as practiced sewists.
Karen in Houston
Oh I love this! What fodder for the creative fire. My mom and I did this when I was in high school. We'd tear a look out of Harper's Bazaar and recreate it. Happy memories.
Can't wait for the next one!
I love this idea - please keep it coming!!
I would love to make the following: http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/long-sleeve-dress-with-tan-striped-banded-empire-waist so if you have any suggestions for this, that would be great!!
I like your "Make the Look" segment and the hot patterns skirts is the perfect pattern to copy this look.
Great ideas! I do love the skirt.
Hope your son feels better.
Thanks so much for posting this! I've been drooling over that skirt since I first saw it, but couldn't rationalize spending that much money on it - this makes me think I could compromise. Thank you, thank you!
Wow, I had wanted that Talbot's skirt, but waffled for too long and then it sold out. I was looking for a similar one when I came across the HP Riviera Croisette. I am not a sewer, but I've been wanting to learn for some time now, and finding that pattern was the push I needed, I was so pleased to find it here and I will bookmark your blog for future browsing! Now, just waiting for my machine to come and start tearing some stuff up :)
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