Ahead of the New Year holidays. And now it's time to think about an elegant dress and sew it with your own hands, while the festive bustle has not captured you with your head.
You can plan to attend a social event, New Year's party or a holiday with your family. Of course, for each case, different dresses are appropriate.
The authors of the workshops for the Burdastyle.ru website, Elena Lenkova and Daria Tabatchikova, conduct a free marathon for sewing New Year's dresses and invite everyone to join.
The authors will tell how using modeling and decor, using just two basic Burda patterns, you can create completely different outfits in the spirit of fashion trends.
Dress Elena Lenkova pattern 124 of Burda 8/2016
The model looks concise and stylish. In its original form, it will be very appropriate at work in the office, at an exhibition or in a theater. By adding some exquisite details, you can get a completely different effect. Let's look at some tricks on the example of models from the catwalk.
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Focus on details
Photo: Marchesa, Pre-Fall / 2017; Lanvin; Elie Saab, SS / 2019
Luxurious and elegant look can give the dress additional details - ruffles and flounces on the sleeves, peplums and asymmetric skirts.
Invoice bid
Photo: Red Valentino FW / 2018/19; Elie Saab SS / 2019; Red Valentino FW / 2018/19
According to this pattern, it will not be an office dress at all, if you sew it from fabric with an interesting fantasy texture or a fashionable print. A simple cut will reveal the fabric in all its glory.
Maxi length
Photo: Badgley Mischka SS / 19; Marchesa Pre-Fall / 2017; Badgley Mischka SS / 19
Such an obvious solution for an evening dress is a floor skirt. And so spectacular!
Dress of Daria Tabachikova on pattern 121 from Burda 11/2012
The model is no coincidence a bestseller site. It is like a blank sheet for the implementation of your fashion idea. Changing the sleeves, you can get such actual puffs and "flashlights". Adding the bar, we get a shirt dress. Well, with a skirt - countless options: a skirt on the assembly, a floor skirt, supermini, a transparent removable skirt. Come up with your own version!
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Lush sleeves
Photo: Mother of Pearl Fall-Winter / 2018; Yulia Prokhorova Beloe zoloto fall / 2018; Beaufille Fall-Winter / 2018
In the marathon, Dasha will tell you how to change the pattern by modeling a lowered shoulder and a magnificent sleeve - a "flashlight". And you can also make sleeves that expand downward or start only from the forearm.
Dress shirt
Photo: Zac Posen Fall-Winter / 2018; Enteley Fall-Winter / 2017; Carolina Herrera Fall-Winter / 2018
Yes, a shirt dress can be solemn if you select the appropriate fabric, for example, organza, or place the clasp on the back, flavored with a deep neckline.
Skirts
Photo: Elie Saab, Fall-Winter / 2018; Yanina, fall-winter / 2017; Guo Pei, Fall-Winter / 2018
It is so simple to sew a translucent skirt for this model or decorate it with glass beads, and the New Year's outfit is ready without any extra effort. You can make the dress universal, and add festivity with a removable skirt and decorate it as you like: with voluminous flowers, feathers, little bombs ...
To the marathon "One! Two! Three!" can join anytime!
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One marathon, two authors and two dresses, three weeks of joint sewing of a New Year's dress with inspiring examples from the catwalks, tips and tailoring workshops.
And, of course, a lot of gifts from Burdastyle.ru and other sponsors!
The first New Year's messengers - shop windows - are already lighting holiday lights, but the annual tangerine and gift vanity has not yet begun. It's time to come up with and sew your own dress to meet new happiness. Let's do it together!