McCalls 6997 - Summer Seersucker Dress

The Summer Seersucker Dress is finished!

 Here's my summer seersucker inspiration, if you missed it.  This dress was featured on the Satorialist.  (Note the very "retro" 1994 pattern I found for my dress!)

I think I came pretty close, especially considering I'm not a thin Italian street fashionista.  I LOVE my finished dress too!  I wore it yesterday and got loads of compliments (which sorta surprised me, since it's such a non-structured dress).

Let's start at the top!  The bodice has non-functioning buttons (the pattern calls for buttonholes, but the neckline is plenty wide enough to slip over my head, so I skipped them).

I used 4 mis-matched vintage pearl buttons of nearly the same size.

I topstitched the neckline and cap sleeve edge, to hold the facing into place (and just because I thought it needed the finishing touch).

If I have any beef at all, it's that the sleeve facings are really wide.  See them peeking out above?  They don't do that when you wear it, but I suppose they *could* if you weren't careful.  I might trim these back quite a bit.  Next time I'll probably just use a bias binding for neck and sleeve edge.

I also skipped interfacing.  For such a breezy dress, it seemed unnecessary.  The hem is turned up about 2.5".  I think it could use another inch or so, but that's OK.

 

In from of my "lucky bamboo", which reminds me of something.  As I was finishing it up and then trying it on I realized why I loved the style so much.  It's very "Japanese pattern book" in it's simplicity.

 

Yesterday, I wore it with my navy Keds, which got a little messy while I was taking pictures in the early morning dew.

You'd have thought I was wearing a super-expensive pair of shoes from the way the kids acted at school yesterday.  They LOVED the Keds.  Ha.  Go figure.  Everything 80's really IS in style right now.  I must have had a dozen pair of Keds as a kid.

All in all, a successful dress project.  I'll be reusing this pattern again!