Asymmetric Draped Dress with Cascading Shoulder Ruffle

Name: Asymmetric Draped Dress with Cascading Shoulder Ruffle
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 2025
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #2025

A women's sleeveless, knee-length sheath dress in thin chiffon-type fabric, with a draped panel laid diagonally across the front and five layered flounces on one shoulder. Lined, with a concealed zipper in the centre back seam. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: thin, well-draping dress fabrics of natural or blended fibres, such as chiffon and crepe chiffon.

Tech. Description

Asymmetric Draped Dress with Cascading Shoulder Ruffle

When To Wear

For summer weddings, receptions and evening parties.
In warm weather with sandals or light heels; a shawl or bolero can cover the bare arm.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Fitted sheath shaped by bust and waist darts on the front and waist darts on the back.

Length: Around the knee.

Neckline: Round, faced with the lining together with the armholes.

Front: A separate drapery piece with turned and topstitched upper and lower edges is laid over the front, caught into the armhole and side seam on one side and folded into small pleats into the shoulder seam on the other.

Sleeves: Sleeveless. On the draped shoulder, five flounces (two small, two medium, one large) are stitched into the shoulder seam: three fall towards the front, two towards the back. The flounce seam is covered with a narrow strip of the main fabric.

Back: Centre back seam with a concealed zipper from the neckline to a notch.

Finishing: Flounce edges finished with a narrow rolled hem; dress and lining hems turned and topstitched separately.

Lining: Lined to the hem; the lining is cut from the front and back pieces and hand-stitched to the zipper tape.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Handling sheer, slippery fabric, laying and pleating a drapery, rolled-hem flounces joined in tiers, a concealed zipper and a lining that faces the neckline and armholes.

Fabric Recommendations

Thin, well-draping dress fabrics of natural or blended fibres, such as chiffon and crepe chiffon.

Additional Supplies

Lining fabric
Concealed zipper

Cutter's Must

If the patterns have a double contour, they include seam allowances. If the contour is single, the patterns do not include seam allowances. Seam allowances: all seams 1 cm; allowance for the upper and lower edges of the drapery – 2 cm; allowances for the side and lower edges of the flounces – 0 cm; allowance for the dress hem – 3.5 cm. Attention! First, print out the paper patterns and lay them out on the fabric width (fabric width can be from 90cm to 150cm) to determine how much material you will need (do not forget to account for paired and symmetrical pieces).

From main fabric:
- Back - 2 pieces
- Front - 1 piece
- Drapery - 1 piece
- Small flounce - 2 pieces
- Medium flounce - 2 pieces
- Large flounce - 1 piece
From lining fabric:
- Back - 2 pieces
- Front - 1 piece

Sewing Instructions

Attention: markings on the patterns are applied to the right side, and if cutting is done “face down,” then the drapery and flounce patterns are also placed on the fabric with the marking side down. When stitching pieces, pay attention to the notches - they must match!

Stitch the waist and bust darts on the back and front pieces. Press the waist darts towards the center of the piece, bust darts upwards.
Overlock the center back seam allowance. Insert the concealed zipper from the upper edge to the notch. Fold back the lower of the zipper and stitch the center back seam from the notch downwards. Press seam allowances open.
Press the allowances of the lower and upper edges of the drapery to the wrong side, fold inwards and topstitch.
Place the drapery on the dress with the wrong side facing the right side and secure it to the armhole edge and side edge up to the dart. Gather the raw edge of the drapery into small pleats to the length of the shoulder seam and secure it.
Stitch the side and shoulder seams, press allowances towards the back and overlock.
Process the lining pieces similarly to the main fabric pieces. Place the lining with the main garment right sides together and stitch the neckline edges and armhole edges, press seam allowances, clip curves. Turn the dress right side out. Hand stitch the center back seam allowance of the lining to the zipper tape.
Press the hem allowance of the dress and lining separately to the wrong side, fold inwards by 1 cm and topstitch.
Overlock the side and lower edges of the flounces with a narrow rolled hem. Stitch the small flounces together, press allowances open and overlock. Stitch the medium flounces together and attach the large flounce to them so that it is directed towards the front and is underneath, press allowances open and overlock. Place the flounces on the shoulder seam: three flounces directed towards the front, two – towards the back. Topstitch the flounces onto the shoulder in the joining seam.
Cut a strip from the main fabric 4 cm wide and equal to the length of the shoulder seam plus 3 cm. Stitch the strip along the long side, turn right side out, press. The stitching seam is located in the middle of the lower. Cover the flounce topstitching seam with the strip, fold the raw ends under the dress and secure them there.