Fitted Button-Front Blouse with Collar and Cuffs
Craft a stylish and versatile fitted blouse featuring a classic shirt collar, elegant front pintucks, and chic rolled-up short sleeves with buttoned tabs.
When To Wear
This blouse is a versatile staple, perfect for:
- Professional Settings: Ideal for office wear, meetings, or business casual ensembles.
- Smart Casual Outings: Pair with trousers or skirts for elevated daytime or evening events.
- Everyday Elegance: a polished choice for adding a touch of sophistication to your daily wardrobe.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: Fitted through the bodice, achieved with vertical princess seams on the back and strategic seaming on the front for a tailored shape.
Neckline & Collar: Features a classic shirt collar with a separate collar stand, providing a crisp and polished frame for the neckline.
Closure: a full button-front placket ensures easy wear and a neat finish, designed with 9 buttons.
Sleeves: Short set-in sleeves styled with a permanent rolled cuff, secured by a functional buttoned tab for a refined touch.
Front Detail: The upper bodice is adorned with delicate vertical pintucks, adding subtle texture and visual interest to the design.
Back: Constructed with elegant vertical princess seams that extend from the shoulder to the hem, enhancing the fitted silhouette.
Hem: a straight hem allows for versatile styling, suitable for tucking into waistbands or wearing neatly untucked.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Requires experience with collar and placket construction, precise pintuck stitching, and setting sleeves.
Fabric Recommendations
Select light to medium-weight blouse fabrics with good drape, such as:
- Blouse fabrics made from natural or blended fibers
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing
- 9 buttons
Cutter's Must
If the patterns have a double contour, seam allowances are included. If the contour is single, seam allowances are not included. Seam allowances: Hem allowance – 2 cm; all other seams – 1 cm. Attention! First, print out the paper patterns and lay them out on the fabric width (fabric width can be from 90 cm to 150 cm) to determine how much material you will need (do not forget to account for paired and symmetrical pieces).
- From main fabric:
- Center back – 1 piece on fold
- Side back – 2 pieces
- Center upper front – 2 pieces
- Center lower front – 2 pieces
- Side front – 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Cuff — 4 pieces
- Placket — 2 pieces
- Collar stand – 2 pieces
- Collar – 2 pieces
- From fusible interfacing:
- Placket — 2 pieces
- Collar stand – 1 piece
- Cuff – 2 pieces
- Collar – 1 piece
Sewing Instructions
When stitching pieces, pay attention to the notches - they must match!
- Fuse interfacing to the designated pieces.
- Stitch the back princess seam. Overlock the allowance and press towards the center.
- Fold and stitch the darts on the front. Press the dart depths away from the center. Stitch the center front pieces together. Overlock the allowance and press downwards. Stitch the front princess seams. Overlock the allowances and press towards the center.
- Press the placket lengthwise in half, right side out. Stitch the outer side of the placket to the center front piece, press allowances towards the placket. Fold under the raw edge of the inner placket and topstitch into the seam.
- Stitch shoulder seams. Press allowances towards the back and overlock.
- Place the upper collar and lower collar right sides together. Stitch the ends and outer edge of the collar. Trim seams, clip corners. Turn the collar right side out, shape and press. Place the collar stand pieces right sides together, insert the prepared collar between them, align notches and stitch, simultaneously stitching the ends of the stand. Start and end the stitching strictly at the marked seam line for attaching the stand. Turn the finished collar right side out and press. Stitch the upper collar stand with the collar to the neckline, fold under the raw edge of the lower stand and topstitch into the seam of the upper stand.
- Stitch side seams, press allowances towards the back and overlock.
- Along the sleeve cap, stitch a gathering stitch with loosened upper thread and gather. Stitch the sleeve seams. Overlock allowances and press towards the back. Set sleeves into armholes, press allowances and overlock.
- Stitch cuffs into a loop, press allowances open. Place cuffs in pairs right sides together and stitch along the upper edge. Turn the cuff right side out, press. Place the right side of the cuff with the wrong side of the sleeve and stitch. Overlock the allowance. Fold the cuff upwards, covering the seam.
- Fold the hem of the garment inwards by 1 cm, then another 1 cm, and topstitch.
- On the right placket and collar stand, make buttonholes; on the left, sew on buttons. Sew buttons on the cuffs through to the sleeve.
